House of the Day: 86 6th Avenue
This new listing at 86 6th Avenue in Park Slope has much to recommend it, to be sure, including some gorgeous original woodwork, but we’re having a tough time wrapping our head around the configuration, which includes having the kitchen on the second floor, alongside the master suite, and the dining room a floor below…
This new listing at 86 6th Avenue in Park Slope has much to recommend it, to be sure, including some gorgeous original woodwork, but we’re having a tough time wrapping our head around the configuration, which includes having the kitchen on the second floor, alongside the master suite, and the dining room a floor below on the parlor floor. We suspect it’s a legacy from when the house was used as a two-family but it may present a challenge for a house that’s asking $2,995,000. We shall see.
86 6th Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Haha^^^^^I don’t know, I may be finding things disproportionately funny; that happens to me, but “can’t bear to look at it again” is at least as funny as your original line.
Right, it’s not really kidney shaped, but it does have kidney aspects. Little kidney bits, I’ll call them….
But wait. I still feel bad for the backyard! Or, ok, the owners. Cause this backyard is really not bad. And, I swear, I am hypersensitive to landscaping. Of course, that doesn’t mean we couldn’t disagree. I just have to get it out there (thru the tubes, into the ether), that I don’t strongly object to this backyard.
The mahogany wood matches the brownstone’s exterior color tone.
Something was kidney shaped….can’t bear to look at it again.
It is definitely not mahogany. Perhaps birch with a terrible fake looking cherry stain. That being said, the headers for the window casing are over the top in the best way. Don’t love the house though.
“The backyard needs help though. I’m not a fan of kidney-shaped expanses of gravel stretching on forever.” (mopar)
Ahh, this made me laugh. Thank you.
(Though, in defense of the backyard, those looks like stone pavers to me, not gravel. And, is that really kidney shaped?)
Ground floor has a kitchen…looks like a rental or in-law apt to me.
The parlor works for someone who wants a floor dedicated to a business…doesn’t have to be a gallery.
And the upstairs can work as a duplex…there’s nothing that says you can’t use the master bedroom as a living room. Though I’d want to change it so the bath door opened to the hallway if I did so.
Not typical, but I could see someone using it this way.
The woodwork is not red. The hallway walls are painted red. They also have red furniture in an upstairs bedroom. The woodwork is actually quite lovely. This is a very pretty house, although furnished far too traditionally for my taste. The backyard needs help though. I’m not a fan of kidney-shaped expanses of gravel stretching on forever.
I haaaaaaaaaaaaaate mahogany wood, are you happy now.
I think *rob* needs to tell the owners they can’t tie their curtains like that, lest they risk being called “ghetto” by multiple Brownies.