Condos of the Day: 10 South Oxford Street
We bet there will plenty of interest in the latest brownstone condo conversion in Fort Greene despite the fact that the finishes aren’t doing it for us. Why? The location. This one’s at 10 South Oxford Street, just steps from the park. The three upper floor-through units are all listed as having 950 square feet…
We bet there will plenty of interest in the latest brownstone condo conversion in Fort Greene despite the fact that the finishes aren’t doing it for us. Why? The location. This one’s at 10 South Oxford Street, just steps from the park. The three upper floor-through units are all listed as having 950 square feet (though we suspect that includes the public hallway) and are asking from $750,000 to $800,000; the lower duplex is asking $1,550,000. As for the finishes, we just don’t care for the “new traditional” look. Give us the old stuff, warts and all, or a modern reno that’s got some teeth. This stuff in the middle is just kinda blah.
10 South Oxford Condominiums [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
i thought i understood what “new traditional” meant, but if this is it, then i’m confused. doesn’t it mean adding new-but-cheap looking elements like gold-tone door handles and soffits with mouldings? this condo looks rather like they added lots of mismatched fixtures and materials and suburban touches, which to me is not the same thing.
more generally, while i don’t love “new traditional,” having lived through a costly renovation of an older home, i wonder what mr. b would suggest for someone renovating without deep pockets. sleek and modern is hard and super expensive and often nearly impossible to do right in renovated townhouses. it seems we either go into debt for fashion, or we let our kids eat lead paint and inhale crumbling window mouldings.
2:52 here.
I blame it on HG TV, A&E, and the like.
Design is easy! Construction is easy!
Put in a granite countertop, some beige tiles, beige walls, “stainless” fixtures, and let the money rain down upon you.
i think these places look pretty good.
2:52, I do think that Brownstoner should do an architect profile, especially for small-scale work like this. Maybe it would entice some of the flippers out there to get professional help (pun intended).
I know that architects don’t have the money to do an entire flip themselves, but perhaps if several companies got together and formed a development branch, invested into each project as a group and reaped the benefits as a group, they could afford it?
I’ll let you know when I’m in the market for a gut reno. building.
@ 1:08-
Architects don’t have enough money to buy and reno a brownstone and flippers / developers are too cheap to hire a good one.
but if you’ve got a place that needs a good reno, HIRE ME! i’ll do it.
More like a ‘con-stone’ 12:51.
These seems a good bit overpriced, even when accounting for the location and the renovation.
Those 950 sq ft places should be in the upper 6’s rather than 700’s or even 800’s. Not to mention these aren’t 950 sq ft.
I lived next door to this place for over five years. This reno took almost as long. Clearly, some issues with the contractor/developer. It looks like someone finished the job on the cheap. The ‘hood is amazing, but clearly it’s no longer for people like me working in the non-for-profit sector.
btw, there isn’t plenty of interest in these places– they’ve been on the market for months. If they lowered the prices (especially on the duplex), they’d probably get more traffic, or at least an offer or two.