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 ad says Brazilian Tigerwood…
DIBS, after reading your post, I went back to the listing. The floors are Brazilian Tigerwood. I think they’re beautiful. Overall great job on this house.
Those floors are laminate???
Dave, I guess if you’re single, renting out a third or half of your house is OK, but if you have a fmaily, I don’t like the idea of cramming everybody on one floor -especially if you are paying tippy-top dollar.
I assumed the flooring is that Brazilian mahogany that is being used a lot now. Not laminate. But there is really no way to know for sure from a photo.
Mr. B said it best, “The look is a little too “new condo trapped inside old house” for us”
Agree with Dave, layout is really great.
I saw this place. very nice, but looks like someone went nuts at Lowes and purchased every finishing in the book. That said, 1.6M in Windsor is nuts…prices in general are nuts, and I am amazed people believe collectively this is worth 1.24M dollars.
It was bought in the middle of the bubble for 950K! We’re in a massive recession, which should preclude a 50% increase in home value in 3+ years. Seriously.
The floors BTW are very pretty, but not real, they are high-quality laminate.
sam…nothing wrong with renting out 1/3 as long as its the basement and not the top floor so that you share your staircase with tenants.
yeah Sam, I agree. Nice, but a bit small for a 2 family.
I *love* those floors. Simply amazing house. Can’t speak to the price (wonder what they spent on the renovations).