Thomas Johnstone

Specialist Fit-out Contractor

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Thomas Johnstone worked hard to ensure that we got a hotel we are delighted with. Keeping the client and their design team happy, as well as the surrounding businesses and residents, whilst managing the large number of suppliers and subcontractors, was carried out professionally and effectively by the whole team. Thomas Johnstone listens and understand their clients' needs and will always go the extra mile, and we would be delighted to work with them again.

associated divisions

• fit out
• decorating
• manufacturing

Hotel du Vin

• Sector : leisure
• Client : Hotel du Vin
• Project : Hotel du Vin, Edinburgh
• Value : £7,500,000
• Duration : 52 weeks

This site, on a tight triangle of three arterial roads, in the centre of Edinburgh is a good location for a hotel, but a bad location for a building site. It consisted of an existing building that had been a Lunatic Asylum and lain derelict for eight years with an adjacent gap site. The building was structurally reconfigured and extensively refurbished in its transformation to a bar, bistro, wine tasting area, meeting rooms and ten character bedrooms.

The gap site now contains the new build part of the hotel with 37 varied bedrooms, reception area, whisky snug and staff quarters, and a feature central courtyard with smoking shelter. 

The interior design and fit-out is to a very high standard with complimenting traditional and modern styles.  Externally, there was major restoration of the fabric of the existing building.  The new build section started with major excavations to form the basement before traditional in situ reinforced concrete to the first floor with a Metsec SFS system for the upper structure.  A traditional timber pitched roof was used with dormers, slates and leadwork to match the existing building. 

The project provided many challenges due to a severe lack of storage space and daily access restrictions in such a busy part of the city. In addition there were environmental noise restrictions, due to the close vicinity of numerous residential properties.

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