My parents stayed at Michelle’s on two separate weekends and had a great experience both times. There’s a wonderful storybook quality to the setting as you enter a wooden gate between the tall hedges that protect the property and ensure its privacy. Turn left and the wing of Michelle’s house where guests stay had its own private environment from the rest of the property with hedge and a cute breakfast table outside the french doors leading into the room.
Please note, unlike I did at first, that the manual on the table has all the information you will need for your stay in an easy-to-read format, including how to lock the french doors when you leave (pull up on the handle) and points of interest and practicality in the neighborhood. Michelle has thought out your stay beautifully. She is also wonderful at responding quickly to the questions that do come up and does so in the friendliest and most helpful way (even when the questions come from people like me who don’t read the manual and that the question is answered in clear bold letters on page one! — not that Michelle said a word about that, I just noticed it later myself).
Michelle’s place is really a perfect haven after a day out in the LA traffic — such a tranquil, peaceful feel to it and really gives the sense that you’ve found a homey cottage in the woods nestled deep within the urban grid. The neighborhood has a great quiet feel as well, despite its convenient location close to Westwood Boulevard. Best of both worlds!
I unreservedly recommend staying at Michelle’s place when visiting LA. It’s a quiet gem of a setting and Michelle is a top-notch Airbnb host.