Urban Farm House? I looked high and low and couldn’t find a single goat or chicken, I did however find lots of stuff with an Ikea logo on it. Maybe it should be called Casita Köttbulle – now that definitely has an Austin ring to it. OK the basics: Casita Köttbulle is located on a really quiet beautiful live oak lined street. Casita KB is a stand-alone building, so there isn’t a common wall with noisy neighbors. The décor is a bit minimalist, sorta Nordic-austere, lacks a bit of hygge. All said, perfect for a 4 night visit that for me was a business trip.
When I say quite, its very quiet, so quiet in fact that at night you will hear things that go bump-in-the-dark. First night I was startled awake by what I was surely a chupacabra clawing at the front door, but that morning I didn’t find any claw marks. Could have been the icemaker on the refrigerator, but still might be a good idea to keep the front door locked at night – just saying. The back yard neighbor has three big floppy eared dogs that play outside during the day. The each dog barks once a day. Some days they go, bark-bark-bark, other days each bark is spaced out over an hour or two. Oh and the next door neighbor has a miniature something mongrel, that yapped at me when I got out of my car, I said boo and it ran under the porch. The church down the street does a soothing bell riff at noon.
The bed, the mattress is a memory foam thingy, really comfortable, bet it was Ikea, but I didn’t look. There are no light blocking curtains so room is a bit on the light side at night, but it didn’t really bother me, its not like there are street lights or neighbor flood lights shinning into the bedroom, just the urban night-sky and/or moon light.
OK now the bad. OMG the black sheets and towels. At first I thought I was having a 1990’s cheesy interior San Francisco design flashback. Thank GOD there weren’t any gold or malachite highlights. I got over it, anyway everything was perfectly functional.
Enjoy!