House of the Day: 207 Washington Avenue
We’ve always wondered what this place at 207 Washington Avenue (and its twin next door) look like! Frankly, we were expecting something a little shabbier from the 1852 shingled cottage. Au contraire, someone’s done some pretty slick remodeling, injecting some modern energy into the place while keeping much of its original feel. Given its size…
We’ve always wondered what this place at 207 Washington Avenue (and its twin next door) look like! Frankly, we were expecting something a little shabbier from the 1852 shingled cottage. Au contraire, someone’s done some pretty slick remodeling, injecting some modern energy into the place while keeping much of its original feel. Given its size (PropertyShark puts it at 1,700 square feet the broker says it’s 3,000 square feet), the asking price of $2,300,000 feels expensive high but not impossible. After all, this is a pretty unusual place (and it has its own driveway).
207 Washington Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
This is Emma and I love the house. I have played it this yard thousands of times and I have played in this house more than thousands of times. It is a great house.
Not impressed, and somehow not surprised by the absence of pics of any part of the house other than the foyer and kitchen. Take away the furniture, and we are left with uninteresting rooms completed stripped of all details. The kitchen looks ok, but a kitchen alone a house does not make. I was expecting something far more grandiose given the listing description.
Not impressed, and somehow not surprised by the absence of pics of any part of the house other than the foyer and kitchen. Take away the furniture, and we are left with uninteresting rooms completed stripped of all details. The kitchen looks ok, but a kitchen alone a house does not make. I was expecting something far more grandiose given the listing description.
Sick to death of those cow rugs. So four years ago.
Look it.
The house is nice. Many of us would live there. It has a driveway and garage.
On foot, it’s a bit of trek to the C-train so you end up taking the G or taking the DeKalb bus down to Flatbush if you need to take the subway.
All-in-all, the price is too high considering everything…might be considered way too high depending on how you look at it.
It doesn’t “feel” like a brownstone/townhouse so that segment of buyers are less likely to go for a house like this. And the house has apparently lost the look of it’s actual period (mid-1800’s…if that is correct per BHS’s ad).
It has jazzy furniture though. They should drop the price and include all the new show furniture.
Fjorder, I am a fairly ordinary everyday cook, and I use four burners at one time a few times a year. While I do not cry for five, I can see the beauty. Just having some breathing room for four boiling pots would be a big plus.
Of course, those stoves and those types of kitchens were not designed for anybody who really cooks.
Fjorder,
Glad you gave a shout out (of sorts to the AEC). Art Ensemble of Chicago formed in the eponymous city, but they have truly been world travelers. They lived in Europe for quite some time in the 70s and toured relentlessly around the globe. Nothing inconsistent with one if its members ultimately ending up here in Brooklyn. Trombonist and scholar George Lewis has recently written an excellent book on the history of the music community out of which the AEC arose. While the music was not to everyone’s or even most jazz fans’ taste, Lester Bowie and his white lab coat are sorely missed and fondly remembered by many here in Brooklyn and elsewhere.
Apologies for the digression.
David Bowie knows construction. It took FIVE YEARS. And by the way I have not been to OXFORD TOWN.
bedstuyhoya – I’ll tell you what you’re objecting to: the loft design in a 7 foot-ceilinged ground floor space. It just looks kind of ridiculous – it IS trying too hard – like a 40 (50?) yr old hipster.