House of the Day: 380 Degraw Street
Okay, let’s get the paint job out of the way upfront. You gotta wonder why the sellers of this brownstone at 380 Degraw Street didn’t spring for a more neutral coat of paint before putting the house on the market. If it were only one room, we could roll with it, but every room in…
Okay, let’s get the paint job out of the way upfront. You gotta wonder why the sellers of this brownstone at 380 Degraw Street didn’t spring for a more neutral coat of paint before putting the house on the market. If it were only one room, we could roll with it, but every room in sky blue? It’s a little much. With an asking price of $2,645,000, spending $10,000 to repaint a few rooms would have been well worth it, we think. While this is a great house in a great location overall, other aspects of the recent “modern” renovation were only partially successful as well: The shiny blond floors (which, to be fair, could be worse on camera than in person) and the choice of white paint for the exterior of the windows both aren’t working for us. The kitchen reno looks very good, though, and there’s lots of nice original detail still in place, like the crown moldings, door frames and bannister. There’s an open house on Sunday from 1 to 3. It’ll be interesting to see hear how this place shows in person.
380 Degraw Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
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This neighborhood is still pretty sketchy. One block down (on hoyt), you’ve still got the ghettomarts, the bulletproof liquor store, the burned out housing, etc..
On douglass, the people are decidedly un-yuppie — working class (mostly spanish) families in nondescript houses. We were offered a newly renoed duplex one block away for about 2200/month about a year ago; we said no because we went down there at midnight and found the typical projects crowd hitting the 40s.
CG may be super-popular (and it certaintly has appreciated a lot, but when the cost of the house is roughtly 200-250k /yr, and you’d be lucky to get 25 from ground floor tenants, you are looking at needing an income of 400-600k/yr to afford this.
We make that, but we’re still renting.
Serge you are proving again what someone pointed out the other day, that you have NEVER once said a positive thing on this website. Just saying.
I am often reminded by posters on this site that nothing is really expensive anymore and that two or three million bucks is not really as much as it used to be in Brooklyn. So I guess the large pricetag is in keeping with the times. However the blue is repelent.
And the photo makes the parlor look like the interior of a train.
LOVE the colors. Love it, totally.
Hate brown window casings, I’m so sick of seeing those. There’s no one way to design/decorate a brownstone! Why do people think that? Painted woodwork and interesting colors on the walls, are such a breath of fresh air. This kind of fun modern twist on renos for brownstones is what the new wave of buyers will be wanting, imo. You were seeing it in townhouses in Manhattan years ago already. (I’m not the seller or broker. I’m just a fan of painted woodwork; I’ve posted my enthusiasm for it before on ‘stoner on other threads.)
This seems overpriced for location and renovation. I do like the blue tho!
The Gowanus is definitely going to get worse before it gets better. Closing the Gowanus Flushing Tunnel will have a major impact until they fix it. Which will be years? (Not sure what the schedule is, but most of these projects take longer than first imagined.)
You people are pretty clueless about the brownstone market at the moment. There are houses elling for way, way more than this in Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Park Slope. You might not want to believe it, but it’s true!
It’s a little over 2,700 square feet. Does Carroll Gardens really price at close to $1,000 per square foot these days?