Lovely inside. Looks just like the photos. Farid was very nice in our conversations with him.

My husband and I stayed along with my 68-year-old mother for two weeks in late October and early November. The outdoor light along the entire block-long pathway to the house was burned out. We would have gladly replaced the outdoor light ourselves, but the bulb is very high and there was no ladder. Farid's solution was to tell us to leave on the living room light; however, there was no possible way for it to cast light into the outdoor walkway until you arrived at the door and opened it, at which point it didn't matter anyway.

The pathway was, as we expected, long and difficult to navigate because of the stepping stones, which are very far apart in some places. The biggest problem was that the entire pathway was dark because of the aforementioned burned out porch light. To make matters worse, it was autumn and leaves covered the path daily, making the stepping stones impossible to see even in the daytime. It was dangerous to walk the path to the house, to say the least, and my mother and I missed a stepping stone and twisted our ankles more than once. To be fair, the leaves were raked up once while we were there, but the next day the problem was back.

The staircase is very beautiful as in the pictures, but it is a bit rickety and the railing is very loose at the top, so you don't feel like you can really hang on to it. In addition the top step had part of the wood coming loose making it incredibly easy to trip on that step both going up and coming down.

The outlets in the house are few and far between, and several had post-its on them that read "do not use", making the matter even more difficult.

There were beautiful flowers there when we arrived and bread, butter, and milk in the fridge.

The location is fantastic, with a bus stop approximately 4 blocks away and Hammersmith train station less than a 10 minute ride away. Be aware that the Barnes area is a very expensive one, but with that comes a very good neighborhood with lovely restaurants and a sense of safety when walking in the early evening darkness from the bus stop to the house.