This Spec house is located in East Highland Park, which is a beautiful suburb in Chicago’s Northshore with excellent schools, beaches, a vibrant downtown and a convenient Metra train link to downtown Chicago. It also is the home of the renowned Ravinia Festival . The basement has 10’ ceilings, and there is enough open space to fit a golf simulator and home theatre. There is an attached 3 car garage, and 3 additional parking spaces on the site. The Design is influenced by Southern California early modernist architecture. The house has a strong interior/exterior relationship with an open floor plan. The primary bedroom suite is on the First Floor with a oversized closet and a spacious, spa like bathroom that has a separate shower and soaking tub. There is another bedroom on the first floor that can be used to accommodate guests, or people with mobility issues. There are 3 additional bedroom suites on the second floor, There is also the option of having an elevator that allows access to all parts of the house for people with limited mobility. All spaces have wide enough doorways to accommodate wheel chair access and there is solid blocking in the walls of the toilets and showers to support grab bars if needed in the future. Access from interior to exterior is designed to be barrier free.
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Residential Architecture
Magnolia Flats
Type
Speculative Single Family Residential
Status
Permit Drawings completed
Location
Highland Park, IL
Project Team
Peter Nicholas
Charles Arko
Rob Copus
Structural Engineering
Hutter - Trankina
MEP Engineering
SEEG - Sustainable Energy Engineering Group