The first arts-led social enterprise hotel in the UK.

The Green Rooms is the brainchild of self-styled “artrepreneur”, Nick Hartwright, who is also a co-founder of the Mill Co Project, a social enterprise offering affordable work and exhibition space in London. 

“There are thousands of hotels in London but there is a real shortage of affordable hotel accommodation that doesn’t compromise on quality,” Hartwright says. 

The Green Rooms hotel was born from Nick’s disappointment with the government’s solution to the housing crisis, leaving a lot of people in the creative without an affordable place to live, work and visit.

“We are confident that artists, creatives, style enthusiasts and the wider local community will love staying and working at Green Rooms. It’s going to be an exciting, inclusive and accessible creative environment.”

The hotel sits in an art deco building opposite Wood Green underground station, originally built in 1935 for the North Metropolitan Power and Electricity Company.

This building, steeped in local history, is now designed as a beautiful yet affordable place for artists to stay when visiting and working in the capital.

“We’re working very closely with Haringey council so it’ll be local people employed, and we’re going out with people into the community to do stuff, too. Everything we do, we make sure we engage with local groups.”

Green Rooms offer preferential rates to artists of all disciplines, but the public are also welcome to stay.