Written by @an_uncommon_alchemy.
On our recent #NOLA trip we stayed in a truly INCROYABLE #airbnb in the #bywater called “St Joan.”
When we initially booked it I was a little skeeved out, as it’s creepy enough to imagine you are using someone else’s 🛏 and 🍽, not to mention their 🚽. And this place had so…much…stuff!
BUT I was so, so, SO wrong. Owned by a playwright-turned-artist as a second home, this house made me time travel back to the 1880s (or 1940s 🤷🏻‍♀️) New Orleans, but with all the modcons!
Every single detail was perfecto, including the paintings, sculptures, books and PUPPETS devoted to the house’s namesake, Joan of Arc. When we put on the (already dialed in) jazz station and served up food on the vintage pottery, I felt like I was a character in “Pretty Baby.”
The only cons were the fact we figured out we were on the same street as a recent unsolved murder and just around the corner was a creepy abandoned Navy building housing criminals, but who cares?
And surprisingly, there is MORE stuff than pictured but it all adds to the charm. Have a “count the Joans” scavenger hunt when you arrive!
This place is so magical.