if you ever wanted to see inside of my head
now's your opportunity I've listed my very own home on Airbnb because I'm
traveling for the month to Thailand now you don't have to stay here if you don't
want to but the link is in the description help yourself more likely
you're going to use that link to do some homework we're gonna look at what I've
done to make my airbnb home my real home and air B&B space and then some of
the amenities that it took to qualify this as a luxury property because this
is definitely your archetype of a luxury property in downtown Dallas so let me
give you a tour and then let's jump into the listing
you know I did not think I was gonna be finishing this video in Beijing but
anyway here we are in the Beijing Airport I've got a long layover so
that's kind of jump right back into it so let's talk about the amenities what
makes for a luxury space let's start on the outside let's talk about the
building itself because you're gonna have a building and then your apartment
and both have to kind of come to standard my building has a nice pool on
the sixth floor it's got a lounge on the sixth floor that you can rent out
it's got like a private dining area on the sixth floor it's got a rooftop
lounge on the 20th floor that has a killer view of the whole city it's got a
gym on the 20th floor that's also awesome to work out with the view
it's got 24-hour concierge wonderful implements of parking big spaces valet
parking free coffee and snacks on the first floor dog park there's dog snacks
on the first floor there's all sorts of stuff like that but all of these things
can be available in other buildings too right aside from it being a new property
in a wonderful location and it looks really nice a lot of buildings have all
these things maybe not the valet parking or maybe not the 24-hour concierge but
they kind of meet them all the way now you don't have to have 24-hour concierge
to have a luxury property right the place has to be well designed well bit
well built and new for the most part and then of course have all those other
amenities like pool gym and etc next is inside the property and as we just saw I
kind of showed you my my property and what really separates what my property
looks like and you know on the service level from a regular you know Airbnb is
the attention to detail and the investment in the furniture as you can
tell the first big thing you'll notice is that couch is not a sleeper sofa
there's no way that that couch would ever be a sleeper sofa and it's not a
cheap couch either all things considered but it's a nice couch it's a statement
piece and it allows you to really build out the rest of the room properly I used
to I used a color palette about the blue and and the green and the yellow and I
really brought it all together that painting I did on my own you don't have
to be a wonderful painter but I'm sure you have somebody who could do pieces
for you if you want to do the same thing I did which is pick a few colors bring
the whole thing together and use the jars like I did and use
those colored jars around as part of the dart work
I provide a the guitar but you don't need to provide
a guitar that's just kind of Who I am and then the kitchen I invested in the
kitchen because I love to cook so instead of just a basic set of pots and
pans I bought like 200 hours ceramic pans you would love to cook with these
are things that I've added to my space that I live in that do make the property
luxury in addition my bed I spent over three hundred dollars on the pillows the
mattress is a dream to sleep on as so I would recommend spending more money on
your mattress and your pillows if you really want to sell it as luxury but
then you have to go the rest of the way and make that bedroom look like a place
you'd want to sleep in all day so I did the whole canopy bed route with the net
and really brought that together and try to make that space look good ample
amounts of artwork as you see in my room and I really framed it well I think with
the rug on the floor etc so moving on the lighting is also important as you
see if you are looking at the listing as we're talking you'll see that I did the
whole red headboard lights so that way during the day the place looks wonderful
but it also has his own nighttime vibe that's cool and then I up lit my
painting I put these Edison style lights on the pillar in my living room
everything is also smart home controlled so I ask a letter or Amazon to turn on
the headboard or to turn on the painting or the Edison lights or to turn on the
TV or play music and all these things happen inside of my space no that's
another big one I think you could really pull off to make a place luxury so I did
spend more than budget right and that this is a business so if you want to
create a luxury property you still have to have a budget and come in on budget
because there is a point you're just spending too much money and not getting
a return on your investment so what can we learn from my place what stuff looks
the coolest I would actually like to know your feedback on that so leave it
in the comments be like you know I think this is important this is a little
overdone you don't need this necessarily to qualify as luxury but let me give you
my opinion I believe that that couch having a statement piece like the couch
and then artfully designing your space around something like that and really
just attention to detail and full commitment to the design of your space
is what makes a luxury don't just go in on a budget
buy some furniture and make it work but you really want to prioritize the design
above all things even if it means spending more money um you want to have
a sold it has to have life you know so if you look at my space you can tell
it's livable you can really truly live in there and be happy the smart
technology like the Alexus stuff so buy an amazon firetv because the amazon
firetv if you're gonna buy a fire stick you're spending another $80 on the fire
TV but it responds to Alexa or Amazon commands and it also streams in HD which
a fire stick like HD is like 70 bucks anyway so you're spending twice as much
for the fire TV and you're getting that you know smart home feel um you can buy
smart home switches for like 35 bucks for a pack of two I think and get an an
Alexa dot for the bathroom and then get like a waterproof like Bluetooth speaker
so you're spending fifty bucks on the dot and maybe another 20 or 30 bucks on
the waterproof speakers so they can have it in the shower by the tub and that
would be your two smart home technologies the TV and the dot then
Gary Vaynerchuk I'm reading his book crushing it and he believes that having
an Alexa in the bathroom is gonna be like to be the biggest thing of the
future so that's kind of interesting so might as well commit fully to that so
these are the things that I think really makes a space if really investing in the
bed buying really nice pillows making design the priority so that way the
bedroom is cohesive and beautiful and that your living room is really you know
thought-out you spending the time on that not having
a pullout sofa you know big HDTV with these with the
home technologies and then invest in extra streaming services like Amazon
music unlimited and just all the creature comforts that people want and
then of course upgrade your kitchen to make sure that it has really good
cooking stuff not just your basics one last thing I do do is I provide wine but
not just simply a bottle of wine I give a people a choice so I've got a wine
cooler and I've got one type of each and every single wine that I can think of
like so we've got Bordeaux and Merlot and Tempranillo and and you know
Chardonnay and 7l Blanc and the guest gets to choose one bottle of whatever
they like and they're not cheap they're like between twelve and twenty dollars a
bottle and if they want more than one they can of course pay for them but we
do give the people the opportunity to choose the one wine that they want and
that choice I think is kind of a luxury in a way too so
as far as the couch goes I know that people have asked me people who have
visited my space I got the couch about 1,500 to 1,600 dollars after delivery
costs from a guy his company's finally home furnishings so he's a wholesaler
and I know that if I would have bought that couch like from a retailer I
probably do pain in the upper 2000s maybe even $3,000 for that couch so I do
recommend find a wholesaler to work with if you're going to buy stuff like this
and go for that luxury look but you want to come on come in on budget I bought
all my stuff from either finally home furnishings that guy I bought a couple
things from Amazon because you could still get good stuff on Amazon and then
I used wayfarer only problems Wayfair failed me twice on the dinner table all
the bedroom stuff though as far as the white furniture goes was alway fair on
the canopy bed and the mattress and the pillows were all Amazon so I hope this
is helpful if you have any questions or you have any requests for content since
I'm going to be you know travelling for a few weeks in Thailand I will have time
to shoot some video just ask for it in the comments so thank you for watching
everybody automated and I'll see you on the other side