The Boarding House. My latest stint in alternative housing structures is a communal house run by a rental company. I have named it "The Boarding House." The house was built in 1919 in what appears to have been a Craftsman style with four bedrooms and one bath at 2,660 square feet. When it was purchased by the rental company it then converted into eleven bedrooms with three baths. (Apparently, it is still on city record as being a one-family four bedroom and one bath house. I'm not sure if this is a problem.) It is the on the border between the U-District and Wallingford. Our back alley is the defining line. I joke that this is because our communal situation is too trashy for Wallingford to accept us even though we are the first strip of houses west of the Interstate. My room is the southern half of what was once the living room and has French door access to the front porch. Since the conversion, there is now a distinct lack of a front door so from time to t