Ellen and Tom's house is really extraordinary! My daughter and I really enjoyed staying there and spending Christmas there.
Every room is decorated very well with lots of ornaments. The house has so many decorations that every day, I noticed decorations that I had never noticed before!
Also, the yard is gorgeous. The house is completely surrounded by a forest and there is also an herb garden in the back yard. The yard is 2½ acres and my daughter and I often took walks outside in the forest and herb garden. And when we looked outside during sunrise or sunset, we often saw wild deer in the yard.
Also, the house is extremely quiet every day because since the yard is so big, the neighbors are very far away. So I never heard any noise at all. In fact, I never even heard cars that drove by because the house sets back a few hundred feet from the road.
The house is well stocked with every cooking utensil you could ever need, including a blender and even an "Instant Pot" pressure cooker / slow cooker / rice cooker. (That came in very handy because my daughter and I love to eat rice.) The only thing that was missing was a toaster, but it doesn't matter because my daughter and I never eat toast.
I also loved all of the books in the house. There are books in almost every room, so I never got bored in the house because there are so many books everywhere.
Also there is Netflix on the TV. My daughter really enjoyed watching Netflix shows.
I also like the fact that there was a separate "office" in the house, so I used my laptop computer there. In most B & Bs that I stay at, I have to put my computer on the dining room table, but it's much better having a whole room for an "office." (The "office" is not one of the two bedrooms. It is an additional room, separate from the two bedrooms.)
In addition, the location of the house is perfect. It's about 15 to 20 minutes from the West Side of Austin, where there's a Walmart and dozens of restaurants. To get to the airport only takes 25 minutes. And it only takes 30 minutes to get to downtown Austin.
Of all of the B & Bs that I have stayed at, Tom and Ellen's house is definitely the very best one!