House of the Day: 43 Love Lane
Believe it or not, today’s House of the Day was built in 1999. Located on the same block as the soon-to-be-condo’d Love Lane garage, the building succeeds on the exterior as a credible carriage house recreation (though a straight roofline might have worked a little better). The interior — all 1,300 2,400 square feet of…
Believe it or not, today’s House of the Day was built in 1999. Located on the same block as the soon-to-be-condo’d Love Lane garage, the building succeeds on the exterior as a credible carriage house recreation (though a straight roofline might have worked a little better). The interior — all 1,300 2,400 square feet of it — is much less successful. For this location and this price we’d expect a hell of a lot more than recessed lighting and cheesy marble floors. If you’ve got money to burn and care more about having jacuzzi than nice moldings, this could be the place for you. Or, if you want to spend half as much for twice the space, you could always check this place out.
43 Love Lane [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Scott Bintner for Property Shark
Anon 9:24, we showed multiple shots of multiple bathrooms and we showed and discussed decisions about materials, fixtures, etc. We stopped short of fabric choices at the time but are slowly doing a room-by-room review, starting with the kitchen last month. Even if we hadn’t shown any of that stuff, it would still be relevant for us to comment on as it affects how buyers evaluate a potential home. No like, no read.
Anon 1:14 – what happened to those side by side carriage houses next door? How were they botched up?
Anon 9:24, who cares about Mr. B’s bathroom? I’m much more interested in his coverage of the borough. The days when this was just his personal reno blog are long past.
Not A Broker, you don’t count the basement when calculating square footage. This house is two floors.
for the record:
square footage is approximately 2,300 square feet, not including full size roof deck
ceiling height is 9 ft 7 inches
view of July 4th fireworks from roofdeck: spectacular!
one spectacular home!
Brownstoner, you only showed us 1 shot of 1 bathroom. Hardly enough to scrutinize you the way you scrutinize others. People in glass houses…. This is a direct quote from your blog, “We’ve decided not to document the interior decoration of the house for two reasons: 1) It wasn’t part of our original intention and 2)We’re finding that our skin isn’t quite as thick when it comes to defending the color of our sofa. Maybe because it’s just that much more of an intimate subject. Hope everyone can understand that. Anyway, we’ll continue to document the remaining details of the build out–and within the next couple of weeks we’re hoping to have two new reno blogs starting. Thanks, B’stoner”
$3.5M for this carriage house is nuts. A few years ago my wife and I looked at one on Love Lane and all we kept on thinking is small small small. Plus as someone else noted, there just wasn’t any good views or anything else to make us think of putting all of our life savings into it (at the time in 2002/2003 I recall the price to be around $1.1M or so for asking price).
Happy to have held out for a proper four floor brownstone elsewhere.
Hmmm I wonder about that. When buying a condo, your per sq foot cost will be net liveable space. When buying a browntone, your calculation of per sq foot cost will be gross building footprint times however many floors it is. If you converted the brownstone’s cost from total footprint to liveable area, you’d be way over $1000 a sq foot.
“While I am aware that the single-family townhouse average is approching $1,500 psf once you discard outliers”
what are you nuts? even the best brownstone struggles to pass $800 per square foot! Condos get over $1000, but “single-family townhouse” are not over $1000 yet.
I look at it as 2,268 sf (27×28 on 3 floors) not including roof deck. So at $3.5MM that works out to $1,540 psf. Not as high as your $2,500 psf but still a litle on the high side. While I am aware that the single-family townhouse average is approching $1,500 psf once you discard outliers and that carriage houses trade at an even higher premium in Brooklyn Heights I think this particular property gets discounted for location and for the fact that it is really not a functioning carriage house (no curb cut) and that it could not even be successfuly reconfigured IMO to accommodate even one vehicle. I think a price closer to $1,300 psf (at 2,268 sf) is a little more realistic.