Guide · Virtual design · Checked 2026-10-16

Virtual Airbnb interior design service

STR Select read the own page of every ranked Airbnb interior design studio on 2026-10-16. Six of the eight state an online or remote service. The lowest printed virtual price is $199 per room at Havenly. Cynthia Stays Curated and Studio Host print no price. Somerled Designs does not say its work is virtual. Checked 2026-10-16.

Five studios, each tested against its own page for a stated online or remote service. Every row below carries its source link and the date it was read.

The short answer

A virtual Airbnb interior design service delivers the plan online: a questionnaire or call, a mood board or concept, a floor plan and a shopping list, with no designer in your house. Six of the eight studios in our Airbnb interior design services ranking say so on their own pages: Cynthia Stays Curated, Studio Host, Paper & Onyx, Bell Jar Designs, Decorilla and Havenly. Printed prices run from $199 per room at Havenly to $2,999 per room at Paper & Onyx. Cynthia Stays Curated, the studio built around short term rentals, prints no price and quotes after a free first consultation. For what each fee adds up to across 2 to 4 rooms, read how much Airbnb interior design costs.

Which studios deliver the design online?

A studio is in this table only when the page we read states an online or remote service. Prices are the studio’s own wording, rows follow the rank order of the category and the order is not a price ordering.

StudioWhat the virtual service coversPublished priceSourceChecked
Studio Host Done for you: market and competitor research, design direction and concept, furniture, fixture, finish and decor selections, a complete FF&E budget with sourcing links, and floor plans. A separate Done with you tier is a 3 month design membership. Not published studiohost.co/design.html 2026-10-16
Cynthia Stays Curated Four virtual packages: new property or refresh, each with links only or with ordering management (Vision, Craft, Execute). Vision takes one to two weeks and Craft and Execute two to four. Not published cynthiastayscurated.com/faq 2026-10-16
Paper & Onyx The Elevate Airbnb tiers: a discovery call, a design questionnaire, concepts and renders, final designs and a shopping list with links. $999 per room (Rise), $1,499 per room (Ascend), $2,999 per room (Pinnacle) designfiles.co/design-packages/paper-onyx-interior-design 2026-10-16
Bell Jar Designs Space planning e-design: layout options and 2D floor plans. Full-service e-design: mood board, 2D floor plan, photorealistic 3D renderings, shopping list and installation guide. $300 per room (space planning), $749 per room (full service) designfiles.co/design-packages/bell-jar-designs 2026-10-16
Decorilla Online packages with 3D concepts: Bronze, Silver and Gold, then Platinum with project management, or hourly designers. Bronze $599, Silver $859, Gold $1,099, Platinum from $1,980, hourly $119 to $500 decorilla.com/pricing 2026-10-16
Havenly Online: a matched designer, a video call, a design plan, 3D renderings, a custom floor plan, revisions and a shopping list. $199 per room list price havenly.com/pricing 2026-10-16

Paper & Onyx and Bell Jar Designs are sold through the DesignFiles marketplace, so both rows cite designfiles.co. Prices change; the source link is the place to confirm.

What did each page say that makes the service virtual?

The test is a sentence on the studio’s own page, not our reading of its brand. Here is the sentence or feature for each row, and the limit that goes with it.

Which studios are not counted as virtual, and why?

Leaving a studio out is a statement about its page, not about its work. If the page changes, the row changes.

StudioWhy it is not countedSourceChecked
Bohemian Bungalow Design (The Eclectic Getaway) Its DesignFiles page mentions a Zoom call in each Airbnb package but never says the service is online or remote, so this guide does not call it virtual. Its Design Concierge tiers include visits to the client’s home. No price is quoted here. designfiles.co/design-packages/bohemian-bungalow-design-39fdb05e-cf67-4172-bed3-4dc332dc950e 2026-10-16
Somerled Designs Its homepage says it designs nationwide in all 50 states and offers a free consultation, but it never says the service is delivered online or remotely, so this guide does not call it virtual. No price is printed. somerleddesigns.com 2026-10-16

One line inside a counted studio is also excluded: the Bell Jar Designs $299 Short-Term Rental Design Consultation, which the listing does not call virtual. Luxe & Nest Interiors is not ranked, so it is not in either table.

What does a virtual design include and leave out?

Across the six studios the deliverable is a plan, not a finished room. Paper & Onyx lists concepts, renders, final designs and a shopping list with links. Bell Jar Designs full service adds photorealistic 3D renderings and a how-to installation guide. Havenly adds a video call and revisions until the plan feels right. Cynthia Stays Curated sells Vision for direction, palette and furniture layout, Craft for materials and product picks with links, and Execute for ordering management through to the install plan.

What none of the printed fees cover is the furniture. Havenly has you shop its list, and the Decorilla and Paper & Onyx pages sell design plans with shopping lists. Cynthia Stays Curated is the one studio in the table that lists ordering management as an option, on two of its four packages. Someone still has to receive, assemble and place the pieces, which is why our Airbnb setup and furnishing ranking sits beside this one. Treat the design fee as the smaller line in the project and budget the beds, sofas, linens and lighting separately.

How does virtual design differ from in-person design?

Havenly shows the line clearly because it sells both. It prints online design at $199 per room and in-person design at $699 per room, a $500 gap on the same page. The in-person price buys travel, time on site and installation help, not a different kind of plan.

For a host who lives in another state from the rental, that gap is the point. A virtual service needs photos, measurements, a budget and the brief for the property, and the host or a local helper acts on the shopping list. Cynthia Stays Curated says it works with Airbnb and Vrbo hosts across the United States without an in-person visit, which suits an owner who never plans to stand in the unit while it is being furnished. The trade is that nobody on the design side sees the room, so measurements and photos have to be right the first time, and the plan is only as good as the brief behind it.

Which virtual service fits which host?

One room to test, under $300

Havenly at $199 per room, or Bell Jar Designs space planning at $300 per room for layout options and a 2D floor plan. Neither is a full rental plan, and Havenly’s pricing page shows no short term rental offer.

Per room with renders, $749 to $2,999

Bell Jar Designs full service at $749 per room, Paper & Onyx from $999 per room and Decorilla from $599 for Bronze add 3D renders or concepts room by room. Four rooms at Paper & Onyx Rise come to $3,996.

Rental specialist, quote after a call

Cynthia Stays Curated prints no price, states every package is delivered virtually and offers a free first consultation, so the first step costs nothing.

What should you ask a virtual designer before paying?

  1. Is the price per room or for the property? Havenly, Bell Jar Designs and Paper & Onyx all price per room, so multiply by every room you want designed.
  2. What do you need from me? Every virtual plan starts from your photos, measurements and budget, so ask for the exact list before you pay.
  3. Is a rental guest the brief, or a home? Decorilla and Havenly list no short term rental package on their pricing pages.
  4. Who orders and installs the furniture, and what does that cost? Only Cynthia Stays Curated lists ordering management as an option.
  5. What is the written turnaround? Cynthia Stays Curated states one to two weeks for Vision and two to four for Craft and Execute; Havenly states 3 to 14 days for first concepts.
  6. What changes if a promotion ends? Havenly’s $99 online price ends Tuesday 10/20; plan on $199.

Virtual Airbnb interior design questions

Answered only from the studios’ own pages, checked October 16, 2026.

Is there a virtual Airbnb interior design service?

Yes. On our October 16, 2026 read, six of the eight ranked studios state an online or remote service on their own pages: Cynthia Stays Curated, Studio Host, Paper & Onyx, Bell Jar Designs, Decorilla and Havenly. The ranking of Airbnb interior design services scores each one.

How much does virtual Airbnb interior design cost?

Printed fees run from $199 per room at Havenly’s list price to $2,999 per room for the Pinnacle tier at Paper & Onyx. Cynthia Stays Curated prints no price. Our Airbnb interior design cost guide compares the same fees by room count.

Which virtual designer is built for short term rentals?

Cynthia Stays Curated sells packages written for Airbnb and Vrbo hosts and states that all of them are delivered virtually. Studio Host sells to vacation rental investors and calls its Done for you tier a virtual service, with no price printed. Paper & Onyx also sells Airbnb specific tiers. Decorilla and Havenly are general services with no rental package on their pricing pages.

How long does a virtual design take?

Cynthia Stays Curated states one to two weeks for a Vision package and two to four weeks for Craft and Execute. Havenly says online designers typically deliver first concepts in 3 to 14 days. The other studios in the table print no timeline on the pages we read.

Does a virtual design include the furniture?

No printed fee in the table includes furniture. Havenly says you shop the list and Paper & Onyx lists a shopping list with links. Cynthia Stays Curated offers ordering management as an option on two of its four packages. The setup and furnishing ranking covers who installs.

What does Havenly charge for online design?

Havenly’s pricing page lists online design at $199 per room. On the day we read it the page showed $99 under a promotion that ends Tuesday 10/20, so plan on $199. In-person design is a separate $699 tier and is not virtual.

Can Bell Jar Designs do an Airbnb design online?

Bell Jar Designs sells e-design at $300 per room for space planning and $749 per room for full service, both with an online platform. Its $299 Short-Term Rental Design Consultation sits next to an In-Home Design Consultation and the listing does not say it is virtual, so confirm before booking.

Is Somerled Designs a virtual service?

We could not confirm it. Somerled says it designs in all 50 states and offers a free consultation, but its homepage does not say the work is delivered online or remotely, and it prints no price. We list it as not virtual until its own page says otherwise.

What is the cheapest virtual option for one room?

Bell Jar Designs space planning at $300 per room and Havenly at $199 per room are the lowest printed one room prices in the table. Havenly shows no rental offer and Bell Jar space planning covers layout only, so neither is a full rental plan. Decorilla starts at $599 for the Bronze tier.

Sources

Every price and every online or remote statement traces to the studio’s own page below, fetched 2026-10-16.

Interior design is one of eight provider types covered in the STR service provider roundup, next to the interior design cost guide.

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