Floorplan Confusion
I’m usually a traditionalist but love what they did with this brownstone. For the life of me, though, I can’t figure out the floor plan. From the outside it looks like a normal 3-story brownstone. From inside it looks like there is an extra garden level. What’s going on? http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=2016313
I’m usually a traditionalist but love what they did with this brownstone. For the life of me, though, I can’t figure out the floor plan. From the outside it looks like a normal 3-story brownstone. From inside it looks like there is an extra garden level. What’s going on?
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=2016313
Confusion cleared up….see today’s HOTD!!!!
What threw me off was the back door view, where the ‘cellar’ door seems like full height (despite the fact the floor is windowless in the front). Also, based on the view of the neighboring gardens, it doesn’t seem like this is on a signficant hill or that they’ve done a lot of excavation in the back yard (there are a few steps, and the basement was probably dug out, but I can’t visually adding that together to equal the full sized back windows and doors).
“A wet bar off the kids playroom, those are some lucky kids!”
If this was my house, that would be an adult playroom down there!
DIBS, isn’t that the “first” floor in the picture, not the “garden” floor? I can’t tell for sure from this picture, but the OP said that from the front, it looks like a three-story brownstone. So it seems that the bottom floor is the cellar, below grade in the front (at least according to the floorplan, which shows no windows in the front room on that level).
looks like they’re having an open house this weekend….you should go check it out and get inspired.
Look at the pic of the front of the house…it’s NOT fully below grade. Looks to be 50% +/-
A wet bar off the kids playroom, those are some lucky kids!
Wow, I really love this house! Yes, what they are calling the garden floor is actually the cellar, fully below grade in the front but excavated out in the back. The first floor is what is usually called the garden level. Seems like a brilliant way to add space in a three-story house that looks to be no deeper than about 33 feet, on a 100-feet lot.
Strangely enough, neither the floor plan nor the description indicates that there is apparently a deck off the media room on the “first” floor. Seems like a strange omission, since that would be a nice selling point.
CGar, is this within your price range? This looks fantastic, with plenty of space for CKids and CDog.
This is a 3-storey brownstone with an excavated/converted cellar. If you look at the floorplan for the “garden” floor, you’ll see there are no windows in the front storage room. It’s certainly confusing though since the original ground floor is clearly way above grade. Perhaps they just took advantage of an unusual topography.