Four bedrooms, four baths, modest yard, impeccable furnishings, perfectly maintained, within comfortable walking distance of a protected beach.
The house we ended up in was beautiful and perfectly maintained, and even though our friends had been incredibly gracious in offering it, we could never quite relax.
In terms of choreography that perfectly maintains the style of the surrounding show, a much better current example is Sergio Trujillo's dances for the current "Guys and Dolls".
It is a large and perfectly maintained village-like complex which - apart from the Las Vegas-style 'imposing' drawbridge entrance - has a mostly tasteful and restful feel.
So this month, Greenwood Gardens opens to the public, offering a chance to see not a perfectly maintained garden, but a work in progress.
I found a perfectly maintained 1982 DeLorean – one of the last to be made before the factory closed – for $37,000 from a dealership in Houston, Texas.
And that is under the most favorable conditions, with the machines perfectly maintained and whisked free of all those bits of loose paper known as chads.
Situated on a perfectly maintained park, where people sit reading on benches and a child kicks a ball with his grandfather, is the Bromley-by-Bow centre.
A computer-assisted truck was able to follow closely behind a human-driven truck perfectly, maintaining exactly 33 feet of distance between the vehicles.
"If an oyster is perfectly handled, and if it's perfectly maintained during transport, and if it's perfectly shucked within a week of harvest, you shouldn't lose anything," he said.
