First of all, I cannot recommend staying at Ian's. My boyfriend and I shared his home for six nights. He did not smile once, not even when we arrived.
Before booking, I made sure that it is okay to use his kitchen as we wanted to prepare our own breakfast and dinner during the stay which we did - we ate out twice. The kitchen was dirty. One evening between 9 and 10 pm we collided with Ian and his daughter who, by the way, never introduced herself and did not even waste one glance at us. On the last evening, we returned from an amazing day trip to the Blue Mountains and wanted to make an easy dinner (we just started to boil water for rice) when Ian furiously opened the kitchen door, wildly gesticulating how rude we were cooking at midnight (it was before 11 pm - we are travellers and the nights before it seemed okay that we cook not much later than Ian himself). We apologized and hungrily offered to stop cooking but Ian just went on repeating himself threateningly waving about with his arms. We said sorry again and again but he would not stop so we stopped preparing our food and went to our room quite scared. I would have left that house immediately if I was not with my boyfriend. We barricaded the door so that we could get some sleep before picking up our campervan the next morning, having a long trip ahead of us. I was seriously ready to call the police, should Ian try to enter the room.
What a bad experience, I do not understand this behaviour. Of course, there is no problem telling us not to cook late but the way he told us was just unacceptable. You need to know that the kitchen is far from Ian's room and even further from his daughter's room and has a window where possible odours evaporate and that we are no noisy people - just read through my previous ratings.
Apart from this the room was nice and spacious. The bathroom and kitchen need renovation, however, the shower and stove worked fine.
I think it is time for Ian to retire from Airbnb as he obviously is not willing to share his home.