Thanks toasty – this is great stuff... I'll email 'Lisbon Poets Hostel' and get some pictures through from them of their interiors.
I really like the the look of the Chiado area!
And yes sorry stevegerms the vagueness of the price bracket was due to the fact that my mother is perhaps going to come along, which will means that we can probably afford something for between 150–200 euros a night, but that will need to sleep four of us... In three different rooms (My mother and her friend are wonderfully loud snorers!) So I guess it would be great to try and find an apartment for around that budget in the Chiado area (hopefully with interesting modern Portuguese interiors.) God loves a trier!
Anyway thanks again all. This is one of my first ever posts and already it's been very helpful so far!!