Art Deco block and lovely flat - all the girls in the flat are great, and for me it's one of the best locations in London. Balham itself is nice with good pubs, and the Bedford is one of London's well-known music venues - about fifteen minutes walk from the flat and entertainment every night. If you want Gastro pub, then The Grove is your place of choice, just at the bottom of the hill from the flat - say - seven minutes walk? At the same time the Northern Line station is five minutes away, and that gives you a north/south axis throughout central London - from Camden Town in the north (market and cool stuff) through Tottenham Court Road (electronics), Oxford Street (shopping), Leicester Square (cinema, theatre, art), Buckingham Palace (sightseeing) - it's all on that axis.