We felt welcome to Sarah and Edward's home. After travelling for 2 months and having a long flight it was so nice to arrive to this cozy, nicely decorated home with all kinds of treats to get us through the first day.
We stayed for 16 days and got to see the good and bad sides of this appartment. Home was very well equiped and for example in kitchen we had everything we needed for cooking. Location was quite good with metro and we were able to walk to most of the places in Brooklyn.
Unfortunately there was also minuses in the flat. Altough it wasn't very cold yet (October) the flat was cold. Especially in the mornings we felt like waking up in a fridge (windows were drafting alot). We asked few times to get the heaters on and they were on every now and then but what bothered us as much as the coldness, was the answer we got from the host: We felt like we were asking too much and got a lecture about adjusting to live in their home, not living in hotel, having the warmest rooms in the whole building and adjusting this old building for warming again after summer. We also felt a bit uncomfortable to have other kinds of notes from host. For example about keeping our shoes in the livingroom instead of the front hall. Maybe they just need to get a bit more used to having someone in the flat... Also the noice (voices, puppy and kids running, piano...) coming from upstairs was loud but didn't really bother us.

Anyway the over all experience was quite good: flat was beautiful, clean, good location, Sarah was helpful.