Becoming a Lodger (rather than a housemate)

[IrvinaYalom]

This may well be a silly question and yes, I do know that Google exists but I am going to ask here anyway because I trust you all to give me proper sensible answers (God knows why).

I need to rent a room in London for three months only from mid May to early August. I do not want to live with "housemates" though, I want to move into a spare room in somebody's home. I will be working very hard, doing an intensive course and do not want to be in a social environment. I just need a room with a desk and preferably my own bathroom/toilet. I am very happy to live entirely by someone else's rules (with in reason obviously!) and want absolutely zero risk of household drama. I have been researching and have looked on spareroom.com and the like but it all seems very housemate-y. Young professionals or students all living together and sharing. I do not want this dynamic.

So please someone tell me, where do I look or advertise myself to become a lodger lodger? A proper lodger- living in solitary, hard-working peace, in someone else's home.

I will be very grateful for any and all tips/advice.

On Spare Room in the advanced search options you can check 'live in landlord' and that should get you better results.

Just to give an example of what comes up:
www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/flatshare_detail.pl?flatshare_id=12374956&search_id=797051353&city_id=&flatshare_type=offered&search_results=%2Fflatshare%2F%3Fsearch_id%3D797051353%26&

Ooh thank you! I didn't notice that option. Will search again.

Local Universities may have spare accommodation that you can rent short-term over the summer.

Air BnB may be useful too.

University accommodation is an excellent tip that I totally neglected to think of, thank you Grimbles. Something like that would suit me perfectly.

You could look at Airbnb for longer lets?

I have actually just been doing exactly that Grim and have found a set up that looks potentially perfect. I've just sent a message to the owner so fingers crossed she likes the look of me and doesn't mind the brand new profile and lack of references etc!

We are on spareroom periodically, advertising our spare room with en suite in a quiet, drama-free professional household - and we are 37 and 56! I think these kind of places are out there if you keep gleaning on through.

Oooh are you London based Sticky and in the market for a diligently hard working little mouse of a lodger who will never ever attempt friendly kitchen chit chat when you are just "not in the mood"?

(basically joking there [but also not])

Unfortunately I don't think university accommodation is available until June which is annoying as that seemed like an ideal solution..

Sorry Irvina - yes to London but room occupied for the foreseeable! Good luck in the search though.

That's ok Sticky, looks like I need used to rejection as just been turned down by ideal looking AirBnB host too...