Katja's room

Room available in a cute little ranch house in Montavilla. Walking distance to cafes (Bipartisan, Hungry Heart), the Academy Theater, restaurants (The Observatory, Yaowarat, Miyamoto), and to Mt. Tabor. Easy access to bus lines (15 and 20), airport, 84 if you want to head into the Gorge. The main part of the house and joint living area is not huge (circa 1100 sf), but there is a converted garage, lovingly named “The Salon,” that serves as extra seating area/office and could be somebody’s art space. French doors open from The Salon onto a covered patio. The back yard has a sitting area and fire pit, 8 raised garden beds, a lovely fig tree, a small apple tree, and strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and marionberries. If you are into growing your own food, this is your place! The house is charming, cozy and warm, and has good light. (Note: the photo is of the joint living room; bedroom photo coming momentarily …)

You will have one roomie: Me! (And my 17-year old daughter every other weekend. (She is currently overseas, but will return in mid-June)). I am 54 and a college professor. I grew up in Germany but have lived in the US since my mid-twenties. I love to travel and have lived in Spain and Thailand. I love to garden and try to up my permaculture game with each growing season with an eye towards becoming a serious homesteader some day. I read and knit. I enjoy cooking but don’t do it often enough (in part because I don’t find cooking for myself to be that much fun), and would love to cook with a housemate. I love to dance, especially Wednesday nights at Tabor Dance. I recently joined a boxing gym and find the sport exhilarating. I love visual and performance art. I am not a Burner but attended a regional event called Soak last spring and loved it a lot! I take great interest in people and love conversation, spinning ideas, and getting to know others. I rarely have people over but am generally pretty social. My partner lives out in the Gorge and I spend many weekends there, and during the summer months, I am often out there for a few weeks at a time. During the semester, I am usually on campus for the majority of the day on MWF and work from home on TuTh. (I don’t usually use the word “love” that often :-) (I have a very quiet tenant living in my basement apartment; you will rarely see or hear him.)