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For sale, $474,900. 3BRs, 2.5BAs, renovated in 2009. I rented this house before and don't want to be a landlord anymore. I'm a big modern design fan and was inspired by cool, small, european apartments that I have admired in design mags over the years. I'm also a trained chef and love designing kitchens; I always wanted to build a kitchen where the cabinets float off the wall. So I decided to do it here and I think it looks stunning and exceedingly cool.
Everything is new from floors to AC to furnace to appliances. This is a cool, well designed house with emphasis on a cool kitchen and an open floorplan. High ceilings, dark floors. There's a basement that brings $950 rent easy and as high as $1200. I love this neighborhood and the neighbors on Morgan are some of the coolest people around. It's a great community on a hidden street that's blocks from all the yuppie stuff like Results and Busboys and Poets and Safeway. Also, easy 5 minute walk to Convention Center metro.
Also, there's a six car garage and 3 acres of fields and a swimming pool. Actually, the house takes up 95% of the lot so there's no off-street parking, no yard, and no pool. There is a park next door though, where the cute neighborhood munchkins play football and people let their pets roam free.
Open every Sunday 1-4 until it sells, also by appointment (theschultzy@yahoo.com) and on MLS/Lockbox, DC7059186. I know my pics aren't great (I used an iphone) but no pics would do this place justice. If you want a specific pic, tell me and I'll email you one. Otherwise, email me and come check it out.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Kitchen
Sorry for the double posts, I don't know what I'm doing. Kitchen has semicustom cabinets (I had the boxes custom made but doors are IKEA with Blum/Blumotion hardware); appliances are SMEG (Renzo Piano version) cooktop, Liebherr built-in refigerator, Fagor convection oven, and Fisher Paykel dishdrawer. Blanco zero radius sink for all you design purists. There is a nook all the way in the back for a trash can. The counter is custom polished concrete by EYECON, and is 5" thick. Everyone asks about the chandelier. I can't remember where I got it but I remember is was marked down from almost $2000 to less than half that. It sat in my garage forever. FYI, the powder room is to the right of the dining table.
Shower
The master bathroom sits between the two bedrooms at the top of the stairs. It's small though the shower is a walk-in and fairly large. This was renovated in 2008 before I decided to do the whole house. I've always loved this sink from IKEA; I'm a big fan of mixing high end stuff with well designed affordable finishes. THe light you see coming in is from a skylight.
(Very few IKEAs sell a mini version of this sink; it's about 1/4 the size (College PArk doesn't carry it). I found one on a business trip in Houston and brought it back ont he plane; it made its way into the powder room downstairs).
(Very few IKEAs sell a mini version of this sink; it's about 1/4 the size (College PArk doesn't carry it). I found one on a business trip in Houston and brought it back ont he plane; it made its way into the powder room downstairs).
Basement Main
The "inlaw" apartment downstairs has a galley kitchen like upstairs with
less expensive finishes (laminate counter, IKEA appliances, stock cabinetry). It does have a Fisher Paykel dishdrawer as well. For some reason people are dazzled by those. The front room is really spacious and I built the floating cabinet wall and had that wall wired for cable. THe fireplace doesn't work to my knowledge. It's a spacious room.
The bathroom is cute; the sink sits on an antique phonograph cabinet I bought years ago. It's really cool. There's aW/D just outside the bathroom.
THe bedroom is in the back (no pic, sorry) and has a rear exit into the alley, which leads to Kirby. The room is small, would hold a bed and dresser, but the apt is definitely front-loaded for space. Like upstairs, the floors are engineered, hand-scraped hardwood.
This space would get $950/month easy. Easy.
less expensive finishes (laminate counter, IKEA appliances, stock cabinetry). It does have a Fisher Paykel dishdrawer as well. For some reason people are dazzled by those. The front room is really spacious and I built the floating cabinet wall and had that wall wired for cable. THe fireplace doesn't work to my knowledge. It's a spacious room.
The bathroom is cute; the sink sits on an antique phonograph cabinet I bought years ago. It's really cool. There's aW/D just outside the bathroom.
THe bedroom is in the back (no pic, sorry) and has a rear exit into the alley, which leads to Kirby. The room is small, would hold a bed and dresser, but the apt is definitely front-loaded for space. Like upstairs, the floors are engineered, hand-scraped hardwood.
This space would get $950/month easy. Easy.
2d BR
OK, so this room, in the back upstairs, is probably 12 by 10 plus a closet. If you look at the MBR post you can see the back wall of this room with the windows. It has 2 windows and access in the ceiling to the attic crawl space. A couple open house people have asked why the closet doesn't have doors. That goes to show what a freak I am, because I hate closet doors, they just get in the way, and so it never occurred to me to put them in. The opening is the same size as the PAX system for IKEA so if someone was insistent on doors, hell, let's make a deal. Look at the staging job I did here people, just look at it. I'll throw in the black tutleneck and laundry basket for free.
Master BR
The master BR is in the front. It's big, 13 by 11 plus the pop-out thing (that's an architectural term).
The closet is kind of lame, I know. Who would have thought closets were such a big deal. I'm offering to build any buyer a closet, you know, with doors and stuff, since some of you apparently think doors on closets are necessary. No big deal, I will do that befroe closing and where you choose, size you choose. There are two places where you could put them and not take up valuable space. On the bottom picture you can see the "nook" in the room which actually runs about 8 feet long. Bam, 8 feet of closet space, done. (the room actually is very spacious, 13 feet wide, so that would only take less than 2 feet of space). The room is very bright and has a ceiling fan.
Incidentally, in the top pic you're looking into the hall and back bedroom. Just as you exit to the right are the stairs down, and then the Asko W/D. Asko is Swedish so you know it's good.
The closet is kind of lame, I know. Who would have thought closets were such a big deal. I'm offering to build any buyer a closet, you know, with doors and stuff, since some of you apparently think doors on closets are necessary. No big deal, I will do that befroe closing and where you choose, size you choose. There are two places where you could put them and not take up valuable space. On the bottom picture you can see the "nook" in the room which actually runs about 8 feet long. Bam, 8 feet of closet space, done. (the room actually is very spacious, 13 feet wide, so that would only take less than 2 feet of space). The room is very bright and has a ceiling fan.
Incidentally, in the top pic you're looking into the hall and back bedroom. Just as you exit to the right are the stairs down, and then the Asko W/D. Asko is Swedish so you know it's good.
Living
THis is standing at the foot of the stairs towards the front. the galley kitchen to the right. It's a big living room. I built in a cool wall cabinet, wired for cable, which faces where the couch would probably go.
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