Welcome the the Windsor Terrace Reno
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve got another reno blogging team on board and they’re off to a roaring start. Mr. and Mrs. Limestone just closed on their 1910 limestone house in Windsor Terrace and, judging from the pics already up, the place is absolutely dripping with architectural details. Their plan? Total renovation of the…
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve got another reno blogging team on board and they’re off to a roaring start. Mr. and Mrs. Limestone just closed on their 1910 limestone house in Windsor Terrace and, judging from the pics already up, the place is absolutely dripping with architectural details. Their plan?
Total renovation of the kitchens and baths. Add a master “suite” with bathroom and closets. Create a kitchen/dining room on the parlor floor. Restore the details that can be saved like the doors, floors, etc.. Replace what can’t be saved with house appropriate choices. Get it warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Toilets that flush. Windows that open and close. Ceilings that don’t leak. You know, the usual.
We can’t wait!
Windsor Terrace Reno [Brownstoner]
Wish there was some way to contact you less publicly. Do you need one of the built ins that would have been in your dining room on the top floor? We’ve got one we can’t use in our place and Build It Green won’t take them. We live nearby and would be happy to donate it to somebody who is really going to use them in a Windsor Terrace house where they belong. We can’t use it because, well, because our architect won that argument. Something about needing closets.
Great to see a new reno blog. Beautiful house with a lot of great original detail. Best of luck with it.Looking forward to following the progress.
And, I have to ask, what’s up with the Gates reno? No updates for going on two months now. My house is “done,” but it’s rare that two months ever go by without some interesting project or problem presenting itself.
The post asking if the building was on a specific street and number seems to have been deleted. Thank you.
Looks like a beaut — congrats! I love walking or bike riding across the park to visit pals in WT.
You’ve obviously got some fabulous woodwork on the parlor floor. Don’t hate me for saying this but, if you can find the $$, strip it now — not later when your reno is finished, which is what we did. It’s slow, dirty work and we are still doing it — 6 years the initial reno. I hate the disruption, dust and damage to adjacent painted surfaces etc. It would have gone much faster if we had paid to have it done during the heavy construction phase. And the results are thrilling!
This looks like prime Windsor Terrace — one of the choice streets near Prospect Park (Sherman, Windsor Place, 16th). From what I’ve seen, those houses are definitely going for over a million. 1.2 sound right to me. If they got it for 900K that is a bargin, assuming there is a rental unit.
dont mean to sound ignorant and all but where exactly is windsor terrace in brooklyn? does it neighbor crown heights flatbush etc? thank you
The house was probably in the 900K to 1.2mil range and a full renovation in the 150K-350K area depending on taste and quality..
We were excited to start the blog to get feedback (and maybe a wee bit of encouragement on the dark days) on the renovations plans.
As longtime brownstoner groupies, we already know what happens when the issues of price come up. Im sure sharing any specifics on dollars would only escalate into a full on tar and feathering of how we spent too little/too much and that we should have bought something else or some other thing that is completely not the point of a renovation blog.
We won’t be sharing anything exact reno dollars at this point – but when all said and done, we’ll be happy to give some figures about costs. Until its done, I wont really be able to tell you how much it costs to renovate. And telling you what my “budget” is likely as useless as having one.
Hope everyone enjoys and posts constructive critism, suggestions and compliments throughout.
fantastic house! look at those amazing floors and woodwork. dig the limestone. and the sweet doors and mouldings too. don’t sweat the bathroom, you’ll figure it out.