Kristen & Michael
36K subscribers
We’re Kristen & Michael, a husband and wife duo renovating, designing, and hosting magical short-term rentals in the Joshua Tree desert. In 2021 we bought and transformed The Seventh Ray House, our dreamy desert Airbnb on 5 acres. Now we’re restoring an abandoned 1950s homestead cabin next door and turning it into our next short-term rental, one dusty weekend at a time. On this channel, we share the real behind-the-scenes of Airbnb hosting, desert renovations, design, guest experience, STR strategy, budgets, mistakes, family life, and building a creative business from scratch. Subscribe to follow the journey. For business inquiries contact: [email protected]
A Huge Desert Rainstorm Hit Our Cabin... Then We Cut Holes in the Roof
Kristen & Michael · 7.7K views · 10 days ago
Renovating an Abandoned Cabin in Joshua Tree
Kristen & Michael · 4.4K views · 1 month ago
This Airbnb Changed How We’re Building Our Abandoned Cabin
Kristen & Michael · 4.2K views · 1 month ago
Renovating An Abandoned Joshua Tree Cabin: Plumbing, Roof Repair & Framing
Kristen & Michael · 11K views · 2 weeks ago
Our Abandoned Cabin Hit 100°… And The Budget Just Got Real
Kristen & Michael · 7.3K views · 3 months ago
If We Can't Fix This, The Renovation Is Over
Kristen & Michael · 6K views · 5 months ago
Did We Just Waste $3,000?
Kristen & Michael · 8.1K views · 4 months ago
We Found A HUGE Problem in Our Abandoned Joshua Tree Cabin
Kristen & Michael · 11K views · 1 month ago
We Thought We Were Almost Done...
Kristen & Michael · 8.4K views · 4 months ago
Every Time We Fix Something, We Find Another Problem
Kristen & Michael · 6.3K views · 4 months ago
We Just Spent $4,000... There's No Going Back Now
Kristen & Michael · 5.8K views · 5 months ago
3 YEARS on Airbnb: What We Learned and How Much We Made
Kristen & Michael · 93K views · 1 year ago
Abandoned Cabin Reno: This Damaged Wall Was Holding Up Our Roof
Kristen & Michael · 5.3K views · 2 months ago
The Airbnb That Started Everything Needed Us Again
Kristen & Michael · 4.6K views · 4 months ago
Abandoned Cabin Renovation: We Can't Afford Another Mistake
Kristen & Michael · 4.2K views · 2 months ago
Our Joshua Tree Airbnb Transformed: Walkthrough After 3 Years of Big Changes
Kristen & Michael · 37K views · 2 years ago
Should We Buy Another House?! (Life As Airbnb Hosts)
Kristen & Michael · 4K views · 1 year ago
We Bought an Abandoned Cabin. Then Reality Hit.
Kristen & Michael · 24K views · 3 months ago
Is This Old Cabin We Bought In Joshua Tree Actually Worth Saving?
Kristen & Michael · 6K views · 5 months ago
We Left the Abandoned Cabin for a MONTH and Came Back to THIS!
Kristen & Michael · 6.5K views · 1 month ago