If endless scrolling through vacation-rental sites has gotten you nowhere, these design-minded platforms might be the solve.

It was the era of live like a local, until commercial-property investors flooded sites like Airbnb and Vrbo.

Soon, it was tough to find those characterful stays in a sea of dime-a-dozen homes.

A-frame cabins next to the blue ocean in Mexico

A set of six one-bedrooms in Bacalar, Mexico.Credit:Courtesy of Boutique

Now a new generation of booking platforms is hoping to solve the conundrum of curation.

Its entirely different from what you find on most platforms.

Here, six of the best sites to search now.

A safari themed hotel bedroom in South Africa

A two-bedroom in South Africa’s Karoo.ELSA YOUNG/COURTESY OF ART HOUSE COLLECTION

Being purposefully small allows us to attend to every stay in a very hands-on way, Brundyn says.

(Dommeans home in Polish.)

One quintessential example: a renovated Edwardian warehouse in Londons Clerkenwell neighborhood thats now a sparkling three-bedroom.

A woman stands overlooking the water on a water-front hotel room

A waterfront two-bedroom in Oslo.Einar Aslaksen/Courtesy of A-One

A bedroom and den area in a loft style hotel apartment

A three-bedroom in London.Voytek Ketz/Courtesy of DOMstay

A onsen style bedroom house

A one-bedroom house in Seoul.Texture on Texture/Courtesy of Stayfolio

A cabin in the woods

A one-bedroom near Hastings, England.Courtesy of Kip Hideaways