House of the Day: 112 Prospect Park West
Yowza! Check out today’s eye candy on Prospect Park West, a two-family center-stair mansion in full period get-up. As the pics show, someone’s gone to great lengths to preserve the original details and to recreate the original interior design. According to Property Shark, this house hasn’t changed hands in the last four decades, implying this…
Yowza! Check out today’s eye candy on Prospect Park West, a two-family center-stair mansion in full period get-up. As the pics show, someone’s gone to great lengths to preserve the original details and to recreate the original interior design. According to Property Shark, this house hasn’t changed hands in the last four decades, implying this is really a lifetime’s labor of love. This is one of those listings that is useless to try to put a dollar value on. At $3,975,000, it’s expensive enough to be well out of the reach of mere mortals. The question is only will someone very wealthy fall in love.
112 Prospect Park West [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
In our house the staircase was left stained and unpainted, as was the front door and foyer. The baseboards and moldings in other rooms were painted white. Which is perfect because it matches the new windows’ white windowframes, and allows me to do more with color on the walls and with my decor. I have a feeling that was pretty typical, no? To leave the staircase unpainted, even if the other woodwork was painted? Seems like I see that more often than not at open houses.
These houses are georgeous if you like these kind of houses. Dr’s will pay high rent and most of the homes in that area have all the details. Mansions are over there Berkeley school is there someone will buy it.Not poor folks like us though.Let me add yr right accross from the Park walking distance to shops subway and NYM hospital great schools. Many dr’s have purchased homes in this area also…..
These houses are georgeous if you like these kind of houses. Dr’s will pay high rent and most of the homes in that area have all the details. Mansions are over there Berkeley school is there someone will buy it.Not poor folks like us though.Let me add yr right accross from the Park walking distance to shops subway and NYM hospital great schools. May dr’s have purchased homes in this area also…..
Whether to paint wood or not depends entirely on the setting. There are plenty of rooms where bright white woodwork looks great. However a classic late-Victorian center hall staircase with carved details like the one in this listing is going to look weird painted white. Honor the house you’ve got is my credo.
Exactly, JM. Right on.
The bitter cynicism like philistine’s on this site is terrible. This site is unique, envied by other communities without such a resource, and is helpful to people. Or, rather it COULD be helpful. Were it not for the a-holes who insist on raining on the parade all the time. Who lives like that? It’s okay to point out specific reasons you might not like a property, or why you think it’s not priced appropriately. But as for the generic overall bitterness, it’s useless and nobody cares to hear it.
easy to say you aren’t gonna buy it when you’ve probably got 10 bucks in your checking account.
just because someone likes something on here does not make them the seller or agent.
do you have any idea how idiotic and ignorant it makes you seem to suggest so?
it basically means you are such a negative person that it would be impossible in your mind to say anything positive unless you are involved with the sale, which in my opinion is beyond sad.
Close friend? Sure you’re not the agent shilling your own property? I’m still not going to buy it.
This home belongs to a close friend. While the decor may seem out-of-date, I assure you that it is a worthwhile purchase for those who can afford such a charm. Gorgeous rooftop. The architecture is amazing, all original details. Great house for a single (wealthy) family to grow up in.
I paint wood too!
Just had to confess that.