This is a Christopher Guest mocumentary, it has to be.
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The teak bathtub has a showerhead over it. And the way it’s tiled, it’s intended to be a wet room, so you don’t need a curtain.
I thank the heavens every day for whichever previous owner of our early 1900s Victorian spent the money to redo the plumbing and most of the electrical. Our en suite is tiny, but it’s there.
NOT ENOUGH PLANTS!!
You can buy “sustainable” plantation-grown teak, but if their bathtub is anything like the one someone posted above (carved from a single tree), that shit is most definitely not sustainable.
Your Quincy contractor, on the other hand, would have said “No Problem” and leave you with random pipes showing up three feet off the wall in the living rooms and guest rooms, etc.
Expensive, but not necessarily illegal. Depends on where it comes from. There is a ban on teak from Myanmar because of deforestation. But there are now teak plantations being grown for uses like this.
I think they bought it for more than double that (according to Trulia) but it’s still a good investment. I just resent being sold on the creative and cultural fertility of gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods when in reality people are eyeing cost-per-square-foot and there’s no shame in that.
It’s quite cozy and very well done; concerns with the fireplaces aside (pollution!) it is rather beautiful. But almost $5 million on Sterling Place?
When they bought it was probably about 750-800K; doing it up another $500K. They stand to make a tidy profit if it sell at asking price.
When your house was plumbed in the late 1800s, pulling plumbing across 4 floors into weird spots, unless you really go a gut renovation, is basically not possible. You can’t just “add a bath”. This was explained to me very patiently by my Boston contractor.
I don’t get it. Teak is illegal I thought
She was on Fresh Air and she sounded more exhausting even then most of the guests on Fresh Air.
Am I the only person wondering about the street facing bathroom with the full length window in the shower and no privacy screen? Also the bathtub in the backyard?
I enjoy her in some of her roles (especially Secretary and The Honorable Woman), but I would like to be far away from both of them.
It would be refreshing if ONE pair of hip Brooklyn celebrities were like “We have kids and indie film money. This place would cost $15 million in the West Village and we found it here for under $5 million.”
TLDR: “Rich person has beautiful home”. Show me a tour of a one-bedroom apartment that someone has managed to keep organized and beautiful, while using Target and IKEA furniture. That’s information I can use.
I read the headline was “Did you know Maggie Gylenhall and Peter Sarsgaard have fucked in teak bathtub” which was a lot of information!
“it makes me want to dig a hole in the ground and take a vacation there.”
But is it carved from a single tree trunk?