The place had a lot of charm, but it's jam packed with pieces of furniture and decorations leaving little room to navigate without having to move items out of the way. And if you move items out of the way, the owner will use it as an excuse to go after your deposit. The house was fairly clean but certainly not deep cleaned - there was plenty of dust under the beds, hefty chest of drawers in master bedroom taking up space, both showers are grubby and don't drain well, closets are cluttered with owners' stuff (e.g. full size mattress in a small bedroom built-in-wardrobe). That said, there's plenty that makes the place enjoyable and livable for a week family vacation.
I was truly planning on leaving a positive review until we were hit with unfair charges and angry phone call. Once we returned from our one week vacation, I received a very aggressive phone call from the owner barraging me with complaints on how we didn't leave his cluttered place clean enough. It instantly ruined any positive memories I had from this vacation. The owner yelled at me for three straight minutes about the greasy oven and two towels left on the deck, and then just slammed the phone at me. That was unexpected to say the least, but that wasn't the end of it. Few days later, we found that a third of our Refundable Damage Deposit money was deducted by the owners as a cleaning fee, which has never been agreed on or discussed before.
We treated the place the same way we would treat our own, with full respect and left it in the same condition it came in. Prior to renting, we specifically asked the owners about cleaning the house when we move out. They told us: leave everything as is, do not clean anything, we are taking care of cleaning. However, they never mentioned it is going to be taken care of on our expense, using the Refundable Damage Deposit money.