Industrial/Modern Full Basement Apartment with private entrance in the back of the house.
The kitchen is fun, modern, and well appointed. It has new appliances and granite countertops and plenty of small appliances to explore.
The bedroom has a Queen bed with comfy-cotton sheets.
Yes, the rough hewn ceiling beams are, indeed, a cherry wood - rustic and beautiful!
There is plenty of street parking!
Enjoy the garden mint & other seasonal garden offerings!!
The space
Cozy. Private. Complete. A great place to explore, settle into, and feel at home.
Welcome! Enter your bedroom, with a new 2022 queen mattress, and soulful dancers for the "headboard", inspiring lightness and joy. Open the door and the new bathroom is to your right, with tub, shower, vanity sink and toilet. Further down the hall is a love seat for relaxing, reading and cuddling. The biggest and best feature of this funky industrial/chic basement apartment is the new complete kitchen with granite countertops, new appliances and a wide variety of kitchen tools and supplies of all kinds, from blender to coffee maker to hot air frier, to spices and great add-ins for smoothies! You are home!
This is a very easy apartment space to settle into and rent long-term.
Feel the bounty of HOME in the kitchen, bathroom, and the whole apartment with ample and varied supplies of many kinds!
Will this be the space that you write your next novel in?
Once upon a time, there was a Mom who had three daughters. That Mom had a passion for providing a beautiful, sacred, bountiful, nurturing, and nourishing home for her girls. Now, these girls are adults, and that Mom offers that same passion towards her AirBnB guests!
When you go back home and ask your Mom for a band aid you get one. You ask to borrow a heating pad – and there it is. You ask for a button and thread - and she finds a great match for you. That is a bit like what staying at this house is like. It is a home in which people have cared for people, and resources are there for us to help each other be healthier, more comfortable, and more “together”.
What is your “Once upon a time?”
YOUR PERSONAL KITCHEN:
In this experience, you will have access to an abundance of tools, and even some foods, which you can try out in a kitchen appointed by a professional licensed nutritionist. You have what you need to possibly learn something new to create a healthier and more interesting future for yourself, both in this Apartment and beyond!
The kitchen is replete with a wide selection of NON-TOXIC cooking implements, small appliances (coffee maker, air frier, blender, etc), pots, pans, bowls, Pyrex (non-toxic and oven-safe) storage containers, etc, for your use. Give them a try!
In the kitchen, in the way of food, there is coffee as well as many spices, teas, and additions to your smoothies.
There may also be, occasionally, additional offerings from the home garden, great finds from the farm markets and locals stores. All of the food that is in your basement apartment is for you to use; however, only during your stay here.
Please clean up after yourselves! To clean the dishes, you can either handwash them or use the dishwasher. For wiping up, be very gentle on the stovetop surfaces! (And never create a big temperature difference on the stovetop by going too quickly from hot to cold, or from cold to hot. Careful with the stove top!)
YARD – on the level of your apartment
The apartment opens to the outside, to a lovely, tiny BACKYARD with comfy outdoor seats and nature all around - birds and squirrels, as well as things for you to pick and eat such as mint, okra, kohlrabi, collard greens (cut-and-come-again), tomatoes, and, eventually, at the end of the summer season, huge cushaw squash for baking, roasting, sautéing and making into a favorite soup!
YOUR NEW PRIVATE BATHROOM:
All is new, as of 2022, pristine and complete with tub/shower, vanity sink, toilet and squatty potty! Enjoy!
There is a special targeted third source of heat for this room - a small electric in-wall heater - in addition to the home's primary heating system, and the basement mini-split heating system! You can be as comfy and cozy as you would like!!
There are an abundance of offerings, besides just shampoo and conditioner. In the bathroom are a bounty of "Health and Beauty" aids all of which you are welcome to use! There is something for almost any need. Some of this bounty is from my professional engagement in a Pharmacy/Supplement/Health store, so some of the products are short dated or even out of date. Please smell and really look at all products before you use them. And feel free to take home with you up to ONE favorite product that you love! (NOT reusable things or already opened items - keep those at the house - just the personal products that once someone starts using them, feels quite personal! Please contact Amanda if you want to ask about any of the specific products). Enjoy the bounty!
OCCASIONAL WASHER/DRYER SHARING: For anyone staying longer than 3 nights, there may be the requirement to make mutually agreed upon times for the manager to come into the space to use the large washer/dryer - which is the only one in the house. It is a large washer/dryer and you are welcome to use it anytime during your stay. Detergent is provided.
You are welcome to enjoy the FRONT PORCH SWING!
THE BACK PORCH, right above you, is a great place to watch the 4th of July fireworks!! Or just see the great view of the fascinating neighborhood -- that East Reading is built on rolling hills -- in peaceful quiet, or in great conversation! Please use the REBOUNDER, which is also on the porch, for a gentle but invigorating exercise and detox tool. Keep it where it is, next to the house, and jump very carefully!
THE GUEST GOODIE BAG:
Once upon time, there was a Mom who gave the BEST goodie bags for her daughter's birthday parties! Now, as an VRBO host, she offers a free “goodie bag” of a combination of 1 or 2 scarves or ties. There is a selection for you to choose from in your room. Enjoy! (The stash of scarves and ties to pick from will either be in your apartment, or on the horizontal metal bar on the right of the TV stand in the Living Room on the first floor.) (Please leave $5 for each additional scarf or tie, beyond 2, that you take with you. Thanks!)
PRIVACY – WINDOWS
The deep, high placement of the windows in the basement kitchen, sitting area and bedrooms along with the irregular ceiling, makes it impossible to use traditional window coverings. I have crafted, and will continue to update, light-weight folding panels to cover the windows. Each window has one of these. In a few places, I was able to also add a pull-down blind a few feet in front of the window. There is now complete privacy on all windows!
PRIVACY – ENTRANCE DOOR
A simple café curtain rod and curtain covers the glass in the entrance door. When wanting to get more light into the bedroom, you can take the light curtain rod and curtain off the hooks and put it on identical hooks just inside of the closet, to the left, for storage, until needed for privacy, again, on the door.
PRIVACY – BEDROOM DOOR WHICH OPENS INTO THE HALL
The window panels of that door are covered with decorative privacy stickers.
Guest access
It is a FULL APARTMENT and you have access to it all! (With some minimal washer/dryer sharing.)
Arrive to this 1911 historical home, and walk around to the right, past the vegetable garden boxes, on (sometimes uneven) steppingstones (careful!), and down a few steps to your magic garden, to the private entrance of your peaceful, complete and very funky industrial/chic apartment!
The door is opened with a KEY, in a key-coded LOCKBOX - for SELF CHECK-IN. The manager is in the house next door, to the left, if any additional check-in assistance is needed.
Other things to note
NON-SMOKING HOUSE
Three hundred dollar cleaning fee for infraction of this house rule.
PERSONS WHO ARE NOT CHECKED IN ARE NOT PERMITTED IN THE HOUSE.
CLEAN WATER
Let all of your drinking water be clean REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER! Reverse Osmosis water is supplied to the rented rooms and is always available in the kitchen of the main house, in the dedicated faucet at the sink to the right of the regular faucet.
CLEAN AIR
The filters on the central heating unit are inspected and changed regularly.
There is a professional-grade air-purifier, called Air Doctor and several other smaller units, which you can ask to use – first come, first served. (This is on top of an already relatively green home.)
CLEAN SURFACES and BATHROOMS
Touch-points and the bathrooms are sanitized regularly.
The bathrooms are Super-Clean and Sanitized, by using the cleaning methods used in the "Clean My Space" YouTube videos by Melissa Maker. I use three non-toxic and covid-approved cleaning products (see The Wellness Mama website and the government website of approved Covid products) to thoroughly disinfect the bathroom after each guest.
Eye masks are available for you use – please ask if needed.
All of the laundry is done with scent-free natural detergent to ensure, as much as possible, non-reactivity for people who are chemically sensitive. (Although there can be lingering laundry smells and other smells from previous guests and from the spot remover which I occasionally need to use.)
I never use dryer sheets or any other chemical product in the dryer, in order to limit chemical use and exposure. I sometimes use organic woolen dryer balls.
CLEAN and SAFE LIVING
Absolutely no parties, no drugs, no smoking, and minimal drinking.
No fire of any kind for any reason. No use of matches or lighters, no smoking, no incense, no candles, no smudging.
