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
Or just call all of the rooms chambers and let you decide what they are used for. Oh, wait….
Amazing, we have a very similar lay-out with our house so it’s fascinating to hear the comments with respect to the kitchen on the second floor. In our case, we bought a one family from a doctor who turned the entire parlor floor into his practice space and moved the family’s personal living space to the upper floors. As a result, we now have two floors with “living” space, including a kitchen and dining room on the 2nd floor (bedrooms are upstairs). (Interesting note, IJ — for a while there, we used the parlor floor as an art gallery as well!) I’ve always wondered if that configuration would turn-off buyers should we ever put the house on the market. (And yes, Nomi, we do have a back staircase).
In a house this size, I don’t get designating a space 6 x 12 as a bedroom. Either add the space to the adjacent bedroom or have the decency to call it an office or storage space.
Dave: Possibly. But there was a period in the 1880s when walnut was still be used for interior trim but mahogany had become fashionable, so the Victorian deliberately stained it red to look like mahogany. Our interior woodwork is walnut and the design is very similar to this house. When we refinished it, we stripped off the “mahogany” stain and used a more natural brown walnut stain. The Victorians were notoriously faddish, going through design trends faster you can say, “granite countertops are so 1990s.”
Yes, as grand army says, hard to imagine the parlor floor getting used with this layout. Maybe, pardon the crudeness, but for non-tv watchers who entertain a lot with hired help? Still weird though, because normally with that old fashioned layout, the kitchen would be below the parlor, not upstairs with the bedrooms AND preferably with a back staircase. Hmm. But, yeah, buying this at this price and THEN moving the kitchen? No.
It’s called mahogany.
There was an art gallery in this space, I believe on the garden level. I lived next door for 5 1/2 years.
haaaaaaaaate the reddness of the wood, oh absolutely hate red wood.
That woodwork is awfully RED. Have the floors also been stained cherry or is it just the photos? I love the high deck for that “in the trees” feel but it does make the parlor floor super formal. I guess you need to eb confident that layout would work for your lifestyle. We use our front parlor constantly — it’s hard for me to imagine anyone using this one. The garden floor could easily be a rental.