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Name: Mardesign
Address: London, GB
Telephone: +447955152616
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Helping property investors & developers up their interior design game by creating stylish luxury spaces that reduce occupancy voids, maximize rents and increase property values.

29/10/2026

The pet-friendly boutique hotel is one of the most underappreciated opportunities in hospitality right now.

Dog ownership in the UK has grown significantly.

The number of boutique hotels genuinely built for it, not just tolerant of it, but designed for it, hasn’t kept pace.

The guest who travels with a dog is one of the most loyal guests in the sector.
Their options are limited.

When they find somewhere that works, they come back, and they tell every other dog-owning traveller they know.

Getting it right isn’t complicated, it’s specific:
Flooring that cleans easily.
External access that doesn’t mean crossing the lobby.
Somewhere to store leads and bowls.
Staff who are actually comfortable with pets.
A walk nearby the receptionist can describe without hesitating.

There are all operational and spatial decisions, and none of them expensive.
Collectively, a loyalty engine!

That’s not a niche market, it’s a repeat booking strategy with very low acquisition cost.

If you are a boutique hotelier thinking about your pet-friendly offer, DM me.

PS: Our dog Naya enjoying hers hols in Wales and in style.

27/10/2026

It isn't a design consultation.
It isn't a report delivered once and filed away.
It isn't advice that arrives after the decision has been made.

The Advisory is a commercial design eye across your whole development scheme, every month, on the decisions that shape what your returns, before they get built in.

I'm Raquel, an ARB and BIID registered architect with 20 years across residential, BTR and boutique hospitality, and I run Mar Design, where we design for margins, and I am as invested as you are in your developments.

This is how I work with a small number of developers and investors directly.

DM me ADVISORY if you want to know more.

26/10/2026

Every decision in this space was made with one person in mind.

Not the planning officer, not the architect, nor the developer.

The person who will live here.

That's what performing looks like.

21/10/2026

A boutique hotel or apart-hotel that opens without a clear guest in mind doesn't just underperform at opening

Here is what happens:
It costs money every month it can't hold its rate.
Every month occupancy is below projection.
Every month the reviews don't convert to repeat bookings or referrals.

The decisions that prevent this are made before opening.
Usually before design starts.

By the time you are choosing finishes, the decisions that determine whether your hotel performs have already been made...or missed

If you’re in the early stages of an part hotel development, DM me ADVISORY.

20/10/2026

Planning approval is the beginning of the process.

Not the end of the decision-making.

The layout that performs is the one designed for the person who will actually live in it.

DM me LAYOUT.

19/10/2026

“Raquel genuinely feels like an extension of our team rather than an external consultant.”

This is more than a compliment. It’s what it describes.

We worked with Louise & Andy as their architects and interior designers, across the full scheme, every decision, from layout to specification to final finish.

And what they are describing isn’t just the design. It’s the way we work.

Most developers have a team: architect, contractor, agent, finance. Everyone doing their job.

What they rarely have is someone whose entire focus is to sit across all of it and ask: are we making the right commercial design decisions for this development?

That’s what we bring, whether we are designing your scheme or advising on it.

If you want that kind of thinking on your development without a full design commission, that’s exactly what The Advisory is for.

DM me ADVISORY.

Thank you so much Louise & Andy .properties for trusting us, and for the fabulous laughs we have on the way to making magic!

Photography by .hy_photos

15/10/2026

There's a gap in most development teams that no one talks about.

Your architect is responsible for planning and technical compliance.
Your designer is responsible for the look and feel.
Your agent is responsible for selling what you've built.

None of them are responsible for asking the question that sits between all three:
Will this scheme actually perform?

That's the gap I work in.

Whether the buyer will feel an easy yes when they walk in.
Whether the tenant will renew.
Whether the guest will come back and bring their rate with them.

I've spent 20 years sitting in that gap on developments across residential, BTR and boutique hospitality.

The decisions that shape the return are almost never the obvious ones.

They are the ones no one thought to question.

If your current scheme has someone asking that question...good. If it doesn't, DM me ADVISORY.

Photography by .hy_photos

14/10/2026

A 6-unit residential scheme.
Sold out before completion.
£1m above the original GDV projection.

That number didn't come from a bigger budget, but from the key decisions made early.

The difference between a scheme that performs and one that doesn't is rarely the market.

It's usually the decisions made in the first few months.

13/10/2026

The question isn’t whether you made decisions early.

It’s whether the right person was in the room when you did.

DM me ADVISORY.

08/10/2026

I've had conversations with developers this week who are still deciding whether the advisory is right for them.

Here's the honest answer: if you're still deciding, you already know.

The developers and investors who move on this are the ones who've felt the gap — who've made decisions in isolation and known, in that moment, that they needed someone to sense-check them.

The ones who hesitate usually do so because they're not sure the timing is right.

The timing is almost always exactly now.

A couple of spots remain. DM me ADVISORY before they go.

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+447955152616

Website

https://www.mar-design.co.uk/

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