This upper east side townhouse with its bright red door and limestone facade has a Thermal Envelope that reduces the amount of energy needed to “run” this eco-friendly home. (above)
This new townhouse on the posh upper east side of New York is truly green…not in color but in construction with its environmentally correct LEED certification.
(Aside admission: uhhhhh…I didn’t know what LEED was until I just looked it up…here’s the definition from wikipedia…”Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies intended to improve performance in metrics such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts”…good to know…some of us more clueless folks learn something new every day…who knew…right?).
Anyhooooooo…it is 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, 2 powder rooms, a wine cellar, entertainment room, 3 outdoor spaces and 3 stories. Wow. Ultra modern living (with a few soft edges) right in the middle of Manhattan.
I like the foyer with the round loft opening to the second floor balcony/landing, the wood floors, the open kitchen (even though I always say I do not prefer open kitchens) and all of the private outdoor space right in the middle of New York. Clearly this is staged for selling…a little cold and impersonal…but if I got my hands on it to decorate, I could warm it up and make it a wonderful home!
Is this home your “green” cup of tea?
xo
Coco
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OMG! I could just die for that house and backyard!
I love the idea of environmently friendly design. Unfortunately, every time I see a “green” room or house, the decor is modern. I love traditional decor with a few hits of modern. Isn’t using vintage or antique furniture more environmently friendly than creating something new, regardless of how “green” its construction is? I’d love to see some traditional “green” homes!
I’m in lust! Seeking wood planking for my outdoor area asap.
does LEED also stand for boring? Althought the house in itself is nice, the decor is stark and cold.
This house needs some tlc.
the architect did a great job (sans the lack of molding) but do you know if they hired a designer- or just did this themselves? I agree with your/others comments. Where are the window treatments, the lighting fixtures, and why such teeny tiny art in such large stark spaces. Why a white headboard, bland white bedding and white walls. What is the point of the headboard if you can’t see it? I have a friend that is renovating her own brownstown right now, and we got a kick out of the price tag compared to what they have spent and renovated for (FAR under a million in a little place called Brooklyn)
Oooooh, the outdoor kitchen is fabulous!!! Would love to have that in my dream house.
Not in 7,4 million years !!
If this is professionally staged….I will eat my pencil. They should do a much better job in staging this house for it to sell.
I think one could find something A LOT nicer and with caracter in NYC for that kind of money. A few things I think that are ‘bad’;
-wrong panelling on frontdoor
-wrong planter, good plants.
-french doors that open to outside..once open it blocks part of the outside kitchen.
-no character throughout the house.
Still….keep showing us them houses on the market….I just love those posts.
Ron ( Empel Collections)
I agree with Ron! BORING!
i think some of us is misled by the sparse space inside the house=boring thing. you see this house in on sale. and usually on sale house is no FULLY decorated as you can see in the pic. but give the idea of how much space you can work on..if you’re buying it.
Words alone cannot describe my love for that outdoor area! Gorgeous house!
wow, $7.3 million, NOT IN A MILLION YEARS IS THIS WORTH THAT,,,,,,,,,,pre recession then maybe someone driven by greed and bad taste and also fooled by the address would have purchased this, post recession not a chance…… the decor is very dated, staircase is Gone with the windesk,meets the little house on the Prairie Kitchen, i think this is slightly a bit like Art snobbery, when people are blinded by the belief that just because they are parting with huge sums of money they are getting something worthwhile. surely for that amount of money you would expect a hell of a lot more. interesting ,,,,, v interesting
Love the pretty door and kitchen. The LEED is definitely a bonus. The staging is cold and boring though-scale is wrong in a lot of room and there are things that could be done to make it look nicer. LOVE the foyer-very pretty!
I’m a California girl. NY living leaves me cold. I just don’t think I would be happy in a long skinny house with a million people all around me. Call me crazy but I need a yard, some trees and plenty of windows on every wall. but I do like that outdoor kitchen area…they can use it what? two or three months out of the year?
simply gorgeous………
VERY much my style, especially the all white kitchen and bathroom.
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