Top floor of huge Wapping townhouse, with family

The current family we live with are moving to the USA so we need new housemates!

The house:

• A 4-story townhouse right in front of a canal. It's unique and probably the tallest in the area, with a beautiful view of the water and city.
• You'd get the whole top floor to yourself, separated off by a door — a bedroom suitable for 2, a personal office (or kid's bedroom), private large bathroom with shower and a spacious private deck.
• We have a video showing the top floor in great detail which we can send you if you need to know more.
• The townhouse has a huge total floorspace (180 sqm/ 1922 sqft) — including an enormous combined play and living room on the second floor with a massive couch and TV.
• It has a spacious modern kitchen — gas, large fridge, two sinks, pantry, garbage disposal, plenty of cupboard space.
• We have a shared backyard that's really nice to hang out in during the spring and summer — including an outdoor sofa, gas heater and plenty of plants.
• You'll also have the large outdoor deck on the top floor to yourself if you'd like a private spot outside.
• Depending on how much stuff you have the top floor might not fit it all — but there's a huge amount of storage space on the 3rd floor which we can share. There is also a garage with shelves and a loft that has plenty of storage space.

The area:

• The house: Situated on an ornamental canal, the house is in a very quiet area with a pedestrian-only square with statute and walkway in front. It overlooks the canal on one side and a green field on the other, and is a few minutes walk away from parks and playgrounds.
• What's nice about Wapping: it has a wonderful safe village feel to it, while still being close to work with great tube, rail and bike connections to the rest of the city. There's a reason it's gentrifying so quickly!
• Transport: Next to the east-west cycling superhighway, 6 minute walk from Wapping station, next to the 100 and D3 bus line, 15 minute walk to Tower Hill
• Shops: A Waitrose 4 minutes away, Sainsbury's 5 minutes away.

About us:

• We are a family — two professional parents working full-time, one 2-year-old toddler, another newborn arriving in July.
• One of us is a medical doctor who then did a PhD and went into health policy, the other is an economist and writer.
• We're both Australians permanently migrated to the UK for professional reasons.
• We'd probably most like to live with other professional(s).
• Our toddler is a friendly and talkative boy who (this month) likes rockets and paper airplanes.

Who would this be right for

• An individual; couple; single parent with a young child; or a couple with a young child (if you want to use the smaller room on the top floor as a kid's bedroom rather than office). The house would be a bit more crowded with a couple and child, but that's what we've done so far and we're open to continuing that setup with the right people.
• People who don't find living with a 2-year-old too bothersome. While we have very rarely been woken up by the children in the house, of course it could happen. And toddlers can be boisterous and noisy sometimes, it's just their nature. But you'd have the whole top floor to yourself.
• Someone who doesn't mind us having a nanny take care of our toddler in the house on some weekdays and weekends.

Practicalities:

• We would vary the rent up and down a bit depending on how many people are renting (seeing as an individual uses the shared spaces less).
* For bills we will pay for 4 hours of cleaning each 2 weeks, council tax, energy, water and fast broadband — on average this comes to about £400. So for simplicity we'll just charge you that fixed amount (which is already included in the listed rent).
• The bedroom can come furnished with a queen bed and chest of drawers, or we can have them removed.

Sharing the house:

• We probably mostly wouldn't share food beyond the basics, but are open to it.
• We have a coffee machine, blender, and all usual kitchen utensils which we'd share.
• We're vegetarian and it's always a bonus to live with other vegetarians.

Non-obvious downsides:

• The top floor can get warm in summer though you can open the doors and get a nice breeze through it.