I furnished six rentals. Here is every single thing I bought.

Room by room, with what each room actually cost, where everything came from, and honest notes on what held up to guests and what did not. These are the receipts from houses that have earned more than 500 five-star reviews.

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Hosting since 2018 · Fayetteville, West Virginia

Living room at Maple & Main with a deep green painted fireplace, linen sectional and round wood coffee table

Rentals furnished

500+

Five-star reviews

300+

Pieces documented

2018

Hosting since

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The Maple & Main furnishing list

A three-bedroom rental that sleeps twelve, furnished from empty in three weeks for $38,000 and open to guests since July 2026. Every sofa, mattress, lamp, sheet set and skillet — where it came from, what each room cost to fill, and what the first season of guests did to it.

Sleeps12
Pieces listed183
Wall colourSW Alabaster
Furnished in3 weeks
Open sinceJuly 2026
All-in cost$38,000

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Sectional, round wood coffee table and framed landscape art in the Maple & Main living room

Room by room

Every room, sourced and listed

Each room links to what is in it — the bed frame, the lamp, the sheets, the pan. No guessing, no “similar to.”

King bedroom with a light wood canopy bed, green throw and upholstered wall panel — King bedroom

Coffee bar with kettle, drip machine, grinder and rattan pendant lamp — The coffee bar

Queen bedroom with a deep green accent wall, sconces and layered pillows — Queen bedroom

Bunk room with two double bunks, dark ceiling and reading lights — Bunk room

By room

Furnish one room at a time

Checklists for the rooms guests judge hardest, in the order I actually buy them.

By budget

Know the number first

What furnishing a rental really costs, and where the money is worth spending.

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Honest comparisons of the tools running four properties, including what I dropped.

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The one-room furnishing checklist

Everything a single guest bedroom needs before it can be listed, grouped by what guests notice first. Print it, tick it, stop forgetting the second set of sheets.

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Elizabeth Morton styling cushions on a sofa

Who is writing this

I am not reviewing furniture. I am showing you mine.

I am Elizabeth. I have designed eight short-term rentals — six of them mine, the rest other people's — and since 2018 I have run my own, cleaned them, replaced what broke, and read every review guests left about them.

I came to this from design. I ran an interior design blog for years and built websites for other designers before I ever owned a rental. Then I bought six of them and found out which of my nice ideas survived contact with actual guests.

Everything here comes out of that — which mattress survives four years of strangers, which white paint photographs well in a north-facing room, which sofa I regret. If I have not lived with it, I will say so.

Elizabeth