The Buyer’s Reality Check: Choosing a Hotel Project Mirror Supplier That Won’t Break Your Schedule If you buy for hotels, you already know what the mood board never shows: the email chain. A mirror looks “simple” until the first batch arrives with corner crush, the frame tone shifts under warm
Hotel procurement looks glamorous on mood boards—until you’re the one trying to hit an opening date with six vendors, three finish approvals, and a shipment that can’t be late. That pressure isn’t slowing down. Lodging Econometrics has projected that global hotel openings remain high, including thousands of new hotels and
Hotel Project Mirror Supplier: The Mirror That Blows the Schedule (and How to Prevent It) Mirrors are supposed to be the “easy line item.” Until they aren’t. A hotel project mirror fails in the most public way possible: a frame finish that reads warm in one batch and greenish in
If you’re a buyer, you already know the uncomfortable truth: a mirror looks “simple” right up until it isn’t. A hotel rollout doesn’t fail because the frame shape is wrong. It fails because the finish tone drifts across batches, cartons arrive with corner crush, mounting hardware changes mid-production, or the
Hotel Project Mirror Supplier: The Real Test Isn’t the Sample—It’s the Punch List A hotel mirror can look flawless in a showroom… and still become the most expensive “small item” on your project. Because mirrors don’t fail quietly. They fail in the most visible way possible: a hairline scratch that
Most Suppliers Are Still Stuck in the 1990s. Here’s the hard truth: 90% of suppliers still “design and pray.” They make a product, then beg us buyers to put it on the shelf. They never asked: What SKUs are we phasing out? What visual themes are we planning for Q4?
