Box & One Lofts in Portland

Stay in a veritable caricature of Portland!

A single unit above a tiny micro-brewery, Coalition Brewing.  Next to Crema, the best bakery/coffee house in town.  (All are part of the award-winning Box & One project.)  Enjoy one of Portland's famous villages and enjoy the true character of this town.  No need to drive - walk to any of a dozen wonderful restaurants (Pambiche, Navarre, Ken's Artisan Pizza, Tabla, Il Piatto, etc), a quaint Whole Foods grocer, a beer-and-pizza movie house (Laurelhurst Theater), and any number of fun, quirky retailers.

The loft was recently the upstairs commercial kitchen to Noble Rot, the award-winning restaurant that has located a mile down the road.  But they left their wonderful kitchen!  This is both good and bad.  If you love cooking, good food (by your hands, or via the neighborhood food scene), and the 'flavor' that a non-Pearl-District eastside village one-off loft offers, you'll love this place.  If you are particular, bordering on uptight (I can't think of a better way to say it .... sorry.), and see worn-paths of 8 years of sous-chefs and line cooks walking from stove to ice mackine to dry good storage to refrigerator as anything but floor art, you're best off staying in a newer space.  If you need a doorman, you're best off skipping the Box & One.

As this is the first time the "& One" loft has been open as a vacation rental, I am certain that there are elements that I've missed.  So, until the phone stops ringing, I will be your personal shopper.  Need a garlic press?  (I know for a fact there isn't one in the kitchen.)  I'll go get you one.  Need a task lamp?  I'll get one.  Need more closet space?  I'll find the cutest armoire around.  Need a bike?  Oh, nevermind - I'm currently shopping for a pair of city cycles now.  SE Ankeny is, after all, one of the best bicycle streets in town.  (Look out the huge window at 8 AM or 5 PM; bikes will outnumber cars 5-to-1.

The loft is 1,100 sq.ft., is heated via a 6" thick, radiant concrete floor slab, has open-webbed ceilings, and 2 industrial glass garage-doors-as-windows.  (The project is featured in Michael Crosby's coffee table book "Living Together.  Multi-family Housing.")  The loft includes a Cal King bed, a full bathroom with stacking full-sized washer/dryer, and the large kitchen/dining/living area.  There is also a small covered balcony.  Wonderful local art adorns the walls, there's free internet access, and a nice flat-screen TV with cable.

Inner East Portland is a vibrant quilt sewn together by its patchwork of flavorful villages, and none of the villages is more interesting than E 28th Ave.  It is a foodie paradise, and home to "28th Feast".  It is quintessentially Portland - quirky and fun and cocksure and weird.  

The Box & One is an easy bike ride to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry), Laurelhurst Park, the Hawthorne and Belmont villages, Hollywood farmer's market, the Eastbank Esplanade, Downtown, and the Pearl.  Heck, this is Portland; everything's close (enough).

Rates do not include a $75 cleaning fee.

Move-in will be 2 PM.  Move-out will be 10am.  Of course if there's nobody moving in right behind you, there's no hurry to move out.  Eventually I guess.

There will be a $25 fee per week per dog.  I'm not that excited about cats.  Sorry.