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Fee Completed: Louisiana inside designer’s private, renovated house sells for $2.8M


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Deal with: 1439 Seventh St., New Orleans, 70115
Gross sales value: $2.8 million
Listing value: $2,950,000
Date bought: Might 30
Days on Market: 36
Itemizing agent: Rachael Kansas, RE/MAX N.O. Properties
Gross sales agent: Lynn Morgan, Keller Williams Realty

Louisiana-born inside designer Michelle R. Smith’s private house – an 1865 Backyard District Greek Revival that she had extensively renovated in 2021 – is formally off the market.
1439 Seventh St., that includes 6 bedrooms, 4½ bogs, and 5,534 sq. ft of dwelling area, bought for $2.8 million on Might 30.

Smith grew up in Berwick, Louisiana, and in 2011, based Studio MRS, a boutique residential inside design agency. In November 2020, Smith bought 1439 Seventh St., and renovated the house throughout the pandemic with the assistance of native building agency, Yazoo. In April 2023, Smith’s renovations have been featured on the cowl of Elle Décor.

“Michelle is a famend inside designer whose aesthetics are distinctive in our market – refined, snug and livable, with hints of each industrial and old-world components. On Seventh, she was in a position to superbly marry her imaginative and prescient with the house’s historic elegant particulars,” stated RE/MAX N.O. Properties Realtor Rachael Kansas, the itemizing agent on the 1439 Seventh St. transaction.

Unique elegant particulars embrace forged iron railings, lobby with historic Zuber wallpaper, two massive authentic chandeliers, 13′ ceilings, plaster moldings and medallions, marble mantles, stairwell, and pine flooring. “This house options historic Zuber wallpaper within the entry corridor. Scenic Zuber wallpaper is wooden block printed and could be present in some unimaginable landmarks – together with the White Home. It’s particular to have this paper nonetheless hanging for over a century,” stated Kansas.

Among the many renovations are a brand new kitchen and bonus again kitchen with marble flooring, stainless-steel island, Wolf & SubZero home equipment, induction and gasoline cooktops, and huge French doorways. There are grand views from the kitchen to the flagstone courtyard with partitions for further privateness. There’s a entire house generator, newer tankless scorching water heater, up to date electrical, plumbing, and substantial HVAC enhancements.

The first suite affords a dressing room, two baths that join in a middle bathe, and balcony entry. There are three extra bedrooms, two bogs, and a laundry room that full the second ground. The third ground affords two extra bedrooms, a full bathtub, cedar closets, and a walk-in attic. There are customized tiles, lighting fixtures, and drapes all through the house. All the property is secured/gated, and there’s one off-street electrical gated parking spot.

Kansas stated that within the final six months, 5 luxurious single household houses have bought within the Backyard District, and 4 of people who bought have been off the market inside a month.
“With Seventh, we had consumers lingering for a couple of weeks after which as quickly as one particular person wrote a proposal, we all of a sudden had a number of affords from of us who didn’t need to miss out on their shot,” stated Kansas. “Finally, the proper consumers have been those to get the contract and shut.”

Different excessive priced house gross sales previously week:

Deal with: 149 Audubon Blvd., New Orleans, 70118
Gross sales value: $2,175,000
Listing value: $2,250,000
Date bought: Might 31
Days on Market: 9
Itemizing agent: Rachael Kansas, RE/MAX N.O. Properties 
Gross sales agent: Keri Candies, HomeSmart Realty South

An Uptown New Orleans house at 149 Audubon Blvd., inbuilt 1930, bought for $2,175,000 on Might 31. The house, nestled on an outsized 120′ x 160′ lot and behind oak timber, options 5 bedrooms, 4½ bogs, and 5,223 sq. ft of dwelling area. It was just lately featured in Architectural Digest.

  • Grand yard delivers shade from a camphor tree and in addition has a heated pool, a terrace, a storage for a number of automobiles, and a visitor home; formal dwelling and eating rooms flank the middle corridor entry; sunroom sits tucked away off the formal front room; and open stairwell and huge home windows and doorways showcase the corridor.
  • First-floor major suite options two walk-in closets and two baths with a joint walk-in bathe; home windows and doorways throughout the complete rear of the house let mild flood into the first bed room, front room, and breakfast room, and supply views of the grounds; upstairs affords a further three bedrooms and two bogs; completed third ground affords further area, plus further storage; basement supplies room for extra storage; hardwood and terracotta flooring; fireplaces; bays and built-ins; entire house generator; sprinkler system; and safety system.

 

Deal with: 2308 Prytania St., New Orleans, 70130
Gross sales value: $1,850,000
Listing value: $1,995,000
Date bought: Might 31
Days on Market: 154
Itemizing agent: Kelli Wright, Latter & Blum
Gross sales agent: George Jeansonne, FQR Realtors

A Victorian, Backyard District house at 2308 Prytania St., inbuilt 1889 and utterly renovated in 2017, bought for $1,850,000 on Might 31. The house, situated on a double lot and that includes a curved façade and porch, has 4 bedrooms, 3½ bogs, and three,939 sq. ft of dwelling area.

  • Hovering 11-foot ceilings; yard pool and leisure space; massive lobby opens to the research with built-in shelving; sunny dwelling and eating rooms; kitchen, bar, and breakfast areas; open kitchen options quartz and wooden counter tops, ample cupboards, Wolf double oven with six burners, grill and griddle and full-sized Thermador wine fridge; breakfast space, bar, and den overlook the yard.
  • The yard options an outside kitchen, brick patio, firepit, pool, and landscaping; upstairs has 4 bedrooms and two full baths together with a big major suite with spacious bathtub and separate walk-in closet; and gated off-street parking for 2 automobiles.

 

Info supplied by Kelleye Rhein & Stephan Mock of Reve Realtors.

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