324 Little Falls St

If you write us abut this possibility, please note that it's about our "Library Suite." Too many potential guests are contacting us without paying attention to this point: If you are interested, your first contact to us needs include information about yourself or yourselves. Too many people, without telling us anything about themselves, their needs (including timing) and interestes, or any questions that we have not answered in this long description, but instead ask us directly and solely for availabilty, personal tour, and even an application. For us to start to consider anyone to join us as guests in this home, we need to know at least some more about any potential guest(s). If you're interested, let us hear, including both any questions you have but also include – absolutely essential - information on yourself/selves, including how many you are, your desired starting timing, possible length of stay, whether you'll commute to work or work from home, your interests, activities, etc. PLEASE DO NOT JUST ASK FOR A TOUR OR TO UNDERSTAND AVAILABILITY WITHOUT PROVIDING INFORMATION ON YOURSELF (...SELVES?), AS DESCRIBED ABOVE. We are right in the Central (we believe best) part of Falls Church City. Convenient to everything. Available now - we may need one day for the finalization of our full preparations for welcoming guest(s) - 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 for “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 even with direct access to our huge South Deck. 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 standard closets, complete with a chest of drawers; • Bedroom is 19 x 12.5, with large (actually, two-room) private bath in addition. • Suite is equipped with a queen-sized antique canopy bed – hand-carved in India for a special wedding there. Yes, really. One of our closest friends, who has stayed there many times on his earlier frequent visits here, says that he sleeps better there than in any other place in the world! • Suite has a new workstation/computer desk table and super-comfortable new computer chair. • Heating and cooling to the entire suite are controlled by the resident - thermostatically right therein. • Immediate access to our south-facing, always-sunlit large deck. It’s amazing. • Again, it's on the same floor as the huge kitchen and gigantic South Deck, so it's really convenient. As it's the only bedroom on that entire floor, it has real privacy. • Whole home includes high-speed Wireless Internet Access. • Huge number of incusions: 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. Gather around that fireplace for tea, hot chocolate, or coffee. Kitchen is officially "shared" with others in the home, but its size and total facilities mean that there occur no situations of too-crowed bump-into if two or more 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 (I've lived and worked in Switzerland and four other countries), 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 strongly prefer that duration or considerably longer. Under special circumstances – whether for you or us or both – we might be able to consider stays shorter than four months, 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 in 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(s) 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 one-month notice 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.