House of the Day: 112 Prospect Park West
Yowza! Check out today’s eye candy on Prospect Park West, a two-family center-stair mansion in full period get-up. As the pics show, someone’s gone to great lengths to preserve the original details and to recreate the original interior design. According to Property Shark, this house hasn’t changed hands in the last four decades, implying this…
Yowza! Check out today’s eye candy on Prospect Park West, a two-family center-stair mansion in full period get-up. As the pics show, someone’s gone to great lengths to preserve the original details and to recreate the original interior design. According to Property Shark, this house hasn’t changed hands in the last four decades, implying this is really a lifetime’s labor of love. This is one of those listings that is useless to try to put a dollar value on. At $3,975,000, it’s expensive enough to be well out of the reach of mere mortals. The question is only will someone very wealthy fall in love.
112 Prospect Park West [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Seeing shots of interiors like these makes me glad I still live in half-renovated squalor. Rather than ‘grandma,’ I’d think, “Barbie’s Renovated Mansion–Deluxe Playset.” It’d wear me out just to open my eyes in the morning.
Wonder if the owner is Dr. Fleisher–he’s the plastic surg who sewed up my daughter’s gashed face one night at the request of our ped (to avoid a nightmare trip to the ER and the less-than-skilled hands of the resident-du-jour),and I always wondered how he got to his office so quickly. He was a master, and mighty nice too.
I have comments for Bob999, Serge and Martha Stewart. Bob, I really think the same way about kitchens on the parlor floor, unless you have a very wide brownstone. Mine is on the skinny side, and I didn’t want to mess up the flow, so I kept mine downstairs too. It works. I am going to put in a little wet bar in a little alcove on the Parlor Floor with sink and one (or two) built in hotplates (and little frig) so that I don’t have to run up and down if I have people over and we hang out in the parlor. For Martha Stewart, I’m with you. I probably will never buy something with lots of mahogony woodwork, especially in a naturally dark brownstone, because I hate the feeling of lots of dark wood. I hate the gentlemen’s club, cigars and brandy ambiance. And I find Victoriana period stuff oppressive and fussy. Of course, what I bought was late Adams family so who cares. I know I will be hunted down and arrested after this admission, but I like to paint wood too!!
And for Serge, I’m with you, man, I am happy that my place has appreciated but I absolutely cannot process what places are going for now either. I am very fortunate that I got my place when I did.
Dark wood….yuck! Yes, very grandma indeed and seriously depressing. I’d wash all of that wood work with beautiful white oil paint and lighten up every room and make it more appropriate for modern living. All of that wood work severely limits what you can do with wall colors and sucks up the little natural light that these row houses afford.
And for all of you traditionalists out there, who are boiling with anger at the mere mention of painted wood, just examine any super high end listings on 5th Ave, Park Ave, Greenwich, CT, Bernardsville, NJ, Bedford, NY or the Hamptons. When it comes to the high end homes, everything is painted with the exception of libraries, offices or studies. This gives home a nice clean elegant look throughout the apartment/house, leaving standout wood work (coffered or beamed ceilings, wainscoting, etc.) for rooms where its most appropriate (creates a nice contrast). Same with kitchens too. Opaque (painted cabinetry), e.g., Clive Christian, is the way to go. In short, I prefer bright and airy over dark and stale any day. Period interiors such as this (throughout the entire house) simply do not appeal to me.
Actually, the decor in this house is pretty poor taste. The woodwoork, built-ins, moulding, and floors, are great, but the wallpaper, color scheme, carpets, furnishings, light fixtures, etc, are a really bad pastiche of turn-of-the-last-century interior design. This was done by somebody with lots more money than taste.
And I suspect that’s who’ll buy this house.
If you’re not going to do it right, why do it at all? This isn’t subjective, either. Any decent interior decorator will tell you that magenta circus stripes are more Victoria’s Secret than Victorian.
That being said, maybe $3.4 mil. No more–but strictly a location and square footage purchase. Too much hassle for converting the ground floor and de-Grandma-izing the hideous paint, wallpaper, and Lowes faux-Victorian light fixtures.
Wow amazing pictures! I too am jealous but very inspired…. got to get me some more Rock Miricle.
And Serge welcome to Brooklyn now stay in your lane. This home is not for you and your skinny wallet. Get over it like the rest of us and move on.
The home is priced right for the location.
Hey, Sergie-Boy!
You want cheap? I got a lovely federal brick townhouse for ya in East New York for $2 million flat! Whatchu think?!?! Hyper-inflation? Nah!!!! Why gripe over affordability when it’s just one or two nabes away?!?!?!? 😉 LOL!
The interior looks like something that would be featured on Curbed’s “That’s rather hideous” segment.
Great attention to detail. Not saying it’s worth 4 mil, but I don’t think it’s far off if the quality is as high as it appears to be in the pics.
Just curious, rent for a doctor’s office of this size – $7-10k a month? Or less? No idea . . .
I honestly don’t know what kind of people we’re talking about. developers maybe who are buying these houses to cut them up into little apartments. I understand what you are saying, I think that the kids are going to flee from Brooklyn as soon as they can the way you fled from Larchmont. But you know what? most of the houses in larchmont are not four million dollars. This is not affluence, its hyper-inflation. It’s just unsustainable.