House of the Day: 180 Washington Park
If you’re a Wall Street Journal reader, you may already be familiar with this new listing at 180 Washington Park in Fort Greene—the 22-foot brownstone was featured when it hit the market earlier this month with a price tag of $2,750,000, most likely because it was owned by Spike Lee back in the 1990s. We’re…
If you’re a Wall Street Journal reader, you may already be familiar with this new listing at 180 Washington Park in Fort Greene—the 22-foot brownstone was featured when it hit the market earlier this month with a price tag of $2,750,000, most likely because it was owned by Spike Lee back in the 1990s. We’re certainly digging the location, size and type of the house. There’s also tons of original detail that is right up our alley. The renovation, though, feels too over-the-top to us. Call us old-fashioned, but the glitziness and polish of the whole thing feels a little out of place for Fort Greene. And that yard? What were they thinking? We suspect the sellers would have been better served by a more understated approach, especially when it comes to reselling in these non-boom times.
180 Washington Park [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
(smile) Ok bxgirl, it’s just a matter of taste. I happen to like low maintenance yards…a few flower pots, a oversized grill and the yard (for me) would be perfect.
(smile) Ok bxgirl, it’s just a matter of taste. I happen to like low maintenance yards…a few flower pots, a oversized grill and the yard (for me) would be perfect.
And, when many of them were built there was no such thing as indoor plumbing. Times change.
Well, once you start paying over $2 MM, a lot of things might look like “a complete waste of space.” Thats’ the luxury.
And please, don’t anyone start on carbon footprints.
To be honest when these houses were built there was no such thing as a master suite with a private bathroom…But ok, I get that now a days it’s a hot commodity…BUT COME ON!!! This bathroom is a complete waste of space.
I’m afraid to ask where the toilet is!
ACHL- nothing really except I like overgrown grassy-treey-foliagey places. The backyard is so formal and cold (to me anyway).
If you look at the floorplan, bxgrl, and shillstoner (I assume this is your criticism), the master bath and the bedroom area are NOT all in one room, in fact about 30′ away from each other separated by a large closet area.
I agree that you don’t want the tub/shower/sinks and toilets visible from the bedroom area.
But walking out of the room and down the shared hallway with the kids or the houseguests to share the bathroom stops once you can spend a certain amount of money.
—The prison living concept- sink, toilet, bed all in one room.—LOL.
What wrong with the backyard?
I’m sure you’re happy to walk down the hallway to use the bathroom with the kids, shillstoner but when a house reaches a certain price, you get your own private bathroom for use by the master suite. A simple concept really.
It’s got nothing to do with city vs. burbs. I already stated that the tub in the middle of the floor was unacceptable…can’t really see much of the rest.