House of the Day: 1211 Ditmas Avenue
Gotta say we’re surprised this Ditmas Avenue Queen Anne Victorian hasn’t been gobbled up by some eager beaver renovator since we included it as an Open House Pick back in November. While it’s a little shabby in a genteel sort of way, the detailing is mind-blowing. Granted, the exterior is going to take some dough…
Gotta say we’re surprised this Ditmas Avenue Queen Anne Victorian hasn’t been gobbled up by some eager beaver renovator since we included it as an Open House Pick back in November. While it’s a little shabby in a genteel sort of way, the detailing is mind-blowing. Granted, the exterior is going to take some dough and we wouldn’t be surprised if the plumbing or electrical needed an updating, but this place is hot in our humble opinion. Why’s no one taken the bait yet?
1211 Ditmas Avenue [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
Open House Picks 11/17/06 [Brownstoner]
Its had a price chop to $850k now. So thats $150k you can throw into must-do emergency maintenance (it certainly is in need of $150k, just for starters).
The ditmas ave traffic is annoying. How can you enjoy a front porch on your $1.3m (after renovation) house with whoosh whoosh whoosh from cars.
Oh and I was there the other day for the open house and the walls aren’t that bad… you just need a good plasterer in the reno crew…
Ditmas is a block that does not allow commercial traffic other than local deliveries so I do not think that it has “crazeeee amounts of traffic”. Ever been on 7th Avenue near Union? That’s crazy traffic. There is no bus route down the street so I’m a little confused…
The organic hot co-co response was funny…
I went through an open house here a few weeks ago – it definitely needs to a gut reno. Some of the walls on the third floor were bared down to the wood that held the plaster (sorry I don’t know the technical terms for this stuff!). The rooms look nice online because of the bright colors, but really this place needs work from top to bottom. $999 is waaay too much. This house is 2 long (avenue) blocks from the gentrifying Cortelyou.
The mantel on the fireplace in the picture is not wood; it’s some kind of composite material. The house is totally dilapidated and not liveable during a reno.
The reasons it didn’t sell are already listed in
http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2006/11/open_house_pick_99.php
Those photos are so misleading as to the true condition of the house.
I have been in the house (and live in the neighborhood as well) and agree it needs a gut, with details preserved. Family should not live in the house during this – the scope of the work that needs to be done is just too great.
The pictures are very misleading. The walls are in terrible shape.
It is a gut reno to get its bones back in order..this is not one of those cases where you should live there while you reno..the whole first floor needs some serious renovation..It hasnt been touched in a long time…I def. this a serious renovation is in order. I live in the nabe and have been to open houses…I have seen houses you can live in while you reno..Maybe just my perspective but I would reno before moving into this one.
The details in it are amazing but the fact it is on ditmas is a real bummer.
The Warren Lewis house looks like a good reno… However the ask (over a million) is very high for South Midwood, which is the part of Victorian Flatbush across Ocean Avenue, near Brooklyn College. The owners probably picked this place up for a song a few years ago. There are great schools in South Midwood, to be fair – decent elementary, Hudde Jr High, Midwood HS, and the amenities of Brooklyn College are wonderful. The new Target to be built at nearby Flatbush Junction will also be a boon to the nabe. But South Midwood does feel a bit isolated from the rest of Victorian Flatbush due to being the only part across busy Ocean Avenue. Architecturally, there are some gems, but also many spotty renovations, I used to say this was where the last great bargains were hiding… maybe not anymore.