1. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch
• new builds and renovations •
Patrick Dodson
welcome to our home
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•
new builds and renovations
designing from the heart
to make a heart connection
3. Everyone has an identity, has a story…
Every home /space can be a reflection of our story…
Everyone who comes into our space connects with our story…
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
4. Our story…
Being in love we wanted to live from
the heart in a beautiful place
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
5. Our story…
From this love,
we wanted to
create a home
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
6. Our story…
In this home we
wanted to be makers
/ collaborators
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
7. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Our story…
Making from the
environment around us
and sharing it with others
9. Our story…
From this all this
creativity, we wanted
to connect with
our community
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
10. This story became our design strategy…
Live from the heart
Design from the our identity/story
Create & collaborate
Connect with community
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Welcome
14. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed through layout and space:
Opening up our hearts, opening our space
Architectural Flow
15. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed through layout and space:
Opening up our hearts, opening our space
Removing beds instead of filling them
Architectural Flow
16. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed through layout and space:
Opening up our hearts, opening our space
Removing beds instead of filling them
Light everywhere, views everywhere
Architectural Flow
17. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed through layout and space:
Opening up our hearts, opening our space
Removing beds instead of filling them
Light everywhere, views everywhere
Intimacy throughout the entire home
Architectural Flow
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Key design considerations -
core values expressed in our surroundings:
Naturally occurring color palettes
Environment
19. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed in our surroundings:
Naturally occurring color palettes
Environment
20. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed in our surroundings:
Naturally occurring color palettes
Objects spun by nature
Environment
21. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed in our surroundings:
Naturally occurring color palettes
Objects spun by nature
Eclectic recycling
Environment
22. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed around creativity:
Room to move and to make
Creativity
23. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed around creativity:
Room to move and to make
Materials and usage (working floors)
Creativity
24. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed around creativity:
Room to move and to make
Materials and usage (working floors)
Objects & up-cycling
Creativity
25. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed around creativity:
Room to move and to make
Materials and usage (working floors)
Objects & up-cycling
Creativity
26. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values expressed around creativity:
Room to move and to make
Materials and usage (working floors)
Objects & up-cycling
Power to play
Creativity
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Key design considerations -
core values in our relationship to food:
Designing from garden to plate
Slow Food
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Key design considerations -
core values in our relationship to food:
Designing from garden to plate
Permaculture & 99 edibles
Slow Food
29. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values in our relationship to food:
Designing from garden to plate
Permaculture & 99 edibles
Kitchens from the outside in
Slow Food
30. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values in our relationship to food:
Designing from garden to plate
Permaculture & 99 edibles
Kitchens from the outside in
Slow Food
31. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations -
core values in our relationship to food:
Designing from garden to plate
Permaculture & 99 edibles
Kitchens from the outside in
5 ways to make coffee for fun
Slow Food
32. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Key design considerations - Living in and sharing our space
Core values (our hearts) expressed:
through architectural flow
through the environment
through creativity
through food
All of these values reflect our story
We translated these values into our space via intentional design and practice
All of these stories were a way of sharing our hearts
So that others could also experience living from the heart, in their own way
This place exceeded all expectations. From the moment you walked in you could feel the love
and care that went in to this home and the attention Patrick and Emma Kate put into sharing
it with you. Places like this are why we stay with airbnb and not hotels.
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• new builds and renovations •
three case studies
34. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Matt Impola:
designing from his own story…
Grew up designing and building homes
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Matt Impola:
designing from his own story…
Grew up designing and building homes
Loves crafting natural materials
36. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Matt Impola:
designing from his own story…
Grew up designing and building homes
Loves crafting natural materials
Has diverse creative expressions
37. Matt Impola:
mapping his story/values a Tiny House…
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
38. Matt Impola:
mapping his story/values a Tiny House…
Efficiency and redemption = tiny
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
39. Matt Impola:
mapping his story/values a Tiny House…
Efficiency and redemption = tiny
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
40. Matt Impola:
mapping his story/values a Tiny House…
Efficiency and redemption = tiny
The art of connecting with wood
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
41. Matt Impola:
mapping his story/values a Tiny House…
Efficiency and redemption = tiny
The art of connecting with wood
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
42. Matt Impola:
mapping his story/values a Tiny House…
Efficiency and redemption = tiny
The art of connecting with wood
Wants to welcome strangers
as he’s been welcomed
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
43. Matt Impola:
what he hopes others will connect with…
His sense of efficiency and beauty
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
44. Matt Impola:
what he hopes others will connect with…
His sense of efficiency and beauty
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
45. Matt Impola:
what he hopes others will connect with…
His sense of efficiency and beauty
His love of sustainable communities
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
46. Matt Impola:
what he hopes others will connect with…
His sense of efficiency and beauty
His love of sustainable communities
His appreciation for the region
= moveable home
designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
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Tesh & Seb:
designing from their own story…
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Tesh & Seb:
designing from their own story…
Creative entrepreneurs
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Tesh & Seb:
designing from their own story…
Creative entrepreneurs
Who love their sustainable community
50. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Tesh & Seb:
designing from their own story…
Creative entrepreneurs
Who love their sustainable community
Who want to share their love of the land
51. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Tesh & Seb:
mapping their story/values into their Yurt…
52. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Tesh & Seb:
mapping their story/values into their Yurt…
Appropriate design & technology
53. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Tesh & Seb:
mapping their story/values into their Yurt…
Appropriate design & technology
Creativity & whimsy
54. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Tesh & Seb:
mapping their story/values into their Yurt…
Appropriate design & technology
Creativity & whimsy
Living very close to the land
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Tesh & Seb:
what they hope others will connect with…
The land and its ways, it’s values
56. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Tesh & Seb:
what they hope others will connect with…
The land and its ways, it’s values
The larger Raglan community
57. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Tesh & Seb:
what they hope others will connect with…
The land and its ways, it’s values
The larger Raglan community
Their own creativity
58. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Paul & Trish:
designing from their own story…
20 years as locals in Glenorchy
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Paul & Trish:
designing from their own story…
20 years as locals in Glenorchy
Practical people with a flare for style
Transitioning into rest & reflection
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Paul & Trish:
mapping their story/values into a home on the hill…
Bringing the outside in (6 natural timbers)
61. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Paul & Trish:
mapping their story/values into a home on the hill…
Bringing the outside in (6 natural timbers)
An intense love for the surroundings
62. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Paul & Trish:
mapping their story/values into a home on the hill…
Bringing the outside in (6 natural timbers)
An intense love for the surroundings
Efficiency and flow (wiring & layout)
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Paul & Trish:
what they hope others will connect with…
Respect and awe for the natural world
64. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Paul & Trish:
what they hope others will connect with…
Respect and awe for the natural world
Rest and reflection
65. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Paul & Trish:
what they hope others will connect with…
Respect and awe for the natural world
Rest and reflection
Enjoying outside as much as inside
66. What’s your story?
How can you intentionally map your identity into your space?
What will your guest connect with when they stay with you?
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67. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Workshop:
Designing spaces from the heart:
Write 5 ‘I am’ identity statements
Write a short story of your life
Write down your key life values
Sketch those values into a simple home plan
In Self
creative
intimate
Physical
teacher
poetic / musical
design
culinary
orator
prose and words
producer
awareness and truth
freedom
encourage and exhort
space / information
flow and people
systems and curriculum
life plans and stories
fusion
education
epicurian
expanding pallettes
kitchen sink approach
holistic
from the heart
small groups / intimate
inspire change
articulate
depth with people
open / connecting
loyal / committed
athletic
presentor
passionate
trainer
supporter
counselor
life coach
communicator
clarifying what people know
but can't say themselves
father
responsive
comfortable with
many ethne
discipler
consultant
wisdomsoak up inputs
culinary art
welcoming
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Workshop:
The details - filling your space with stories / values:
What values can be translated into your infrastructure
What furniture would you design, buy or up-cycle
What art goes on the walls and what stories does it tell
What are the furnishings & objects you choose to share
69. designing an Airbnb experience from scratch • new builds and renovations
Workshop:
The connections you (intentionally) hope to make:
Write a detailed guest review of the space you hope to create
Review all the details of your space to match the review
Make the changes - make the listing - share the love
My hosts have gone out of their way to mirror their region in the decoration, objects and overall
comfort of the home. I loved how comfy the bed was and wanted to know the story behind each
piece of art, the tools in the kitchen and the wonderful patina on the old rocking chair. If I could
write a novel, I’d write it in this inspired space…
