Alas, upon entry the room smelt immediately musky and was not to our liking, we almost didn't stay at all but were in late after seeing friends and so we only stayed one night after making other arrangements for the next few nights near the cricket ground that was spotlessly clean. However, Lindsay did react well insofar as kindly refunding promptly without question thecancelled days. Her attitude seems to be that these are normal conditions for that part of Wellington so beware anywhere else in the region.
Furthermore, I have subsequently suggested Lindsay adds a cotton bedsheet to separate the base bed sheet from fleece blanket and duvet provided, we did not like a fleece blanket on top of our bodies, this being the way she had prepared the bed for us.
The curtains in the bedroom have evidence of being eaten by moths and one Moth was swatted within minutes of arrival. The curtains also have some black spots on that look like mould to us, apparently they won't come out after washing and are cream coloured. Similar mould or mildrew was in evidence on bathroom and kitchen windows that we saw. It's sad to see as it wouldn't take much time to go over these with a mould and or mildew cleaner.
My partner is pregnant so her cleaniness genes are in hyper drive right now but having said that if I were alone I would be similarly minded to stay just the one night and I am way less fussy and only had one similar musky smelling experience previously in a somewhat neglected hotel in UK.
I never met Lindsay but she's very artistic and her house looks like she's a real easy going fun person to know but for us her house just needs a little more TLC (tender loving care). 4 other places we've been have been pretty much spotlessly clean.
It's in a reasonable hilly area - 40 ish steps to get from the road to front door, not a major issue for us but one that might not be ideal for some.