01.
Walkthrough and scope
Week 1–2A site visit in Tulum, or a video walkthrough for owners abroad. Measurements, guest count, channel positioning, and a scope that fits the property. You receive a specification book and a single quoted figure.
ScopeWhat a package is
One number, one delivery, one finished house.
A furniture package is a fixed scope of work that takes a property from empty to guest-ready. Every room furnished, every drawer filled, every surface that a guest will touch specified in advance and delivered as a single installation.
It is not a shopping list handed back to the owner. We specify it, we buy it, we clear it, we receive it, we build it, we style it, and we photograph it. The owner approves the specification book once and sees the house again on the day it's finished.
The distinction that matters in Tulum is between the package and the pieces. Anyone can send you a list of furniture. The work is in the weeks between the list and a villa that photographs well and survives its first two hundred nights.
ConfigurationsThree shapes
Sized to the property, not to a catalog.
01
Condo package
One to two bedroomsFull interior inventory for a residence in Aldea Zamá, La Veleta, or Region 15. Living, dining, sleeping, kitchen, bath, terrace. Building-compliant delivery windows and elevator constraints handled with the administración before anything ships.
02
Villa package
Three to five bedroomsThe full interior plus everything outside the walls. Pool furniture, palapa seating, outdoor dining, shade, exterior lighting. Villas live outdoors in Tulum and the exterior is where most packages come up short.
03
Refit
Existing propertyPartial replacement for a property already in operation. The bones stay. What's failed, dated, or wrong for the guest gets specified and swapped, usually inside a single low-season window so no revenue nights are lost.
InventoryDown to the corkscrew
The furniture is the visible half.
A villa that photographs beautifully and has four wine glasses for eight guests is not a finished property, and the gap shows up on the first turnover.
So the package is built to a guest count, not a room count. Beds, sofas, dining, storage, and terrace furniture set the shape of the house. Then the inventory underneath it gets sized to full occupancy — kitchenware and glassware to the maximum sleeping count with a margin, linens at three sets per bed so a turnover never waits on a laundry cycle, towels on the same par, and the small hardware nobody itemizes until it's missing at eleven at night.
Art, ceramics, and textiles come last and are treated as part of the specification rather than an afterthought. In a market where every second listing is a white-walled two-bedroom with the same rattan pendant, the styling layer is most of what separates a property that holds rate from one that competes on price.
Everything is documented. The house is handed over with a photographed inventory, a sourcing book listing where each piece came from, and a styling guide the housekeeping team works from so the property looks on night two hundred the way it looked in the listing photos.
MexicoSourcing & customs
The part that goes wrong is the part before delivery.
Furnishing a property in Mexico is a logistics problem wearing a design costume. The specification is the easy half. Getting the specification into the house is where projects lose their timelines.
Most of what we buy is bought inside the country. Workshops in Mérida, carpenters in Tulum, weavers across the peninsula — sourcing regionally removes the import step entirely for a large share of the package, which is the single biggest lever on both cost and schedule. It also means a broken chair is repaired by the person who made it rather than replaced from another continent.
What has to be imported gets planned around, not hoped through. Trade pieces coming into Mexico carry duty and IVA, need a customs broker, and clear on their own schedule. We build that variance into the timeline at the quoting stage rather than discovering it at week nine, and we consolidate shipments so the paperwork happens once.
Delivery is its own discipline here. Roads in Region 15 and parts of La Veleta punish a full-size truck, condo buildings hold to delivery windows set by the administración, and nothing about a Tulum address guarantees that a courier finds it. Someone from our team receives every delivery. Owners are not asked to coordinate a freight arrival from another country.
Tulum Country Club adds a gate on top of all of that — a scheduled security checkpoint every delivery has to clear, on a community set back from the beach road with its own access hours. It's enough of a different brief that we run interior design at Tulum Country Club as its own service line rather than folding it into the standard package.
Eight to fourteen weeksFour phases
Walkthrough to first booking.
02.
Procurement
Week 3–9Regional workshops commissioned, trade orders placed, imports consolidated and lodged with the broker. Progress is reported, not narrated — you get a status on what's confirmed and what's still moving.
03.
Installation
Week 10–12One window. A dedicated crew, everything staged, built, and placed. The house goes from empty to finished without the owner living through a sequence of partial deliveries.
04.
Handover
Week 13–14Photography, inventory documentation, sourcing book, styling guide. The property is listing-ready on handover day.
Custom commissions run toward the longer end of that window. Imports clear on customs' own schedule, which is why the variance is quoted up front rather than absorbed silently.
Two servicesWhich one you need
Which one you actually need.
A furniture package answers a scope question: the property is empty and needs to be furnished and operating. The specification is efficient, the material direction comes from a palette we already hold to in this climate, and the priority is a finished, photographable, durable house inside a set window.
Tulum interior design answers a different question. It starts from the property rather than the palette — light through the day, how the space wants to be composed, built-ins, custom work, a material direction developed for that house specifically.
Most owners furnishing a two-bedroom condo for the rental market want the package. Most owners with a villa they'll also use themselves want the design service. The walkthrough tells us which, and there's no charge for finding out.
CoverageWhere we furnish
Where we furnish.
Aldea Zamá
Condo packages under building delivery rules, with the administración coordinated ahead of the installation window.
Aldea Zamá property management →La Veleta
A design-aware guest base and a submarket where the styling layer carries real weight in the booking decision.
La Veleta property management →Region 15
Villa packages, full exterior scope, and delivery access planned around the roads.
Region 15 property management →Beach zone and Tulum Country Club
Larger villa packages with exterior and pool scope, salt exposure driving the material selection.
QuestionsBefore the walkthrough
Before the walkthrough.
Everything required to open the property. Furniture for every room, exterior and pool furniture for villas, kitchenware and glassware sized to the maximum guest count, linens and towels at three sets per bed, art and styling, and the small inventory a property needs on its first turnover. The house is handed over photographed, documented, and listing-ready.
It depends on the size of the property, the guest count, and how much is commissioned rather than bought. We quote a single figure after the walkthrough, against a written specification, and we don't publish rate cards — a two-bedroom in Aldea Zamá and a five-bedroom villa in Region 15 are not the same project and a published range would mislead on both.
Eight to fourteen weeks from walkthrough to handover. Custom commissions and imports run toward the longer end. Imports clear on customs' schedule rather than ours, which is why the variance is quoted up front.
No. A significant share of the properties we furnish belong to owners in the United States, Canada, and Europe who never attend the installation. The walkthrough happens by video, the specification book is approved remotely, our team receives every delivery, and the first time most owners see the property finished is in the handover photography.
Yes. Furnishing is a standalone service. Owners who want the property operated afterward can also retain Tulum property management.
You do, outright, from the day it's installed. Virestia is a design and management company, not a furniture leasing business. The sourcing book is yours as well, so replacements can be ordered without going through us.
Turnover wears a house faster than an owner does, and in this climate the sun and salt do their own share. Replacement is handled as part of Tulum villa maintenance, scheduled against the sourcing book so a replaced piece matches what's already in the room.
No. A furniture package is a fixed scope that furnishes and opens a property inside a set window. Tulum interior design is a studio service — bespoke material direction, built-ins, and custom work developed for one house. The walkthrough is the same starting point for both.
Contact
Request a scope.
The first step is a walkthrough — in person in Tulum, or by video call for owners abroad. You leave it with a specification and a figure, at no cost.
Schedule a walkthrough→Request a scope
Request a scope.
Share a few details and we’ll come back with a fixed-scope quote after a walkthrough — in person in Tulum, or by video call.