Design, furnishing & launch

A rental doesn't earn on square footage. It earns on the first five photos.

We design and furnish short-term rentals, then get them listed properly — on their own, or as the front end of a management agreement. Every room on this page is one we did.

Designed by people who then have to run the place

Most rental design is done by someone who hands over the keys and leaves. We furnish properties we then operate, which changes what gets specified. A sofa that photographs beautifully and looks tired after nine months of guests is a bad sofa, however good the first shoot was.

So the finishes are chosen to survive weekly cleaning, the layout is planned around the number of guests the listing actually claims to sleep, and the small things guests quietly mark you down for — not enough lamps, nowhere to put a suitcase, one useless bedside table — get sorted before the photographer arrives rather than after the first bad review.

Two services

Furnishing and launch, together or separately

The split is physical and digital. One lives in your home. The other lives on a screen. Not every property needs both, and neither is sold locked into anything else.

1

Furnishing & Design

The physical work. For a unit that's empty, dated, or photographs badly.

We design and furnish the space to shoot well and hold up to real guest traffic — durable finishes, a layout that sleeps the number your listing claims, and the small things guests quietly rate you on.

What the furnishing job covers
  • A visit, then a written plan room by room
  • Layout and sleeping arrangements planned around your target guest
  • Everything specified to survive being cleaned weekly
2

Listing & Launch

The digital work. For a unit that's ready but not earning yet.

Getting listed is the easy part. Getting listed properly — priced against real local comps, synced so you never double-book, and set up so guests can let themselves in at midnight without calling anyone — is the part that decides your first season.

Listing & Launch is included at no charge when we manage the property. We don't sell it on its own.

What the launch covers
  • Professional photography of the finished property
  • Listings built and optimised on Airbnb, Vrbo and direct booking
  • Channel management so calendars and rates stay in sync
  • Dynamic pricing tuned to local demand, not a flat nightly rate
  • Smart locks, codes that rotate per guest, and self check-in that works
  • A written guest guide for your unit — appliances, wifi, parking, the lot
The work

Rooms we furnished, in markets we know

Every one of these is a property we own, have owned, or run for another owner — photographed after we'd designed and set it up. Different climates, different rulebooks, the same standard of finish behind them.

Mountain living room with a gas fireplace, vintage skis mounted on the wall and framed ski-hill prints
Canmore, Alberta
Open-plan mountain condo with a stone fireplace, red bar stools and a long dining table set for eight
Canmore, Alberta
Primary bedroom with a chinoiserie feature wall, upholstered bed and a gold-framed floor mirror
Clearwater, Florida
Mountain condo living room with orange dining chairs, a live-edge table and framed wildlife photography
Canmore, Alberta
Dining room with a tufted banquette, wooden chandelier and a teal tile backsplash beyond
Clearwater, Florida
Bedroom with indigo curtains, woven wall baskets and a blush velvet armchair
Clearwater, Florida
Living room with orange leather chairs, a blue sofa and a shiplap fireplace wall
Clearwater, Florida
Condo living room with woven wall discs, a floral mural and a coastal palette
Clearwater, Florida
Bedroom with a black iron bed, framed geometric prints and a navy woven rug
Clearwater, Florida

What it costs

Two ways in, depending on where the property starts. Same job either way — we come and look at it, write the plan room by room, source what's missing and style it. The difference is how much of the house is already there.

Property Refresh

$1,000
+ $750 per sleeping room

For a property that's furnished and running, but starting to look its age.

  • We visit and assess the property
  • A written plan, room by room
  • We source the gap list
  • A full restyling day
  • Paint recommendations
  • Furniture and goods — at cost, never marked up

Furnishing & Design

$2,500
+ $1,200 per sleeping room

For a property that's empty, or furnished with nothing worth keeping.

  • Everything in a refresh
  • Sourcing for the whole property, not just the gaps
  • Layout and sleeping arrangements from scratch
  • Styling through to the photography shoot
  • Furniture and goods — at cost, never marked up

A sleeping room is any space furnished for guests to sleep in — bedrooms, converted offices, dens, bunk rooms. If it sleeps guests and your listing counts it, we count it.

Our time is the only thing in that fee. Everything physical — furniture, linens, locks, paint, photography — you buy at what we paid for it. We don't mark it up, and we share the receipts.

Homes over 2,500 sq ft, or with more than two separate living areas, are quoted individually. Listing & Launch is included at no charge when we manage the property.

A furnished property still has to be a legal one. Before anyone spends money on furniture, it's worth knowing what the parcel is permitted to do. The quick version of that check is free.

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Design it, launch it, or hand the whole thing over

Plenty of owners start with a furnishing job and stop there, and that's a perfectly good outcome. Design is one of three things we do — the other two are working out what the parcel is legally permitted to do, and running it once it's live.

← Regulation & Tax Management →
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