Brooklyn Beauty A Bit Much for Our Tastes
We know this house–at $14.5 million, the most expensive in Brooklyn right now–is supposed to inspire awestruck oohs and ahs, and while we wouldn’t kick it out of bed for eating crackers, it just ain’t doin’ it for us. The bathroom? Come on, this isn’t Versailles. The kitchen cabinets, which we’re sure cost tens of…
We know this house–at $14.5 million, the most expensive in Brooklyn right now–is supposed to inspire awestruck oohs and ahs, and while we wouldn’t kick it out of bed for eating crackers, it just ain’t doin’ it for us. The bathroom? Come on, this isn’t Versailles. The kitchen cabinets, which we’re sure cost tens of thousands of dollars in custom labor, leave us a little limp. And the fact that the fireplace was modeled on Tina Turner’s? Big whoop. Clearly, the location of the house is unbeatable and the facade is perfection. But we can’t in a million years imaging paying this kind of dough for someone else’s over-the-top renovation. We love traditional design if it’s the real thing but when it comes to new design, give us true modern over “new traditional” any day. In the end, when it comes to these historic houses, we like an occasional creak in the floorboards. Sometimes having too much money can be a really bad thing.
Brooklyn Beauty [Forbes]
Daily News Article [Corcoran]
Cloumbia Heights Listing [Corcoran]
is that couch crush velvet? this house is almost a horror compared to what it could be.
in the daily news article the owner said they haven’t sold the house for some of the offers they’ve recieved because “we’re not always in the mood to sell” are you kidding me?! either that’s a complete lie seeing as though they should be excited to even get a bid on a house so grossly overpriced when they bought it for 2 mil in ’99 or they’re exactly the type of ppl I would expect to have a bathroom like that.
i think the bathroom is pretty ugly, but have no problem with the kitchen. it’s a little much, but it would be AWESOME to have a kitchen like that.
When Sandy and Kirsten Cohen’s kitchen from the “OC” looks more tastefully done than this $14.5M rowhouse, somethings wrong…
Whoah, this is EXTREMELY tacky — another example of money not buying taste. And no European would be caught dead in a place like that!
wasn’t this house on the market with browh harris last year for $20 million? all of these overpriced houses and it seems to me that the only one that went was last year on columbia heights for less then half of this. come on, all of these people are speculators. if they really wanted to sell it would be a whole lot less. for this price, people will choose to live in manhattan.
do you think it is meant for a european big spendor?
Very odd–it looks like they moved furniture in just to take the photos (no chairs or rugs in the dining room even though the table is set, kitchen seems empty, other furniture seems sterile). Have the owners already moved on (hard to imagine at the price).
with a 14.5 million dollar house you wouldn’t own a car that you would be willing to park on the street, you’d get a garage. so alternate side of the street parking is irrelevant.