Interior Design

This holiday rental was designed by Vanessa Wood Interiors   The past few weeks I have been focusing on rental properties with advice on curb appeal, home staging and photography tips for advertising, (links at the end of this post). Today I want to discuss decorating and furnishing a holiday rental, focusing on the living room. I will cover colour palettes, furnishing and decorative tips and my "go to" sofa that won't cost you an arm and a leg, believe me you can still have a gorgeous looking room even on a tight budget. To successfully decorate and rent out a holiday home, first it should be located in a convenient, safe location. Whether by the beach, country or city, it must be a sound building (no leaks etc) and spotlessly clean. Today's post however, is not about renovating or fixing things up, but focused on decorating the interior. We will presume the renovating has been done and you are ready to furnish, however I do want to touch on paint colour and flooring...

Above - A holiday rental beautifully styled and photographed for a client by Vanessa Wood Interiors My  blog is very much about beautiful images and  the beach homes featured, often have me dreaming of summer holidays by the sea.  Why then, do  many holiday rentals use boring and uninviting photos, it's  no wonder when you check their availability they have few bookings.  It doesn't take much to have a holiday home look utterly irresistible when it is beautifully decorated and photographed correctly. I am writing this post a little in reverse, talking about the photography before the decorating (that's next week's post). However, no matter how beautiful your holiday home may be, when it comes to the world wide web, your photographs are all a viewer has to go by and when there are many more homes to rent in the same location, your images need to be quality photo's that set you apart from the rest. At this stage, I want to add a disclaimer :)  …I am...

I haven't posted a house tour for a couple of weeks, so I thought you would enjoy touring this gorgeous Nantucket beach house. This beautiful home has been designed by Kligerman Barkley who have been designing and building homes across the USA and around the world, the past 25 years. Among their builds have been some amazing projects such as a loft built in a re-purposed butter factory in Tribeca , Manhattan. This project however is nearer to my style and definitely in a location I would one day love to visit.  The beach house although new, retains the traditional style of the neighbourhood with its exterior shingles. The interior designers have used a mix of contemporary and traditional design. The palette is a mix of neutrals with a few pops of blue and green. The idea of the interior colours was to work with the surrounding landscape of sand and sky. I hope you enjoyed this gorgeous home, I love to feature coastal style homes but this one was a little bit different. If you are ...