Interior design for short-term rental property managers.
One repeatable, durable design spec across your whole portfolio, built to lift bookings and nightly rate in every unit you manage. Design-only or full turnkey furnishing, on a schedule that gets each home revenue-ready.
Michael Intérieurs designs and furnishes short-term rental units for property managers, co-hosts, and multi-unit operators. Instead of a one-off design per home, we build a single documented spec, furniture, fabrics, layouts, and sourcing, that repeats across your portfolio. It photographs well, holds up to turnover, and gives every guest the same standard, whichever unit they book.
When a unit earns more, so do you
A management fee is a share of what each unit earns, usually 15 to 25 percent of revenue. So every point of occupancy or nightly rate a better-designed unit adds is your revenue too, at no extra cost to you. The design is not a line item for the owner. It is the thing that moves the number your fee is based on.
Booking rate from the room itself
In a peer-reviewed study of Airbnb listings, showing the living room in the main photo raised the booking rate by 35 percent. The room’s content mattered more than the photo’s brightness or clarity.
Revenue on professionally set-up homes
One national short-term rental manager reports that owners who use its design and furnishing service earn 22 percent more on average, and save up to 75 hours getting the home guest-ready.
Lifespan on contract-grade pieces
Performance fabrics rated to 50,000-plus double rubs and frames built to ANSI and BIFMA standards last years in high-turnover use. Low-grade pieces can need replacing inside a year.
Built for operators, not one-off homes
The parts that get harder, not easier, as you add units. Handled so a rollout runs like a program instead of a scramble.
One repeatable spec
A documented design, furniture, fabrics, and layouts, that repeats across units. Every home draws from the same known list, so setup and reordering stop being a fresh project each time.
Consistent brand standard
A guest gets the same look and quality in every unit you manage. Consistency is what lets you promise a standard in a pitch and actually deliver it at scale.
Durability that cuts replacement
Contract-grade frames and performance fabrics chosen for turnover, so a spill or a heavy guest does not become a mid-season replacement and a blocked calendar.
Revenue-ready, faster
Every week a unit is dark is a week it earns no fee. We work to a schedule, coordinating deliveries so a property does not turn into a pile of mismatched boxes, and get it photographed and listed.
Easier restocking
Because the spec is documented, a broken lamp or a worn sofa is a reorder against a list, not a hunt. That is the difference between a five-unit and a fifty-unit operation staying coherent.
Design-only or turnkey
Take a plan and have your own crew install it, or hand us the whole thing: specify, source, install, and style. Most managers take turnkey so the unit is ready without running procurement.
Rental units, designed to book
A sample of short-term rental projects across different markets. Same discipline behind each: a room that photographs well and holds up to guests.
Read the full case studies: Orlando, Tampa, Durham, and Anchorage. See the full Airbnb design service.
From portfolio audit to photographed units
A structured path you can run once and repeat on every new unit that comes into your portfolio.
Audit
We look at your units and market, flag what drags on bookings, and find the high-return upgrades worth making first.
Spec
One documented design and sourcing list, with an itemized budget you approve, built to repeat across the portfolio.
Install
Design-only for your crew, or turnkey where we source, coordinate deliveries, install, and style each unit.
List
The unit is photographed and made listing-ready, so it starts earning instead of sitting dark another week.
Priced per unit, planned as a program
The same rates as our single-owner work, quoted per unit against the spec, so a multi-unit rollout is planned as one program rather than priced one home at a time.
Turnkey covers design plus install and scales with unit size; the $8,700 start is for a one-bedroom. Furniture is a separate budget that stays yours. See the full short-term rental pricing, or the virtual design option.
Operators running more than one listing
Managing a single unit, or an owner rather than a manager? Our Airbnb and short-term rental design page covers that. You can also see all pricing to find the right level of service.
A designer who thinks in numbers
Michael Intérieurs is led by Michael, who spent 20 years in data science before graduating from the New York Institute of Art and Design and founding the studio.
For an operator, that background is the point. Every spec is built around how a unit performs, what books, what lasts, what a guest rates, not just how one photo looks. It is design read the way a manager reads a P&L.
More about Michael and the studio, or browse all our interior design services.
Working with property managers, answered
Yes. We design and furnish short-term rental units for property managers, co-hosts, and multi-unit operators, not only individual owners. We build one repeatable design spec you can roll out across a portfolio, so a guest gets the same standard in every unit.
Yes, that is the core of the portfolio service. We build a documented spec, furniture, fabrics, layouts, and sourcing, that repeats across units. Consistency streamlines setup, turnover, and restocking, because every unit draws from the same known list instead of a one-off design each time.
A management fee is a share of what each unit earns, usually 15 to 25 percent of revenue, so anything that lifts nightly rate or occupancy lifts your revenue too. In a peer-reviewed study of Airbnb listings, showing the living room in the main photo raised the booking rate by 35 percent, and the room itself mattered more than photo brightness or clarity. Better rooms photograph better, book better, and review better.
Every week a unit is not live is a week it earns no fee, so speed is part of the brief. We work to a schedule that gets the design specified, the furniture ordered and installed, and the unit photographed and listing-ready, with deliveries coordinated so a property does not turn into a pile of mismatched boxes.
Both. You can take a design-only plan and have your own team install it, or a turnkey service where we specify, source, and coordinate the full furnishing and styling. Turnkey is the usual choice for managers who want the unit revenue-ready without running procurement themselves.
Design only starts at $4,000 per unit, and a full turnkey setup, design plus furniture and install, at $8,700 for a one-bedroom. The furniture budget is separate and stays yours. For a portfolio, pricing is quoted per unit against the spec, so multi-unit rollouts are planned as one program rather than priced one home at a time.
Based in upstate New York, working nationwide
In person across the Catskills and Hudson Valley and New York City, and virtually for operators with units anywhere in the United States.
One spec, rolled out across every unit
Book a discovery call and we will look at your units, your markets, and the fastest upgrades to lift bookings across the portfolio.