House of the Day: 1910 Brick in Midwood
This place in Midwood looks interesting at $675,000. The beautiful facade and charming porch are what grabbed our interest, but we’re also digging the original floors and plasterwork. The bathroom and kitchens have that unique blend of newness and poor taste that screams flipper, but at this price the buyer can scrap the Home Deport…
This place in Midwood looks interesting at $675,000. The beautiful facade and charming porch are what grabbed our interest, but we’re also digging the original floors and plasterwork. The bathroom and kitchens have that unique blend of newness and poor taste that screams flipper, but at this price the buyer can scrap the Home Deport cabinets and spring for a decent bathroom sink. While he’s at it, we’d try to find some original doors to replace the sliding ones leading to the deck. We’d also put in bigger windows in the rear to match what was originally there.
Midwood 1910 Brick [Brooklyn Properties]
Home depot doesn’t make cabinets, they carry several different lines which aren’t the same. Some have styles which look more like the ikea look, but are better built (e.g. solid maple wood, dovetail joints, etc), and cost just a bit more.
Ikea cabinets actually get a good rating from Consumer Reports. Our friends installed some and they look great and seem very sturdy.
I completely agree with poster above, you complainers are completely ridiculous and will never be satisfied. Most people would be perfectly happy with that new, neutral, non-offensive kitchen.
4:37, you are SOOOOO right! It’s scary what people cover up when renovating. We’ve ended up gutting houses that looked fine because of underlying issues. Some people’s high end is other people’s crap anyway. Sorry, I’m still not lovin the Ikea look, but that’s what makes the world go around…we’re all different.
thank you for posting a listing i might actually be able to afford…thanks thanks thanks
Correction should say w/o gut reno -ooops.
And no soon did I say that someone would complain, even if there were high end cabinets, do I read:
Brownsotner: “The kitchen cabinets, which we’re sure cost tens of thousands of dollars in custom labor, leave us a little limp.” http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2006/03/brooklyn_beauty_1.html#comments
See, you go cheap you’ll get complaints, you go high end you’ll get complaints. That why companies offer different styles of “X” , because there is no accounting for taste.
It cracks me up when people look at house, condos, etc. that have perfectly serviceable kitchens and declare they NO ONE could possible live there with a gut reno of the kitchen. Face it, not everyone is a gourmet chef (or thinks they are) and needs such a high end kitchen.
Do the appliances work? Are there doors on the cabinets? Are the countertops in good enough shape that their not going to harbor salmonella in huge cracks? Then you CAN live there and use the kitchen.
People need to get a grip and worry about how sound the roof and foundation are, will the basement flood. Is the building settling and cracking the walls. These are things that should make or break a sale, not if they have some frelling high end cabinets or not.
Even if they put in massively expensive solid wood cabinets, some spoiled buyer would declare they hated the color of the wood stain and there for the whole kitchen would have to be reno-ed.
No matter what you do with a place, the next owner will declare it trashy and tasteless and rip it all out anyway; so why spend big bucks on cosmetic? Spend the money fixing up the bones of the house.
It would be laughably easy to get rid of those cabinets and put in something better, Ikea or Smallbone (my fave) or whatever… Kitchen is a good size. Maybe an island of somesort….?
Midwood is huge… If it is near Avenue J, then it is adjacent to the greater Ditmas Park area, and adjacent to Kensington… So not far from other homes that are featured here all the time… If it is on the Southern End, you’re talking Kings Highway. Plus point – both Avenue J and Kings Highway have decent amenities, if not high end. Also, I have only good things to say about the Q train, unlike some other posters sometimes on this site….