Share your talents with your guests.

Heck, flaunt your talents! Set humility aside here. Guests adore a little peek into your world. This is part of what makes an Airbnb stay so memorable and, importantly, so different from the faceless hotel chain that your guests, intentionally, chose not to book. Instead they picked you.

We can rattle off dozens of passions our hosts have shared with us: historical building preservation, cut flower farming, painting, interior design expertise, raising chickens, hunting mushrooms, social justice work, gardening, cooking, and web design, just to name a few.

And then there’s the graffiti. To this day, our third Airbnb stay continues to set the ultimate hospitality benchmark. There are so many pieces of Chantal and Alex’s Airbnb to emulate. But what we remember most was Alex’s art.

As we drove onto the property and closed the gate behind us, we immediately noticed a joyous painting of the family’s golden retriever, Mango, on the inside of the six foot fence. As we parked, we admired a splash of graffiti on the front and side of the shed. And then as we entered the space, we were greeted by several bright canvases hanging on the wall. Alex’s graffiti wasn’t just delightful. It was the signature fingerprint that made us appreciate the Carriage House as the one-of-a-kind space it truly is.