Open your spare studio, parlor, kitchen table or warehouse to thoughtful guests, for the hours you don't use it yourself. Set your own price. Set your own rules. Reject anyone, any time. Keep 92%.
Five minutes, ten questions, one photograph from your phone. We use this to decide whether the room is the kind of room we list — most of them are. You'll hear from us within three working days.
We come to you. The local editor spends two to three hours in the room, interviews you (eleven questions, always the same), and takes photographs on a 35mm lens. No "host orientation" — we are guests in your room, too.
Within a fortnight, we publish a long dispatch about your room — the light, the sounds, who it's for. You read it before anyone else does. You can ask for changes. You can decline to publish. Most don't.
You set the prices, the days, the cancellation policy, and which kinds of work the room welcomes. Payments arrive weekly, by bank transfer or local-equivalent. You can pause at any time. You always can.
"I was hesitant, at first, to open it. It is the room where I have done the best work of my life. But the rent has gone up four times since 2020, and the alternative was either to leave the city or to share it. So I share it. And I have, against everything I expected, come to like it." Mariana Sá · painter, Calçada Studio, Alfama
"My living room costs you fourteen euros an hour. I will refund you fully if you arrive and discover, on arriving, that I cannot, in fact, work today without leaving the kitchen. This has, so far, happened twice." Anastasia Voulgari · translator, Koukaki, Athens
"I have one chair. I let one writer use it, between cuts, for five euros an hour. We do not speak. He writes; I cut hair. At the end of the day, we shake hands. I have decided this is what hosting is, for me. I have no plans to expand." Roberto Esposito · barber, Sanità, Naples
"I open the scullery five days a week. I bring tea at eleven. In the past year I have made enough, doing this, to repaint the upstairs flat and put the cat through what turned out to be a difficult winter at the vet's. Both have been, in their way, worth more than they cost." Margaret Galbraith · retired teacher, Govanhill, Glasgow
No. Most of our hosts aren't, for most bookings. Some of them are; the arrangement is between you and your guest. We'll help you set it up.
Every booking is covered by FlexSlice up to €5,000, no excess. Larger incidents are rare; we have handled three in two years.
Yes, with or without reason. We will not lower your visibility for declining. You are letting strangers into your room. You decide.
We report your earnings to you, in a clean PDF, every quarter. You're a self-employed host; we're not your accountant, but we are friendly with one in each city we operate in.
Yes. Three clicks. There is no minimum commitment, and no penalty for pausing — short or long. A quarter of our hosts pause every summer; most come back in September.
Tell us anyway. We open new cities slowly — but it has, twice, been a single excellent room that tipped the decision. Yours might be the third.