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
What kind of fixtures are appropriate for the bathroom? Mine are Bistro from Rest Hardware…polished nickel Can’t wait to hear your take on them.
But, as long as I live, I will never entertain formally in the basement.
OK…getting ready to go out. Maybe too much information but I’m sitting here in my ensuite bathroom right now typing away while on the commode.
shillstoner….you obviously have a computer. How does that fit into the decor?? I don’t see you as a laptop kinda guy but one with a big old CRT monitor. God forbid. Talk about tacky.
OK…getting ready to go out. Maybe too much information but I’m sitting here in my ensuite bathroom right now typing away while on the commode.
shillstoner….you obviously have a computer. How does that fit into the decor?? I don’t see you as a laptop kinda guy but one with a big old CRT monitor. God forbid. Talk about tacky.
wow, nice place. broker looks like a cross between willis and ET.
lol i had to check this thread when i got home, and yes it delivered hahaha.
the funny thing is that i agree that poo mist bathrooms, kitchen islands (aka Da Lazy Housewife as i like to call it), and double sinks (which i like to call Da Clingy Spouse), as well.
but if i ever won the lotto you will be damned sure ill be turning a floor into a hannah montana inspired recording studio and having a roller disco in the basement. im tacky and tasteless like that you know
*rob*
“Really, bitchy, is all you can come up with?
Posted by: shillstoner at August 19, 2009 6:02 PM”
No shrilly- I came up with a lot more but you were too full of your own self-aggrandizement to comprehend it. Just goes to show- all your self-declared impeccable taste didn’t come with a matching IQ.
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bitter retort-
I would offer my dead servants but surely shrillstoner must have a period-correct full staff complement that s/he would be wiling to share. Dibs would have to pay for the horse and buggy to transport them, of course, but shrillstoner’s dead staff is still covered in the original, historic dust so they cannot be put in his en suite bathroom. 🙂
Excuse the typo; I meant “driveways,” of course. If I’d been writing with quill and ink, a typo wouldn’t have been possible. Let’s get rid of these newfangled keyboard thingies. They’re SO inauthentic. Not to mention computers and the Internet…. (Shrill one, do you only post from work? Because I can’t believe you’d defile your Victorian manse with a computer and Internet connection.)
hey shill, Care to post photos of your home to show us how perfectly period your place is? Show us how it’s really done?
I’m sorry to come in so late on this discussion. Shillstoner, I’m going to have to invite you over to hang out in my house museum where we can amuse ourselves playing with the historic plumbing. I’ve been looking forward to carrying up food from the English basement to the parlor floor dining room. Seriously. If we can get the stove working.
Rob, I do believe the blanket referred to was Dave’s, no? Or am I confusing crusty blanket with crusty sheets? In any case, I am sure they are historically appropriate.
Our kitchen now is on the same level as everything else (since we live in an apt!) and of course it fills the house with heat and smells. I think that’s undesirable. Of course, a door rather than a whole brownstone might also solve that issue somewhat more simply and at far lower cost.