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Gowanus townhouse with marble mantels
18 COURIER LIFE, MAY 24–30, 2019 PS
191A 8th Street was gutted and refi nished with the latest “on trend” styles and colors. Douglas Elliman
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BY STEPHEN ZACKS
This Italianate brick townhouse
in Gowanus has already
attracted its share of press attention,
renovated and decorated
by the designer couple
of Merrill Lyons of Lyons Design
Studio and Charles Brill
of Rich Brilliant Willing lighting.
Featured in Dwell in 2016,
191A Eighth St. was gutted and
refi nished with the latest “on
trend” styles and colors. The
result is certainly impeccably
contemporary — and priced
to match — with preserved
details like marble mantels
standing out all the more for
the streamlined quality of everything
else.
The fl uted window frames
with concentric circle rosettes,
baseboards and wainscoting —
all painted in shades of gray to
match the mantels — gives the
whole place a unifi ed aesthetic.
It’s enlivened by pops of color:
Kitchen cabinets and a powder
room are highlighted with
mint hued tones, the staircase
and cement fl oor tiles in blue,
and the foyer with bright orange.
A deck was added to the
parlor level, accessed via a
doorway from the open plan
kitchen. Stairs lead down to
an equally soigné gravel-fi lled
garden, which features a grid
of planting beds bordered with
rusted steel and an irrigation
system.
The garden level rental
beneath the owner’s duplex
is likewise updated with a
cleanly designed new kitchen.
There’s new oak fl ooring, mini
split air conditioning and a security
system with an outdoor
Nest camera.
Pricewise, it can be compared
to its neighbor to the
west, which we wrote about
when it was on the market and
sold last year for $3.485 million.
It has the same 16.67-foot
width and was also designed by
Lyons, but it has an extra fl oor
not visible from the street.
This one has about 2,000
square feet of living space and
last sold, before the current
renovation, for $1.41 million
in 2014. Now it’s asking $3.195
million.
Lindsay Barton Barrett,
Christina Abad and Cristina
Criado of Douglas Elliman are
handling the listing. Think it
will get ask?
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