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
denton, it’s not about money. We are all underwater Asshats, including shillstoner, and we’ve been told time and time again here that these prices will NEVER recover.
We dine in the formal dining room, which is on the garden floor as the architect intended. We chat around the kitchen table. And they make lovely shower curtains for clawfoot tubs.
“I’m sorry you two are so offended that I think you are tacky and have permanantly destroyed your houses.”
That’s funny. I wonder which house will sell for more. All things being equal, like the nabe and the sft, the ‘permamently destroyed’ one, or Stoner’s?
“A clawfoot tub is the most comfortable shower around. And a kitchen table is far better for socializing than an island.”
Yeah, I love the plastic period shower curtains.
When I have people over, we socialize in the “den” on the deck, on the porch in the living room or around the island. We then have dinner around the dining room table, formally, not a kitchen table. Dinner around a kitchen table is really tacky when you have a nice brownstone with a formal table on the parlour level. Up your entertaining game.
” I think you are tacky and have permanantly destroyed your houses.”
LOL! This is great! Shill, you’re a pip!
Gem, pass the popcorn. Need a drink? I’m getting one now.
dibs, it be some party house but I would need a triage unit on the parlor floor because of the stairs, whoops incorrect use of front room.
Clawfoot tubs are lovely, but when you’re 80, better have a carrier.
A clawfoot tub is the most comfortable shower around. And a kitchen table is far better for socializing than an island.
I’m sorry you two are so offended that I think you are tacky and have permanantly destroyed your houses. I do. But you don’t know me, so you shouldn’t really get so upset.
Rob – please pass this popcorn
this is getting good
DeLepp, if anyone, you could see to a 21,000 square foot house.