For villa owners

Theming and property upgrades

The highest-return improvement available to a vacation home in this corridor, and the one most owners are most nervous about.

Why theming pays

A plain six-bedroom home in ChampionsGate competes with several hundred near-identical listings, and the only lever any of them has is price. A home with a hand-built castle room, an arcade garage and a theater room is not in that comparison at all.

It is the difference between being one of fifty results and being the one the children point at.

What real theming means

Carpenters and muralists, not wallpaper and decals. Custom beds, painted murals, and rooms built as rooms rather than decorated as an afterthought. It costs more up front and it survives guests, which decals do not.

Doing it in stages

You do not have to theme a whole house at once. The usual sequence is one hero bedroom and the garage, because those two carry the most weight in a listing, then the remaining bedrooms over the following low seasons.

We will tell you which rooms in your specific house are worth doing first, and which are not worth doing at all.

A note on intellectual property

Themed rooms are designed to evoke a genre rather than reproduce a specific character. That is not timidity: the parks enforce their trademarks against vacation-rental operators, and a listing that names or copies a protected character is a liability attached to your property, not ours.

Ready when you are

Call the family desk, 8a to 10p ET daily, or send us your dates and we will check the whole collection at once.