Hi AirBnBers at the Glowhouse!

    We welcome you to our abode and appreciate you being in our house for your visit to DC!  Here are answers to a few common questions we get ahead of time:

We are(from Left to Right):

• Darrell, a Drupal web developer and who is also owner of the house and resides in the back room of the 2nd floor past Genevieve's room, accessible through the center door.
• Also, Myla and Gatalina, are our two cats, they can be found wandering around the house, and they stay inside.  

Parking:  Parking is generally easy around the GlowHouse, you often can find parking right on our block, on 13th between Irving and Kenyon.  If you're driving here and wanting to park on city streets during the day, Monday-Friday, you'll need to print up a visitors pass before you arrive. Please sign up at: https://dmv.dc.gov/service/visitor-parking-permits and use code 57493 to request a pass. You'll need to enter the Make and Color of your car, as well as the State and Licence Plate Number. We will approve your request on the system and then you can print it out. If for some reason you don't have access to a printer we can print it for you once you register but it'd be great if you could print it beforehand and bring it with you. You don't need a pass for parking on the weekends or after 8pm (to 7am) on weekdays.   

Compost:  (All food except for: • Meat, poultry, or fish, including bones, fat, gristle, skin, etc.  Dairy products, including cheese, butter, yogurt, sour cream, etc.  Grease, oil, or sauce of any kind)

We collect compost in the small rectangular bin next to the stove.  Compost Cab picks up the bin

Kitchen:

The kitchen is available for your use.   You’re welcome to keep food in our refrigerators, the white fridge outside of the kitchen is the best place to keep your food, preferably on the top shelf. Please help yourself to any of our common consumables such as milk, butter, condiments, spices, sugar, tea, coffee, etc, and replace anything that we run out of. There are more details about local shopping here. Please help by keeping the stove, dining table, and kitchen surfaces clean and organized.

Water:

The tap water in DC mostly clean, and we've had our pipes replaced in 2020 to alleviate any concerns about lead. That said, we have a built in reverse osmosis filter for the house. Please get your drinking water from the tap to the right of the kitchen sink or from the chilled water dispenser inset into the silver fridge. This is the best way to get water for making tea or coffee. We typically use a french press for making coffee.

Stove:

You'll find an iron skillet and a tea kettle on the stove pretty much at all times, feel free to use these at any times.  Note that you shouldn't use soap to clean the iron skillet, just use a paper towel to wipe it clean when it has cooled.

Commons:

The commons has three couches, a video projector with HDMI & VGA inputs, and is the main social area for the GlowHouse. You're welcome to hook your laptop up to the projector and to the sound system and watch / share video and music. Please help keep the common area clean and organized. We typically don't have couch surfers stay in this area because we like to keep this area available for residents to use day and night. Typically, you'll stay in the Yoga room if its not being used by Sara, or in your hosts' room.

Laundry:

The GlowHouse has an extra large washing machine and a dryer which is available for your use in the basement. We also have a combination Washer/Dryer that's also available, be sure and put the time to dry clothes at 2 hours in this unit.  Help yourself to the soap and bleach. Please feel free to use these machines while you’re here, and mark how you want the laundry handled in case someone needs to move your laundry from the washer to the dryer.

Toilets:

All of the toilets (except for the Toto Neorest) have a Dual Flush System installed which allows for saving water for liquid waste.  If you pee, lift the lever up to flush (or don't flush at all).  Otherwise, please push the lever down.

Security:

The front door and the three back doors all have combination locks set to the same combination.  Please get the current combination from your host.  To enter or leave the front door, you need to turn both the top handle and the bottom handle at the same time.  Please close doors completely once you go through them.

Here are the profiles for all  of our rooms:

1st Floor Back Room (Guest Room)

2nd Floor Front Room 

2nd Floor Middle Room (Welcome Room)

2nd Floor Back room  (Library)

3rd Floor Front Room  (Zen Room)