House of the Day: 105 Lincoln Place
[nggallery id=”53835″ template=galleryview] Yowza! This townhouse at 105 Lincoln Place that just popped up in the Brownstoner Marketplace is not for traditionalists but buyers with a more modern bent will be tripping over themselves to check it out. Except for the stairs and some window details (which are presumably protected by Landmarks law), the four-story…
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Yowza! This townhouse at 105 Lincoln Place that just popped up in the Brownstoner Marketplace is not for traditionalists but buyers with a more modern bent will be tripping over themselves to check it out. Except for the stairs and some window details (which are presumably protected by Landmarks law), the four-story brownstone has not only been gutted but in some parts hollowed out. The most prominent feature of the makeover: A large steel-and-glass staircase connecting the garden and parlor levels that been dropped into the middle of the floorplate. From where we sit, the fixture choices in both the kitchen and bathrooms are very tasteful and the yard benefits from the 137-foot-deep lot. Of course, modern luxury doesn’t come cheap: The price tag on this baby is $3,695,000. By comparison, this place sold for $2,000,000 pre-renovation in 2006.
105 Lincoln Place [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
OMG, wacktastic. Well, if you’re going to rip out the original detail and “open up the space,” why NOT insert the Louvre pyramid in the middle?
Mediocre *modern* renovation. Quality so-so. If they had an architect, he/she didn’t exactly assert him/herself. If this house is worth $3.7m, mine is worth more, and it definitely isn’t.
I am intrigued by this house! When it popped up last week on the NYTimes real estate section my initial thought was: why on EARTH did they poke a giant hole in the floor? Then I looked closer and began to get it. And while the use of glowing, lime-green paint on the stair banister and the lack of en suite Master are choices I wouldn’t have made, this is a beautiful, airy, light-filled, contemporary-but-homey place.
Also the best damn block in the area. IMO.
And the weirdly whimsical, feathered-lightbulbs-flying-off, Ingo Maurer chandelier? Yay! Love it.
Actually, I find Ikea to be a lot nicer than what people would call the cheap home depot kitchens you see in rentals particularly that one listed as ROTD in Carroll Gardens.
People are so ignorant when they see something in a photo and automatically call it IKEA. Especially since many of the designers for IKEA copy a lot of the more expensive designer brands. I agree with Dave…the rest of the house looks extremely high end and I don’t think there’s any reason to suspect that the kitchen cabinets are any different.
And who CARES if they look good??
I really suspect that’s not an Ikea kitchen. It may look similar to what all of you perceive as Ikea but, given the level of the rest of the house, I’m betting those are solid wood cabinets and probably fairly expensive ones at that.
From the picture you can’t telll whether the bathroom sink is an American Standard or a Dornbracht or some other high end brand.
Well 104 Lincoln appears to be in contract at about $736 psf, if it went at the ask of $2.395M. Supports $962 psf here.
Wow! It’s never easy to bring a traditional brownstone into the 21st century (especially with a complete gut renovation) but these folks sure did. This is a fine example of getting it right. Kudos to the owners!
Wow! It’s never easy to bring a traditional brownstone into the 21st century (especially with a complete gut renovation) but these folks sure did. This is a fine example of getting it right. Kudos to the owners!