Overall, Sian's place offers a good value stay that is fairly close to the city center. The neighborhood is not that great, but it is nice that the supermarket is a short walk from the house. Siam is a responsive host, offered a great check-in experience, and answered questions quickly.
There are a number of quirks about the room and house that other travelers may find good to know. The bedroom and the other bedroom Siam hosts are on the second floor up one of the steepest staircases I have seen, yet it has no handrail. The door to the bedroom is basically on the last step of the staircase, making a trip to the bathroom in the middle of the night rather dangerous -- you have to go down one step and up one to turn the corner, and if one is not careful a false step can send one tumbling down. I would suggest at least a nightlight here.
Also, the door to the room has no doorknob! Neither does the bathroom door but at least the bathroom door has a sliding lock like at a public toilet stall. We had no way of closing our bedroom door shut. And although the dog was sweet, it kept trying to enter our room since the door would not close.
We respected Siam's wishes to take off our shoes but sadly our socks were covered in dog hair as a result.