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Euclid Street Airbnb Week 1: Progress Update and the Full Before Tour

Week 1 is behind us! So far we are 100% on track. Below is the check list and the pictures of our progress! We got all of our hobby stuff out of the “airbnb-to-be” space and into their new homes!

WEEK 1: Wine Room and Workshop Displacement

  • Clear out our stuff from the side storage room
  • Scrub and Kilz paint the walls and floor
  • Rebuild shelving structure to full use space and create room for wine equipment
  • Add a double basin sink. This includes connecting a drain up to the main stack (luckily right next to it. We are also lucky to have water hook ups.
  • Move wine making table and equipment into the new room
  • Get electricity run to the garage
  • Move work bench to garage, along with tools
  • Look at flooring options (vinyl laminate, laminate, or ceramic tile, refinished concrete floor)
The side storage room was scrubbed with bleach, repainted with a mold inhibitor paint and the shelves were added
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Euclid Street Airbnb Week 0: Planning Phase

As true to my nature, I put together a few lists for this completion of this airbnb project. When we renovated our 1870’s home several years back, we found how helpful it is to make a list and to have a master plan. It is very important to celebrate your little wins, so write it down and cross it off. With reno it always gets worse before it gets better, so having a visual to show that you are moving forward is crucial for morale. It’s also important to make sure everything is getting done it the right order and writing it out helps get things straight.

For this project we are aggressively projecting 5 weeks. Kasey’s new availability to make this a full time project, is what makes this possible. The high level steps are below as well as the floor plans currently and with reno (Shout out to my sister Sara for putting the floor plans together! A perk to having an architectural designer in the family)

This is the current layout of our basement. In the current state, the wine making occurs in the kitchen and the the workshop is where the bedroom will be.
The renovated basement plan is shown above. My wine making moves to a separate owner private space, along with my wine cellar. We will be adding locked doors to these areas. We will be completely updating the bathroom and kitchen, redoing the floors and freshening everything up. One good thing about our basement, is that the airbnb side does have full size windows allowing in a lot of light.
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Visiting Five Airbnbs in Six Days: Tips from a guest for hosting a successful airbnb

As we continue on our journey to hosting an airbnb, we decided that the best way to understand what we needed to do with our place was to get out there and try a bunch. We have stayed at airbnbs before, but never with the mindset of starting our own. It was time to take a trip and see what there was to learn. With our bikes in tow, we headed down to Kentucky bourbon country. The plan was to bike to a new town or city each day, tasting bourbons along the way and staying at airbnbs. 5 airbnbs, 6 days, 165 miles on our bikes. We explored Kentucky’s rolling hills meandering through cornfields and by full tobacco barns. Black rail fences and pastures of horses guided us along to the tall bourbon rick houses where we learned about and tasted the sweet corn whisky. After a long day on the bike, a clean comfortable place to rest and relax was a welcome sight. Here is a list of the things we appreciated and came to expect from an airbnb, and also some of the things we decided we didn’t like.

Picture in front of one of our favorite airbnbs in Louisville, Bed and Bike Nulu
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Airbnb Follow-Up: Next Steps

Kasey and I have been seriously thinking about starting this up as a passive income stream. We are in the process of evaluating the space and the impact to our lifestyle, but with each discussion we inch closer towards making this happen. I want to make sure we dot all of our i’s and cross all of our t’s. Here is what we need to understand before we would have our first guest:

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