Please Do Not Disturb room.

Please Do Not Disturb is all about beautiful and inappropriate levels of disturbance. Hotel rooms are often about what we hear and do not see: ordering room service over the phone, the churning of the ice machine on the sixth floor. In Please Do Not Disturb you can fill your room with your own personal sound beneath authentic theatre-style spotlights. Not one, but five microphones await your entertainment. One is in the shower, which faces into the room through a glass fronted panel, allowing would be divas and blossoming boomers to enjoy an audience as they soap down singing under the guidance of the karaoke.

Emergency Room

Out of this, the idea of “hospital-chic” grew, Emergency Room features hospital props in PANIC cases and a mounted picture in an x-ray type lightbox. The floor is the red, flecked vinyl so common to hospitals. Rest assured, it does not smell like a hospital and, unfortunately, you have to arrange your own nurses. The idea also emerged around Pepler’s choice of charity. Each room supports a charity and this particular room supports none other than the Red Cross Children’s Hospital. So, if you need some recuperation time, book the emergency room, take two aspirins and call me in the morning!

Far from home room.

Fancy a room with a view? This is the space you need to be in. Close the blinds and you are in an uninterrupted Karoo wilderness. Endless miles of dust and barbed wire, taper off into distant koppies. Pop up the blind, and your endless Karoo-view is juxtaposed by an exotic green mosque tower and the spectacular site of Table Mountain, to create an unusual landscape that defies the picture postcard. Photographer, Robin Sprong, photographed these Karoo landscapes, then turned them into dust-and-azure wallpaper, adding a Country and Western touch with great frontier patterned reading lights above the beds.

Freshly ground room.

Freshlyground’s room surrounds the bedside CD player, just above the bed, hand music discs, each one a selection of music by the individual band members. Each compilation shares the favourite and most inspirational music of that band member and collectively, spans across many a decade and genre of music. There is also an additional CD for lulling one off to sleep. On the wall at the foot of the bed, a series of circular lights mirror the CDs on the opposing wall. Each round light is back-lit and features a vinyl cut-out, cartoon-like image of the band members. In the bathroom, the mirror boasts cut-outs of hair-styles, without the faces.