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]
What’s the address here? I confess to not knowing much about Midwood (beyond the occasional forays to Di Fara’s), but would love to hear more — didn’t even know they had houses like this there — all I’ve seen is apartment buildings and detached houses.
Doesn’t the style of the cabinet have a lot to do with it? For some reason, all cheap renovations seem to use that awful arched cabinet design, which does indeed scream ’80s. IKEA, to their credit, doesn’t carry it. (And why don’t the cabinets in the photo have handles or pulls?) For all that, it’s a great house for the price, but then the reason it’s cheap is because it’s way the hell out there.
That space might be where the refrigerator goes.
Nice house in Midwood.
The key to making cheap look beautiful is talent, not money. Some have it, some don’t.
speaking of cabinets, I was looking at the cabinets again since this is such a hot topic and can someone tell me why there’s a random cabinet between the two windows in the kitchen?
Agree that IKEA has some interesting designed kitchen cabinets. Just bought some myself and picked up yesterday-
for a 2nd home upstate.
What is your counertop Brownstowner?
Can’t tell from pics.
I used to work in a stunning design studio that was featured in HOW magazine. I specifically admired the kitchen cabinets, and my boss said they were from Ikea. The design was clean, lovely and not at all cheap-looking.
Here’s a shot of the IKEA cabs in our kitchen. Most of have to pick and choose where to spend our dollars. If we had a cheap looking counter, the IKEA cabs might not look so hot. As it is, though, we thinkg they’re working okay, especially since they cost a total of, what, $1,400? No matter how you slice it, IKEA cabs kick HD’s ass.
http://brownstoner.com/renovations/archives/2005/08/another_shot_of.html
Ikea cabinets are generally better constructed (come with a 10 yr warranty) than home depot and come in many more styles with some actual design to them (don’t look like something you get in an 80s suburban tract home). That said, I did the custom cabinetry in my kitchen. Cost a small fortune but worth it. In the rental, Ikea all the way, for cleaness of line and value.
As for Bstoner, I think he made a good compromise considering financial constraints and the fact that he and his wife would consider replacing the cabinets in the future when funds permit. To knock his kitchens with the salvaged/rehoned marble countertops and Ikea cabinets because he says the listing has a flipper Home Depot kitchen is apples to oranges to me. Look at the kitchen pics of the listing. Livable, move in, yes, of course. Passable as something more high end (or at least not cheap looking), no way. Bstoner’s finishes in his kitchen do not look like a cheap flip job, even if he and his wife would have preferred more expensive cabinets from the get go.