Small Double In Eco/Diy House

Looking for lodgers/housemates who value community, communication and connection and who want to actively work together to create a home that's a safe haven from all the bullshit we have to deal with in our daily outside lives.

Room 2 is available from NOVEMBER 2025
Room 1 is available from JANUARY 2026

Room 2 is a small, cosy room with a double bed, a small wardrobe, a book shelf, pink walls, a side board, a large mirror, a four block shelving unit and a 3 block shelving unit and a textured ceiling. There’s a cat bed in the window and a blackout liner in the curtain. There’s also a litter box, a scratching block and toys for the cats.

Room 1 is a spacious double that overlooks the garden, it has a double bed with space for storage boxes/suitcases underneath, there are two built in wardrobes, a desk and armchair, a dresser and a shelving unit at the foot of the bed. There's blackout liners in the curtains, a scratching post and toys for the cats and a litter box.

Looking for someone who has experience being a lodger and understands the delicate line between being an active and engaged housemate and working together to create a harmonious home whilst living in someone else's home with all their personal/family belongings everywhere. I try very hard to create space for my lodgers within my home so that we all have as equal an amount of space and as equitable a voice as possible in the house. I run house meetings every week (currently Tuesday's at 7pm) and I like having lodgers who are as warm and welcoming as I am and who are as interested in creating a warm and cosy atmosphere - sharing cups of tea, eating together whenever schedules line up, having daily check-ins about household tasks/running and how the cats are so all is running smoothly is hugely important to me. I'm looking for people who say hello when they come home, offer me a tea when they put the kettle on, who spend time engaging in the household, who prioritise self care and know how to look after themselves for their individual body's needs, who like spending time with themselves as well as with others

There are three beautiful cats who live in the house (I bought the house for my older two cats so they'd have somewhere more settled and spacious) so it's really really really important to me that my housemates/lodgers are full on besotted with cats and also have experience with caring for small beings and who are interested in spending time getting to know them and making friends with them and actively playing with them.

The cats:
Whisky is 16 years old, she’s one of the gentlest and sweetest cats I’ve ever met and will sit on laps for hours once she feels comfortable. She’s also a massive grump and hisses violently when she’s disturbed or when one of the other cats is in her way. She now has arthritis in her hips and wrists and is pretty delicate. She likes nothing more than to find a human who can sit down for hours while she sleeps on their lap

Babushka is 10 years old. She loves to play with all her toys and will sometimes collect them all into a pile and lay on top of them while purring to herself. She’s wasn’t much of a lap cat but over the past couple of years she has started to come and snuggle on my lap during the colder months, she’s also found her own violent hissing voice in the past three months since a little kitten followed me home from down by the canal and moved in with us... Babushka has quite bad gingivitis and is a little phatty so I have to monitor her diet and exercise and make sure she doesn’t eat Whisky’s biscuits, she also currently has possible cat acne so is on steroids which are making her retain water and look even chunkier than usual

Monsieur Cuddles is approximately a year old and is the aforementioned kitten who followed me home on June 19th of this year! He’s a joy and a delight, he’s settled in super well and seems very happy and content and spends most of his time purring, playing, sleeping or running around outside. I’m still phasing introductions between him and the older two so I need help from anyone who comes to live here to keep him and the other two separate and to help me with keeping the cats company at night so they all have a human to sleep with. Currently Monsieur Cuddles is convalescing from some evil b*****d kicking him in the face and breaking his tooth clean in half, he might also have a fracture in his lower jaw but there's nothing we can do for a fracture in that area so he's on painkillers and home rest while the swelling goes down and the cuts heal up.

What I’m looking for:
Someone with a regular(ish) routine/steady hours so there’s a stable timetable in the house. Someone who’s looking to be part of a home; who likes cosy nights in with cats, reading, playing board or card games, cooking and eating together, who isn’t away every weekend and likes house meetings. Someone who is responsible, considerate, conscientious, neat and tidy and efficient, pays attention to detail and leaves things the way they find them or better than they found them, is pro-active and thoughtful. Someone who closes the curtains around the house at night and opens them up again in the morning. Someone who cares about the environment and buys environmentally friendly products as a non-negotiable/ingrained/standard practice in their life already. Also looking for someone to coordinate weekends with and who’s happy to feed the kitties for me once a month (either Friday night and Saturday morning or Saturday night and Sunday morning) so I can pop down south to my boat and carry on moving it closer to home

Bonus if you have a low key/no nonsense spiritual practice and understand that we’re conscious beings who live in animal bodies and know that we have to take care of our physical needs and treat ourselves with kindness, consideration and compassion by feeding our bodies regularly and making sure they get enough rest so that they have the energy to do the necessary stuff as well as the fun stuff

Ultra bonus if you’re an activist and are doing your bit to fight genocide, racism, fascism, misogyny and climate chaos

I’m non-binary and use he/him pronouns. I care deeply about the environment and water conservation (I collect my shower water to flush the toilet with and am looking into installing compost loos in the house). I get quite annoyed if people don’t use the right bins for waste and recycling (even though I know most of it is a massive scam and we just ship the recycling overseas to pollute other countries rather than actually recycling them)

I’m happy to welcome anyone into my home as long as they are not transphobic or misogynists. Womxn, non-binary folx and transmen are super welcome

If you’re younger than my preferred age grouping that’s okay but please don’t message unless you’re actually interested in being a genuine part of the household. I’m not looking for a pay check, I’m looking for engaged and interested housemates who value connection, communication, a warm home as well as their own space: introverted extroverts or extroverted introverts will feel right at home

If you’re still figuring out who you are or what it takes to run and co-manage a household this isn’t the best place for you. I don't have the time or the energy to teach anyone how to communicate, how to clean, what needs cleaning/how often... I very much am looking for people who are already on it and have lived in house shares before and know what they value and what they can live with and what they can't live with and who understand the importance of quick daily check-ins as well as weekly team meetings as well as socialising and being supportive, kind and considerate of themselves as well as one another. I'm looking for people who can give and take equally and have their lives mostly sorted out

Re me and my schedules:
I'm a school crossing guard during term times so will be out mornings and afternoons helping keep the kids from the local primary and secondary school safe while crossing the road. My hours are:
8.15am - 9.05am
3.05pm - 3.50pm

I get up at 7am to sort the kitties out and cook breakfast, I have lunch either at home or at some gardening projects in the area between 12-1pm and start cooking dinner when I get home from the afternoon crossing as I eat around 5pm on week days and am winding down for bed by 8pm. I'm more than happy to cook extra for people to eat with me or to heat up later when they finish work.
On Monday's at 7pm I run an online quiz for activists
I normally shower in the evenings before bed and try to get into bed for between 9-10pm though I will try and stay up a little later to do handovers/check-ins if people have been away for a few days and we need to catch up on things.
I'm renovating some parts of the house myself and have been coordinating with contractors to do bigger jobs that I can't do (like putting a new roof on last year!). Contractors can be so hard and so difficult to pin down and coordinate with so I absolutely cannot take that kind of stress from a housemate. I need my home to be a safe and protective haven from all the shit we have to deal with in our daily outside lives.