We chose Painter's apartment for its location and quirkiness - Brooklyn & an artists studio overlooking the amazing Manhattan skyline! We received a comprehensive email detailing how to enter the apartment (very useful given we had no face-to-face) and found our way around reasonably easily. The apartment was clean and tidy when we got there, with a good supply of towels & a bathrobe. The electrics & heating take a short while to workout, but it all makes sense, and in fact the soft lighting (and fairy lights) make it a special place to be at night. The manual provided was useful in getting us oriented indoors! Painter kindly left a recent Time Out NYC, which is we browsed through, and we played a couple of Miles David tracks from the awesome record collection (much appreciated). Apple TV also came in handy - giving us the option of an early night in.
The location is really quite splendid - a 15-20 minute walk to Bedford Ave metro (grey) and shorter to Greenpoint (green). We walked into Williamsburg/Brooklyn heights every morning for brunch, and walked home from the Whythe Hotel and East River Park one night - very happy times, so glad to be close-by.
Painter was kind enough to leave coffee & tea out (artisan), which may have taken advantage of, and regrettably cost him a cafetière in the process (apologies again), but it made waking up in the morning so easy!
In conclusion, we thoroughly recommend staying here if you want something a bit out of the ordinary; urban artsy living, away from the hullabaloo of Manhattan, in the gorgeous borough of Brooklyn.
We hope to return!