Loving this Woodley Park home

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, soul sucking. I would slit my wrists if I had to spend $2m and got that generic hotel vibe. Cannot stand that curvy glass wall between foyer and main sitting area.

you should be more careful how you express your distaste for something.

My apologies. I hear you.

[Anonymous]

Cute house. I’ve never looked at Woodley… what’s the appeal? It seems like for the same price you could get an equally nice rowhouse on the Hill, which is a much cooler area with a lot more going on. Are the schools better or something?

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Anonymous wrote:Cute house. I’ve never looked at Woodley… what’s the appeal? It seems like for the same price you could get an equally nice rowhouse on the Hill, which is a much cooler area with a lot more going on. Are the schools better or something?

1-3 metro stops from downtown is pretty appealing. Last urban neighborhood in DC before the suburbs start, which means it’s convenient but with a lot of suburban amenities. Schools are good (Oyster, Hardy, Wilson) or great (Eaton). Agree the retail/restaurant scene sucks.

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It's funny how popular Woodley and Cleveland Park are and yet the retail and restaurant scene is only one short strip. Nothing when compared to what's available in Bethesda for example.

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny how popular Woodley and Cleveland Park are and yet the retail and restaurant scene is only one short strip. Nothing when compared to what's available in Bethesda for example.

Except if you live in those neighborhoods you are a stones throw from Glover, Adam’s Morgan, DuPont, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:It's funny how popular Woodley and Cleveland Park are and yet the retail and restaurant scene is only one short strip. Nothing when compared to what's available in Bethesda for example.

I don't find Bethesda's retail scene captivating. There is more there, but it's all retail chains for yuppies. Not a lot of character.

[Anonymous]

How about this new Woodley Park listing?

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/2938-28th-St-NW-20008/home/9986408?600390594=copy_variant&231528114=control&utm_source=ios_share&utm_medium=share&utm_nooverride=1&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=share_sheet

Where does this one settle - 1.5M?

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Anonymous wrote:I really like it too. If it goes under $2m I will be sad bc we were hoping to find something in Woodley and ended up buying up in Wakefield, thinking we couldn't get anything big enough/updated. Although I agree that the bathroom situation is a pretty serious flaw - for a family with kids, either you all share the one bath on the 2nd floor, or you put the kids upstairs, which means any overnight guests are sharing the parents' bathroom. And it looks like there's only a half in the basement, and no bedroom, so that can't be your guest space. Probably not a dealbreaker for us bc we don't have overnight guests that often, but it's an issue. At least there's space to add one (either in the walk-in closet space or the small 3rd bedroom), although it will be a pain to run the plumbing, so not a small project.

Hasn’t Wakefield become even more expensive than Woodley lately? A bunch of SFHs in Woodley sold for less than 2 million in the last year or so.

Maybe it was just an inventory issue. We had been looking since fall and hadn’t seen anything that seemed like it would work for us. We wanted some outdoor space and at least 4bd. Anyway I’m excited about Wakefield now and have talked myself into it being a better fit for us w the schools especially but still got a twinge for this one

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Anonymous wrote:Re: schools, DCPS is lousy. Go for a house zoned for Eaton if you must, but Oyster - despite what the neighbors tell you - is just awful. So so awful. My friend who is a teacher there sends her own child to an independent school for good reason. The neighborhood parents want it to be good because they can’t afford private because they paid so much for their homes but it really isn’t. It’s a school for native Spanish speakers and the entire kindergarten is full immersion Spanish. Every family I know who I’ve spoken to is unhappy with the school and either sucks it up, does the lottery, private, or moved to MoCo. Maybe kids of native Spanish speakers are happy but Unless the kids are bilingual you likely will not like Oyster.

Oyster is a bilingual school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how popular Woodley and Cleveland Park are and yet the retail and restaurant scene is only one short strip. Nothing when compared to what's available in Bethesda for example.

Except if you live in those neighborhoods you are a stones throw from Glover, Adam’s Morgan, DuPont, etc.

But there's not any retail in those areas, just restaurants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's funny how popular Woodley and Cleveland Park are and yet the retail and restaurant scene is only one short strip. Nothing when compared to what's available in Bethesda for example.

Except if you live in those neighborhoods you are a stones throw from Glover, Adam’s Morgan, DuPont, etc.

But there's not any retail in those areas, just restaurants.

Wrong. Glover has Whole Foods/Trader Joe’s. Huge Giant nearby, soon to be a huge Wegmans nearby. Multiple targets, CVS, etc. I never really need to leave the immediate area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about this new Woodley Park listing?

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/2938-28th-St-NW-20008/home/9986408?600390594=copy_variant&231528114=control&utm_source=ios_share&utm_medium=share&utm_nooverride=1&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=share_sheet

Where does this one settle - 1.5M?

Pending after one day! Open house was next weekend.

[Anonymous]

Regarding the original house:

I love the porch and the location. I like the backyard a lot.

I don't like the exposed brick. It reminds me of rowhouses I lived in 20 years ago. I think it's dated. For 2 million I don't want the exposed brick trend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, soul sucking. I would slit my wrists if I had to spend $2m and got that generic hotel vibe. Cannot stand that curvy glass wall between foyer and main sitting area.

Views aren't great and being next to the alley also sucks.

I thought it was very generic and I am a person that owns a rowhouse built in 1880 in the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regarding the original house:

I love the porch and the location. I like the backyard a lot.

I don't like the exposed brick. It reminds me of rowhouses I lived in 20 years ago. I think it's dated. For 2 million I don't want the exposed brick trend.

+1 it reminds me of the cheap group houses of the 90s. I like the bones of this house and the end location, but the renovation was done really cheaply and ripped out any charm. It would be incredibly expensive to add another bathroom at the front on the second floor bc there’s not a plumbing stack there. The sewer line alone would be exorbitant. You could rework the floorplan and get a second bath in the rear but it wouldn’t leave a nice sized primary bedroom anywhere.