My daughter and I stayed in Mahtab's place four nights. Mahtab is very welcoming as well as Kathi, Mahtab's flatmate, who is the person that normally lives in the room we hired. The room is clean even if kathi's things are there, which was absolutely not a problem for us.
The private bathroom that is in the corredor in front of the room was a big plus.
Mahtab made us feel at ease, and we could prepare our breakfast as well as light meals.
The neighbourhood is quite nice and calm, there is a commercial street at 6 minutes, and the metro at 10 minutes, so everything is quite near by. Mile End is a good place to stay, out of London's crowd but still very central to all the interesting places to visit.
Is true we could hear the trains passing by but it didn't bother us at all.
I feel like if I had been staying a friend's place, I thank Mahtab for this!