Wow! What a lovely apartment and what an amazing welcome. I could tell we were going somewhere special from the outset. It’s hard to find an apartment, with air-conditioning, a terrace, and interesting at a good price in Lisbon, and I kept coming back to Lisbon Sweet Home 1.

From my initial contact with Jorge he was helpful and attentive. The pictures give a great feel of the love, care, attention to detail and artistic/architectural sympathy that has gone into the apartment (from the key above the door matching the quaint key that is your keyring) Jorge has put two years of his life into renovating/breathing life into an old Lisbon building and you can see this in every detail. Where he could he has preserved old features and where necessary he has added new, quality features and he has seamlessly joined the old with the new.

It’s a top floor loft apartment, and walking in we were welcomed by some Fado music playing in the reading room and the most wonderful welcome spread, like the apartment, the care and attention to detail flowed through: white wine chilling, red, some Portugese cheese, local pastries and bread, homemade jam, fresh fruit. It was the most wonderful introduction to Portugal, the people, the sounds and tastes, without even leaving the apartment we had a flavour of Lisbon. Then there was the fridge with still and sparkling water, eggs, orange juice, milk, butter, ham and more cheese, beer, condiments. Lets not forget the Nespresso machine and the coffee supplies, plus teas, sugar and more condiments etc,Jorge has outfitted this place to be the perfect Sweet Home from home. Then going through the drawers there was everything you needed,hand blender, chopper and mixer. All the cleaning stuff, iron, washing powder, etc etc etc. Oh, plus pannini toaster! Everything was there and more, we were totally spoilt. Then onto checking out the rest of the apartment, nice comfy sofa, two terraces. In the bathroom Jorge has made the best use of space, great corner shower (with music!) and even a bidet.

Jorge had also prepared a list of places he thought we might enjoy, from sights to restaurants, and made notes for us. We made it to Zapatas - 5 minutes up the road, nice, authentic local seafood. If you don’t even feel to go that far, there are a couple of closer local restaurants, a kebab/curry place, mini marts etc.
Number 28 Tram is around the corner and takes you to all the main sight seeing spots, or you can walk to most quite easily and enjoy the architecture and explore all the lovely little side streets.

For us it was the perfect apartment in Lisbon, everything we could desire, interesting neighbourhood, interesting restaurants, views, people and experiences, and the feeling that we were helping Jorge in his quest to save, renovate and improve the local architecture and neighbourhood. I hope you will enjoy the uniqueness of the apartment as much as we did.