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Originally Posted by Crawford
Yeah, this is the big vintage home divide. Restore or gut? I love brownstone exteriors. Can't stand the dark, claustrophobic vintage interiors.
Something like this is, to me, the perfect rowhome:
https://thebrooklynhomecompany.com/d...arfield-place/
But traditionalists will hate it. |
it's a tough call either way.
i've lived in a variety of both intact and gut-rehabbed vintage chicago flats.
both have their advantages/charms, but as someone who really, really struggles with summertime heat, i've come to love the modern HVAC systems of gut-rehabbed places.
i love the inventor of central A/C almost as much as i love Pizza God.
our current home is a 20 year old gut-rehab of a 100 year old 3-flat, and i love nearly everything about it, except for the fact that the rehabber cheaped-out on the replacement windows. we have 28 (yes, 28!) individual double-hung windows in our unit, and that's just a fucking shit-ton of operable windows for a single housing unit, so we got stuck with cheap vinyl replacements. replacing all 28 double-hungs with a quality window like a Marvin clad product would probably cost around $20K.