At packed open houses, potential buyers marveled at the beautifully renovated kitchen, the privacy-friendly split bedroom layout, and the proximity to Prospect Park.
The family installed a temporary wall to split the bedroom for the two younger children.
Now the family has been thinking about one more renovation — splitting the bedroom of the twins, who are now 11, into two rooms — though they say they are dreading the construction noise.
A choice of three pools, two restaurants, a split-level bedroom spacious enough to accommodate the family of five and a beach as lovely and clichéd as any snapped by paparazzi on a bikini-hunt.
His room is 3 meters by 4 meters in a cabin split into three bedrooms.
Many of those Professor Rosenblatt surveyed, like the Chicago couple, split into separate bedrooms when their children grew up.
The second floor of the building was illegally divided into two units, and the basement was split into four bedrooms, officials said.
Even if they have full-time jobs, many young people and recent immigrants have to cram into converted spaces that bend or break the rules: warehouses, bedrooms split down the middle, constructed perches in common areas, basements, cellars.
The lowest-priced resale is a three-bedroom split in the Beechcrest section, at $399,000, the highest a four-bedroom colonial on an acre, at $1.05 million.
A five-bedroom split nearby, with three new bathrooms and new windows, is on the market for $1,195,000, as is a three-bedroom, three-bath colonial that was renovated in 2000.
