If you’re tired of impersonal hotel chains or super deluxe swank with “over the moon” prices, look no further. Here are a few that have been renovated by architects and stylists with color, style and contemporary decor. Vitality, glamor, customer satisfaction and reasonable rates are the key elements of these properties.

Hotel Fabric
31 rue de la Folie Mericourt, 75011    http://www.hotelfabric.com

Occupying 4 floors, the hotel boasts 33 ultra-comfortable rooms in a resolutely contemporary setting drawing decorative and ornamental inspiration from the industrial past of the Oberkampf district. The brick walls, plentiful space, unconcealed supporting structures and immense windows admit plenty of natural light. On a very quiet and quaint street with shops and restaurants very close no matter which way you turn. Honor system happy hour.  Starts at $240.

Hotel Regent’s Garden
6 Rue Pierre Demours, 75017 Paris,  www.hotel-regents-paris.com/en/

The former private mansion that is now the Hotel Regent’s Garden…