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Renting out a vacation home — or even a spare room in your apartment in the city — is easier than ever, thanks to sites like Airbnb and HomeAway. But making your rental stand out in a crowd of online listings is another thing.
And even if you manage to attract guests, how do you decorate a space so that it withstands the damage that even the best behaved among them will do? We asked interior designers with rental homes of their own for advice.
Use Materials That Wear Well
Avoid furnishings and “perfect lacquered finishes” that are impossible to maintain, advised Steven Gambrel, a well-known Manhattan designer who recently built a high-end rental in Sag Harbor, N.Y., that resembles a 19th-century Federal-style house. Instead, he suggested “creating a palette of materials that get better with age and develop a patina.”
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At his rental — a three-bedroom, three-bathroom house that rents for $175,000 a summer — everything from the plaster walls to the linen bedsheets was chosen for its durability and tendency to improve with age. Salvaged antique pine floors were bleached and finished with matte polyurethane. The kitchen was outfitted with stone counters treated with a suede finish “to create age and warmth” and a “patina from the beginning,” he said. “It has a nice weathered edge so that instead of being upset about a new chip, you’re actually just enhancing the spirit of the house.”


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