Driftwood, Texas Twenty minutes from Wimberley
Twenty minutes past the last streetlight.
A five-bedroom estate with an observation tower, and a one-bedroom guesthouse rated in the top 5% on Airbnb. Fourteen gated acres in Driftwood, fifteen minutes from Wimberley. Dogs welcome at both.
Guesthouse rating across 86 guest reviews
Of all eligible listings on Airbnb
Gated private acres shared by two houses
Reviews across the whole property, 4.97 average
Two houses. One gate. Nobody else.
Land instead of neighbours
The estate takes the ten wooded acres behind the house. The guesthouse has three to four acres of its own, behind an eight-foot cedar fence draped in evergreen vine. Book both and the whole fourteen are yours.
A pool that reads the season
Both houses have a cowboy pool that heats and chills on a button, anywhere from 65 to 102 degrees. Filled with filtered rainwater. Heating and firewood are included, not billed as extras.
Answered by the owner, in an hour
Don lives in the barn at the east end of the property. Superhost, 118 reviews, a 4.97 average and a hundred percent response rate.
The collection
An estate, and a retreat.
The Noble House
5.0 from 4 reviews
12 guests 5 bedrooms 8 beds 3.5 baths
Five bedrooms ending in an observation tower reached by a spiral staircase. Chef’s kitchen, stone fireplace, covered limestone porch and a ten-foot heated pool. Booked alone, the ten acres behind the house come with it.
The Guesthouse
4.97 from 86 reviews — Guest Favourite
2 guests 1 bedroom 1 king bed 1 bath
A one-bedroom cottage behind the cedar fence with its own wooded acres, a king Helix bed on Egyptian cotton, a record player with vinyl, and the pool under the oaks. In the top 5% of listings on Airbnb.
Guests keep mentioning the same things.
Counted across the eighty-six reviews on the guesthouse. Hospitality comes up more than anything else, which is the part we can least automate.
Reviews mentioning hospitality
Reviews mentioning the pool
Reviews mentioning the outdoor space
Guest review, The Guesthouse
Bring the dog. We mean it.
There is a short dog-walking trail cut through the oaks and cedars, reserved for guesthouse guests, and a fenced dog run beside the cottage. Waste bags, bowls and unscented hypoallergenic paw wipes are already there, at no charge.
Dogs are welcome at both houses. We ask only that they stay leashed, because the land is open, the wildlife is real and the front gate is usually up.
Who built it
Built by someone who kept being disappointed.
Don had stayed in enough rentals around the world to know what usually goes missing: quality, comfort, and any evidence that someone had thought about it. So he built the alternative on fourteen acres in Driftwood, and then moved onto them.
Rainwater harvested and run through ozone filtration. Soho Home, West Elm and CB2 inside. A pool that works in February and August. The things guests never notice until they are absent.
The same house, without the platform fee.
Send your dates and roughly what you are after. You will get availability, a total, and an honest answer about which of the two suits you.