Carroll Gardens Brownstone Featured in House Beautiful Can Be Yours for $4.5 Million
“That place should be in House Beautiful,” you might occasionally think while checking out a fine specimen of a brownstone. Well here’s one — at 396 Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens — that really was. And on the cover no less. As you might imagine, it’s a pretty, uh, beautiful house. Gut renovated, reconfigured and restored…
“That place should be in House Beautiful,” you might occasionally think while checking out a fine specimen of a brownstone. Well here’s one — at 396 Sackett Street in Carroll Gardens — that really was. And on the cover no less.
As you might imagine, it’s a pretty, uh, beautiful house. Gut renovated, reconfigured and restored in 2011, it combines classic brownstone style and detail with tasteful modern updating and spare-no-expense upgrading. And it’s all in pristine condition.
Four stories and 21 feet wide, the house is set up as a one-family, with a huge master suite that takes up an entire floor. It includes an office nook, a walk-in closet, and a bathroom with marble wainscoting, radiant floor heating and a new footed tub in addition to a shower. There are two additional bedrooms, each with a walk-in closet, on the top floor.
The parlor floor has a living room and dining room, each with wide-plank floors and a fireplace (one working, one not). The kitchen is on the garden level, connected to the upper dining room via a dumb waiter, installed during the renovation. There’s also a second dining area and a guest bedroom down there; a pair of sliding glass doors lead to the backyard.
It’d be easy to turn that garden floor into an apartment. But the renovation doesn’t call out for alteration — plus, you’d be handing that lovely kitchen, with its BlueStar range, Liebherr refrigerator and black granite counters, to a tenant.
In the bells and whistles department we’ve got a dual zone HVAC system, a backyard irrigation system, a “communication center” that controls a security system and a four-zone audio system, and a wine cellar.
The house — which is showing at an open house this Sunday from 1:30 to 3:30 — was featured in our Last Week’s Biggest Sales in 2010. At the time it went for $2,005,000, which was $370,000 below asking. Unsurprisingly it’s asking quite a bit more now: $4,500,000.
A lot of money, but it’s a lot of house. Think they’ll get it? How do you like the place?
[Listing: 396 Sackett Street | Broker: Brown Harris Stevens | Photos: Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Exterior photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark
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I actually think this is entirely underpriced, even for this side of Smith. The renovation is flawless, and there’s almost nothing on the market in this kind of move-in condition (other than some narrow new construction priced even higher).
Weird. The listing says it’s 21′ wide, and the front photo looks it. But the dining room in the rear of the parlor is house-wide, and marked 17′-6.” Maybe that doesn’t include the depth of the closets on each side of the niche, which could be around 3′-6.”
Now here’s a house that’s worthy of a $4m+ price tag. Do wish the broker had included pics of the upstairs bedrooms.