We just stayed at BWV this past weekend, in a renovated room and we hated it. It looked cheaply done - the new furniture looks like they got it at a cheapo warehouse furniture place (the pop up table looks Motel 6 quality, of cheap plasticy veneer; the square cheap chrome light fixtures were off center and off kilter and stylistically all wrong), there are entirely too many different styles of furniture going on - from a vestige of 1900's Boardwalk to Danish Modern to tacky 1970's to refined contemporary - just..... weird looking. The blue colors, when looking at them in person, not only did not match, they didn't even coordinate and were jarring/jolting to the eye. Just really bad color combinations - do they know about the color wheel???
The gigantic tv dominated the entire room, a big black stark rectangle, impossible to cover up or ignore. Now I know some folks like their tv time, but that isn't really what we come to Disney for. If a big-screen tv is necessary for some, it should at least make some attempt to blend into the decor in some way, or there should be a way to close doors on it, or something.
The art was modern, the bedding was boring white and thin, had that short-sheeted effect, where you never really feel there are enough covers, and spend the entire night trying to grab them from your bed-mate. The light fixtures were placed strangely, completely out of character for a 1900's Boardwalk, and just plain ugly. I remember seeing lights just like the one over the bed in all the "number" hotels (Motel 6, Super 8) when I was a kid! The couch looked just like one my sister had in her apartment in the 1980's - seriously. There was just a complete absense of any cohesiveness of theme, or color, or style.
Who in the world did they get to do this "design", if one can call it that? It really, truly looks like some bean counter without an aesthetic bone in his body, and certainly without any kind of art or design background went down to the local "Rooms to Go" store and picked out the cheapest stuff he could find. Hoping against hope that they don't botch the "renovations" at our beloved Beach Club and all the rest to follow in this horrendous manner.
So sad...
Bill
