Aldea Zamá is walkable, central, and built out mostly in low-rise condo and townhouse buildings, each one run day to day by an administración rather than a single owner. That changes how the work gets scheduled before it changes anything about the design itself. Delivery windows are set by the building, not by us — a day and a time slot the administración approves, sometimes with an elevator that has real dimensional limits on what can go up in one piece. We measure the elevator and the stairwell before we specify the sofa.
It also changes the brief. A house on its own lot only has to be good. A condo in a stack has to be distinguishable — the two-bedroom on the floor below has the identical layout, and a guest scrolling between listings can only tell the units apart by what's inside them. That's the argument underneath our interior design across Tulum, sharpened for a building where the architecture is fixed and the interior is the only thing left to compete on.
Aldea Zamá is the most rental-driven of the three Tulum submarkets we work in, and the guest profile skews toward shorter, more frequent turnovers than La Veleta or Región 15 — the submarket data on nightly rate and stay length is set out separately. What that means at specification is that durability and photography carry equal weight. The unit turns over more often than a villa does, so every surface has to survive more cleanings, and every room has to read well in the six photographs a guest sees before the two below it.
Footprint discipline matters here in a way it doesn't on a larger lot. A one- or two-bedroom condo has no wasted square meter to hide a mistake in, so furniture is scaled to the room rather than scaled to the budget — a sofa that leaves circulation space reads larger in photographs than one that doesn't, even at a smaller size. The kitchen is specified for a shorter stay: fewer pans, more counter clearance, glassware sized to the unit's real guest count rather than its maximum.
Six materials chosen for a smaller footprint and a faster turnover. Each one is scaled to a condo room rather than a villa room, and each one survives more cleanings per year than a house on its own lot sees. Wear across a rental year is a real cost, which is why the palette here is built alongside the studio's off-season maintenance program rather than against it.
Reserved for the bath and a single feature wall rather than the whole unit — the finish that reads as intentional in a smaller room, not overwhelming.
Built-ins that recover floor space a freestanding wardrobe would take. Dense Caribbean walnut face, cut in the peninsula.
For bath and terrace floors. The same stone the region is built from, in a format that ships and installs on a building's schedule.
Rugs and cushions from the peninsula's own agave fiber. Texture in a small room without adding visual weight.
Table and bath pieces from Mérida and Izamal. Inexpensive enough to replace piece by piece rather than as a set.
Kitchen and bath hardware that ages instead of pitting. The detail a guest's hand actually touches.
A typical Aldea Zamá condo moves through four phases, compressed against La Veleta or Región 15 because the footprint is smaller and the install window is scheduled rather than open-ended.
We visit the unit, measure the elevator and stairwell, and get the administración's delivery-window requirements in writing before anything is specified.
On-site walkthrough · Elevator & access measurements · Administración delivery rules
Trade suppliers and regional artisans across the Yucatán, with every piece checked against the access dimensions confirmed in week one.
Approved specification book · Dimension-checked procurement · Yucatán trade accounts
Freight is consolidated and delivered inside the single window the building approves, with the administración notified ahead of the trucks.
HOA-approved delivery window · Consolidated freight · Single-window installation
The styling is set, the photographer shoots across a full day of light, and you receive the edited set with a styling guide for turnover and a sourcing book for what comes next.
Full-day editorial shoot · Full usage rights · Housekeeping styling guide · Replacement sourcing book
Once the specification book is approved, we buy against it. Trade accounts across the Yucatán and with suppliers outside Mexico, freight consolidated so the unit takes deliveries in the window the administración has approved rather than a rolling schedule of separate trucks. Everything is measured against the elevator and stairwell dimensions confirmed at the walkthrough before it's ordered, so nothing arrives that can't actually get upstairs.
The fee is flat, set at the concept stage against the scope of the unit — a different structure from the single bundled quote used for a standard Tulum furniture package, so every purchase stays visible as its own line item rather than folded into one figure. Items are invoiced at what they cost. You approve the specification book before a single order is placed, and you receive an itemized record of every purchase — supplier, price, and where it went in the unit.
A furniture package that stops at furniture is a unit nobody can check into. The scope covers what the property needs to open: case goods and soft seating, mattresses and bedding, window treatments, lighting, kitchen equipment and glassware, televisions and electronics, art and decor. Anything outside the agreed scope is quoted before it's ordered.
Every project ends with a photographer on site. The shoot is scheduled after styling is complete, timed to the hours when the light does the most for a smaller room, and shot for the crop ratios each booking channel actually uses. Interiors, the terrace, and detail frames for the pieces that separate the unit from the identical floor plan two doors down.
You receive the full edited set with rights to use them anywhere — Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, your own site, a broker's listing if you sell. The images belong to the property, not to us. The photography is written into the project rather than quoted as an extra at the end.
Yes. Design, procurement, and installation for condos and townhouses across Aldea Zamá, including units still under construction and units already in operation that need a refit.
We confirm the building's delivery rules — day, time, and access requirements — at the first walkthrough, and every order is scheduled to arrive inside that window. It's the single biggest scheduling variable in a condo project and we build the timeline around it rather than around it discovering itself in week eight.
We measure the elevator and stairwell before anything is specified, and every large piece is checked against those dimensions before it's ordered. Case goods that don't fit an elevator are specified to arrive flat and assemble on-site instead.
A flat project fee, agreed at the concept stage before any sourcing begins. Furniture and household items are invoiced at cost, and you receive an itemized record of every purchase. The fee is quoted after the walkthrough, once the scope is clear.
Everything required to open the unit: furniture, mattresses and bedding, window treatments, lighting, kitchen equipment, electronics, art, and decor — plus the specification, sourcing, receiving, installation, and photography around it.
Yours. The unit owns the furniture from the moment it's bought, and the itemized record we hand over is your record for insurance, resale, or a future sale of the property.
Yes. Most owners we work with are in the United States or Canada. The walkthrough happens by video, the specification book comes to you for approval, and you receive photography and video through the install.
Eight to eleven weeks for a typical condo — faster than a villa project because the footprint is smaller, though the schedule is set against the building's approved delivery window rather than an open one. Import and customs add time in Mexico, and we hold to the timeline we quote at the concept stage.
Yes. Every project ends with a professional shoot after installation, and the edited images come to you with full usage rights across every booking channel and your own marketing. It isn't billed separately.
The room is smaller, the turnover is faster, and the unit competes against an identical floor plan in the same building. Furniture is scaled to the room rather than the budget, and every surface is specified to survive more cleanings per year than a villa sees.
Yes. Design is offered as a standalone service. Owners who want ongoing operation can also retain Aldea Zamá property management.
The first correspondence is a walkthrough — in person at the unit, or by video call for remote owners.
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