The house includes:
• 1 queen size bed in a large bedroom
1 crib in a small bedroom
1 queen aero-bed in a large room with TV
2 comfy sofas with ample room for sleeping in the living room and family room
• Central air conditioning
• Full, modern kitchen
• Covered front porch
• Small vegetable garden
• Private rear patio with a gas barbecue and shaded by a towering magnolia tree
• Off-street parking
• 2 flat-screen televisions with satellite programming (DirecTV), including HBO
• Wireless Internet throughout the house and yard
• 1 full bath with skylight and 1 half bath
• Dining room with a table to seat 10 and stocked bar
• Washer-dryer
Our block includes:
• The Hitching Post restaurant, the best soul food in D.C.
• Lincoln's Cottage, the summer White House for several former Presidents, and where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
• Two small grocery stores
• El Limeno, a terrific Salvadoran restaurant
• Barber shop
• Take-out lunch shop
The neighborhood:
• Many popular, hip restaurants serving Indian, Baltic, Ethiopian, Salvadoran, Italian, Caribbean, and East African food
• Great neighborhood bars
• Yoga studio
• Nail salon
• Coffee shops
• Large supermarket (a Safeway)
• Health-food store
• Liquor store
Petworth is on the green and yellow lines of the Metro and serviced by a dozen bus lines, offering super-easy access to all parts of the metropolitan area.
Within walking distance are Catholic University and the National Shrine, Mount Pleasant, Columbia Heights, and Howard University.
If you don't have a place to swap but are interested in renting our house, the fee is 400 pounds a week, including maid service once each week