House of the Day: 125 Willoughby Avenue
This two-family at 125 Willoughby Avenue in Clinton Hill just hit the market a couple of weeks ago with a price tag of $2,100,000. The current owners bought the place for $1,400,000 back in 2005 and have busied themselves with a top-to-bottom renovation since. Things we like: parlor floor moldings, original parquet floor, and the…
This two-family at 125 Willoughby Avenue in Clinton Hill just hit the market a couple of weeks ago with a price tag of $2,100,000. The current owners bought the place for $1,400,000 back in 2005 and have busied themselves with a top-to-bottom renovation since. Things we like: parlor floor moldings, original parquet floor, and the clean modern kitchen. Things we don’t: recessed lighting and exposed brick on the parlor floor, choice of tile in the master bath. It’ll be interesting to see if they get their price on this one.
125 Willoughby Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
This place would go for $8 million in Carroll Gardens.
2:22 guest – “TERRIBLE renovation” and “perhaps the most hideous renovated bathroom I have ever seen”. That’s perhaps a bit much, don’t you think?
Daveinbedstuy: Why “Definitely no exposed brick.”? Just curious as to what’s so wrong with it.
This place would go for $4 million in Park Slope.
Willoughby is pretty around there, but a bit desolate at night, so things can sometimes happen. Projects arent too far away on Myrtle, so just have your wits about you.
Anyways, TERRIBLE renovation. Forget the layout, exposed brick, lack of closets etc.. I just cannot get past that bathroom. It is perhaps the most hideous renovated bathroom I have ever seen. Theyll get in the high ones and make some profit, but not over $2Million.
I think the exposed brick and recessed lights work in this reno; agree on the bath tiles.
For all the recessed light haters out there, how do you get adequate lighting in a room without them (especially in a kitchen)? They are unobtrusive and halogen bulbs provide really clean ambient light.
If you want to be more traditional, there are sconces and overhead fixtures…but sconces are generally less effective as ambient lighting, and take away wall space that can be used for art and furniture pieces.
2:15 is correct…a nice big master bedroom is great but even that one doesn’t look like it has enough closet space.
The small bedrooms on the top floor are ridiculously laid out. We went through all this yeasterday…the legal definition of a bedroom. But the practical definition is that it has to have enough closet space and the yop floor layout was not well thought out in this case.
I’m with 1:56 – as far as certain decorating elements go exposed brick (esp) and recessed lighting looks fine, or anyway a lot of people do actually like it.
with the insane amount of crime in clinton hill these days, these houses should be selling for 1.5 million and no more.
pratt is on LOCK DOWN for god’s sake.