Open House Picks
Park Slope 144 Lincoln Place Brooklyn Properties Sunday 2-4 $3,100,000 GMAP P*Shark South Slope 1631 8th Avenue Brown Harris Stevens Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,295,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 326 10th Street Prudential Sunday 2:00-3:30 $1,180,000
Park Slope
144 Lincoln Place
Brooklyn Properties
Sunday 2-4
$3,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
South Slope
1631 8th Avenue
Brown Harris Stevens
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,295,000
GMAP
Prospect Heights
295 Prospect Place
Corcoran
Sunday 1:00-2:30
$1,699,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
326 10th Street
Prudential
Sunday 2:00-3:30
$1,180,000
GMAP P*Shark
“Why do you think abutting that parking garage is a negative for the Prospect Place property?”
Posted by aysataba.
Aysataba,
Abutting the parking garage is not fatal, but it would be much nicer if the home abutted three backyards instead of two backyards and one parking garage. Abutting a backyard gives a feeling of more space and more grass and more sun and more trees and more neighborlyness than the brick wall of a parking garage. Plus, who knows what that parking garage will become in the future?
And, of course, the issue does not revolve solely around removal of original details. The issue also concerns the failure to adhere to original aesthetics which, to many of us, is important.
“I’m tired of hearing that because a historic house is not perfect at the time of purchase that it gives the designers a green light to turn it into a faux-loft. ”
Well said.
mcKenzie, I know at least 15 people who own brownstones and not a one removed original details.
“I bet anything there wasn’t so much original charm (other than what we see there..”
-gimme a break! I bet anything the house had plaster ceilings, plaster walls and fireplaces. I’m tired of hearing that because a historic house is not perfect at the time of purchase that it gives the designers a green light to turn it into a faux-loft.
This trendy re-do will get old quick. At some point a new owner will put back the finishes that were removed so as to restore the original, cohesive character and classic beauty of the house.
Interesting, tradmod, about Lincoln Place. Maybe I’m just not . . .. expansive enough in my vision. Or something. But I really don’t see it.
The 8th Ave South Slope house is a glaring example of an added parlor-floor bathroom gone wrong. Look at the narrow LR and the sofa facing a wall and the door to the bathroom just a few feet in front of it, poo mist wafting all over it. Bad bad. Were they really that desperate to avoid walking up one flight of stairs? My big peeve must say. If you really need a parlor floor bathroom and sure they’re convenient, then don’t buy a house in which it won’t fit.
I like Lincoln. Not totally to my taste but for what it is it’s well done. I bet anything there wasn’t so much original charm (other than what we see there in windows and fireplaces and staircase) to keep in the Lincoln Pl house. It looks to me like a very successful problem-solving renovation of a house that must have been split into many apt’s destroying a lot of detail and overall looking crappy when the owners bought it. Newer arrivals in Park Slope don’t do things like tear out original details. If those details are gone they were gone already.
“Nomi, that isn’t slate, it’s glass.” Huh, glass.
Oh, I just looked again, yes. Well, I mean, now I can see that it’s way too smooth and uniform to be stone and that it could definitely be glass. Yeah. Well, not crazy about the material itself for residential, but it’s seems especially wrong to me here.