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- Hey, I'm Cat Greenleaf.
This is our home at 12 Wyckoff street.
It's in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
You might recognize the house putting NBC show,
which you probably caught in the back
of your taxis called, "Talk Stoop."
Five bedrooms all together.
Three baths and in the backyard,
your very own life-size chessboard.
We have since moved out to Coney Island.
So we're going to sell it now
and really put down roots here.
These are crazy times, so why not try something crazy like,
a virtual tour through our house.
Should we get started?
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Welcome to the parlor floor.
The light in here is always perfect.
There's something magical in this room.
The living room is phenomenal and does happen
to contain my very favorite piece of furniture,
which is this fireplace.
It's electric, you can use it all year round.
It makes the room, it lights it up.
I love it so desperately.
Also, you might notice Y-E-S, yes.
Not just yes to my house, but just yes.
Everything you see in this house tour including the house
is for sale.
I have curated every bit of decor.
Every bin yet.
Every piece of furniture and yes, it is all available
for purchase with the house.
Okay, moving right along.
So you can check out here the beams across the top.
Those were a really happy accident.
When we pull down the drop ceilings,
all those beams were exposed.
You can feel the history of the home and I love that.
I want to point out these barn beams.
We were cruising around the mountains one day
and found this old farmer and he just said,
well, I got this extra barn in the back
and it's coming down.
You can have the beams if you want them.
He threw in a U-Haul and it instantly change the feel
of the entire house.
Those beams are so grand and filled with history.
You can just feel it.
Now, here's the dining room.
Everything you see by the way has been recycled,
up cycled, repurposed, found on the street.
It's just the way I do it and I had so much fun
when I was setting up this house.
So these chairs are made out of seat belts.
The dining table is made of a window pane
that I found on the street right when we first move in.
And it has a quote from George Santayana.
Who's one of my favorites and it says,
to be happy, you must have taken the measure of your powers,
tasted the fruits of your passion and learn your place
in the world.
That is exactly what 12 Wyckoff has meant for our family.
For a very long time, our place was right there
and...
What a place it is.
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Now, into the kitchen.
No matter what this is where everybody congregates.
Few things to point out.
One is this barn door here.
Opens to pantry that we put in everything that we sort
of had out before was now tucked away.
So that's a big deal in this house is storage.
What I love about these cabinets is there apothecary style,
but they're not clear.
You can't see the stuff again, so you can have stuff
that's not all perfectly matched in there
and nobody's going to be counting your Wheaties boxes.
It was very important for us to have the range
on the island as opposed to up against the wall
because I wanted to be able to chat with people
if I was pretending to cook the stuff
that I had actually ordered in and it did turn out that way.
Then, we added this little staircase here
and turned the second window into a door,
opening onto the deck.
Why don't we go out there now?
How cool is this technology?
We could just go anywhere.
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All right, so here we are out on the deck.
These letters come from a very old five-and-dime
that was right on Court Street in Cal Gardens,
near the house.
It was beloved and when they closed down,
people in neighborhood bought all the signage,
so this has some real local flavor.
So you can see we have the yard divided into two right now.
The upstairs apartment accesses down the staircase
and then the rental apartment can get in right through
this door here from their unit.
This yard has been the home to weddings,
to debaucherous, Bakken old type throw down,
you don't even want to know about it parties,
to every kid's birthday party.
It's a lively place.
So the chessboard is a crowd pleaser.
It's one of my favorites.
Sometimes I put masks of people on it like,
for Halloween or you know,
you could dress like a Christmas tree.
All the different pieces.
This is a big one for us.
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So, moving back into the house, underneath the staircase,
we call it, the Harry Potter closet.
We never put our own children in there,
but if you did have someone that you wanted to tuck away,
this is a pretty good place.
I love this little bathroom.
First of all, like the stoop,
it had seen so much celebrity tail.
The floors have a penny tile that's really sweet.
The shower is great.
This woman is not always in there, but sometimes,
depending on your relationship, you psycho
and then there's a window that looks out into the garden.
so we put special glass in there,
so that nobody can watch you do your business.
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Let's go upstairs.
We don't even know each other that well,
I'm already inviting you to my bedroom, but why not?
Here we go.
So this used to be a whole separate apartment.
It's a legal three family.
The kitchen was here and we ended up making it
into our bedroom.
Looks out into the garden.
You can see how the chess match is going.
This little bump out we built because we wanted to make sure
that there was a place to put reading lamps
and just one book, but we didn't want to have bedside tables
and a lot of things to accumulate clutter,
so we built the closet that's about...
Two-thirds the size of the bedroom
because I wanted it to hold everything ever and it does.
Frankly, sitting in the closet is often one
of my favorite refuges and nobody comes in to talk to me
in there and I'm all by myself and I just love it.
So this has been the stage for great many
of the multiple acts of my life in this house.
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Out this door and up the hall, you have laundry here.
Here's one of our five bedrooms.
I love it because it's bright.
It has a very sweet view across the street
at the Brownstone buildings.
It feels really Brooklyn.
I've had my office in here, we had nurseries for our kids
in here and these are some really fun pieces
that I've picked up over the years.
This piece is one of my favorites.
A great armoire, there's not a closet in this bedroom,
so you might want to I have an armoire in there,
of course, if that one's available.
Okay, so this one on the right has two closets
and they're deeper than they look actually from out here.
Now, the banana chairs are a pretty big topic
of conversation right now
because some people say they're not bananas,
look bananas don't have those green things on the top.
Perhaps there are Japanese zucchini.
Okay, but we're not going to talk about the decor.
We want to talk about the house.
So this room is quite large.
We've had bunk beds and slides in the room.
It's really lovely for kids, but also some people like
to see the street and it's certainly as big as the master
and you can really pick any side you want.
There are no rules, people!
The world under quarantine, everything's crazy!
No rules!
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Welcome to the bathroom.
So bright, full bath.
Shower, obviously, we didn't always keep our sunflowers
in there, but I do quite like it.
Now, the floors in here are hot stuff.
Actually, literally, they're hot stuff.
Both bathroom floors in the upstairs unit are heated
with ambient heat and it really helps for some
of those cold Brooklyn mornings.
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Let's go straight from the top to the bottom.
All the way down.
The basement, where it's all happening.
We refinish this few years back into a little bit
of a lounge.
We kept the walls raw on the left and painted them white
on the right, but I love seeing the inner workings
of a house.
I just do.
This was my work area, in here.
There's a fire door that holds the boiler
and all the things that legally have to be behind there.
So, this is where your kids can go to get away
or where you can go to get away from your kids.
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Make a left and go into our tenants apartment.
We put this wall up here.
It can open right up.
You have a huge single-family home or you can make it
so that the bottom two floors are your unit.
They have their own great room here.
There's a dishwasher.
Obviously, oven and stove, the fridge is new.
The oven is new.
Here's the bathroom.
I love the classic black-and-white tile.
We put that in.
I just had to use it somewhere and that's where we put it.
This is where the washer, dryer hookups are.
They decided to make a pantry out of it.
And then, this is the second bedroom that opens out
onto the patio.
So it's a flexible space depending on how you want
to use it.
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All right, fellow quarantiners, what have we done together?
We've seen five bedrooms all together.
Three baths...
Two separate units in the beautiful townhouse
at 12 Wyckoff street.
Our backyard, the chess set.
Don't forget, comes with purchase perhaps
and when you buy and move into this gorgeous house,
you will be buying a piece of New York City history.
Some of the most famous butts of our time
have set right there on that stoop.
Nothing but stories and good vibes all through that house.
All right, stay safe, stay real estate savvy
and buy the house.
Yes!
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