Your Healdsburg Homestead for launching wine country adventure! Recently remodeled, 3 buildings on 1/2 acre, including a barn with a winetasting bar & game room! Great for families and groups. Perfectly located for cycling on the legendary Eastside/Westside loop. For wine lovers, we are across the street from Rodney Strong Vineyard and the amazing sparkling wines of the beautiful J Vineyard. Best of all, Healdsburg Plaza is just a short hop away!
The space
Three buildings: Main House with 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, Studio Cottage with 1 bedroom and 1/2 bathroom, and the Barn with pool table and winetasting bar
4 Total Bedrooms, 2 bathrooms all with New AC and Heat! (No AC or Heat in the Barn)
Bocce Court & Billiard table
5000 SF Back Lawn
Fully Fenced for Privacy
**** Please be aware that there are grapevines on the property along the gravel driveway and neighboring our home. Grapes may be very toxic to dogs, so make sure to monitor your pets at all times.
TLDR: A little bit Country, a little bit Rock and Roll.
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(Refreshingly honest description follows)
Welcome back to the Eastside.
So if Terrence Malik and Wes Anderson decided to pick a place to ride bikes, run trails, drink wine, and eat amazing food in Healdsburg...we have no idea where they would pick. But I like to think that the mighty pecan tree in the heart of our property would be the perfect spot for them to sit and catch up by slowing down.
The Eastside is a weird bird. First of all, she is a real wine country home. It's not an influencer version of a wine-country stay. This is a real place across from some hard-working vineyards and wineries. You might see tractors. You might hear cows and crows. You might see a rabbit or a skunk. I once saw a snake. We like old fences and tree stumps. We like things weathered and true. We are surrounded by fields of varying vineyard history, some abandoned, some brand new. The Eastside isn't shiny, but she does sparkle.
Our main house has three bedrooms, one bathroom, a mighty fine kitchen with two dishwashers (if you've never had two dishwashers...it's nice), one of the only two televisions on the property, and once-polished (now worn) concrete floors. We have air-conditioning in every bedroom now. The kitchen entrance is what we call the front door, but there is a side door at the mudroom and laundry area. This is the door to adventure because when you are muddy and dirty or bloody or oily or just unseemly, you can come in and out through there. Drop your helmets, shoes, boots and gear. And there is a bike rack waiting outside the door.
The dining area is kind of in the middle of the house since it's an open layout. The dining table seats 8. We try to stock one good chef's knife, plates we would eat on, glassware that doesn't make us sad, a sous vide stick, and nice thick coffee mugs. If the good knife is missing then some lost soul needs to learn how to be a better person. Not very nice to steal a chef's knife. Let us know right away and we will do our best to save your stay. Unless you don't cook. If you don't cook there are lots of backup knives but still, we can't stand not having one decent knife. Ok so that's the main house. It's now on to the...
Studio Cottage! This little 400 SF studio is a separate cottage with a half bathroom and an outdoor shower. All our water heaters are tankless, so you have to wait a bit for them to warm up (a minute or two). The outdoor shower is fantastic on cold or rainy days. I'm not sure why; honestly, it doesn't make much sense...but it is true.
So, the cottage is great when you love (but also want to sometimes kick) the people you are traveling with. Sometimes, you need a little space. It has a little seating area, a small cafe table you can pretend to work on, and a big old bed. No TV, but a gem of a little Marshall speaker. Hey, don't take our speaker home. C'mon seriously. Don't be like that chef's knife guy.
So, usually, the special person or couple gets the cottage, which is kind of unfair. We like to play petanque for it. Petanque is not Bocce. That's all I'll say about that. Oh wait, we do have a Petanque court, but people keep stealing our boulles, so although it breaks our hearts, we have bocce balls on our Petanque court. Which is weird because technically there is no such thing as a petanque court. Ok so we will just call it a bocce court. So that...we got one of those. And you can play for who gets the studio.
Well, the Eastside wouldn't be the Eastside without our namesake barn bar...you guessed it, the Eastside. First of all, it is a real barn. Like not a bourgeois "barn", this is an old pig barn that has been freshened up to suit our sensibilities. We have a 14 ft winetasting bar in it. We have a 1970's coin-op Dynamo pool table with seemingly original felt. We put some feed scoops in the pockets so you don't have to pay. We have vinyl records and a decent turntable. We have the other TV on the property. There is an old broken RV fridge that we use as a giant passive cooler, keeps hot things hot or cold things coldish, but not at the same time guys. We also have two real undercounter refrigerators, one for wine and one for anything else. We have lots of empty bottles behind the bar because photos. We have a library of curated bad books. Because nothing pairs better with a good wine than a bad book.
We have these giant back doors that open up to a huge 5000 sf back lawn. The doors are fussy. There, I said it. They. Are. Fussy. We have sun-bleached seating and just overall, it is our happy place. It gets HOT AS HELL though. And it also gets COLD AS SIN. It's a barn. A real barn. Seriously. It's a barn.
You'll love it (no promises).
Ok so the outside. Well, it's all fenced off. The fencing is old and mossy and can barely hold back the blackberry, but it can hold your dog in (maybe) and the paparazzi out. Mainly it holds your dog in (kinda). Oh and the Airstream is a 1972 Overlander, but it's always under restoration (sorry).
The giant lawn is where you can imagine a life of better choices. When the light is just right, and someone you give a damn about is with you...well, that's just a day worth keeping. Or when you're on a picnic blanket and eating too much cheese, and the kids might be planning trouble, but you remember that old mossy fence might do its job after all, and the smell of early evening hangs in the air, asking you to stay a bit longer as you gaze at...
Our mighty pecan! Sitting in the center of our home and square in our hearts, it forced our hand when we first came here. We knew this place would be very special for us. And we scraped and saved and sweated and built and fixed and tinkered for over 14 years here on our little piece of hope, our piggy bank of good times and belly laughs. This is, for us...a truly magical place. We've been here when happy. We've been here when hurting. We've been here when lost. This place, for us, is good and true. It is definitely not right for everyone, but if you read all the way here and you can feel your heart stirring a bit, there's a good chance it might be calling you too.
Welcome (back) to the Eastside.
Guest access
Guests will have access to the main house, studio cottage, and the entertainment barn that has a 14 foot winetasting bar that opens up to a 5000 square foot back lawn. The Airstream is under restoration and can not be accessed.
Other things to note
Before we talk about rules and stuff we want to say something. We know that every home has its audience, and no single place is right for everyone. We know that the Eastside has an especially unique personality and that's why we focus on authenticity and transparency.
We want you to have an amazing time here. If ANYTHING can be done to help you with that, we actually, seriously, sincerely care and will try really hard to make your stay great. If anything does not meet your expectations, tell us right away. Don't let something that we might be able to address ruin your stay. Don't be shy, let us try and make it right. It will make us feel happy. We are here to put good times out into the universe and help create great memories that can be saved for when life gets ornery. We put the personal in personality [sad trombone sound].
OK now for the rules and disclosures stuff...this is going to sound kind of harsh because it is written for THAT GUY. We are still mad you, THAT GUY (you know who you are).
DISCLOSURES:
We've worked in hospitality and in the public sector, for most of our lives. People think that when you work with people all the time you must have a lot of bad encounters. Totally not true. Almost all people are conscientious and considerate. But there is that 1-in-100 person out there that gives people a bad name. Because of this, and because we take things very personally when we come across these rare situations, we have to make disclosures that sound kind of cold and clear. This is just for that 1-in-100 person, who probably won't read or care about this, but it's here for later if things go squirrely.
Rules and stuff:
Please be aware that there are multiple outdoor cameras that monitor the exterior grounds of the property.
We use sound monitors. Quiet hours are 10pm to 8am. We only have one neighbor, we like them. Please be respectful of their daily lives. Seriously, please.
Guest occupancy (including children) cannot exceed 8 overnight guests. During the day, the limit is 14 total on the property. It is a Sonoma County regulation and violations are so serious that we have to be very inflexible about it. Please ensure that visitors to the property never exceed the maximum occupancy allowed.
Maximum permitted vacation occupancy per county regulations for our location (including children):
14 people total, during the day.
8 people maximum overnight.
We are required to immediately end the guest stay without refund upon violation.
Please note that the Barn is NOT heated or cooled.
Please do not move furniture around. Please do not alter any TV, internet, or stereo cable connections. We have to charge you what our housekeeping team charges to put things back in order.
Maximum stay is 28 days.
Please don't be reckless. We have a lot of people caring about this space and we are all sharing it together. People come here hoping to make some good memories. If something breaks, let us know. Accidents happen. If someone breaks something recklessly, then tries to hide it, and causes the next guest to have to suffer for it...well, that's just not right.
Be respectful. This ain't Roadhouse (the original) but we will get all Patrick Swayze on you if you came here looking for trouble. I don't even know what that means but it sounded tough. Don't be a villain.
Please be considerate about board games; it's so sad when you want to play something, and the pieces are missing because, you know...THAT GUY. Let us know if something seems missing.
Be careful with the turntable; replacing the cartridge will cost $50. Try not to intentionally scratch the records.
Please don't steal. If you ask, maybe we'll gift it to you!
Lost remote controls are a really big deal because we have to replace them in less than 24 hours in many cases. The controls for the air-conditioners are very expensive to replace at over $100. We will have to charge for missing remotes. Kindly keep the air conditioner remotes in their wall holders, and the TV remotes in their trays.
Pet damage usually involves furniture. Especially leather. Scratches and tears can lead to entire pieces needing to be replaced which guests will be responsible for.
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Ok you made it all the way to the end. This is the hidden post credits part.
We go through life thinking we are strangers to one another, yet our lives intersect in so many ways. Every moment is a chance to put some good vibes out there, a little counterweight to all the bad stuff. When you have the opportunity, put some positivity out there. These chances pass us by faster than road signs when you're driving too fast. Once they're gone...they're gone. Good times man. They will warm us when it's cold. Let's make as many as we can.
