House of the Day: 375A 12th Street
This listing at 375A 12th Street is not the run-of-the-mill South Slope house you’d expect based upon the view from the street. Behind the 19th-century facade is a totally renovated home with a thoroughly modern feel (though there are a few original aspects that have been maintained). Overall, it appears to be very nicely done;…
This listing at 375A 12th Street is not the run-of-the-mill South Slope house you’d expect based upon the view from the street. Behind the 19th-century facade is a totally renovated home with a thoroughly modern feel (though there are a few original aspects that have been maintained). Overall, it appears to be very nicely done; in particular, we like the choices in the kitchen and the back facade that’s made up almost entirely of glass. Of course, they’re not giving it away: The asking price is $2,200,000, which is a lot of ducats for a 2,500-square-foot pad in the South Slope. It’ll be interesting to see where this ends up.
375A 12th Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Nice attempt at mixing the old and modern, but it could have been done with a better layout, I think. Besides the aforementioned kitchen WC, there’s this:
1. I find the kitchen a floor above the outside dining table a difficult choice. With the kitchen on the second floor, I’d have put a larger deck off that floor for dining, not just a staircase landing, so I could more easily go from the kitchen to eat outside. Who wants to walk down spiral stairs anyway? Especially not carrying dinner. I’d have done non-spiral ones in any event, even if the kitchen was downstairs. Which is where I would have seriously considered putting it anyway, I think – for easier access for groceries in (no stairs) and food out to backyard. Yes, I’d design for lazy, or you could call it for efficiency of movement.
2. I would have opened up that dining room more to the rest of the floor and married the two styles better on that floor. The transition from the dining room to the kitchen/living room seems a bit too jarring. The 3 fireplace mantles give you a lot of old style carrying through the floor, and opening up the dining room would have made the styles flow into each other better, as well as improving the walking flow of the rooms on that floor.
3. I think the floorplan must be a little screwy upstairs, as there are two bedrooms that seem to have no entry door.
4. I don’t like master bathrooms without bathtubs.
Fairly nice house, though. It’ll sell for whatever it sells for. Like the fenced in backyard.
sterile is a good thing!
*rob*
Inside looks very nice, but the garden is very sterile. I think the price is crazy.
rob, you are a poomist fetishist.
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I like that there is a bathroom right in the middle of the kitchen
ew! one word: poomist
*rob*
what’s up with the red paint on the front yard cement? What a doozie of a design error! Especially as the interior seems very nicely done. I suppose a new owner could redo that front area but it is just a wacky look for a two million dollar home.
I don’t know much about the area comps, so I am not in a position to comment on the price. I will say that the renovation is pretty stunning–at least based on the pics. They have married classic and modern styles pretty well. It’s not sterile, but it’s also not stuffy. It has tons of light, which makes it pretty inviting and makes me want to move in, despite the fact that it’s only 16 feet wide.
I suspect 75% of the comments will be about the kitchen WC.
Nice renovation. LOve how they kept the detail in the DR. Can’t comment on price.
If this goes for anywhere near ask, I don’t understand Brooklyn valuations. Strike that…I already don’t understand brooklyn valuations and if those goes for anywhere near ask, my understanding is even less than I thought.
Center Slope…Prime Fort Greene…right off Smith Street… sub-20ft, non-park block, 3-Story 12th. Which one doesn’t belong here?
Is it a real seller but just seeing if someone will hit his bid? On the positive…love the renovation. Normally don’t care for the over modern touches, but very nicely done.