House of the Day: 19 Cheever Place
19 Cheever Place was on the market briefly this summer with a local broker before making the leap to Corcoran back in October. The Cobble Hill two-family house is missing a cornice but the interior has some nice original detail as well as an attractively renovated kitchen. The asking price is $2,275,000. What do you…
19 Cheever Place was on the market briefly this summer with a local broker before making the leap to Corcoran back in October. The Cobble Hill two-family house is missing a cornice but the interior has some nice original detail as well as an attractively renovated kitchen. The asking price is $2,275,000. What do you make of that?
19 Cheever Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
pierre, there is more wrong with the facade tham merely the paint. The parlor floor window openings look altered to me, they look shortened and they are missing lintels. The door looks off too. This would be a lovely restoration project. But to do the front facade properly would take more than 40K, that is why I just figured re-painitng. Most people do not feel a need any longer to really restore the exterior of their houses. A shame. I guess it is the cost of everything else. I hate the idea of wooden cabinets for the split units. Really bad. You do not need to lower the ceilings to install central air. There are very nice new systems with flex tubing that take the place of the clunky ducts used in new construction. I like this house a lot, it is not too huge but rather a nice size and the street is very secluded and quiet. I do think the sale price should be reduced to reflect the work that needs to be done.
Minard agree this house is all about it’s location. The split system AC is way too cheap looking but that can be fixed with a victorian design wood and metal cover. Installing a real central air means soffits in an already low ceiling house not to mention another $120K.
You don’t believe in painting brick do you? Criminal in our opinion:) That facade needs to be stripped and power-washed to original brick which can then be beautifully repointed….roughly $40K.
That kitchen except for it’s windows is not impressive at all sorry Mr B…very mediocre for this price range.
Mopar you don’t like the open Palor plan ? Prefer isolated kitchen and dining rooms ?..honest questions we are starting a renovation and the place is already opened up.
Hmmmm… love the open floorplan (coming from the view of a loft owner you understand), the original details, the kitchen/bath/deck/backyard combo and the wbf. Do not like the top floor, the lack of ensuite master, the A/C units or the location (It seems one would have to really, really love Cobble Hill to cheerfully relocate this far from a subway or a park, and this close to the BQE).
That’s my take and I’m probably stickin’ to it.
Absolutely, Expert Textpert!
“I hate those split unit a.c.s that hang on the wall. They look cheap”
Thank you Minard!
Listen up, you zillionaires, that are shopping for multi-million dollar houses.
Wall mounted A.C. units are an unacceptable design element!
Pete, I agree, but $2.275 is still quite a distance from $2 million.
NorthHeights, I’d much prefer an Owner’s Triplex that you enter on the Parlor Floor than have tenants living above me and having to wall off the “common” stairwell so the tenant can get to their apartment.
what this house really has going for it is its location. The house itself has had a mediocre rehab. I hate those split unit a.c.s that hang on the wall. They look cheap and announce to all that the owner did not have enough money to install real central air.
A small house like this should be a one-family. That little garden apartment is just sad.
$300,000 or so will get you real central air, a new cornice and a facade re-painting. The kitchen looks good.
This house is a bit of a project and its small. I say two million, only because of Cheever Place.
nice width, nice location, nice kitchen/deck/parlor, but…
egregious listing on sq ftage: propshark says it 2528, which looks about right to me but hey why not round up to say approx 3000? it’s not like there’s a law or something. subtract the garden rental and you have a 1900 sq ft 3 bedroom home (not to mention low ceiling on top floor).
Tacky! Open plan, down lights, cherry floors, statue, fake old furniture. Of course, some of these items are easily remedied.