House of the Day: 566 1st Street
If the sellers of 566 1st Street, a new listing in Park Slope, can get their asking price of $3,995,000 it would be a huge vote of confidence for the market there. The 21.5-foot-wide limestone house is a real beauty (though it almost looks a little too polished for our taste, but we nitpick…) and…
If the sellers of 566 1st Street, a new listing in Park Slope, can get their asking price of $3,995,000 it would be a huge vote of confidence for the market there. The 21.5-foot-wide limestone house is a real beauty (though it almost looks a little too polished for our taste, but we nitpick…) and weighs in at almost 5,000 square feet (and it’s a one-family!). If you’re looking for an old house without having to forego any modern comforts, this could be the pad for you. Do you think the price is realistic? It feels a little 2007 to us.
566 1st Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
townhouse lady, you just don’t put something as utilitarian as a laundry room in one of the most important front rooms of a rowhouse.
I don’t see why everyone is making such a big deal out of the laundry room being in the front of the house. It’s partially below grade and there are plenty more rooms from which to enjoy the view. I’d love a bright and sunny laundry room (Even though chances are if I could afford this house I woudn’t be doing my own wash).
Just took another look at the photo of the staircase. Closet isn’t going to fit under it.
Put the closet directly under the stairs and accessed from the hallway. Put the powder room where the closet currently is and have it take up the space used by the dumbwaiter.
Don’t need a dumbwaiter if you put a laundry upstairs. Don’t really need it even with the laundry in the basement.
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This is an extremely interesting property because it was obviously designed for one particular family’s needs and then, when the renovation was done, the family had to sell. I do not think they will get their investment back in this market. Most people don’t buy into other people’s eccentricities. This is a layout with two bedrooms with no windows but a laundry room with a large bay window. It makes little sense except to the family who obviously had it custom made.
Who knows? There may be a sacked Lehman Bros CEO out there with a hundred million in past bonuses saved up who will want to add this to his collection of homes. I don’t know, perhaps the kitchen and that dangerously cantelevered table will appeal more to him than it does to me. A lovely house, weirdly re-done, not to everyone’s tastes, they just need one buyer, well, two to get the full asking price.
But if you look at the floorplan, it’s hard to see where you could fit a powder room on the main floor, except in the miniscule coat closet area. There’s a reason that few of these center stair townhouses have parlor floor powder rooms. It would have to be carved out of the kitchen, which is already fairly small.
Personally, this place makes me drool. But I doubt these folks will recoup their investment, which is a shame any way you look at it.
I would want both a powder room and a closet!!! If you’re doing a renovation of that scale, you should be able to fit in both. It’s all in the space planning….
Interesting what people consider conveniences and priorities. I would never ever lose the coat closet under the stairs to gain a powder room. Let guests use the stairs, whatever, it won’t kill them. We don’t have a coat closet on the parlor floor and it drives me absolutely crazy. I hate not having that. Coats and clutter constantly sitting out in plain view. Hard to do a really gorgeous, formal room with that. A coat closet on the parlor floor would be worth the same money to me as a powder room, seriously.
Probably more than double — so, $800,000, maybe even a million. And not to everyone’s taste. And selling at perhaps the worst time since, say, 1995-1996. I’d say this time around, it will be even worse than 1995-1996, because it’s not as if the bid-side has just dried up, I think people are looking for significant cuts. All of a sudden, we’re in a different world, it looks like. I don’t know what these folks’ situation is, but if they get an offer in the high 2s, they should take it and run. Brownie is right, $4 million has a 2007ish feel.