Hi @Deborah1558, I also don't home host, but rent out an entire holiday property so can't talk to specifics.
However I have planned in the future to home host another property I want to live in.
As a person who has not stayed in another home hosted property and likes my privacy, I would only consider a home hosted if I had my own bathroom and my room that was large enough for tv, mini table, chairsx2, mini fridge/cabinet. That's what would make me transition from a motel/hotel room or renting my entire own property (sometimes not affordable for 1 person) to a home hosted. I can put up with a shared entry, shared kitchen, shared laundry, shared dining but i need my private space as a guest and that bathroom!
Although as a host, I'm designing my new airbnb space to separate me and my living quarters from guests, although with a shared laundry and exit to outdoor space. Its currently a 4 bedroom, 2 living spaces, 2 bathroom place where I can live at the back with a bathroom, kitchenette, living space and a bedroom.
For the guests, they have access to the other living space, kitchen/dining, main entry. I'm considering turning one of the smaller bedrooms into another bathroom so that the remaining bedrooms have their own bathroom suite. Or I leave it, and the 3 bedrooms share a bathroom - I don't know the market appetite for that if guests are all strangers. I'll provide cold breakfast provisions and they can cook a hot one as we are in a farming area with lovely bacon and fresh eggs.
I think every home host is different on whether you are an extravert or intravert! I'm the latter but like hosting....but not in my face.
Personally, I would be targetting travelling pair who don't occupy the same bed but happy to share a bathroom. Or yes sure you can rent them individually but I don't know how a jack n jill bathroom goes. Would be interested in @Marie8425 thoughts because i assume a dual entry bathroom means more chance someone forgets to lock the other door (is that what a jack n jill bathroom is?). I would do some research to figure out who you are targetting. I went on to airbnb and looked up all the places that home host for how many people in my area. I then looked up the occupany/# of reviews and looked at their calendar. Then looked up entire home listings and the # of bedrooms that was being provided and looked at those calendars. From there, when I did this, I could see that there was significantly less home hosting options, majority were single/couple guest only and high occupancy compared to the entire home hosting. So that told me demand was there, supply is not. Home hosting 3 bedroom occupancy was way less at a glance.
This was also confirmed thanks to my local tourism bureau research who said 52% of visitors were singles or couples, not families or groups of friends like i thought!
I'll probably be back to get more ideas on best home host approach closer to the time.
Marie's ideas were great around what to put in room.
Hope this helps! Regs Mary