House of the Day: 489 16th Street
It’s not really our cup of tea, but someone’s obviously put a lot of effort into renovating this three-story brick townhouse at 489 16th Street in Windsor Terrace. The look is a little too “new condo trapped inside old house” for us. That said, everything’s new and the location, just a block from the park,…
It’s not really our cup of tea, but someone’s obviously put a lot of effort into renovating this three-story brick townhouse at 489 16th Street in Windsor Terrace. The look is a little too “new condo trapped inside old house” for us. That said, everything’s new and the location, just a block from the park, is very nice. The house was purchased for $925,000 back in 2005 and is now asking $1,595,000. What do you make of it?
489 16th Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
The house needs another story. Then it would be perfect.
Both of today’s COD and HOD are slick, turn key digs, but way overpriced. This is 2009 folks, the market is still faltering, economists are saying the BEGINNING of a recovery won’t happen until 2010, and Corcoran, BH, Warren Lewis and the rest of the PS broker mafia act like these are prices we cannot refuse. I’m sounding like the What, so I’ll stop…
Any options for forced-air/central a/c vents that *aren’t* those white, square jobs? Our rental has them now and as we’re looking around to buy I want to avoid them, though central a/c is a nice amenity.
Don’t mind the reno on this one — how can you tell the flooring is laminate?
Really nicely done for what it is, I think.
One minor thing…the listing is under Windsor Terrace on the Corcoran site, but the verbiage says South Slope. I don’t know which it’s in technically (I guess Windsor Terrace) but it would be good to keep it consistent. It’s priced as though it’s in “South Slope” though, that’s for sure.
I thought Tiger Woods was African-American and Thai, not Brazilian.
They could still be Br tigerwood and laminate. It was the width of the planks that leads me to believe that they are laminate.
Take another $10,000 off to get new floors in either case.
I dunno DIBS… the house seems to be 45′ x 18′, or 800 sft per floor. That’s 1600sft for the owner less stairs and what not. I spose I’ll get a lot of abuse, but that’s just not a huge amount of room, especially since I don’t see a basement and a boiler and storage. otoh it’s beautifully done, for sure. Lot of money tho, hope they get it, but I doubt it.
Another house that’d be perfect for MrsCWB and I except that it’s priced at about twice what we’d want to pay for it. Alas.
I have no complaints about the interiors. I don’t really care that much about period details, and at least they avoided the horrific “post-post-modern” look that condos are going for lately, with the green glass sinks and the ugly fixtures and such.
A shot of one or two of the bathrooms would’ve been nice.
It’s a nice place but I don’t know that it’s extraordinary. The architectural clean lines flow nicely but for me it definitely lacks the wow factor…sorry.
this wins the award for tiniest kitchen island.