House of the Day: 591 2nd Street
We’re in love! This limestone house at 591 2nd Street in Park Slope appears to be perfect in just about every way. It has full-on original charm but has also been updated tastefully and thoroughly. For once, we even like the new kitchen! It’ll be pretty interesting to see whether such a perfectly appointed pad…
We’re in love! This limestone house at 591 2nd Street in Park Slope appears to be perfect in just about every way. It has full-on original charm but has also been updated tastefully and thoroughly. For once, we even like the new kitchen! It’ll be pretty interesting to see whether such a perfectly appointed pad can crack the $3 million mark. (In this case, the asking price is actually $3,200,000.) We’ll be surprised, but we don’t think it’ll miss by much.
591 2nd Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
dh, a proper 18th or 19th Century home would have stored their valuable tea LOCKED in a tea caddy so the help wouldn’t steal it.
A wine cellar, though probably akin to what shollstoner calls “a suburban comfort” would be locked as well with only the master of the house having the key.
No DIBS, in a 4 story with a garden level, the dining room MUST be on the garden level (one floor above the basement, and one floor below the parlor). This house is a 3 story with english basement and the dining room was designed to be right where it is. Ah, the ignorance.
“There are actually 2 kitchens. One on the parlor floor and a Pullman Kitchen down in the lower level with the Family Room and other amenities down there…”
Oh my, you are right. I think I need to go rob a bank or something. Be back later…
Wine closet next to the maid’s quarters? Tacky. I don’t want to have to do daily inventories of the Screaming Eagle.
Northsloperenter:
There are actually 2 kitchens. One on the parlor floor and a Pullman Kitchen down in the lower level with the Family Room and other amenities down there…
I thought the dining room had to be in the basement, shillstoner. It seems someone else has relaxed and given in to what is proper, traditional and formal.
Only 1 kitchen??
Just kidding. Looks great.
If I could ever afford to dump a whole bunch of money on an old building, it would be something like this.
I think I’d have rip out the dining room/library/bedroom fireplaces and put in a dumb waiter so Jeeves could send up my drinks and a light snack without thumping up and down the stairs.
“I understand your use of the word “austere”, Nomi. But I bet in real life, the warmth of the cherry and the African granite are quite a combination”
Yes, you’re probably right. It could be the color of the walls that’s bothering me? But that might be different in life also.
“The lack of an ensuite bathroom can be forgiven by the fact that the master bedroom is the only one on that floor. But that bathroom could be larger. I’m not complaining, just nitpicking and when someone pays close to $3.0 MM it should have ALL the bells and whistles.”
I’m shocked that you’ve relaxed your bad taste and need for suburban comforts. Go on vacation, and the whole world collapses!
Other than the tacky kitchen island, this looks nicely done.