Notes from the host
Fun Holiday Home with Parlor Near Marine Life Center
Enjoy Bellingham from our spacious & historic (est. 1900) remodeled Victorian/Craftsman home!!.
Your group will be walking distance to the best breweries, coffee shops, restaurants, parks, and downtown! A separate living room, dining room, parlor room, bathroom & kitchen on 1st floor. 2nd floor has 3 bedrooms (queen bed, queen bed, full-over-full bunk bed). Access the 2nd bathroom & 3rd floor game room via the master - with added bonus room containing a twin trundle bed! A huge gazebo/grill in the backyard. Enjoy hot bevs from the front porch teak chairs looking east.
The space
16 person Maximum Occupancy: 8 adults (city code) + 8children
1st floor:
Huge kitchen, double columned refrigerator/freezer/ice-maker, center stainless island, oversized farmhouse style drop-sink, butcher block counter tops, new digital washer/dryer combo in the kitchen nook. Brand new cooking and dining ware, plates, bowls, pyrex, crockery, oil, vinegar, spices, etc. to accommodate all cooking needs of large family and friend groups.
Large farmhouse style bathroom with huge claw foot tub, wrap-around shower curtain, built-in dresser-vanity with ample shelf storage and cabinetry
Parlor room with sliding door privacy. Double leather couches and chairs, with oak end tables. Record player with radio, CD and tape options -- a set of old records for your enjoyment along with many 80's & 90's classic board games and puzzles! Take in the game or have movie night with the 58" wall mounted 4K Smart TV with access to all of your favorite streaming services and Samsung TV Plus online cable channels.
Huge dining room with sky mural ceiling! 10 person farmhouse style dining table, matching hutch. Built in bar for every cocktail or aperitif style beverage you're classy dinner hosting can surmise - complete with multiple 60's style decanters.
Event room / study yields a very relaxing mountain themed space with leather couch and reading chairs. Enjoy one of the many books in our seasonally rotating house book library while gazing at the Mount Rainier or St. Helen's (pre-explosion) photography. Kids play kitchen and many construction trucks/toys for the imagination enthusiasts - young and old. Queen sized cabinet bed is also in this room - the bed can be unlocked, assembled and made for your downstairs sleeping needs - please just be sure to request the cabinet bed use upon booking your stay / prior to check-in.
There are two large parking spaces accessible via the alley - with enough room for 2-4 cars depending if the (covered) owners car is parked in the first space. There is also plenty of free parking in front of the house. The back yard hosts a huge 12' x 10' cedar gazebo with LED string lights, a propane gas fireplace (with fire shield-guard), 4 custom made cedar Adirondack chairs, children's chairs and gravel sand toys. Enjoy a cold beverage while grilling some of Taylor Shellfish's local delicacies on the gas bbq!
The front door takes you directly to the large cedar front porch. Enjoy your morning coffee while kicking back in the dual teak loveseats while overlooking the diverse flora in the front yard and the mountain peaks while gazing out east.
The 2nd floor has the "Young at Heart" room directly to the right. Here you will find a full over full bunk bed with a memory foam mattress on the bottom bunk. 300lb weight limit for each top and bottom bunk beds. Turn on the LED-color changing ceiling fan while doing some homework on the antique desk or 50's classic classroom chairs. The room has two large, east-facing windows which illuminate an oversized Washington census map from the 1930's along with a pre-WWII schematic of the globe's energy and fuel cycle between carbon, the earth and sun. A 48" wall mounted 4K Smart TV can facilitate any of your favorite educational, or child-friendly streaming services. A changing table-dresser is under the TV and you can find children's toys and a pack n' play in the closet.
The "Columbia" room (the district the home is in) is at the end of the hall. The fir floors and 50's chandelier meet you upon entry, with the single window illuminating the spring-memory foam queen bed lined with matching end tables. Kick back and watch a flick on the 50" wall mounted 4K Smart TV or utilize the leather-lined desk to get some work done.
The master bedroom has a queen sized memory foam mattress, 3 oak and cedar dressers, a large modern desk, ceiling fan, dual external monitors and a leather recliner in the reading nook and electric blackout curtains! A newly remodeled full bathroom (subway tile & vanity mirror) is attached to the master bedroom.
On the other side of the room is stair access to the huge 3rd floor game & 4th bedroom! Find a 50's style Formica table complete with kids table, games, cribbage boards and poker chips. Grab a cold beverage from the mini fridge! Two full-sized bed-convertible leather couches line both sides of the room with a XXL bean bag chair between them. The room is decorated with modern Mariokart framed pictures and old 60's postcards sent from a Bellingham local while traveling around the world! Mariokart and 007 James bond are there to play on N64 (4 controllers) along with virtually every 8bit NES game on a separate system.
A small 4th bedroom is accessed via the 3rd floor gameroom and contains a twin trundle bed. If guests want to use the twin trundle bed we just ask that they respect any and all of the owner's items stored in the room, while they use the twin bed. Trundle can be setup prior to check-in, just ask the host and they will also relay the door key code for access to the owners bedroom.
Guest access
Guests will have access to all housing areas described.
Guests will not have access to the owners closets on the first floor and need to request access to 3rd floor owners room if wanting to use the twin trundle bed.
Other things to note:
-No shoes inside please.
-No parties
-No smoking indoors
-Max occupancy 8 Adults + 8 kids, $25/night/person over 8ppl
-No Squatting
-Dogs must be pre-approved (2 max, $135/stay)
-No Puppies / Potty Trained & well behaved (no chewers or diggers)
-No Dirty Paws and Crated when left alone
-Must clean up after dog
-Sunday Guests must wheel sanitation bins to end of driveway for Monday AM pickup
-Be sure gazebo lights off and propane valves closed after each use
-Please enjoy the outdoor amenities but also please follow neighborhood quiet hours after 9pm.
Security Note:
There are two Nest doorbell cameras at both the front and back door entrances.
There is a nest floodlight camera facing the driveway /backyard and a camera on the northeast side of the house - All cameras are only accessed by host when there is a security, neighbor complaints or a check-in issue or necessary communication (eg., deliveries, guests ringing doorbells, etc.)
