House Common Areas

Living Room

From Netflix to Amazon Prime and HD cable, its all here. We even keep a surge protector under the coffee table to plug in laptops and phone chargers as you settle in for a night of work, or to watch a movie off your laptop with the supplied HDMI cables you can connect between your laptop and the TV.

Living Room

The Living Room doesn’t just have seating. We have blankets tucked away for cold nights and pillows, blakets, and air mattresses for when you have guests.

Living Room

Upstairs Hall and Full Bathroom

Front Entryway

Upstairs Hall

The two upstairs bedrooms we rent are on the left in this photo.

Front Entryway

With the Living Room in the distance and the Dining Room at your back.

Front Entryway

Dining Room

The Dining Room is fully stocked for dining and studying. We even keep a surge protector ready to go under the table to plug in laptops and work away with the great light we get through the front windows.

Dining Room

Kitchen off to the left, and Front Entryway off to the right. Wine and beer glasses as well as wine openers are in the cupboard on the left…

Kitchen

In this photo, the Dining Room is at the far end, and the pantry, first floor half bath, second fridge, and back hall closet are off to the left.

Kitchen

Dining Room is at your back, and the pantry off the end of the Kitchen to the right.

Kitchen

Kitchen is fully stocked with equipment including hi-heat silicone utensils in abundance.

Gas Range

With hood vent that vents to the outside.

Kitchen

We keep the kitchen knives proffesionaly sharpened and ready for use. Whats the point of a knife if its not sharp?

Kitchen

Multiple silicone drying mats are easly cleaned in the dishwasher. And yes, there is definetly a dishwasher.

Kitchen

The windows above the sink looks out to the Patio and grill.

Kitchen

All the major appliances are available to use by all.

Dining Room

We keep the professional grade mixer and baking dry goods in the dining room on their own table on top of the wine rack.

Dining Room

We keep the less often used appliances on rolling stainless wire shelving in the dining room including the espresso maker, ice cream maker, spare coffee maker, crock pot, etc.

Pantry

Aprons for all.

Pantry

The Pantry connects to both the Kitchen and the Living Room and is located at the back of the house. Pantry is complete with a window in the main area, a window in the half bath off the Pantry, a second first floor fridge, and the back hall closet. It also contains the entrance to the laundry room and one of two entrances to the Hillside Apartment.

The Kitchen + Dining Room + Pantry

The kitchen is set up for cooks. Though we usually have a mix of people who do and do not cook, we make sure the kitchen is fully stocked.

This includes but is not limited to:

Dishwasher and Gas Range
Commercial-grade pots and pans
Commercial grade KitchenAid mixer
Plates, bowls, cups, silverware, etc.
Food processor
Heavy-duty foil and other consumables like Ziploc bags, plastic wrap, parchment paper, etc
Cutting boards
Steak knives
Cooking/ chef's knives, paring knives, bread knives, etc.
Espresso Maker
Crockpot
Toaster
Hot water pot/electric kettle
Coffeemaker
Ice cream maker
All the necessary accessories and utensils.

The dining room has extra shelving space on stainless rolling kitchen storage racks, a microwave, wine rack with space for each tenant, baking supplies, and a corner cupboard for storage of specialty glassware with enough beer and wine glasses for all. There is tenant food storage space on racks as well.

The pantry off the kitchen also connects to the living room and contains a second fridge, a pantry closet for extra house supplies, a half bath for all to use, and the basement stairs.

We have two full-size fridges to ensure we are not cramped on fridge space. This is in addition to the full size fridge in the basement apartment, for a total of three in the house.

Living Room

Storage Nooks Abound

We have lots of built in storage around the house for things like boots, bulky jackets, etc.

Front Entrance Hall

Dining Room on the left & Living Room to the right. Coat closet directly ahead.

Patio At Night

Board Games For All

Entryway From The Living Room

The Front Entryway has 20 feet of custom sized Waterhog mats desiged to trap all the water and debris we can throw at them, and plenty of seating and shoe storage to make changing shoes easy.

Patio Off The Kitchen

Patio + GriLL

The house also comes complete with a furnished patio located right off the kitchen. It is covered with a protective UV shade over the entire patio and has string lights for using the patio at night. The patio has two larger tables, three end tables, and a number of chairs. It also has an outlet for connection of laptops, full wifi connection, and a grill.

Living Room and Front Entry

As you walk in through the front door, we have Waterhog rugs covering the entire entryway complete with benches and shoe storage space for taking off shoes and hanging up coats. There is also a front hall closet for coats, cleaning supplies, vacuums, etc.

The living room is stocked with everything you need for a cozy night with a movie or a long day of studying, with plenty of lamps, blankets, pillows, work surfaces, chairs, etc.

The TV has an HD cable box, Amazon Fire Stick, and is logged into Netflix and Amazon Prime as well. Each tenant is given his/her own user profile on the house Netflix account.

THE GOAL - A GREAT PLACE TO STUDY, WORK, AND SLEEP

We try to cover all the bases that we can think of, have had requested thus far, or that are needed for grad students and young professionals. The internet is set up with multiple wireless routers in different parts of the house so that on each floor, and even on the patio, you will have a full wifi signal with a Gigabit grade (1000 Mbps) connection.

WHAT IF I HAVE TO ASSEMBLE STUFF?

Regarding setting up furniture or basic tool needs, we keep a house toolkit with a hammer, pliers, tape measure, screwdrivers, etc., available in the common areas for basic repair/ furniture setup and other needs. We also keep more tools in our utility room available upon request for heavier duty needs.

Laundry Room

The house comes with both washer and dryer, and the laundry detergent and dryer sheets are typically part of house expenses. The laundry room is located at the base of the basement stairs and has shelving for all your common laundry soaps and accessories. We also keep a couple of small plastic wash bins in the laundry room for soaking specialty or stained items.

Heating & Cooling

We have built as much efficiency and comfort into the home as possible, and are constantly adding more. Between the full home renovation in 2017 and the continued improvements, we have re-weather stripped each entryway into the home, insulated a large number of walls throughout the home, and laid down over 600 linear feet of caulking (not a joke) on every seam in the house we can find and are continuing to caulk more as we go.

THE HOUSE HAS TWO SEPARATE HEATING/COOLING SYSTEMS

One system heats and cools the upstairs of the home. The second system heats/cools the first floor and the basement apartment.

We have EcoBee Smart thermostats connected to both systems, with temperature sensors in each room of the house. Even though this is an older home (as are all homes in the area), we have a very high level of control over temperatures in each room and efficiency at the same time. The system can automatically turn on and off and control temperatures based on whether or not people are home, space isn't being used, and even preemptively heat and cool spaces in anticipation of people coming home from classes or work as it adjusts to our schedules.

During the renovation energy efficient light fixtures, LED and halogen bulbs, and water saving fixtures were installed throughout the home. More safety features were also added with better electrical grounding, many new GFCI outlets, and other upgrades.

Guests

Guests are genuinely welcome in this home. We always try to rent to people who are both responsible and easy going with regards to roommates and are conscientious of themselves and their guests, ensuring respect for all roommates. It is each tenant’s job to ensure he/she is being quiet and respectful as well as an understanding of others. Tenants studying and sleeping comes first, before guests and gatherings.

Each tenant is responsible for making sure they communicate via the house group chat well in advance of guests coming to town to check and see that it works with everyone else's schedule. Tenants are responsible for making sure their guests are respectful in the house, including respectful of the noise levels expected for studying if and when anyone needs to study. This is not a party house. Studying/sleeping has the right-of-way.

It is common for tenants to have over friends or relatives from out of town, and as long as timing, courtesy, and communication are respected, it always works out just fine.

Bathrooms

First Floor Half Bath

This bathroom is available to all and is located off the Pantry.

First Floor Half Bath

Hillside Apartment Shower

Hillside Apartment Bathroom

Upstairs Full Bath

Includes tile all around and new fixtures for easy cleaning.

Upstairs Full Bath

The house has 4 bathrooms (3 full, 1 half), for 5 total people. The half bath is located on the first floor, off the pantry. One full bath is located in the basement apartment, and a second bath upstairs is for use by the upstairs tenants. The third full bath is in the Terrapin Bedroom on the first floor. The net total of bathrooms means that even in the case where the house has guests, we can always work out a way to have enough bathroom space.

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