House of the Day: 177 MacDonough Street
The ubiquity of the word “luxury” in recent years is probably responsible for a great many renovation mistakes. Instead of doing tasteful, understated renovations of kitchens and bathrooms, many homeowners felt that they needed to go all glossy, which, unless you really spend a lot of money and nail it, tends to backfire in our…
The ubiquity of the word “luxury” in recent years is probably responsible for a great many renovation mistakes. Instead of doing tasteful, understated renovations of kitchens and bathrooms, many homeowners felt that they needed to go all glossy, which, unless you really spend a lot of money and nail it, tends to backfire in our opinion. Such is the case with this house at 177 MacDonough Street in Bed Stuy. The 18-foot-wide brownstone’s got nice bones and architectural details, for sure, but the kitchen and bathroom shown in the listing photos just don’t work (for us, at least). We could be mistaken, but we suspect that most potential buyers of a house like this would much rather pay $100,000 less and skip things like the “2 ultra luxury Master baths, one with a custom double shower and one with imported porcelain tile and built-in Jacuzzi.” Are we wrong? Regardless of our master thesis, we don’t think this place has a chance of fetching (or appraising at) its asking price of $899,000; after all, it sold for $680,000 in 2005.
177 MacDonough Street [Century 21] GMAP P*Shark
Dibs, great investment isn’t it? LOL
“tung oil DWR crowd and their dreary neutrals”
Heather;
LOL!!!
I also, seriously, think this renovation job is fine. Not every house has to be renovated to suit the tung oil DWR crowd and their dreary neutrals.
I actually think it looks pretty good, and I don’t think you can really 100% judge based on the mediocre photos in the ad.
I mean, what do you people’s bathrooms look like, anyway?
You prefer home depot special?
Looks like someone bought a brownstone, and renovated it nicely- improved the housing stock, improves the neighborhood, helps the economy, everyone wins.
But what is going on here ?
**Speculation Below** (no libel suits, please)
“Current owner willing to stay on and rent the duplex for $2000 per month.”
I don’t think this person is a “flipper”
You can’t help but think this owner is a victim of housing bubble thinking (up up up) and is now over their heads. It’s priced at the amount they need it to sell for to get out of debt, not what its really worth.
This isn’t a good situation for them or us.
“Those pix remind me of Scarlett Johannsen’s “crystal chandelieyahs” sketch on SNL. “You’re gonna lose your mind!”
Brenda;
Which do you enjoy more: laughing at this sketch, or sneering at RHWoNJ?
Those pix remind me of Scarlett Johannsen’s “crystal chandelieyahs” sketch on SNL. “You’re gonna lose your mind!”
Hey, give me gold-rimmed bathroom fixtures, lots of wallpaper and honed granite tile with cherry-wood cabinetry any day. The only thing I draw the line at is acrylic tubs — those are gross. They make me scheeve.
I feel bad for this flipper.
Why won’t anyone anser me when I page them?
I have multiple log in names and I post to myself repeatedly during the day when I feel no one is paying any attention to me. I believe I can move markets.
Ok. we’ve got our new code folks:
RHW of NJ = low-class, but moneyed folks. They waste their money on things like gold-framed luxury showers.
We are clearly superior to these folks.
By the way, in today’s events, please note the poetry session at Ozzie’s devoted to diversity and multi-culturalism.