Getting the colours right. The five jobs of a room's colour scheme.
A colour scheme isn't three colours, it's five, each with its own job and proportion. How we build a palette that holds together, and why the accent should always stay small.
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Thinking out loud.
Observations, ideas, and practical thinking on interior styling, short-term rental hosting, listing optimisation, guest experience, and property presentation.
The bronze drum, and the art of the single object
A bronze rain drum and a black granite top, out on a terrace through Cyprus summers and winters: the bronze improving with every season, the granite immune to all of it. How a single considered object styles a whole space.
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What stone, wood, and linen do for guests that amenities can't
A guest never credits the materials, yet the cool of a stone floor and the weight of a linen cushion are doing the work the whole time, and they age more gracefully than anything you would buy to replace them.
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Hero photography
Your hero image is the first thing a potential guest sees. For most, it's the only thing that decides whether they click or keep scrolling. It carries more weight than your title, your price, and your reviews combined. Get it wrong and nothing else on your listing gets a chance to work.
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