Best New Listings: Balconies, Bays, Bricks, and Bonus Space

• Oct 9th 2020

by Nena Perry-Brown

This week’s Best New Listings includes a top-floor co-op, a home in Woodridge, a semi-detached house in Capitol Hill.

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A Top-Floor Corner Co-Op

This top-floor, corner one-bedroom sits among the Tudor-style co-op community of Hampshire Gardens. The interior retains its original hardwood flooring, and off the entry hall, the living room has enough space for an office area. On the other side of the room, a shallow recess creates an accent wall, and there is a four-point display arch on the adjacent wall next to the archway opening into the formal dining area. The kitchen nook has terra cotta-colored tile floors, subway tiled walls, granite countertops, floating glass shelves, and a commercial hood above the stove. The bedroom has double exposure, a closet with built-in organizers, and a ceiling fan. The listing also comes with a separate storage unit, and the co-op fee includes heat, gas, and water.

• Full Listing: 215 Emerson Street NW, #202 (map)
• Price: $225,000
• Bedrooms: One
• Bathrooms: One
• Square Feet: 700
• HOA Fees: $568/month
• Year Built: 1929
• Listing Agents: Melanie Friedson, Erin McCleary, RLAH Real Estate

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Bright and Bountiful in Woodridge

Over in Woodridge, this detached house has a lot more interior space than meets the eye. Past the stone chimney and the set-back front porch, the main level has weathered hardwood floors and the living room has a stone fireplace. There is open flow into the kitchen/dining room, which has a breakfast bar waterfall island with drawers. Upstairs, the carpeted owner's bedroom is under a cove ceiling and has a seating nook with a stained glass window, and a pair of nearly floor-to-ceiling built-in sets of drawers. The lower level includes the third bedroom, a full bath, and a separate side door that walks around to the generous backyard with two sheds.

• Full Listing: 3947 19th Street NE (map)
• Price: $699,000
• Bedrooms: Three
• Bathrooms: Three
• Square Feet: 2,125
• Year Built: 1935
• Listing Agent: Sarah Brown, Compass

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Balconies, Bays, Bricks, and Bonus Space

This turn-of-the-century, semi-detached house on Capitol Hill has a brick front patio and wrought iron stairs up to the front door. Past the tiled-floor entry vestibule, the living room has curved walls framing the bay window and a fireplace with wood mantel frame. The at-grade lower level has a similar family room with exposed brick on either side of the marble fireplace. The spacious kitchen is also on this level, with an island, an arched brick fireplace-nook that houses a Lacanche oven and creates the adjacent backsplashes, and a skylit, sunroom-style bay window breakfast nook alongside a door to the brick-framed rear patio. Each of the bedrooms also have unique features: one has an attached dressing room, one has a bay window and fireplace, and one has a private juliet balcony. 

• Full Listing: 107 5th Street SE (map)
• Price: $1.6 million
• Bedrooms: Four
• Bathrooms: 2.5
• Square Feet: 2,665
• Year Built: 1900
• Listing Agents: Jackie Sink, Crystal Crittenden, Compass

Photo courtesy of HomeVisit.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/best-new-listings-balconies-bays-bricks/17385.