A distinctive Glencoe home with several green features and a pair of steeply pitched roofs that make it an eye-catcher on its busy street sold quickly.
The four-bedroom house on Green Bay Road was on the multiple-listing service for a single day, Halloween, before going under contract. The buyers closed Nov. 14, paying just under $1.17 million.
Susan Maman of @properties said she had it as a private listing, not on the multiple-listing service, with an asking price of just over $1.2 million, for about five weeks, but that “the day the sign went up, I got the first phone call.”
With its two angular roofs (one on the house and one on the detached garage) horizontal sun screens that look like trellises and a mix of shingles and other wood details on the exterior, “it’s one of those homes that everyone has noticed when they drive past,” Maman said. “It’s really unique in Glencoe.” (See more photos below.)
Built in 2013, the house was a collaboration of architect Attila Demeter and his wife, Katalin, an interior designer, after working together as Demeter Building Workshop, primarily on city condo buildings, from 1995 until “the market for condos dried up” in the mid-2000s, Katalin Demeter said. Attila Demeter died in mid-2015.
The Demeters bought the empty lot in 2012 for $110,000, or less than one-quarter the $435,000 that the previous owner paid for it in 2004, according to the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. Katalin Demeter said they initially planned to sell the house they built on the site, as they lived in the city, but as the project evolved into “this beautiful house,” they opted to move in instead.
The south wall is nearly all windows on all three levels, “and we planted a lot of trees so you always look out and feel you’re in that little forest,” she said. That’s particularly true when walking on the floating staircase, which is next to the windows. “You’re almost outside” on those stairs, she said.
The south-wall windows and all others in the house are triple-glazed models imported from Germany, used both for their heat-keeping quality and for noise blocking, Demeter said. The Metra tracks are east of the home, across Green Bay Road, but when the windows are closed, trains are a minimal disruption. Additional sound baffling comes from the placement of the garage out front of the house, dense landscaping and positioning primary living spaces on the west end of the house.
On the third floor, open from end to end, the exposed cross-bracing beams overhead were milled from the remains of an old tree that had to be cut down to make way for the house, Demeter said. “We cared about the trees that were here,” she said. “We didn’t want that one to become just a lot of sawdust.”
The steep angle of the main roof was dictated in part by the couple’s plan to cover it with solar panels, although they didn’t complete that component of the job, Demeter said. The design also "twists" to help the house capture maximum sun, she said. The house sits at an angle on its lot in order to make one side face fully south.
Horizontal sun screens extend from the east, south and west sides of the house to provide shade on hot summer days but let in the low-lying winter sun. The north wall, exposed to the most cold, has minimal windows.
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