House of the Day: 210 Prospect Place
Talk about a make-over! If you click through and check out the “before” photo of 210 Prospect Place in Prospect Heights, you’ll barely recognize the “after” photo above. From what we can tell from the interior photos, the renovation succeeded in maintaining the historical architectural elements in the house while infusing it with a clean,…
Talk about a make-over! If you click through and check out the “before” photo of 210 Prospect Place in Prospect Heights, you’ll barely recognize the “after” photo above. From what we can tell from the interior photos, the renovation succeeded in maintaining the historical architectural elements in the house while infusing it with a clean, modern feel. (For some reason, we don’t mind the recessed lighting in the kitchen either!) The one-family house is also on one of the nicest block in Prospect Heights. As nice as it is, do you think that you can get $2,495,000 for a 3,600-square-foot house on this side of Flatbush?
210 Prospect Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Gregg Snodgrass for Property Shark
You can have the house. I’ll take the furniture.
This place gives me real estate wood.
I like the house, but agree wih 8:09. Hard to see past the interior decorator. Did anyone notice that 2 of the photos have a colorful flower sweeping in from the upper left hand? Tricky.
$2.5 million for a short, ugly, generic house on the wrong side of Flatbush? No frickin’ way. You people are all high today. Seems that the fancy staging and interior design is really working…
Was at the open house. Saw the house before it sold, too. It had been a total dump. The renovation is nice, but very generic. Take away the staging props and it looks like every post-war apartment you’ve ever seen. They ripped apart the building in record time and did away with alot of what I thought was the charm. To be sure the developer added some nice touches, like raising the roof a little, adding good windows at top level out front, putting back the stoop. And it looks absolutely fabulous from the street. But there had been charm to the house under all the original owner-family’s crapola, and that too has all been demolished. Now you have ordinary sheetrock ceilings with some of those plastic faux-plaster centerpiece thingys tacked up (and you can still see the nails on at least one). They look really out of place in an otherwise modern and very simple interior. I think the dark-stained floors and bathroom fixtures — all very trendy — are going to look hopelessly dated in about a minute. The kitchen cabinets are basic moderne, off-white, and look fine. They left a weird concrete sort of race-track in most of the back yard and put little landscaping rocks over part of it, leaving very little usable room. Somebody will probably buy it at or above ask, but that’s because most people don’t know any better. Also the central a/c wasn’t working on the first two floors — not a good sign.
yes, of course i am
kuroko, good catch. i had the same thought when i saw the staging. then i saw it’s the same broker. then i recall that broker said the 209 dean owner had decided she was so good at renovating, that she’s become a full-time style flipper and was already working on the next project while selling 209.
for what it’s worth, the 209 renovation was just a veneer. ceilings dropped instead of replastered. sheetrock laid over walls that needed skimcoating. wall2wall carpet over subflooring. woodworked covered in paint without stripping. the new work was already peeling away from what was underneath in some cases. basically, expect that renov to have a half life of 18 mos.
Dave, you’re joking right? – over “putting your foot down” about the “cross thread comments.”
Is this the same owners who renovated 209 Dean and got 3.25? The staged furniture looks familiar….