Room 03 of six / two of these
Attic Loft.
The top of the house. A queen bed under two skylights, sloped redwood ceilings, and a view of nothing but treetops and sky. You earn it on fourteen steep steps.
The stair, first
Fourteen steps, steep and original.
We put this before the room on purpose. The stair to the attic is the one the house was built with in 1911. It is narrow, it turns once, and each step is a little taller than modern code would allow. There is a hand rail on both sides and a light that comes on when you start up. There is no elevator and no other way up.
Luis or Priya will carry your bags up and down, every time, no tipping needed. But if your knees, your hips or your balance make a steep stair a worry, this is not the room, and we would rather say so here than at check-in. The Garden Room is step free from the car. The Oak Suite is one normal flight up.
If the stair is fine, keep reading. The room is worth it.
- Rate
- $340 to $420 a night
- Sleeps
- Two
- Bed
- Queen, under the skylights
- Bath
- Tub with a shower over, one sink
- Size
- 420 square feet, ceilings slope to four feet at the edges
- Floor
- Third, by the original stair
- View
- Treetops and sky, stars after dark
- Head height
- Seven feet at the ridge. Ask if you are over six foot two
What is in it
Two skylights, and the whole sky.
The two Attic Lofts run the length of the roof, one at each end, with the old water tank room between them so you never hear your neighbor. The ceilings are the underside of the roof, redwood boards that have gone the color of honey. Two skylights sit over the bed. They have blackout blinds you can close from the pillow, and most people never close them.
The bed is a queen with linen sheets. The bathroom is tucked under the eave with a tub and a shower over it, cream tile, and a round window at head height. There is a small sofa, a kettle, a desk in the dormer, and a fan for the two weeks in September when the attic gets warm.
Guests tell us the thing they remember is lying in bed at six in the morning watching the oak leaves move against the sky. We do not have a better way to describe it, so we will leave it there.
The rate
$340 in winter, $420 in summer.
Summer is May through October. Winter is November through April. Both before the 12 percent tax. Two night minimum on Friday and Saturday from June through September. The lofts are the first rooms to book out on clear winter weekends.
Included
- Breakfast for two, every morning, 7:30 to 10
- Bags carried up and down the stair, every time
- Parking on the gravel, one car
- Pool and towels, 7am to 9pm in season
- A star chart and a pair of binoculars in the dormer desk
