We enjoyed our stay at this renovated home very much. The pantry was stocked with almost anything you could think of, with a good selection of teas, coffee beans, coffee grinder, decaf tea, ground coffee, spices, pasta, rice, grocery bags, every kind of kitchen utensil, etc.
The den has a lot of comfortable seating with a nice big TV mounted on a hinge so it can be tilted to face different seats. And, it had DVR, so you have the capability of being able to pause, rewind or fast-forward the current program. I’ve never had this capability at a place I stayed & I appreciate it!
There’s a spacious master with lots of windows and two other bedrooms with queen beds. We didn’t stay up in the master because the mattress was firmer than our preference, but we were fine in bedroom by the full bathroom. The bathroom was nicely stocked , too— body wash, shampoo. There were even q-tips.
There are 2 full baths rooms, one upstairs and one downstairs.
It’s .8 mile walk to Union station and the Smithsonian post office museum (witch was very enjoyable). Union station has a lot of restaurants from Shake Shack to a version of Legal Seafood that’s a bar/ restaurant. And, of course, Union Station (&the PO [museum} which was built at the same time to handle rail mail) are an architectural beauties.
The house has its own private parking space in the back and evidently Greg had been there the night before ourarrival to repair a damaged part of the fence. Nice!
Being in the city, you would expect noise -people talking, ambulances, some sirens, but the home appears to have double pane windows, so a lot of the noise is mitigated. The house was plenty warm while we were there, although a little less so in the dining room (with a very large table w/lots of chairs) and kitchen, which are probably expansions.
Greg gave us an amazing amount of information about local grocery stores, restaurants of every sort with descriptions & price ranges. There’s also a huge bowl on shelves in the dining room with brochures from just about every site in and around DC. On the foyer table, there are member cards to grocery stores and some metro cards and a big load of pennies.
All in all, the home is like that of a friend who went away for a while and let you stay in their house. We like seeing the occasional reference to a kid, like a little the plastic man attached to a mirror, and a little toy skateboard in a drawer.
The only negative I would comment upon is the trash that is on the street. I guess people just regularly toss their food wrappers and drink containers as they walk by. There seems to be a fair amount on the street the house faces, but not very much on the side street or elsewhere in the neighborhood. Nevertheless we enjoyed the location, size, amenities, private parking space and 2 full bathrooms. We would stay there again.