House of the Day: 266 Berkeley Place
The four-story brownstone at 266 Berkeley Place is a prime property, don’t get us wrong, but the $3,250,000 asking price strikes us as rather out-of-sync with the current market, especially gi. First of all, it appears to not be configured for the most likely family buyer in the this location: The listing calls the house…
The four-story brownstone at 266 Berkeley Place is a prime property, don’t get us wrong, but the $3,250,000 asking price strikes us as rather out-of-sync with the current market, especially gi. First of all, it appears to not be configured for the most likely family buyer in the this location: The listing calls the house “multi-family” while PropertyShark says it’s a two-family. Secondly, the kitchen and bathroom renovations don’t, in our opinion, rise to the level of the rest of the house. (And there’s also the issue of the recessed lighting on the parlor floor—just say no!) While these may seem like nits, most people gearing up to pay the estimated $27,000 a month (that’s per the listing not us) in carrying costs will care about every last detail.
266 Berkeley Place [Bellmarc] GMAP P*Shark
The economy RIGHT NOW is not as bad as some people say…we aren’t even in a recesssion right now…much less a horrific depression like the what and others are saying:
***WASHINGTON – The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.
The country’s economic growth during January through March was the same as in the final three months of last year, the Commerce Department reported today. The statistic did not meet what economists consider the classic definition of a recession, which is a retraction of the economy. This means that although the economy is stuck in a rut, it is still managing to grow, even if modestly.
Many analysts were predicting that the gross domestic product (GDP) would weaken a bit more — to a pace of just 0.5 percent — in the first quarter. Earlier this year, some economists thought the economy would actually lurch into reverse during the opening quarter. Now, they say they believe that will likely happen during the current April-to-June period.
“The economy is weak but not collapsing,” said Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Bank of America’s Investment Strategies Group. “A recession can’t be ruled out, although the stars are not lined up at this point to definitively say one way or the other.”
heres the ikea link for all you design mavens:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20095498
oh yes, recessed lighting illuminates the imaginatzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I love recessed lighting, it matches my textured styrofoam-tile dropped ceiling and my electric blue shag carpet.
5.07 – you seem to be laboring under the delusion that money can buy taste. poor sausage.
4.53 – it wasn’t a retort. its a statement of fact.
Ikea of course, is the cheapest place to get recessed lighting.
75% of people on this blog buy their lighting from Ikea.
And can’t afford a 1 bedroom in a brownstone in Park Slope.
Please don’t take your design advice from them.
4:53: wow, with that kind of witty retort I know I must be in the wrong.
Recessed lighting is just common and tacky. Just in case you’ve got any other great ideas, fluorescent strip lighting is also awful.
As someone with good taste ( I know because my mom said so), I say recessed lighting definitely works in brownstones or any other old structures. If you want to get technical about modern fixtures, you might as well go back to gas lighting because that’s exactly what brownstones were originally equipped with. One might consider the electric bulb an ugly industrial age device which only imitates the warm glow of a candle. Let’s not be such poseurs for the sake of “aesthetic purity”, some of the greatest architectural structures are a happy marriage of old and new, look at IM Pei’s addition of a glass pyramid to the 400 year old Louvre in Paris, or how about Philip Johnson’s Post-modernist AT&T building in midtown adding classic greek elements to a skyscraper. Lighting is lighting whether it comes from a candle, a bulb, a nobel gas, a laser,an LED or a jar of fireflies. It is all in how the light is used to define the space and illuminate the imagination.