I just didn't feel comfortable at Lorraine's place. I almost left but it was more trouble than it was worth. The room I had was way small for a traveller (think postage stamp), a "shared bath" actually meant shared with as many as three other people (a problem when you have to leave in the morning or if you have to pee all of a sudden and someone is in the shower without asking you if you need to go first), and the house had a kind of tired feeling.
The location was great, Lorraine herself was very nice (as were her other guests), her food was wonderful but the space itself was VERY awkward. I had to put in my contacts and put my makeup on while on my knees (no other way to do it --- even if the bathroom had had space to lay things out I could have been holding someone else up) using my iphone flashlight for enough light. There was an inexplicable small dresser (about knee high) with a mirror at thigh height and a closet which seemed more for the storage of linens than for a guest to use (lots of hangers but that's not what I needed). The only outlet I could find in the room was buried behind a nightstand.
I knew it was going to be a rooming-house kind of arrangement but I wasn't prepared for the actual space to be so awkward. It turned out to be the most uncomfortable AirBnB experience I've had. I kept thinking of the old addage that someone offering their space as an AirBnB kind of space should go through the exercise of packing a suitcase and actually staying in the space for a couple of days to experience what prospective guests will experience.
Oh well. Did I say the location was great?