House of the Day: 208 Midwood Street
Someone’s obviously put a great deal of care into the renovation of 208 Midwood Street, one of a row of 18 townhouses designed by the architect Benjamin Dreisler in 1910. Like many houses in Lefferts Manor, this one is chock-full of original architectural detail, including some lovely woodwork. The new kitchen, while perhaps a tad…
Someone’s obviously put a great deal of care into the renovation of 208 Midwood Street, one of a row of 18 townhouses designed by the architect Benjamin Dreisler in 1910. Like many houses in Lefferts Manor, this one is chock-full of original architectural detail, including some lovely woodwork. The new kitchen, while perhaps a tad severe for its setting, looks nicely done as well. The big question is whether a three-story house in the area, regardless of how nice it is, can fetch $1,150,000 in this market. If any can, this is probably the one.
208 Midwood Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
Personally, I want a Porterhouse-friendly kitchen; omelet-friendly is for sissies.
As for the woodwork, it almost looks like pine, and may have been better painted than stripped. But at least it would be an easy and clean paint job.
This is a really nice house on a really nice block. If today were 6 months ago I’d definitely have purchased this house.
http://www.ahrlty.com/H-258U/C-258U.html
A very, very similar house 2 blocks away that sold for ask a year ago. I agree about the light woodwork, but it will age nicely. I don’t like the painted woodwork, though.
If the pictures can be trusted, the renovation looks good. I like the kitchen, however “severe” it may be. I like the detail as well, but agree with the earlier post re the blond-esque wood. In order to determine the fairness of the price (whatever that means in this market) it’s critical to know the condition of the English basement. If it’s renovated, and the renovation is done as well as the rest of the house, then the price doesn’t seem so outrageous. However, if it’s scary and tomb-like, the price definitely needs to come down.
ha ha wasder – that’s funny.
I have to say I hate woodwork when it’s that light color – looks so tacky!
I once had a distinctly omelet unfriendly kitchen. ITs a drag.
I had same reaction to the description of the house – unless the furnishings are included, why emphasize them in the description? And “omelet-friendly” is a bizarre way to describe a kitchen. What exactly is a kitchen that is unfriendly to omelets? That said, it does look like the renovation is really nice. How is this block relative to others in the area? We have friends who purchased a 3-story about 2 yrs ago for just over 1mil and they had to do a lot of work but I don’t know how much price variation there is block by block, and of course the wild card is where the market is going in this economic climate…
“value” aside this is a really nice house in a good location.
A very strange description in the listing–is the dining room furniture for sale? Why describe it in detail before getting to the details of the house? Other than that the house looks lovely. I’d knock the wall between the dining room and the kitchen, myself.