398 East 5th Street

Enchanting Kensington dream home. This fully detached, renovated Victorian style home, with a lovely front porch, a shared driveway and garage, and the BEST backyard has just hit the market. Modern updates are combined with original details here, and the result is simply beautiful. You'll enter to find a sweet and spacious front room, replete with cove ceilings, a pier mirror with bench, picture railings and oversized windows, that is open to the dining/living room. Relax to your hearts content in the living room. The renovated windowed kitchen has an open layout, with plentiful cabinetry (including a pantry), stainless appliances, exposed brick and black granite countertops with a glass door leading to a small porch and out to an incredible backyard. Light is abundant! Separating the kitchen from dining/living room--is the breakfast/dining bar--where the granite counters are bi-level which provide great entertaining/dining ease. A pretty powder room completes this level. The second floor has three spacious bedrooms and a full bath. The master bedroom is huge with two exposures, and it has a wall of closets. Another bedroom on this level also has two exposures, as well as the original shutters on the windows, which could appeal to the romantic in you. The beautifully renovated bath provides a spa experience, with new gray and white tiling. Walk up to the third floor and you'll find three more bedrooms, one currently being utilized as a fantastic office.The basement has high ceilings, is clean, freshly painted and mostly finished. Use half as a rec room, and the rest houses the mechanicals, and the full size washer/dryer. The electric, plumbing and heating systems (gas) are all completely renovated. This Kensington home is well-located on a lovely, tree-lined street, near everything that makes Kensington great. It's steps from great shopping and retail on Church Ave, including Isaac Apple Farm, Carnival Market, the Soho Café and Grill, Saki Sushi, Asia Harbor and the Thai Farm Kitchen. And a short walk to Wheated, Betty's Brooklyn Bistro, Hunger Pang and Werkstatt. It's also super close to Ft. Hamilton Pkwy; where you'll find Steeplechase Café, Hamilton's, Batata and Brancaccio's. Transportation is easy here, you're 3 blocks from F/G, a block and a half from B35 busline, close to express buses to Manhattan, and two blocks from the Prospect Expressway and Ocean Parkway. Near playgrounds, the Windsor Terrace library, houses of worship, and its just 10 minutes to Prospect Park. This is a fabulous home. Come take a look and fall in love. Showings start at the open house Sunday, 5/19.