Fair price for selling original brownstone details (doors, moulding. etc)?

I am planning a gut renovation of a Park Slope brownstone and will be removing a lot of the original details, interior doors, ornate frames/moulding around windows, marble fireplace mantle, etc. Given that most people renovating brownstones seem to want to add missing details I was planning to see if I can sell the pieces I remove, but I don’t have a good sense of what the market price would be. Can anyone help out what ballpark would be reasonable.

maccardo

in Renovation 9 years ago

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randolph | 9 years ago

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> @teissbk
> I have mantles and doors that I am willing to sell

really classy to butt in here and try to undercut the guy who started this conversation. way to go!

maccardo | 9 years ago

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Thanks for the interest everyone. I will try to take some photos and list specs in the next couple of days, but you can also email me at roeraade@gmail.com. Just to be clear, all of this would be available in beginning of July.

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@eauetgaz and @sunsetpark2deanst: email me at ckt83170@yahoo.com as I have mantles and doors that I am willing to sell.

njkchqujteg | 9 years ago

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I am also interested I am doing a Reno in bedstuy inspectrite1@yahoo.com

SusanElkins | 9 years ago

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Likewise, I’m looking for hearth/fireplace tile. pddesign@sprintmail.com

sunsetpark2deanst | 9 years ago

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I am in need of a mantle. Can we setup a phone call?

JS

felixho | 9 years ago

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I am looking for details, doors,… and some
other things. how can I contact you?

fitch | 9 years ago

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I’d like to come and see the details if possible for my own use
. I also have a large group of friends who are restoring old properties in Bed-Stuy that would potentially be interested as well. Is there a way I can get in contact?

randolph | 9 years ago

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> @TheWindupRobot
> My assumption is that the marble fireplace mantle will be the easy part to sell

i had 3 nice and complete ones and could barely give them away.

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Thanks for the suggestions. There’s some identical houses and we have a block email list and was planning to send out a note there as well. As said, someone may be interested even if not for the original use.

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To expand on what “chemosphere” wrote, I bought a large Eastlake-style cornice (from over a door, or window), with the intention of making it into a range hood. The thing sat in my cellar for more years then I’d like to admit, but I finished the project several months ago, by lining the cornice with sheet metal and adding lights, a fan, and a filter. [Range Hood](//muut.com/u/brownstoner/s3/:brownstoner:Wn5r:rangehood.jpg.jpg)

chemosphere | 9 years ago

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Check with your neighbors – if your house is one of a row, you may find that they have identical moldings/doors that they’re missing and they want to replace.
If you get really creative, you can make some of that stuff into art objects. A door can become a coffee table or moldings can become a shelf. It’s probably late 19th c. mahogany or oak, which could look beautiful even if refashioned into something modern.

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Feel free to send pictures at charchitecturalantiques@gmail.com. Thanks.

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Thanks. Demolition Depot and similar places was something I’ve thought about as well but have not yet looked into. I will start to document with some photos what things I have and post them here to see if there’s any interest. All about timing I guess 🙂

BobMarvin | 9 years ago

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While your choice is quite different from one I’d make I applaud your decision to renovate your house to your own taste and live in it for a long time. Good luck finding buyers for the details you want to remove. Even if you can’t get much money for the painted woodwork you could save something by having someone remove it prior to demolition. Also, it’s good karma to try to have this irreplaceable stuff reused! If all else fails I think there are dealers, like Demolition Depot, who will take it on consignment although, from what I’ve been told, you’re unlikely to get much of a return from them.

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Thanks for your response. I am very aware of value considerations, and the decision is something we have been agonizing over for years, but in the end we are planning to live in the house for a long time and we are doing the renovation for us, not someone else’s taste. My assumption is that the marble fireplace mantle will be the easy part to sell, but the other pieces (painted over and in various condition) may be a trickier thing to put a value on so wanted to see if anyone else have any experience with this. The ideal thing would be if the person buying it would come with their contractor to remove it prior to my main demo (early July).

BobMarvin | 9 years ago

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FWIW you’ll never get enough to equal the value you’re stripping from your house along with the details, but I guess your mind is made up and there’s no accounting for taste. I’m VERY happy that you’re thinking of selling what you’re taking out. There’s a house near me where the new owners are dumping fragments of the original details (which the last owners painstakingly restored) into a dumpster. That made me sick