Guests love our remodeled and updated Nantucket style beach cottage! Come enjoy a clean, carefully decorated, vacation get-a-way. Enjoy preparing a dinner of local seafood in the remodeled kitchen and eat out on our screened in porch. Our house is best suited for families or two couples. We are just blocks from the beach and 1.7 miles from the Sanderling Inn and only 2.2 miles from the village of Duck, NC. A great location for weddings, honeymoons, and family reunions, our OBX beaches were rated #1 by US Travel. To make your visit more pleasant, we recommend renting Sunday to Sunday during the busy summer season, to avoid the worst of the change over gridlock. Although our listing does allow 5 night stays, these work best in the fall season. We rent weekend to weekend during the high season of June through Labor Day. So arriving on Saturday will mean a departure date of Saturday or Sunday. A damage deposit is not required but $78 Insurance policy is required. Bedroom Details The house can sleep 7-8 comfortably in 3 bedrooms. One private bedroom with a queen bed is on the main floor with a bathroom that includes a tub / shower. The second private bedroom with a queen bed ( and rollaway single) is upstairs and has a shared bathroom with the children's room. The children's room has a bunk bed with a double mattress on the bottom and single mattress on top. Please note that you must walk through the children's bedroom to access the other upstairs bedroom. The children's room is also open to the stairs which has a door at the bottom. The upstairs bathroom has a tub with a shower. Linens You may bring your own linens if you prefer. Fresh linens and towels are included in the price of rental and are delivered on the day you arrive in a trunk on the ground level. We will call before your arrival to access your linen and towel needs. All linens and towels must be returned to the same locker before check out. Kitchen Our kitchen has an electric stove, dish washer, microwave, toaster, drip coffee maker and grinder, blender, and steamer pot. We have a stacked cloths washer and drier. Outside There is an outdoor rustic shower on the ground floor of the cottage and a foot wash for sand at the front stairs into the house. We have an outside park style charcoal grill. For fire safety reasons, personal grills are not allowed. We start the summer season with beach chairs, umbrella, and wave boards but it is up to guests to replace lost or broken items. We also provide a ping pong table and corn hole game for your enjoyment. The screened porch as an outdoor picnic table which can be used to eat crabs. Please do not hammer crabs on inside dinning area table. Pet Policy Adult, house trained dogs are welcome. We have a two Dog Max. No other pets allowed. Please pay the $85.00 Pet Fee if you are bringing dogs. The house does NOT have an outdoor dog run. Bugs We use a professional service to treat the house inside and out with insect specific spray. This service comes quarterly including in the summer. While our cottage is sealed like other houses, our porches are not. We ask that guests keep lights off when not in use to reduce attracting insects. While we clean the exterior of the house throughout the summer we cannot guarantee a bug free / spider free outside experience. Smoking Please respect our no-smoking policy for the cottage. You may smoke on the outside porches. Parties are not allowed in the cottage or on the property. Check in Once you have paid in full, we will send the address and passcode to enter the house upon arrival. The maid has until 4 PM to clean the house but is usually done between noon to 1 PM. You can park at the house if you arrive early but do not enter until the maid has left the house. Please do not put your food in the refrig. early, before the maid has left, as the maid cleans the refrigerator after each stay. Weather The water level is rising on the OBX due to Global Warming. Water may pool in the community during a heavy rain. If heavy rain is forecast for your stay, we recommend bringing rain boots, at least for children, to use to walk to the beach. Please consider buying carbon offsets to make your travel to and from the OBX carbon neutral.