Matt's place is perfect. It has everything you need for an extended stay (or a brief one), and is brilliantly situated near downtown, Melrose Market, Pike Place...all of it.
It's unusual to find something so central yet so quiet. The building is charm itself. The kitchen is easy to cook in, there's plenty of hot water -- it just has everything. In addition, a key code rather than an actual key means one less thing to be responsible for, which for me is a dream.
I stayed at Matt's place for a week during an extraordinarily stressful time -- and everything about his place just made the whole world seem manageable again. That's the kind of place it is.