$1,750 / 1br - 290ft2 - Splendid Library Suite, Historic Home, Falls Church City, Metro (Falls Church)

Right in the Central (we believe best) part of Falls Church City, convenient to everything, we have a large historic-registry home in which we provide lovely fully-furnished accommodations to professionals in need. Available now is our marvelous Library Suite. Why is it called the Library Suite? What is its history? In our original design of the addition that is now the integral part of this home, what we now call the Library Suite was originally intended to be the "In-Law Suite." What special treatment did we create for the “In-Laws”? It’s a large suite, complete with its own large bath, on the same floor as the kitchen (but away from all the other bedrooms of the house), and with even direct access to the South Deck. If you're interested, please provide with your inquiry some information about yourself, including timing needs (when you might want/need to join us, and - IF you already know this - for about how long), how many you'll be (Suite can easily handle a couple), whether you'd be commuting to work/study place or "working at home," and any of your own interests and special needs. About a decade ago, when we redid the kitchen, we had the same wonderful folks put into that Suite in a series of shelves of the wonderful cherry wood: it looks like, and could serve also as a library. Well, let's look at what all's here: About the house/us: • Suite is virtually “its own wing” of an elegant historic-but-totally-modern-interior home. • Suite has its own large lighted closet – probably larger than three standards closets, complete with a chest of drawers; • Bedroom is 19 x 12.5, with large (actually, two-room) private bath in addition/called "ensuite." • Suite is equipped with a queen-sized antique canopy bed – hand-carved in India for a special wedding there. Yes, really. • Suite has a new workstation/computer desk table and super-comfortable new computer chair. • Heating and cooling to the entire suite are resident/thermostatically controlled right therein. • Immediate access to our south-facing, always-sunlit large deck. It’s amazing. • Again, it's on the same floor (as it's the only bedroom on that entire floor, it has real privacy) as the huge kitchen and gigantic South Deck, so it's really convenient. • Whole home includes Wireless Internet Access. • All Utilities, Sheets (we provide wonderful "flannel" sheets), Towels, and Toilet Paper, Paper Towels, a steam iron and ironing board precisely for the Suite. Home has what is almost certainly the largest, best-equipped kitchen you've ever seen. Yes, I designed it to be precisly what it is, even with its own real-flame fireplace in the kitchen. Why did I do it that way? Easy: no longer does anyone actually "live" in what we still call a "living room" nor do we "dine" in a "dining room." We are most often (and happiest) in our kitchens. In ours, we can also gather around that fireplace for tea, hot chocolate, or coffee. Total kitchen complex is officially "shared" but its size and total facilities mean that there occur no too-crowed bump-into if two guests are preparing meals there at the same time. And - no requirements or guarantees on this - but there do occur jointly-done meals. I make wonderful Swiss Cheese Fondues, and love to do Paella, all to share. Ideal for someone - also easily takes a couple, and in fact has had three people in it (that situation works for a short while) - who will be here in this wonderful Washington area on TDY or other "in-transit," temporary, or even “just-arriving” status, including if you’re “moving here” for the longer term, but want to have a wonderful place to stay while perhaps researching/looking for the longer-term housing, all while avoiding horrors of the motels and hotels - too expensive, too cold, and too, well, motel-like. But we've found, rather often and happily, that those guests who join us are doing so for not just medium-length trainings or other programs, but actually wind up with us for quite-lengthy periods. Ask us about Brian.... Suite is in marvelous shape/order. Please note that our normal "minimal guest-stay period" is of four months. We prefer considerably longer. Under special circumstances – whether for you or us or both – we might be able to consider stays of less than that, but probably never less than one month, but we shall have to work those details out directly. On Fees: For stays of one individual for four months and more for our Library Suite: $1,750/month. To register a reservation, we receive in advance a reservation/security deposit of $1,750 (which is never used as lodging fee, but returned to the guest on departure). If there are two guests in the same room, we must ask an additional $50/month, to help us cover the increased utilities. All guests in the home must give us a advance notice of one month before departure. Please understand that those fee levels are "generic," in that your own timing and circumstances on both sides could affect the fee structure on which we eventually agree. If you’re here in the area on USG “TDY orders,” we may be able both to provide some extra benefits and also fit the costing to the USG’s sliding scales. The ONLY way we'll reserve is with your commitment, which must be accompanied by a one-month security deposit. If you need to cancel, and give us over a month's notice, then no fee. If it's less time than one month's cancellation notice, then our minimum fee is going to have to be that month, at the short-term rate.