House of the Day: 275 Adelphi Street
Since 181 Washington Park sold last year for more than $3 million, that’s become the magic number for any homeowner in the area fantasizing about cashing out. Take 275 Adelphi Street, a five-story brownstone just three blocks away. Purchased in 2003 for $1,300,000, the three-family house has had a high-end renovation in the mean-time and…
Since 181 Washington Park sold last year for more than $3 million, that’s become the magic number for any homeowner in the area fantasizing about cashing out. Take 275 Adelphi Street, a five-story brownstone just three blocks away. Purchased in 2003 for $1,300,000, the three-family house has had a high-end renovation in the mean-time and is back on the market now for $2,995,000. There are no real nits to pick here. Time to just sit back and let the market do its work.
275 Adelphi Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
YUM?? How about YUCH. Is anyone here old enough to know that good taste is not hotel chic? No buyers go on Brownstoner.
Hate to tell you guys that the finishes are not remotely expensive. Vanities are prefab units, glass tiles & unit kitchen look like Ikea and the counters and appliances are fine but far from high end. Lord help you if you are large & have to sit on that toilet squeezed between vanity and shower! Is that even real Carrara (sp for 2:19)
Nice to know the public is so easily pleased. I’ll keep that in mind when I do the remodel on my building.
Oh and btw 10am the only reason I wouldn’t buy this house is we already own one. I think a lot of people here on Brownstoner do own houses or coops. Some of those who are most ardent in defending certain neighborhoods for example, certainly are homeowners. Why would a renter get so furious when someone insults a neighborhood? They don’t have any financial investment in it or in its success and appreciation.
I wish we could afford a fully renovated house in Fort Greene. Love FG. But we bought a smaller place for 1/3 the price in another neighborhood, which we love too.
I don’t see your references at all, 10:00am. I myself look at this listing and see a well-done mix of modern and original. I don’t get the 50 year old Lousiana whore thing, what is that? Wouldn’t that suggest it’s all antiquey inside?
The only thing that’s bordello tacky to me are the frou-frou chandeliers. That was a trend in interiors a couple years ago and it’s going out. I actually think this house could take very modern chandeliers and still honor its era and original details.
I love the brick wall in the rental. I never understand when people want just a blank, textureless, swathe of nothingness on a wall. It really truly is the taste of the ‘burbs to hate brick walls.
I like the rental kitchen way more than the parlor floor kitchen. Love the mix of blue and white. I know there’s no choice to make a parlor floor kitchen small, but I always see them and think wow, that’s a tough kitchen to keep looking nice. Clutter city. And you know the island ends up piled with so much stuff you can’t actually sit at it and use it as a breakfast bar. If the dining table is a mere few feet away, putting in stools simply takes away potential storage space you desperately need. There could be shelves or cabinets under there instead of space for stools.
Kitten’s got claws.
Have you people ever been in a genuinely nice house? This is W. hotel style pseudo-elegance, and it’s going to look like a fifty year old Louisiana whore in about three minutes. Anyone drooling over this place doesn’t have the dosh to actually buy it. Watch it sit.
So everyone on Brownstoner likes this but NO ONE here buys. What’s the point?
Yum. I love everything except that stupid vessel sink.
Uh, 10:30, you forgot the link.