YOUR SPECIAL SPACE: A private entrance brings you to your bedroom and private bathroom, which includes a washer/dryer. Once upon a time, my professional nutritional consulting office was in this space. Then, adding a bed and bathroom, but keeping the books there, it became your whimsical Nutrition Library!
NEIGHBORHOOD: Relax in a comfortable Bethesda neighborhood! We are a long walk, or a short bus ride to the DC metro; a few blocks from the NIH; 1 block from a park with free tennis courts.
The space
Welcome to our relaxing, beautiful, tree-shaded, DC-suburb home!
Enjoy the peace of your PRIVATE-ENTRANCED GETAWAY, SET APART FROM THE REST OF THE MAIN HOUSE, over the garage (which is NOT used for cars) at the back of the house The suite includes:
• High end futon full bed with extra-lush topper and cotton sheets
• Full private bathroom with shower
• Personal washer/drier
• Desk
• Squatty potty for enhanced toilet use function.
• CD player and music CD’s
• Abundance of extra towels, sheets, blankets and throws for your comfort.
• Sink for washing dishes.
• Glass-lined pitcher with water from reverse osmosis filtration.
• Full set of dishes, bowls, glasses, utensils.
• Iron and mini ironing board
• Coffee maker
• blender with glass pitcher
• Electric water kettle
• Hot air fryer
• Microwave
• Minifridge
• Access to a large personal library on health and nutrition.
• New Smart TV attached to the wifi
• Wifi access in the suite.
Guest access
PARKING:
All day Saturday and Sunday, please park on the street - there is easy ample free parking all around.
During the week (Monday - Friday), I will either give you a neighborhood parking permit to be able to park on the street, or I will have you park in the driveway - depending on folks' schedules.
When you come on the weekday, initially, before you have the neighborhood permit, please pull into the driveway - to unload your things and either get a permit or make plans to park in the driveway.
(A permit is needed for street parking Monday-Friday 9-5. All other times you can park on the street without a permit.)
METRO to DC - and other Metro-served locations:
There are two Red Line Metros either a long walk (1.5 miles to the Medical Center Metro on a pretty wooded path, and 1.7 miles to the Bethesda Metro) or a short Uber or a short bus ride away.
To DOWNTOWN BETHESDA:
Downtown Bethesda is a fun, happening, quaint, and sophisticated town with over 150 restaurants - there is something for everyone! It is a short bus ride, a short Uber ride or a long walk away. Once in Downtown Bethesda, there is a free "Circular 8" bus to help you get around Bethesda. Enjoy!
NEIGHBORHOOD:
It is a lovely neighborhood to walk and jog in! Just step out the front door and enjoy the peaceful tree-lined streets in this established neighborhood! Walk "behind" the house to find the great playground equipment of the local elementary school. Yes, you may borrow my tennis racquets to play tennis on the free public tennis courts!
During your stay
Welcome to my home! I have great availability to greet and help in every way! I have two jobs - one using my home office (which is my primary job), and one a mile away - so I am always close and usually available either in person or by phone.
I don't make meals for guests, but I can guide you to your use and clean-up of the various small appliances and kitchen tools, which are in the main kitchen in the main house, if you are interested.
I also love talking about my beloved neighborhood, my city of Bethesda, and the awesome city of Washington, DC!! You are welcome to borrow my DC guide books.
This space also allows for OPTIMAL PRIVACY. It is a private entrance, in a structure separate from the main house, with a kitchenette complete enough for making complete simple meals.
Other things to note
Beyond your suite, also enjoy the amenities that MY HOME AND IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOD offer:
• enjoy freshly picked herbs, such as mint leaves, rubbed between your fingers, for an invigorating scent experience. Please enjoying picking and using the rosemary and fennel plants in the front garden and the mint along the fence to the right of the house.
• bask in the fresh air at the outdoor deck table, and watch the squirrels play.
• keep your car safe and nearby with ample on-street parking. (Open parking on the weekends and you need a permit for M-F 9-6 street parking, which I will provide for you.)
• stretch your legs and relax your mind in the pretty neighborhood, great for walking and jogging and finding a variety of “Little Libraries” close by!
• exercise in the outside recreational facilities of the elementary school, just beyond our backyard, with 2 public tennis courts, a soccer field, basketball courts and 4 separate playground centers (great for creative adult workouts, too!) (I have tennis racquets and balls that you can borrow!)
• For a Grub-Hub delivery fee you can have a delicious local meal at the door in as little as 25 minutes. Bethesda is renown, for their restaurants! The heart of Bethesda is a 1.5 mile walk or a quick Uber drive away. Enjoy!
CLEAN WATER
Let all of your drinking water be clean Reverse Osmosis water! Reverse Osmosis water is supplied to the rooms and the suites and is always available in the kitchen, in the dedicated faucet at the sink to the left.
Let all of your showering and cleaning water be chlorine-free! The house is equipped with a whole-house water softening system which eliminates most of the chlorine and other toxic elements commonly found in public tap water. (This is on top of Bethesda already having quite good tap water!!)
CLEAN AIR
The filters on the central heat and central air units are inspected and changed regularly. The ducts are professionally cleaned regularly. There are 2 professional-grade room air-purifiers, called AirDoctor and several other smaller units, which you can request for your room. (This is on top of an already relatively green home with mostly wood furniture, and hardwood floors, with mostly wool area rugs.)
CLEAN SURFACES
Touch-points are sanitized regularly.
A DEVELOPING HEALTH HOME TOURISM (HHT) DESTINATION!
Experience, enjoy and learn in this developing Health Home Tourism (HHT) destination – which is an added AirBnB experience expressed in the style of a licensed nutritionist! The full HHT destination experience is slated to be complete by 2023. In the meantime, I welcome you to experience and enjoy the nurturance of a wide variety of health-enhancing lifestyle tools used in the kitchen, family room, bathroom and bedroom. There is a growing list of available immersive health experiences which I will be making available to my HHT guests by 2024 and which I am making available, little by little as they are developed, to the current guests as I move towards this goal.
Immersive Health Experiences are currently found in a variety of places – the Health Shelf in the hall on the second floor contains some exercise and self-massage equipment - the linen closet across from that contains the near infrared mat - the kitchen contains a wealth of spices/teas, and superfood and protein powders - the family room contains many nutritional lessons on CD, tapes and DVDs - each bathroom contains a variety of creams and other health & beauty products for you to use (please feel free to take along with you what you opened) - and each bedroom contains, for your use, a yoga mat, yoga blocks and a body roller, as well as a variety of easy-to-use nutritional powders and an occasional snack. Let me know what other health items that you might be interested in for a future Health Home Tourism visit!
Please let me know how I can best support your health and healthy lifestyle, by letting me know what you liked about what you were able to try, from what was provided, and by sharing your ideas of additional immersive health experience offerings I might be able to add in an AirBnB setting.
New lifestyle visions start upon arrival with the beautiful architectural raised bed vegetable garden in the front yard! If you come in the “right” season, you are welcome to any excess harvest from that time. The “excess” produce, in the growing season, are now just things like radishes and grape leaves – but I am working long-term on more fun harvests like fruit from my fig and persimmon trees – which are now still babies and not yet producing fruit.
From Spring through Fall, please enjoy the 3 abundant herbs from my front and side yards –rosemary, fennel, and mint. (My sage bush was the very biggest of all of my herb plantings, but it passed this winter of 2022. I will plant two more this spring and will be back offering culinary sage very soon, as well!)
Just past the front foyer, enjoy the musical instruments which are available for your use. I have a piano, a trumpet, a clarinet and djembe drum! (And a variety of other miscellaneous music makers!). Music is joy and joy is health!!
And, the highlight, please enter the kitchen. It is the kitchen of a Maryland licensed Nutritionist, well stocked with some fun small appliances such as a Vitamix, a glass-canistered Tribest personal blender, an 11-cup Cuisinart Food Processor, a KitchenAid stand mixer, a toaster oven which rotisseries meats, a Lotus Sanitizing System, An iSi Professional Gourmet (Cream) Whip Plus, and a full supply of Pyrex storage containers, stainless steel cookware, cast iron cookware, several fermentation systems, knives, etc, and all organized in a Julie-Child’s-Kitchen kind-of-way where it is easy to see a great deal of what is available with a quick visual scan.
The front and back porches are pleasant, with deck tables and chairs, and are a great way to enjoy the weather and watch the playful squirrels and abundant birds.
Warm Regards,
Amanda
