Airbnb interior design packages combine a defined set of design documents with optional procurement, delivery, installation, and styling services. Compare packages by the decisions they resolve, the records they deliver, the work each party performs, and the comparison budget for one property.
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STR Cribs provides short-term rental design, renovation, furnishing, and installation services under a documented project scope.
Airbnb Design Package Scope
A package scope establishes the property conditions, guest capacities, room functions, budget boundaries, and completion standard that control the design. Providers need the same written brief so proposals cover comparable room counts, retained furniture, installation duties, and target dates.
| Project input | What must the brief state? | What record confirms it? |
|---|---|---|
| Property | State the address, floor plan, measured room dimensions, fixed elements, photographs, and access restrictions. | Retain a dated property file with verified measurements. |
| Capacity | State the legally permitted occupancy and the owner-approved sleeping, seating, dining, workspace, and outdoor-use capacities. | Retain a room-capacity schedule that identifies the source of each controlling limit. |
| Existing conditions | Identify retained furniture, finishes, fixtures, damage, and renovation work that affects the design. | Retain the existing-condition inventory and photographs. |
| Schedule | Set dates for design approval, procurement authorization, delivery, installation, and property launch. | Retain a milestone schedule with one responsible party per task. |
| Budget | Set allowances for design, products, logistics, fieldwork, taxes, travel, and contingency. | Retain the approved budget by cost category. |
Airbnb Design Package Levels
Written deliverables and assigned responsibilities define each package because providers use package names differently. A consultation supplies recommendations. A room plan supplies reproducible design documents. A procurement package covers the listed purchasing work and any separately stated design deliverables. A turnkey package assigns the contracted design, procurement, logistics, fieldwork, styling, and closeout tasks to the provider.
| Package level | What does the provider deliver? | What other responsibilities must the contract assign? |
|---|---|---|
| Consultation | The provider reviews the property, records priorities and constraints, and issues written recommendations. | The contract must identify who converts the recommendations into plans, purchases, and fieldwork. |
| Room plan | The provider supplies a measured layout, concept direction, and product specifications for defined rooms. | The contract must assign procurement, receiving, assembly, installation, and styling. |
| Procurement | The provider purchases approved products, tracks orders, and administers approved substitutions. | The contract must assign receiving, damage claims, installation, and closeout. |
| Turnkey | The provider performs the contracted design, procurement, logistics, installation, styling, and closeout work. | The owner retains approvals, access, utilities, and payments specified in the contract. |
Airbnb Interior Design Deliverables
Design deliverables convert preferences into instructions that procurement and installation teams can execute. Each document needs a version number, approval date, and responsible author so later revisions and substitutions can be traced to the approved plan.
| Design deliverable | What information must it contain? | How is it accepted? |
|---|---|---|
| Measured plan | Record room dimensions, openings, fixed elements, and required circulation clearances. | Approve it after the drawing matches verified property measurements. |
| Furniture layout | Record product footprints, guest capacities, placement dimensions, and functional zones. | Approve it after every item fits the measured plan and capacity brief. |
| Concept board | Identify materials, finishes, colors, lighting, and visual references for every contracted room. | Record approval of the named direction for each room. |
| Product schedule | Identify brand, model, dimensions, finish, quantity, price, lead time, and approved substitute criteria. | Approve it when every layout item has a complete purchasing specification. |
| Installation plan | Assign receiving, assembly, placement, anchoring, testing, styling, debris removal, and inspection. | Record one responsible party and completion date for every task. |
Airbnb Room Function Requirements
Room requirements connect the design to the legally permitted occupancy and the owner-approved functional capacities. Record sleeping positions, usable seats, dining places, luggage storage, lighting, charging access, work surfaces, and circulation paths before products are selected. A workspace needs a measured desk or table, nearby power, a supportive chair, and task lighting.
Safety requirements belong in the installation scope. For U.S. properties, identify televisions and furniture covered by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) guidance, then install the specified restraints according to product instructions and wall or floor substrate requirements. Record the installer and completion evidence. For properties outside the United States, record the applicable local safety requirements. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission publishes supporting furniture and television tip-over guidance.
Virtual and On-Site Design Responsibilities
Virtual and on-site packages can produce similar design documents. Their operational difference is responsibility for measurements, existing-condition records, samples, receiving, installers, and field corrections. A virtual-package contract names the party supplying property information and field teams. An on-site-package contract names the provider’s measurement, receiving, installation, and field-correction duties.
| Execution task | What must a virtual package record? | What must an on-site package record? |
|---|---|---|
| Measurements | Record the owner-supplied measurement method, required photographs, and verification standard. | Record the provider visit, measurement method, and resulting property file. |
| Product approval | Record the digital schedule, finish evidence, and approval workflow. | Record the sample, showroom, or digital approval workflow. |
| Receiving | Name the owner, warehouse, contractor, or other party that receives and inspects deliveries. | Name the provider or receiving partner and define damage reporting. |
| Installation | Name the field team and identify the instructions and completion evidence it receives. | Name the field team, supervision responsibility, and completion evidence. |
Airbnb Design Package Cost
Total package cost is the amount required to complete the contracted design and place approved products in their final rooms. Design fees cover the stated plans and concepts. Revision fees cover approved work beyond included revisions.
Product costs are approved quantities multiplied by unit prices after item-level discounts. Procurement fees cover purchasing administration. Logistics costs cover freight, receiving, storage, delivery, and access.
Fieldwork costs cover assembly, installation, anchoring, testing, styling, and debris removal. Taxes and travel are recorded from the quote. Documented credits exclude discounts already reflected in product costs.
Calculate total package cost as: design fees + revision fees + product costs + procurement fees + logistics costs + fieldwork costs + taxes + travel costs + separately quoted general markup − documented credits. Record each markup once: include a category-specific markup in its assigned cost category and include a separately quoted general markup in the formula’s general-markup term.
Calculate contingency separately as a budget allowance for identified uncertainty, then add it to total package cost to produce the comparison budget. The comparison budget is the complete comparison figure used across proposals.
Design Revisions and Substitutions
The revision clause controls how the approved design changes. It must state the number of included revisions, approval deadlines, additional-work rates, and schedule effects. Every revised plan and product schedule needs a new version number and approval date.
The substitution clause controls replacements for unavailable or unsuitable products. It must identify who may propose a substitute and require a comparison of dimensions, finish, material, quantity, price, lead time, warranty, and effect on the approved layout. Procurement begins only after the named approver records acceptance. Showplace’s furnishing review applies these approval decisions to a rental-focused design and procurement service.
Installation and Design Closeout
Final acceptance requires the installed rooms to match the approved layout and product schedule. The installation checklist must record assembly, placement, anchoring, testing, styling, missing items, damage, corrections, returns, and unresolved punch-list work, meaning incomplete, damaged, or defective items that still require correction.
The closeout file preserves the approved brief, plans, product schedule, procurement log, substitution approvals, delivery and damage records, installation checklist, warranties, care instructions, final inventory, and a closed punch list documenting completed corrections. These records support later maintenance and replacement decisions without reconstructing the original project.
Bottom line
Choose an Airbnb interior design package by the work it includes and the responsibilities it assigns. A room-plan package suits an owner with purchasing and installation teams, while a turnkey scope can place those tasks with one provider. Compare the full installed cost, approve product substitutions in writing, and make final acceptance depend on completed rooms and a usable closeout file.
