Art House

Location is good, close to public transport, and neighborhood is tranquil

Other users could be noisy at late night

A charming piece of history and fine art. Each room has its own special energy, theme, and magical quality.

It's hard to find something I didn't like about this beauty. I hope to stay on my next visit to Melbourne

I liked my room and that the location was quiet. I needed a desk for some study and it was perfect for this.

When I arrived my room was cold and I had trouble accessing the property. Another guest let me in.

The house itself is quite pleasant. I had Leafy Lodge, which was a large room with a queen bed and a single bed (I shared with a friend who came for a weekend out of a weeklong stay) plus desk, sofa and coffee table. It was a nice area for when I had to do a little work from the room. It's close to Yarra Bend Park, not too far a walk from Fairfield Station and number of buses stopped on the main road nearby. It's very quiet and in a peaceful neighbourhood.

I had a set of keys for the front two doors and my room but the keys for the front doors never worked so I constantly used the communal keys (from the lock box) to get in. When I contacted the host about this, I never got a reply. Later I got a "reminder" to be respectful about cleaning up after myself, which I suspect was automated but felt passive-aggressive considering the bad keys were never addressed and also I'm super clean. The bathroom I used was very badly designed and despite there being a shower curtain, water would spray all over the (non-shower) floor so after a shower I'd have to use the scraper thing to swish splashes into the shower drain. Toilet paper ran out about 3 nights/mornings of the week I was there and there was none kept in the bathroom. By chance I managed to find the supply (a linen closet had been left open, I didn't go snooping) and I replaced an empty roll twice otherwise it would've been more often. There was a millipede (?) on my friend's bed but I found it after she'd left and since I didn't get a response about the keys I didn't bother the host about it and just threw it out. I thought this was a B&B but it was an unhosted boarding house situation.