Short term let in a Veggie prefered community

garden room

🌳Oakfield Road Community is looking for 2 short term (1-3 months) members to move in to our friendly, relaxed, and supportive home in Finsbury Park, North London.

➡️Move in date for the garden room is from the 8th December 2025. The current house mate has to move out of the country at short notice for family reasons. The second front room will be available at some point in January 2026 TBC.

🛌The Garden Room:
•Available between 7th Dec
•Medium sized double room
•Direct access to garden, built-in wardrobes, reasonably new carpet
•Currently has a double mattress on the floor, but if you want a bed frame, we can probably find a free one easily.
•Sound can carry from adjacent rooms, but we’re mindful and keep volumes low
•The room is below the kitchen so noise will travel down from there and it’s next to Michael’s room who does chanting in his room each morning. So a deep sleeper is needed.
•Although it’s garden facing it doesn’t get a much natural light.
•The furniture in the pictures will be available for you to use or change.
•All personal possessions in pics will be removed before move in.

🛏️The Front Room:
•Available from January 2026 flexible
•Small room with double bed
•Front facing in the basement so some sunlight in the afternoon
•New carpet a year ago
•Painted a year ago
•Has an alcove
•Come with double bed (frame and mattress)
•All personal possessions in pics will be removed before move in.

💸 Costs & Practical Details
The Garden room
•Rent: £200/week including bills
•5 weeks paid in advance, Then rent due each week from the on the 2nd week so that you are always 4 weeks.
•4 weeks notice period if you need to leave early.

💸The Front room
•Rent: £175/week
•5 weeks paid in advance, Then rent due each week from the on the 2nd week so that you are always 4 weeks.
•4 weeks notice period if you need to leave early.

We can be flexible, often we have said if you need to leave early and we find a replacement, we will refund the difference. Just chat to us.
The following may not apply to you as a temporary member, but worth reading anyway to get an idea of the home you are moving into.

Though if you just want to show interest, please message us with an introduction, when you are available to move in, how long you want to stay for and how much you will be around? Many thanks.

🌇The Living Space:
•Light filled kitchen stocked with every spice and tea imaginable, plus a Vitamix, water filter tap, washer & dryer
•Warm, cosy living/dining room with a massive 3m-wide projector screen often used for co-working, shared dinners, and chilled hangouts
• 2 bath/shower rooms – a main bathroom and an ensuite shower room (non-exclusive thus occasional access by rest of community needs to be agreed)
•The garden is long and lush with a sunny balcony that catches the morning light. We’ve had more luck growing herbs than veg, but we love sitting out with tea, harvesting mint, or chatting as the bumblebees go by.
•No smoking indoors please.
•Unfortunately, no pets allowed (landlord policy)

👥We're a group of housemates who enjoy sharing delicious vegetarian meals, collaborating on house and garden maintenance and development, spending some social time together and supporting one another with personal and spiritual growth. Please note that this is a vegetarian house, but meat can be cooked in the airfryer on the balcony. Storing meat in the fridge is not allowed, but there are ways around this.

If you're looking for more than just a place to live, if you're drawn to connection, contribution, interpersonal exploration then please read on to see if we might be a good fit.

🌻 About Our Community
We’re a quiet 5 person household built around mindful living with shared values of openness, cooperation, and creativity.

We don’t follow rigid rotas, things tend to flow organically. We aim to cook once or twice a week, there is flexibility here. We all contribute to a monthly shared food kitty and enjoy healthy delicious vegetarian food together.

Note: although the house is vegetarian, Equador cooks meat outside using an air fryer and has a small fridge for it in his room. Just a heads up if you're strictly vegetarian.

We strive to keep our shared spaces clean and welcoming, but we’re not ultra minimalist or spotless.

We hold meetings both practical based and social check ins.

We support each other's personal and spiritual development and like to be playful and curious in the way we live side by side. We aim to handle any tensions with open hearted conversation and to find calm solutions together.

🌎 Neighbourly engagement
We’re also involved with our wider neighbourhood eg building a little free library and swap shelf at the front of the house. We believe that community isn’t just within our home, it’s out there too.

✨ What We're Looking For
We’re seeking someone community minded, communicative and emotionally mature.
Someone who sees this as a home, not just a place to rent. We value:

✅ Sharing time together, communal meals, community projects, house cleaning, chats over tea and low key hangouts
✅ Cooking for the house roughly once or twice a week
✅ Attending house meetings
✅ Willingness to participate in community house cleans, projects, offer input, and sometimes go with the flow
✅ An openness to building something bigger than ourselves
✅The ability to have a disagreement of opinions while staying calm, listening and finding a solution in a mature manner

Experience in communal living or at least a serious curiosity is a big plus. Bonus points if you’re familiar with (or excited by) things like consensus-based decision-making, creativity, mental health, personal development, board games and movie nights.
Also, if you’re handy with spreadsheets that’s a double bonus!

🧡 Meet the Current Housemates
👨‍🔧 Michael (62): Our wise Irish-Buddhist plumber, ex-chef, and unofficial DIY guru. The longest standing member of the house and a grounding presence.
🎪 Equador (40): A full time entertainer specialising in bubbles and magic. Big on creativity, astral projection, supplements, and vibrant curiosities. Expect odd props, surprise experiments, and frequent home cinema vibes.
👩‍🍳 Frankie (26): Queer, charity worker + activist, loves running, cooking, going out dancing + m
📽️Léo (42): Videographer and activist, likes wielding a camera at protests, running, dancing and Muay Thai.

📍The Location
We live in a charming ground floor/basement flat in a Victorian terrace just a 15 minute walk from both Finsbury Park and Crouch End. The nearest station is Harringay (1 stop north of Finsbury Park), and we’re around 30 minutes cycling from central London.

🖖The Vibe:
•Calm, welcoming and accepting
•Early-to-bed house with quiet evenings
•Social and connected, but definitely not a party house
•Not super quiet in terms of noise (a lived-in old house), so awareness and respect around sound is important

(Please mention “bumblebees” in the first few lines of your message so we know you’ve read the full ad!)

🌡️Heating:
The house is older and not the warmest, so we tend to layer up and make good use of hot water bottles. We do run an oil-filled radiator in the lounge and sometimes the central heating, but if you thrive in a toasty, highly insulated environment, this might not be your perfect fit.

. 📝 How to Apply
If this sounds like a potential fit, please message us through spareroom and include:

•A bit about yourself eg your interests/passions, work, age and what drew you to our community
•Your experience with communal or intentional living
•What you’re seeking in a home/housemates
• What you think you can bring to a community or our community in particular.
•A picture of yourself is helpful but not essential
•Any dietary restrictions or allergies we should know about

Please take our application process seriously. Whilst there are many benefits to living in a community, it also requires some greater commitment than living in a shared house – See above ’ What we are looking for’. Please consider this level of involvement expected before applying.

👋 The Process
1. We’ll read through your application and shortlist potential housemates
2. We may invite you to meet us in person
3. If there’s a good vibe, we’ll invite you round for dinner!

(short term members we just meet once)

If we all feel it's a good fit, you'll be welcomed in with a 6-month integration period. After that, if it’s going well on both sides, you’ll transition to a 6-month rolling agreement with 2 months’ notice required to leave from both sides..

We’re looking forward to meeting someone who’s excited to co-create a peaceful, playful, and purposeful communal home with us.

💛 Equador, Michael, Frankie & Leo