Does $500-600K sound high, low, or realistic to gut renovate a 16.5 x 40 3 story brownstone, including all professional fees (i.e. if we use an architect)? We originally thought work was mainly cosmetic but following inspection, it really does seem to be a gut reno. Currently used as 2 family (lower duplex with garden kitchen, and top floor rental) that’s kind of chopped up, we want to take over whole house. We thought we wanted kitchen moved to parlor but are open to keeping on garden if that’s more economical, and if the garden can be made to feel like less of the dungeon it currently feels like. We do NOT want central AC, and in general are not “fancy” types – we like simple, clean, contemporary but not super high end (i.e. we’re fine making compromises like Ikea kitchen cabinets). Also, there’s little to no detail to preserve.<\/p>\n
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Does $500-600K sound high, low, or realistic to gut renovate a 16.5 x 40 3 story brownstone, including all professional fees (i.e. if we use an architect)? We originally thought work was mainly cosmetic but following inspection, it really does seem to be a gut reno. Currently used as 2 family (lower duplex with garden…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-19412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renovation"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/02\/cost-to-gut-ren\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"cost to gut reno 16.5 x 40 brownstone?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/02\/cost-to-gut-ren\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/02\/cost-to-gut-ren\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Renovation","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"housesearcher"}],"creator":["housesearcher"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-02-17T15:04:37Z","datePublished":"2008-02-17T15:04:37Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:51Z"},"rendered":"