The place is crying to be a great stay but there is too much to improve at the moment to leave a good rating unfortunately.
First of all the house has 3 rooms and a studio at the top. The studio has its own living room and bathroom which are only available for people renting it. This leaves the 3 other rooms (which can each accommodate 2 guests) sharing one full bathroom (shower + toilet) and one separated toilet. So there are not 2 shared bathrooms as advertised. And as you can think it can become a problem, especially in the morning, when 6 peoples have to share 1 shower.
Also none of the rooms have a number or a name, so when you arrive you have to guess which one is yours.
The room itself is reasonably sized, with a desk and wardrobe but it doesn't look as great as the pictures unfortunately. The ceiling light shade for instance seems to have seen a good amount of customers already, and one standing light had a broken foot and no working lightbulb.
The bedsheets and towels had a funny smell, I guess it's because they took too long to dry. Nothing that can be easily improved with a dryer or a dehumidifier.
When I arrived, the house was not really clean. There was dust from building work in the bathroom and dust under the bed and in the wardrobe. Maria sent the cleaner to clean the shared areas on my request so it was better the rest of my stay. But it seems the cleaners only clean once a week, with so many people sharing the house and especially bathroom and kitchen, twice a week would be better.
As the toilets are shared I expected the toilet paper to be provided, but we ran out of it after a few days with no replacement on its way.
The weather was quite warm when I moved in but a few days before checking out the temperature dropped. The heating didn't work, when I moved out the house thermometer was showing 17.5C. And on the last day there was no hot water. I can understand issues happen but Maria was not responding for almost 30 hours and didn't help much after that. She said she was abroad with poor signal. Fair enough but in that case she should leave an emergency number with someone in London being able to take action. I have to say she compensated me for the troubles but it was not a pleasant experience.
So this place needs some improvements to be up to better standards, especially as the price it not really cheap.
Sad as it's quite well located, in a quiet area not too far from shops and close to nearby stations on both Victoria and Northern lines. And the place has been renovated so windows are double glaze, the kitchen has a big American fridge and induction cooker. It's also cool to have a chat with other guests in the kitchen if you feel the mood.
I hope Maria will take action to fix the issues and I'll be happy to rent here again and give a better review.