The house is beautiful and who can complain, ever, about being oceanfront? The furniture is comfy, and the porches are amazing with tons of seating. Nice dining spaces and huge kitchen for a multi-cook enterprise. And thank heavens for the helpful dumbwaiter! In winter, the fireplace is lovely. I will give a couple of cautions, however. The stairs are VERY steep and long flights. Not sure how anyone would get a suitcase up to the top floor - thankfully, the dumbwaiter solves that problem for the first two floors. But know that to get to the main level from the street, you will have to climb two very ling flights of steps, both quite steep. And because of all the dune-rebuilding that Topsail Island is currently engaged in, access to the beach from the house is also very difficult. Steep climbs were the watchword for our stay … but the house is lovely and a lot of people could be here in comfort and David was super easy to work with.