We focus on layouts that feel spacious but still define distinct areas for living, dining, and entertaining.Flow is Everything: A home’s design should feel seamless.

Unless the designer has a good social/online footprint with designs I like, I would think twice before hiring them no matter what others say.  

Your knowledge in construction, design, and different strategies will be a big help to the community.

My designer just did a similar size refresh for $1500 fee and $2500 in materials. 

I'd say they chose colors that don't create any curb appeal at all...In this case the front sounds like it was cluttered, so the way to increase curb appeal was literally to de-clutter. 

And you can quite literally walk there from the U.S. side if you didn't forget your passport at home :) Of course, I don't know how much (if at all) this could affect a hospitality business, so I would continue trying to find someone who actually operates an STR here to find out more.  

Have you ever had a property literally fall into your lap too good to be true??.

I get calls literally weekly begging me to take the $ on various lenders of these. 

Those effected go well beyond the property owners, the economic contribution of RE and subsequent economic loss in the form of: management, maintenance, landscaping, caretaking, hospitality, tourism, contracting, designing, pools and gardening is economically catastrophic and will reverberate well beyond specific zip codes.

We have the full gambit from 1) finding and buying the right property in the right locations to 2) professional execution of the design to 3) discounted property management services.