I stayed a week, my husband about 10 days. The place was very clean, with many new features like the bathroom, laundry facilities, carpeting throughout, and kitchen. We have stayed at other, similar basement apartments in this neighborhood, so comparisons are easy and obvious. What I missed:
• When I first sat down on the bed, the bottom slats fell out. I encountered the cleaning lady in the driveway. She had tools in her car. I fixed the bed myself using her tools. It was an Ikea thing that was poorly put together.
• The wi-fi connection was pretty bad. For hours at a time we couldn't connect at all or if so, the connection was very slow. If I had been on a business trip instead of a vacation, I'd have been in trouble with the internet connection. Later, days into our stay, Amy gave us a password for a better connection. Possibly the free and open wi-fi had too many users on it?
• Dining issue: there were no chairs or dining area. We had to eat sitting either in bed, on the floor, standing up, or on a tiny loveseat whose bottom cushion was kinda close to the floor, knees by our chins. A 2-person table and chairs would be nice.
• Bedroom issues: there was a window opposite the bed which had no window covering! Someone could potentially just look in on me as I lay in bed. I put the clothes rack in front of the window and hung a towel as a curtain. :( There was a mirror leaning against the wall and precariously standing on two empty shoe boxes. It fell off its perch. I just left it that way until I packed out. The bed is a double and too small for me: at 6 feet, my feet are over the end. A queen sized would be better. Also, there's only one night stand and lamp. One person can enjoy a lighted bedside, one person cannot.
It seems like this place is just getting going as an Airbnb rental: everything that is finished is very new and quite nice, actually. It's just that there haven't been many (any?) folks staying there and so the kinks haven't been worked out.
• Kitchen issues: There was no coffee pot so we drank instant the whole time we were there. In Seattle, no coffee! There were only two spoons, two forks, two knives, etc. Stir your coffees, put the spoons in the sink and you're out of spoons. Sharp knife was the dullest I've ever encountered in the serrated category. There were not separate bins for kitchen scraps, recycling, and garbage even though Seattle collects these items separately.
Like I say: the place seems newly fitted out and put together in a rush at the end. I would definitely stay there again if these things I listed were in place. It's a nice, clean, quiet, convenient place near Ballard, Phinney Ridge, and Greenlake in Seattle.