A Three-Bed Bungalow Near the Catskills for $109.9K

  |  January 12, 2024

On this Fix-it-Up Friday, Upstater is at a 1930’s cottage in the Sullivan County town of Mamakating.

It’s petite—736 square feet, to be exact—but this white-and-green bungalow manages to fit three bedrooms and a bath. The exterior, like the interior, needs some work, but the little path and concrete stoop are worth restoring. The new owner could either refresh the front-door awning for vintage’s sake, or replace it with something more substantial.

This kitchen is surprisingly large and cute. It has a tile floor, and an entire wall of upper and lower multilevel cabinets in a dusty blue tone. The simulated-wood counters could use an update. The scale of the kitchen allows a dining table against the opposite wall (though you’d probably need to pull it away from the wall to allow everyone a seat).

The living room has wood-trimmed doors and windows against pale walls. The floor is hardwood, in both finished and apparently unfinished condition. The ceiling is pitched high with a wide beam spanning it.

The bedrooms here are tiny. But with the right design, you could make it work. The bed in this room is set at a diagonal to the walls, but the furniture could probably be moved around to make a better flow.

Whoa, we bet a teenager lives here! LED strip lights sit along the perimeter of the pitched ceiling, illuminating everything in a purplish glow. But we can see this room’s a bit bigger than the first.

And this room looks like the largest. It’s got a big window and a peaked ceiling that needs some work.

Sure, a lot of the house needs a handyperson’s touch, but the necessary work is not over the top. The house sits on 0.18 acre in the Wurtsboro hills, which happen to be among the foothills of the Sullivan County Catskills. There’s good Italian just five minutes from here at Pasta D’Oro in downtown Wurtsboro. The village has other restaurants, a great library, and nearly any shop you’d need.

If this bungalow makes your heart beat, find out more about 53 Laurel Trail, Mamakating, from Catherine Eichner with Eichner Realty Group Inc.

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