At a glance
- Client / brand: Hilton Garden Inn Silverstone (Hilton)
- Location: Hamilton Straight, Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire
- Role: Main wallcoverings contractor
- Scope: Wallcovering installation
The building
Silverstone is the home of the British Grand Prix, and Hilton Garden Inn Silverstone is the only trackside hotel on the circuit. The new six-storey hotel overlooks the start-finish line on the Hamilton Straight, with track-facing rooms, a rooftop terrace and a footbridge spanning the circuit to the hospitality building opposite. It opened in time for the 2022 British Grand Prix, and in July 2023 Hilton celebrated its debut with a rooftop party during the race weekend, held with its long-standing partner McLaren Racing.
The 197 bedrooms are contemporary and calm: pale walls, warm timber, and generous glazing that frames the circuit itself. Above them, The Rooftop offers 360-degree views of the racetrack and beyond, while BOX Bar & Kitchen serves guests throughout the day. Bicester Village and the Silverstone Museum are close at hand.
The brief
To act as main wallcoverings contractor on a new-build, 197-room hotel due to open in time for the British Grand Prix, where a consistent, crisp finish has to repeat room after room and floor after floor.
Our approach
Preparation and priming. New-build walls bring their own challenges. Surfaces were prepared and primed so that every room offered the same sound, even base, which is the foundation of consistency at scale.
Setting out. In a hotel built from repeated room types, setting out becomes a system. Each layout was established so that seams fell consistently in the same discreet positions around headboards, joinery and windows.
Consistency at scale. Batches and shading were managed across the full run of rooms so that a guest moving between floors would never notice a difference. In a building of this kind, quality is measured less by any single wall than by the hundredth room matching the first.
Coordination. As main wallcoverings contractor we sequenced our work with the main contractor and the other trades, so that rooms could be handed over cleanly.
Outcome
A trackside hotel that opened in time for the 2022 British Grand Prix, its rooms finished to one consistent standard. Wallcovering on this scale is rarely noticed when it is done well, and that is precisely the point.