Plant House "Houston's coolest Airbnb"-Porch Room
Entire home in Houston, Texas
- 2 guests
- 1 bedroom
- 1 bed
- 1 bath
Hosted by The Plant House
- Superhost
- 7 years hosting
Listing highlights
In Houston's East End, near the rail
About a 5-min walk to Settegast Park, with bars, coffee shops, and tacos steps from the door
Lush shared gardens and outdoor spaces
A hammock garden, shared deck, and gas grill set under old oak trees in a gated compound
The shower is a standout
Guests highlight the spacious shower, comfortable bed, and the peaceful garden atmosphere
“Houston’s coolest Airbnb” –Houstonia magazine. From the co-creator of Axelrad Beer Garden comes the Plant House, a tree-shaded guest oasis in a creative young neighborhood, 7 minutes to downtown by light rail, with incredible restaurants & late-night bars steps away. You'll live in a private mini-apartment with giant private bathroom and porch in a co-living community in two 1890s homes with soaring ceilings, unique furniture, leafy hammock gardens and a large shared deck. Free secure parking.
The space
The Plant House, two blocks from the Coffee Plant light rail stop in Houston’s artsy East End, is a garden guest house and creative co-living community born out of the imaginations of two longtime friends: Jeff Kaplan, co-creator of the Axelrad Beer Garden, and Robin Goldstein, co-creator of the Fearless Critic Houston Restaurant Guide. The Plant House is the realization of Jeff’s and Robin’s dream of what the ideal Airbnb should feel like. In the years since opening, it has also evolved partly into a co-living community, and four friendly, considerate, open-minded guests now live long-term in the Plant House.
The rapidly developing community in the surrounding blocks is just as exciting. The latest arrival to the neighborhood is Eight Row Flint, a few steps from your door, serving delicious food and cocktails into the wee hours. Some of Houston’s best bars, including Voodoo Queen, Moon Tower beer garden, How to Survive, and the Equal Parts craft brewery are a short walk away, as are many fantastic food options.
IMPORTANT: The Plant House is not for everyone, especially not light sleepers or people who want to avoid social interactions. Your bedroom, its en-suite bath and shower, microwave, fridge, and back porch are all completely private (which is why the Porch Room is listed as its own "whole place"), but the main deck between the 2 houses and all the outdoor areas are shared with guests, owners, and friendly neighbors who stop by. The neighborhood is bustling, with parties on nearby blocks that can get loud and long-distance trains rumbling by in the distance. These century-old homes have thin walls, so although our guests are respectful of each other, please don’t come expecting a lot of sonic privacy or solitude. Instead, you’re likely to leave with new friends.
We particularly love hosting guests for longer stays who are interested in becoming a real part of the community and participating in events and group dinners with the people who live here. For more rooms of all sizes, please check out our other Plant House listings by clicking on our host name!
The first thing you’ll probably notice after walking through the gates and into the garden is the colorful civilization of hammocks in the shade of a big old oak tree. The Axelrad influence is immediately clear from the trademark free-rotating hanging air seats, wonders of comfort that can swivel around to be social or private.
Inside the two Victorian houses is a seven-room craft guest house (actually two houses) decorated by some of Houston’s most talented young artists and furniture builders. Every item of furniture in the Plant House was either built or restored in the East End of Houston. The stairway and cabinetry was built by HTX Made, a few blocks away. All of our seven rooms have boutique hotel amenities and locally made Bungaloom non-toxic organic plant-based mattresses made in the neighborhood and designed to sleep cool. The space is a tribute to local craftspeople, designers, and entrepreneurs.
Your room is the swanky Porch Room, the most spacious room in the Plant House, with an enormous private bathroom/dressing room and private back porch with private porch entrance. Your room is completely private with en-suite bath and does not share any living or kitchen spaces with other rooms. Your room has a private mini-fridge and microwave oven, but it does not have a full kitchen.
Guests of all our rooms share the hammock garden, gas grill, pizza oven, picnic tables, lawn, and a big deck between the two houses that is really the heart of the whole experience. The Plant House attracts a fun, creative, lively crowd. If you’re in a social mood you’ll probably make some interesting new connections during your stay here, or maybe even end up involved in someone else’s project.
The Plant House team also includes Melissa Eason, one of Houston’s most beloved young muralists, public artists, and signmakers, whose original art adorns both houses, including murals, paintings, and art installations in our living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms; Brooklyn architect Ben Rosenblum, who restored Ithaca’s lovely Argos Inn; and Brazilian furniture designer Cristina Murusiak, who is responsible for many of the one-of-a-kind pieces inside the Plant House. The vision of the whole team was to create the guest house that they would most want to stay in themselves.
The project began when our neighbors who live in the firehouse next door, a community organizer and wind-power entrepreneur, saved six white 1890s bungalows from destruction in the nearby blocks of the Coffee Plant neighborhood. They hired John Cherry, Houston’s most legendary home mover, to pick up the old homes and move them all onto one block. The result is an experimental neighborhood that to us feels more like 1890s Houston than today’s city, with low, friendly fences and shared outdoor green spaces. The Plant House makes up two houses of the six in the community. The other neighbors are young Houston artists, builders, community organizers, and entrepreneurs.
The Plant House was featured in the August 2019 issue of Houstonia, which called it "Houston's coolest airbnb." Airbnb doesn’t allow links to other websites, but you can easily find the article by googling Plant House Houstonia August 2019.
Guest access
The Plant House is easy to find. Free open parking on all the surrounding streets. The Coffee Plant light rail stop is one block away. Restaurants, late-night bars, a wonderful plant-lined coffeeshop, a vintage clothing shop, and a barber shop are all within one block, and some of Houston's most famous Mexican restaurants and hipster bars are all an easy walk away -- the neighborhood is so walkable that the owners don’t own cars, and more of our guests arrive by public transportation or Uber than in cars.
Other things to note
The Plant House is an environment with lots of shared outdoor spaces. We're friendly with everyone who lives on the block. We love our neighbors, and they sometimes come hang out in our hammock garden, walk their dogs by, or bring over some beers. The walls in the 1890s houses also aren't soundproof. So we're not a good fit for guests who want total privacy, silence, or isolation from strangers. We're an ideal spot for friendly people who like to say hi. Smoking is allowed outdoors only, and we ask that you keep down the noise level after 10pm.
Registration Details
STR-2026-001908
The space
The Plant House, two blocks from the Coffee Plant light rail stop in Houston’s artsy East End, is a garden guest house and creative co-living community born out of the imaginations of two longtime friends: Jeff Kaplan, co-creator of the Axelrad Beer Garden, and Robin Goldstein, co-creator of the Fearless Critic Houston Restaurant Guide. The Plant House is the realization of Jeff’s and Robin’s dream of what the ideal Airbnb should feel like. In the years since opening, it has also evolved partly into a co-living community, and four friendly, considerate, open-minded guests now live long-term in the Plant House.
The rapidly developing community in the surrounding blocks is just as exciting. The latest arrival to the neighborhood is Eight Row Flint, a few steps from your door, serving delicious food and cocktails into the wee hours. Some of Houston’s best bars, including Voodoo Queen, Moon Tower beer garden, How to Survive, and the Equal Parts craft brewery are a short walk away, as are many fantastic food options.
IMPORTANT: The Plant House is not for everyone, especially not light sleepers or people who want to avoid social interactions. Your bedroom, its en-suite bath and shower, microwave, fridge, and back porch are all completely private (which is why the Porch Room is listed as its own "whole place"), but the main deck between the 2 houses and all the outdoor areas are shared with guests, owners, and friendly neighbors who stop by. The neighborhood is bustling, with parties on nearby blocks that can get loud and long-distance trains rumbling by in the distance. These century-old homes have thin walls, so although our guests are respectful of each other, please don’t come expecting a lot of sonic privacy or solitude. Instead, you’re likely to leave with new friends.
We particularly love hosting guests for longer stays who are interested in becoming a real part of the community and participating in events and group dinners with the people who live here. For more rooms of all sizes, please check out our other Plant House listings by clicking on our host name!
The first thing you’ll probably notice after walking through the gates and into the garden is the colorful civilization of hammocks in the shade of a big old oak tree. The Axelrad influence is immediately clear from the trademark free-rotating hanging air seats, wonders of comfort that can swivel around to be social or private.
Inside the two Victorian houses is a seven-room craft guest house (actually two houses) decorated by some of Houston’s most talented young artists and furniture builders. Every item of furniture in the Plant House was either built or restored in the East End of Houston. The stairway and cabinetry was built by HTX Made, a few blocks away. All of our seven rooms have boutique hotel amenities and locally made Bungaloom non-toxic organic plant-based mattresses made in the neighborhood and designed to sleep cool. The space is a tribute to local craftspeople, designers, and entrepreneurs.
Your room is the swanky Porch Room, the most spacious room in the Plant House, with an enormous private bathroom/dressing room and private back porch with private porch entrance. Your room is completely private with en-suite bath and does not share any living or kitchen spaces with other rooms. Your room has a private mini-fridge and microwave oven, but it does not have a full kitchen.
Guests of all our rooms share the hammock garden, gas grill, pizza oven, picnic tables, lawn, and a big deck between the two houses that is really the heart of the whole experience. The Plant House attracts a fun, creative, lively crowd. If you’re in a social mood you’ll probably make some interesting new connections during your stay here, or maybe even end up involved in someone else’s project.
The Plant House team also includes Melissa Eason, one of Houston’s most beloved young muralists, public artists, and signmakers, whose original art adorns both houses, including murals, paintings, and art installations in our living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms; Brooklyn architect Ben Rosenblum, who restored Ithaca’s lovely Argos Inn; and Brazilian furniture designer Cristina Murusiak, who is responsible for many of the one-of-a-kind pieces inside the Plant House. The vision of the whole team was to create the guest house that they would most want to stay in themselves.
The project began when our neighbors who live in the firehouse next door, a community organizer and wind-power entrepreneur, saved six white 1890s bungalows from destruction in the nearby blocks of the Coffee Plant neighborhood. They hired John Cherry, Houston’s most legendary home mover, to pick up the old homes and move them all onto one block. The result is an experimental neighborhood that to us feels more like 1890s Houston than today’s city, with low, friendly fences and shared outdoor green spaces. The Plant House makes up two houses of the six in the community. The other neighbors are young Houston artists, builders, community organizers, and entrepreneurs.
The Plant House was featured in the August 2019 issue of Houstonia, which called it "Houston's coolest airbnb." Airbnb doesn’t allow links to other websites, but you can easily find the article by googling Plant House Houstonia August 2019.
Guest access
The Plant House is easy to find. Free open parking on all the surrounding streets. The Coffee Plant light rail stop is one block away. Restaurants, late-night bars, a wonderful plant-lined coffeeshop, a vintage clothing shop, and a barber shop are all within one block, and some of Houston's most famous Mexican restaurants and hipster bars are all an easy walk away -- the neighborhood is so walkable that the owners don’t own cars, and more of our guests arrive by public transportation or Uber than in cars.
Other things to note
The Plant House is an environment with lots of shared outdoor spaces. We're friendly with everyone who lives on the block. We love our neighbors, and they sometimes come hang out in our hammock garden, walk their dogs by, or bring over some beers. The walls in the 1890s houses also aren't soundproof. So we're not a good fit for guests who want total privacy, silence, or isolation from strangers. We're an ideal spot for friendly people who like to say hi. Smoking is allowed outdoors only, and we ask that you keep down the noise level after 10pm.
Registration Details
STR-2026-001908
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Neighborhood highlights
Located about a block from the Harrisburg/Coffee Plant rail stop and 7 minutes by light rail from downtown, the Convention Center, and Minute Maid Park, the Plant House is in the middle of a rapidly evolving neighborhood that's quickly become Houston's hottest area for creative young people, a walking neighborhood with late-night food and drinks just steps away.
Our part of the East End is characterized by hyper-local businesses run by people who also live in the neighborhood. This area boasts a fascinating blend of traditional turn-of-the century bungalows, shot-gun homes, and industrial buildings turned into startup projects.
This was once a first generation, working-class neighborhood of immigrants. The homes being restored are nestled among established trees, and there is less displacement than in other developing areas in town, largely because the old industrial buildings are being redeveloped into residential spaces, expanding the total number of residents that can be accommodated in the neighborhood.
The Plant House is a few light rail stops away from the Convention Center, Discovery Green Park, and the core of downtown (about a five-minute rail ride); and within walking distance of bars and a recently opened craft brewery (Equal Parts on Harrisburg Boulevard). Eight Row Flint on Harrisburg, two blocks away, serves great food and craft cocktails late into the night.
If you want a hip Third Wave coffee experience, Eden, on Harrisburg is a two-minute walk. It doubles as a plant shop, and you’ll sip your brew under a leafy canopy of carefully curated plants that you can take home. A half a block away, Champ Burger makes some of Houston’s best burgers and an indulgent deep-fried steak sandwich. The hottest nightlife district in the city is also in the East End area, about a mile away on the edge of Downtown.
Fajitas on sizzle platters, an all-time Tex-Mex standard, were first born in our neighborhood, created by Ninfa Laurenzo, on Navigation Boulevard. There’s an abundance of local spots for tacos and Tex-Mex, including a great taco truck across the street from the Plant House, El Charro a few blocks away, and best of all, El Tiempo Cantina and Ninfa's (both on Navigation). On Sundays, you can walk or bike to the Sunday Farmer's Market on the Navigation esplanade.
For bicycle enthusiasts, the Plant neighborhood has the reputation of being the most bike friendly neighborhood in town. Less than a mile down the road (Sampson Street) is access to the Buffalo Bayou, Houston's largest linear park with a series of hike and bike trails, in addition to the Columbia Tap trail, and roads that aren't clogged with traffic. In fact, the mastermind of our Fire Station block (and next-door neighbor to The Plant House) is known as Houston's #1 bike advocate. He was the guy behind the Bayou Greenway’s initiative to make Houston the most bikeable urban city and chose to move into this neighborhood because of the connectivity to bike trails, and he rides his bike to his office downtown every day.
Our part of the East End is characterized by hyper-local businesses run by people who also live in the neighborhood. This area boasts a fascinating blend of traditional turn-of-the century bungalows, shot-gun homes, and industrial buildings turned into startup projects.
This was once a first generation, working-class neighborhood of immigrants. The homes being restored are nestled among established trees, and there is less displacement than in other developing areas in town, largely because the old industrial buildings are being redeveloped into residential spaces, expanding the total number of residents that can be accommodated in the neighborhood.
The Plant House is a few light rail stops away from the Convention Center, Discovery Green Park, and the core of downtown (about a five-minute rail ride); and within walking distance of bars and a recently opened craft brewery (Equal Parts on Harrisburg Boulevard). Eight Row Flint on Harrisburg, two blocks away, serves great food and craft cocktails late into the night.
If you want a hip Third Wave coffee experience, Eden, on Harrisburg is a two-minute walk. It doubles as a plant shop, and you’ll sip your brew under a leafy canopy of carefully curated plants that you can take home. A half a block away, Champ Burger makes some of Houston’s best burgers and an indulgent deep-fried steak sandwich. The hottest nightlife district in the city is also in the East End area, about a mile away on the edge of Downtown.
Fajitas on sizzle platters, an all-time Tex-Mex standard, were first born in our neighborhood, created by Ninfa Laurenzo, on Navigation Boulevard. There’s an abundance of local spots for tacos and Tex-Mex, including a great taco truck across the street from the Plant House, El Charro a few blocks away, and best of all, El Tiempo Cantina and Ninfa's (both on Navigation). On Sundays, you can walk or bike to the Sunday Farmer's Market on the Navigation esplanade.
For bicycle enthusiasts, the Plant neighborhood has the reputation of being the most bike friendly neighborhood in town. Less than a mile down the road (Sampson Street) is access to the Buffalo Bayou, Houston's largest linear park with a series of hike and bike trails, in addition to the Columbia Tap trail, and roads that aren't clogged with traffic. In fact, the mastermind of our Fire Station block (and next-door neighbor to The Plant House) is known as Houston's #1 bike advocate. He was the guy behind the Bayou Greenway’s initiative to make Houston the most bikeable urban city and chose to move into this neighborhood because of the connectivity to bike trails, and he rides his bike to his office downtown every day.
Meet your host
Speaks Spanish, French, Italian, and Chinese
Lives in Houston, Texas
I'm Robin, co-owner (with Jeff) of the Plant House. We come from the worlds of community development and food/travel publishing, and we both love to travel and stay in Airbnb's. When the opportunity came along to restore these two bungalows from the late 1800s, we knew it was time to go into business together and turn these buildings filled with amazing history into the Airbnb of our dreams.
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