House of the Day: 48 Garden Place
You’d never know this stately 1880 neo-Grec brownstone was designed by the Parfitt Brothers, so light and bright is the renovation inside. The single family, five-story house has three wood burning fireplaces and two decorative mantels; the mechanicals have recently been upgraded, and central air was added. The floors, moldings and other details were “restored,”…
You’d never know this stately 1880 neo-Grec brownstone was designed by the Parfitt Brothers, so light and bright is the renovation inside. The single family, five-story house has three wood burning fireplaces and two decorative mantels; the mechanicals have recently been upgraded, and central air was added. The floors, moldings and other details were “restored,” according to the listing, which may be true, but they look new to us. The modern organic kitchen is located on the parlor floor but, in an unusual move, the owners put the dining room on the garden floor where the kitchen would have originally been. (Of course, buyers are free to deviate from the floor plan and place the dining table wherever they like.) Incidentally, in the 1700s, the landmarked block was the garden that belonged to the estate of Philip Livingston, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the listing says. What do you think of the house and the ask of $7,800,000?
48 Garden Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Far be it for me to judge, but here goes:
Uh…I loathe bare wire halogen fixtures. They were cool for about…never mind…they were never cool.
Obviously not a “cooks kitchen,” to use brokertard-speak, and this may be a stupidity daily double: (1) there is no exhaust hood over the gas cooktop and (2) there is low-hanging wood cabinetry directly over the gas burners to boot! Uhh…this grilled skirt steak is delicious…say, do you smell smoke?
while the continuous line of the upper cabinets looks clean, the cabinet above the stovetop should be higher.
I should’ve read the comments before making my comment below!
and…
Dear homeowners doing extensive high end renovation,
STOP using those square diffusers. They are FUGLY and an eyesore. There are better choices out there for $8 million dollar houses.
The layout is horrible.
– Kitchen should be in back where the 2nd (unnecessary) staircase is.
– Should have put a half bath on the parlor floor
– six bedrooms and NONE have an ensuite bath or walk-in closet.
– Bedrooms are lacking in closet space
$7,800,000 / 5100sf = $1529.41 psf. I’ll be shocked if this cracks $6 million, never mind 7.
having to go out to the ‘public’ hallway to get to the the bathroom and closet is NOT ensuite.
also, the ‘study’ can be used as a bedroom by future owner.
but nice try.
i looked at the floor plan again and it really is horrible. It could have been so much better with a little more thought.