Overall, this is a beautiful space, more like a fancy living room with a loft bed, than a carriage house apartment. For families, a more accurate description would be “recommended for older children age 6+.” There are windows on 3 sides of the apartment, which make light control at night difficult, and since younger children have earlier bedtimes, dealing with all of the natural and city street light was a challenge. Also, there is a motion sensitive light in the hosts’ backyard, which can be set off by their roaming cats. The outdoor flood light went off at 1am and 4am during our 48 hour stay here. The hosts also say they provide shampoo, conditioner and body soap; however, there wasn’t really any conditioner left in the bottle to use. If I would have know that, I would have packed my own. The hosts kindly provided eggs from their chickens, but no frying pan or spatula to scramble or fry these eggs. Therefore, it became too much trouble to eat or use the eggs they provided. The location was nice, not too far from the highway, Interstate 5, and close to a grocery store and Peninsula Park that has a beautiful rose garden.