A home complete by acclaimed Chicago-area architects Keck + Keck is up for auction and was featured this anniversary on LX.TV's "Open House." The Mid-Century Modern abode is listed by Chicago absolute acreage aggregation Dream Town Realty. The atom originally aired Sunday, August 30 at 11pm on bounded NBC Channel 5 and can now be beheld on the program's website or on www.DreamTown.com.
The home on West Catalpa was commissioned by Keck + Keck in 1946. It is a prime archetype of Mid-Century Modern architectonics and contains a amount of aboriginal Keck trademarks. The contempo actualization on LX.TV's "Open House Chicago" is its latest media showing, afterward appearance in barter publications and online home programs. In the LX.TV spot, the accepted homeowner gives admirers a abounding bout of the residence, pointing out signature Keck ancestry as able-bodied as adapted aspects of the active space.
The articulation has a active time of just beneath 4 minutes. Watch the blow at http://www.dreamtown.com/properties/2939-w-catalpa.html.
"Keck + Keck's residential designs were advanced of their time if alien to boilerplate America at the Chicago World's Fair in the aboriginal 1930s," said buyer Avi Ron, aswell a co-founder of Dream Town Realty. "This home is a after acclimation of their acute all-glass designs. I approved to abide that thread, though, with a ample glass-enclosed conservatory addition."
The Kecks' account for glass-wall houses accurate by animate framing active beat building architecture methods, but on a abundant abate level, for an affordable new way to body tomorrow's Dream Homes. Between 1935 and 1979, the close completed hundreds of residential projects, abounding concentrated in Chicago's North Shore suburbs.
Keck designs are not as accepted aural the city-limits banned of Chicago, which makes the West Catalpa acreage a rarity. It is amid on 4 city-limits lots in Budlong Woods, a tree-lined adjacency on the far northwest side.
Telltale signs of Catalpa's Keck + Keck agent include:
- Flat Roof
- Passive Solar Design
- Indirect Lighting
- Radiant Heated Floors
- Screened Thermopane Window Vents
- Extension of Home to Outdoors through Window Walls
- Built-in Storage Spaces
"The home aswell incorporates attenuate 'ease of living' features. Another accepted appropriate of Keck Houses," Ron explained. "Clever accessibility aspects like closets complete into walls and copse accumulator for the broiler that can be accessed from a account across in the back."
The "Open House" adventure takes admirers about the 4,000 sq. ft. home and into the ample landscaped backyard. Learn about the property's alloy of celebrated attributes and avant-garde upgrades. Most of the renovations were done by the homeowner himself, who active up Dream Town Builders and Remodeling.
Home advance highlights include:
- Terrazzo Floor in the Main Living Area
- Floating Walnut Floor in the Bedroom Wing
- Glass Sunroom Addition
- Carport Addition and Glass Garage Door
- Restaurant Grade Kitchen
- Upgraded En Suite Master Bathroom
- Conversion of Bedroom to Family Room in Bedroom Wing
About Dream Town Realty
Dream Town is abundantly accustomed as the baton in online Chicago absolute estate. Their top-ranked website receives tens of bags of different visitors weekly. The aggregation has developed proprietary technology and applications to advance online abode hunting and action the a lot of beat Internet home seek accessible for Chicago buyers today (www.dreamtown.com/advSearch.do). Dream Town was founded in 1998. It has 120+ able agents who accommodate residential applicant and agent services, in accession to a new home architecture and advance analysis alleged Dream Town Builders and Remodeling (www.dreamtown.com/buy/chicago-home-builder.htm).
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