Co-op of the Day: 11 Monroe Place
Despite a blue-chip location and a charming exterior, this two-bedroom, garden-level co-op at 11 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is leaving us a little limp. Maybe we’re nitpicking, but when renovating an apartment in this price range (asking price is $1,175,000), why not spring for some nicer doors? These look a little cheap to us…
Despite a blue-chip location and a charming exterior, this two-bedroom, garden-level co-op at 11 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is leaving us a little limp. Maybe we’re nitpicking, but when renovating an apartment in this price range (asking price is $1,175,000), why not spring for some nicer doors? These look a little cheap to us and only underline the suburban “new traditional” vibe that seems like a waste in a place where a more characterful renovation would likely be appreciated and rewarded by buyers. Did we just get up on the wrong side of bed or do others have a similar reaction?
11 Monroe Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
i have a problem with wire hangers.
no wire hangers!
for a million, i’d rather have this…
http://www.corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?Region=NYC&ListingID=1119732
Other than proximity to Manhattan, what is the appeal of the location?
I’m so beside myself about those bloody doors that I can’t even spell right, Mr. 1:13. Please, I’d be happy to hire you as my editor, so you can catch words like ‘fuming’, but I wouldn’t even begin to consider it until you do something about those doors. I am haunted by doors. Doors open and doors close. One door opens and another door closes. Light My Fire, by The Doors. Instead of copy-proofing my post, 1:13, why don’t you go out into the world and do something useful – like dealing with those doors. What is this freakin world coming to!
I’m underwhelmed. It’s a bland redo of a ground floor with a typical sarcophagus of a drywall enrobed island. Blah and “chintzy”.
FG/TGL
What’s it like to “fumm”?
Yeah, I’m not really seeing any problem with the doors–you can hardly see them in the photos. Overall, it looks like a lovely place to me. I just cannot believe that two bedrooms (TWO bedrooms!!) goes for over a million dollars, even in Brooklyn Heights…
This looks like a space from some McMansion out in Connecticut. I dig the Aalto lounge chair though.
Oh yes, the doors, I mean what a shocking travesty. Those doors are a complete sham. What do they think they are pulling here? Lord knows, those doors are just not what is called for here. Please, give me doors that don’t insult my intelligence. I’m more than a little ‘limp’ about this one, I’m am fumming! Fumming about those damn doors. Who do they think they are fooling here? You think you can just get away with those doors. You are really pushing me to my limit with those doors. Look, I’m trying to be reasonable about this, but if you try and push those doors on me, I don’t know what I’m gonna do, alright? Just change the doors, will you? Jeez!