The shared vacation home calendar. Free to print, or on every phone.
Start with the 2027 sheet: the year at a glance with the holiday weekends marked, and every week from Saturday to Saturday with a line for who has it. When the printout on the fridge stops keeping up, House Matters puts the same weeks on everyone’s phone. Each family books its own.
Page two is all 52 weeks, Saturday to Saturday.
Settle the summer before anyone books a flight.
Page one is 2027 at a glance: twelve months, weekends shaded, the holiday weekends marked because those are the ones families argue about, and a key for whose initials are whose. Page two is every week from Saturday to Saturday, with who has it and how many are coming, and a line for how the weeks are split and who settles a clash.
| # | Sat to Sat | Who has it | How many |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | May 29 – Jun 5Memorial Day | Mom & Dad | 2 |
| 23 | Jun 5 – Jun 12 | Maya’s family | 6 |
| 24 | Jun 12 – Jun 19 | Erik’s family | 4 |
| 25 | Jun 19 – Jun 26 | Anna’s family | 4 |
| 26 | Jun 26 – Jul 3 | Mom & Dad | 2 |
| 27 | Jul 3 – Jul 10Fourth of July | Maya’s family | 6 |
| 28 | Jul 10 – Jul 17 | Erik’s family | 4 |
| 29 | Jul 17 – Jul 24 | Anna’s family | 4 |
Four families at one lake house, a week each in turn. Next summer the order moves one place, so the holiday weeks go to someone else. Download the 2027 calendar (PDF) →
Each family books its own week, from wherever they are.
Maya books the Fourth of July week from the soccer field. It’s on the home’s calendar for everyone the minute she does, with how many are coming and the open-up list for the day they arrive. And Jon, who checks the house on Mondays, gets a message asking whether to pause his visits that week. Nobody has to update a printout, or find out at the dock.
No more people than there are beds.
The lake house sleeps ten. Maya’s six are there for the Fourth, and Erik wants to come up for the weekend with five. The app tells him only four beds are free, so the kids double up and he books four. Tell House Matters how many the house sleeps, and the booking screen does the arithmetic before anyone packs.
The sheet is free. So is the app, to start.
Free: the calendar for you and your spouse or partner, the open-up and close-down lists, what’s low, the upkeep, and your caretaker’s reports.
A calendar the whole family books from is $10 a month for the household: keys for everyone beyond your spouse or partner, the bills, and every cost with who paid and who owes. It covers every key and every home, with no trial, and no card until you add a family key, a bill or a cost.
Pick the app that runs the way your family does.
If your family wants every stay approved, a turn-by-turn draft for the summer, or the stays in Google Calendar, OurSharedPlace does all three. It was $99 a year per home on October 27, 2026. The Vacation Calendar has approvals and a calendar feed too. House Matters has none of those. It is the one built for a house someone looks after between stays: the caretaker and the family on the same record.
Plain answers about a shared calendar.
What families ask before they put the year on paper, or in an app.
Is there a free shared vacation home calendar?
Yes, two kinds. The 2027 sheet on this page is a free PDF to print, with no email asked for. House Matters is free to set up, and free for you and your spouse or partner to book stays. Inviting the rest of the family to book is $10 a month for the household, and the same $10 tracks the bills and costs.
What should a shared vacation home calendar show?
Whose days they are, how many are coming, and the holiday weekends. Most families also write down the changeover day and the times (out by 10, in after 3), how the weeks are split, and who settles a clash. The sheet has a line for each.
Why Saturday to Saturday?
Most cabins and lake houses change over on a Saturday, so a week that starts on one never has to be cut in half. If your family changes over on Sunday, use the year-at-a-glance page and write initials on the days.
How do families split the weeks fairly?
Agree on the system before anyone picks a week. The usual ones are a rotation, where the order moves one place each year; a draft, where families pick weeks in turn; a point budget; and an open calendar with a booking window. The fair scheduling guide walks through each.
Can two families be at the house the same weekend?
Yes, when the beds allow it. Tell House Matters how many the house sleeps, and Book a stay won’t take more people than there are beds free those nights. With no bed count set, it takes whatever you put in.
Can the app run a rotation or approve requests?
No. A stay goes straight onto the calendar: there is no request to approve and no rotation, draft or nights quota. Families who run a rotation write it on the sheet and book what they agreed.
Does it sync with Google Calendar?
No. The stays live in House Matters, on every phone that holds a key. There is no feed to Google, Apple or Outlook calendars.
Does whoever looks after the house see the stays?
Yes, if they’re in House Matters. A home watcher or cleaner you’ve invited gets a message when someone books, asking whether to pause visits while the family is there. A cleaner who comes after each stay gets the turnover clean when the stay ends. One caretaker per home at a time.
Past the printout? Start with the calendar.
Free to set up.
$10 a month to invite family and track bills and costs.
Free on the App Store and Google Play. Works in your browser too. Sign in with your email or mobile, no password to remember.
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More for a shared home: fair scheduling, the expense split calculator, the family cabin agreement, the shared cabin app and a page for the family lake house. Everything else for the home is on the homeowners page.