House of the Day: 14 Garden Place
We might as well start the year out with a bang…This four-story brownstone at 14 Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights is pretty spectacular. In fact, it looks about perfect. Beaucoup fireplaces and moldings, tasteful built-ins, high ceilings, updated kitchen, attractive backyard. Of course, the owners know what they’ve got and, at $4,700,000 (or $1,175 per…
We might as well start the year out with a bang…This four-story brownstone at 14 Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights is pretty spectacular. In fact, it looks about perfect. Beaucoup fireplaces and moldings, tasteful built-ins, high ceilings, updated kitchen, attractive backyard. Of course, the owners know what they’ve got and, at $4,700,000 (or $1,175 per square foot) have priced it accordingly high. It’s been on the market for more than two months now with no takers. Think that’ll change once the bonus money starts clearing?
14 Garden Place [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
It’s a sweet looking house, but…
First I’d like to know what “2.5 half baths” means? Is that 2 half baths and a 1/4 bath?
Sticking to the bath theme, I would like to have a private master bath (need not be huge, just private) for a house that I’m paying $4 million for.
Expert: yes, correct, wood treads and painted risers. I’m not concentrating properly today.
I bid $1.5MM, cmu.
Agree with you Rob! I guess there are people who want to live in museums and those like me who hate them. The only thing I like about this is the nice white painted woodwork, at least it does not look like a mausoleum.
Of course, the kitchen/dining room is away from the living room, so you need a maid and a butler to entertain properly.
And what idiot would go to the expense of building an extension to house TWO powder rooms!
I say $1.2 million and I will fix it up.
“second, the treads and stringers (is that what people mean by runners?) should be painted.”
Minard, I disagree with you.
Treads (which are the horizontal ‘steps’ of the stair) IMO, if they are wood, should never be painted. Stained, yes. Painted NO NO NO.
Paint will wear away too quickly, unless you seal it every so often.
Risers (which run vertically under the treads) can be painted. And in most traditional homes are.
Garden Place is one of my favorite blocks. Agree with Dave on the furniture (I mean, I have the same club chairs from Palazzetti, but not in stark white!) and ET on the kitchen tile and everyone on the master bath. But, all in all, I agree with MM that it’s “too white and cold for my taste”. Sorry, bxgrl, much as I love this block, there are other, nicer houses I’d buy you first.
Yes, the wall colors need some changes. No big deal.
Maly, it was something like that!!!!!
Ha Dibs, my point exactly: you are a man of unrestrained desires, the antithesis of the high WASP ethos. I think that’s what Shrillstoner was trying to say when he called you, oh I can’t remember now. Was is a threat to humankind? Or the end of all that’s pure and holy?
I hope you understand my comments are tongue in cheek (NOT that cheek, you dirty old man.)
Bob, you may well be right, I don’t have time to look it up, but in that case, I’d need to have darker colors on the walls for some contrast. That’s just me.