Room available in Brixton Houseshare

We're looking for the right person to move in to our comfortable, well-located, friendly, perhaps eccentric, shared home in Brixton. £750pcm all-inclusive. Viewing details are at the end of the ad so read on...

ABOUT THE ROOM
It's a spacious, fully-furnished room, with lots of built-in wardrobe space, a desk, double bed, chest-of-drawers.
There's also plenty of storage space under the bed.

It doesn't have its own bathroom, but you get to use a great, spacious shower-room, and for a lot of the time you'll be the only person using it. (the other rooms, which are smaller, are ensuite)

The House
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But you only sleep, WFH or watch your lonely netflix in your bedroom: you live in the whole house, which is spacious and comfortable - ideal for a sociable household.
You can hang out round the kitchen table and share meals, tea, wine and chatter. In summer, you can spread out into the small back garden (and try to make yourselves heard over the noise of the planes); in winter use the shared living-room more - which has a giant home cinema screen, ideal for shared netflix/movie nights or house karaoke.

The kitchen is well-equipped and designed for shared cooking and eating of proper meals rather than for five people each heating their own instant noodles, although inevitably microwaving a ready meal from Getir tends to predominate... It has enough kit for serious cooking and baking (big Kenwood, Magimix etc). The dishwasher is probably the easiest domestic dishwasher in South London to load and unload, so there is no excuse.
Cleaners come in once a week to do the deep cleaning, which can only be done properly in the time if the place isn't ankle-deep in dirty dishes...

Upstairs, at the top of the house, there's a laundry area with washer, dryer and hanging space.

Although you'd normally use the shower room, there's also a separate bathroom for those days when only a long soak will do.

Guests are welcome - your guests are our guests and vice-versa. There's a sofa-bed in the front room for guests with whom you are not that intimate.

Working from Home
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There's a desk with a modern office chair as well as wifi and wired internet in your room so working from home doesn't mean Zoom calls from your bed.

Brixton
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Brixton's reputation has recovered a bit since the 1980s when it was a byword for riots. Its Caribbean links are still evident but gentrification has taken its toll. We're hoping the post-corona normal will keep it fun and that those who only lived here because of its good transport links to work in the City and West End will go back to the burbs. Flat rents however aren't showing any sign of coming down.... Its famous market isn't anywhere near as busy as it used to be so please make use of it - it's cheaper and much more fun than buying from Tesco.. Much of the covered market is now various eateries, it's very busy in the evening and there's a lot of innovative and creative food there although some chain places are beginning to muscle in. Mind you, other chains like Franco Manca and Honest Burgers started out from there...
The street market is still good for food shopping but LiDl is much nearer and between the two there is a big Tesco, which has neither charm, choice nor cheapness. We have good local coffee-shops and a great artisan bakery (gentrification has its upsides, the bread may be nearly £5 a loaf but it is delicious...) We're very close to some handy E-W bus routes too. It's a bit more of a schlepp, or a few stops on the 37 bus, to Brockwell Park with its lido, gardens and the annual Lambeth Country Show.

Clapham
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Turn right out of the door and Clapham High St is even closer than Brixton. It has some handy shops, quite a few meh restaurants, an inexplicable nightlife, and a big Sainsbury's at the Common end. The Common itself is the closest big green space but it's nowhere near as lovely as Brockwell Park, being encircled and bisected by the South Circular Road.

About us:

We, Edward and Lydia, own the house and lived there and shared it for over thirty years. We were grown-ups when we bought it - go figure. We're now retired and our primary home is in deep rural Northern France but we still have a room in the house and we come back about once a month to fix the things you break, cook you all a meal and top-up our social and cultural life. We might live in France but we still think of ourselves as Londoners, indeed Brixtonites.

We started sharing because we had to, and carried on because we like living with other people. We've made lots of friends and we're still in touch with many of the people who've lived in the house over that time. Chances are that the visitor sharing a pot of tea - or a bottle of wine - with us round the kitchen table used to live here.

We like food, music, dancing, London, the company of friends and outdoorsy country things..

Our main home in Northern France is where we now spend most of our time. You'd be welcome to come and visit for a weekend, - we often have space in the car when we go and it's only an hour and half from Calais, so it's ideal for a weekend trip. For the best part of twenty-five years we made the trip once a fortnight, out on Friday after work, back on Sunday night. It's an old farmhouse with about an acre of orchard and a developing forest-garden including a camping-meadow and it's very relaxing; we also have the occasional micro-festival there with music and camping.

Besides the two ageing owners who will not be present most of the time but will want to know all about you and meet your friends, you will be sharing the house with Nicos, Anibal and Ash.

There are also two young cats,, Dougal and Annie, who are Ash's;

About you:
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We like living with -and getting to know -all sorts of different people so there's no stereotype ideal person - but we'd definitely rather have people who're around and up for it than ghosts we never see.

You should have a profile on SpareRoom - make one by posting a free "room wanted" ad - and it should tell us enough about you to make us want to meet you.

We're looking for the right person, not necessarily the first person..
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The rent

is £750 pcm all-inclusive - it covers all the bills and broadband. Payable by bank transfer/standing order on the first of every month. There's no deposit, but we ask you to pay the rent for the final month of your stay when you move in as well as the pro-rata rent until the end of the month.

VIEWING DETAILS:
We plan to hold the first viewing on Friday 6th September in the evening when you will get to see the room and meet everyone. There may well be other people at this viewing as well as you.
If you're still interested and the house is in favour, we'll ask you round for a meal either on Sunday 8th or Monday 9th when we will finally decide who gets the room.

You should be able to move in shortly afterwards - hopefully, week beginning 9th September but realistically probably the weekend of 14/15 but if you need to give notice on your current place and you're the right person for us we'll wait.

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If you're interested, please send a message via SpareRoom - I probably won't be able to reply until after the bank holiday weekend though, so don't worry if you don't hear anything, I will reply to everyone by the end of Tuesday 27th.