Vacation At Home in this 5-Bedroom Bucktown Modern Home: 1738 N. Winchester
This 5-bedroom single family home at 1738 N. Winchester in Bucktown is among the most unique properties I’ve seen in awhile.
It has an a modern exterior and interior except when you’re in the lower level which has a fully bricked recreation room, including the curved ceiling, complete with fireplace and jacuzzi tub in the floor.
The house also has a home theater on the third floor.
The five bedrooms are scattered on several floors with the master bedroom on the second level, 2 bedrooms on the third level and 2 on the fourth.
The kitchen has modern red cabinets and stainless steel appliances.
This house has been on and off the market since May 2008 and is now a short sale.
It has been reduced another $100,000 since July.
Anthony Zaskowski at Property Consultants Realty has the listing. See the pictures here.
1738 N. Winchester: 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 6200 square feet, 2 car garage
- Sold in March 2003 for $375,000 (old property)
- Originally listed in May 2008
- On and off the market since then
- Was listed in July 2010 for $1,799,900
- Reduced
- Currently listed as a “short sale” for $1,699,900
- Taxes of $22,500
- Central Air
- Bedroom #1: 17×16 (2nd floor)
- Bedroom #2: 16×13 (3rd floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×12 (3rd floor)
- Bedroom #4: 15×12 (4th floor)
- Bedroom #5: 19×17 (4th floor)
- Recreation room: 39×17 (lower level)
a lot could be said about this one.
upon viewing the pics, here is where my brain went:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlAmXGIbo84
Yikes. I don’t know Mr Zaskowski, but I have seen his rapid fire price change technique, his distinctive copywriting, and his portfolio of hard-to-sell Bucktown SFH (question on which way causation goes). Are these bank-owned or controlled places that he is specializing in?
How in the world is this a competitive price (and it’s a short sale) compared to something like this:
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1811-N-Honore-St-60622/home/28739456
ummmm where does that light wood arched basment door lead to?
…it seems like a house for a maniacal serial killer.
Wow. Advice to spec builders out there — HIRE A DECORATOR! An unlimited budget with bad taste is not going to sell your overpriced home. That kitchen, while I’m sure insanely expensive, looks like bad Italian design from the 80s.
hahahahahaa
This is my now 3rd favorite listing ever seen on crib chatter behind the chinatown bordello, and the liberachi duplex in costco…
perfect example of modern DONE WRONG… holy cow where to start
That home theater room belongs in the basement! YOU WASTED ONE OF THE FEW ROOMS WITH LIGHT ON IT!
UGH not to mention the dungeon for those that like 12 sided dice and hot tub parties,
Then the Kitchen, with those red cabinets…. aaaaaaaah bad!
And so much more just wrong with this place
Listing is hilariously worded too “BUCKLE UP BECAUSE YOUR ANTICIPATION IS GETTING READY TO SURGE INTO THE “RED ZONE”. ”
wtf does that even mean? LOL
“BUYER, BUCKLE UP BECAUSE YOUR ANTICIPATION IS GETTING READY TO SURGE INTO THE “RED ZONE”.”
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahhahahaaaaaaaaa!
That is some serious Luxury Motors signature prose right there.
This place is an epic clusterfvck. So unbelievably awful I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I think of the money wasted.
At least the locations isn’t bad. The only way I could see EVER buying this was if your intent was to rent it out to vacationers who wanted a unique place to stay in chicago. People stay in all ice hotels, why not houses with basement dungeons?
Think of the parties you could have in the basement/GROTTO!
this place is too much. oh, hey, this reminds me, whatever happened to the place on Fullerton and Damen?
Oh my gosh! It’s literally a man cave!
I actually kind of like the red kitchen cabinets. But in a different kitchen. In a different house.
“That is some serious Luxury Motors signature prose right there.”
Hey! Their douchily attired Eastern Euro salesmen have the excuse of English being their first language.
Ah, Luxury Motors… where you can buy a used car that would shame a North Western Ave used car dealer.
So American.
Taxes of $22,500
Those are ASSHOLE taxes
“…it seems like a house for a maniacal serial killer.”
You’re lucky I’m not rich Jenny cuz I could imagine setting up an open house, luring you there, then putting you in my basement well.
Oh hey, I was just looking for a modernish place where my crap Ikea furniture would look good. /search
It’s kooky fun
This is precisely the reason why if I hire a male interior designer he has to be gay.
Otherwise it turns out like this. I am surprised there is not bar with sports memorabilia somewhere.
It actually isn’t that bad. A little paint, some carpet, cabinebt refacing, and a low yield tactical nuclear weapon (for the rec room) and it would be a great house.
Though at the asking price you could do better in the area for less.
i think i found something the creaps me out more than were the door leads to, and thing is now BOB!!!!!
seriously Bob’s post have been going down a scary path.
I know i am #1 on spewing rhetoric about building and buying something unique.
but the “Anne Rice” basement, the theater room between the bedroom levels, the Jr. Hefner hot tub in the floor, the clashing of styles, i dont know what to believe anymore.
BTW, did the agent really word it this way?…….”NO ATTENTION TO DETAIL WAS LEFT OUT”
“seriously Bob’s post have been going down a scary path.”
C’mon it was a great flick. Eerily scary to most but hilarious to me.
“C’mon it was a great flick. Eerily scary to most but hilarious to me.”
only cause i a am tying it into your post about the climbing in the windows thing awhile back.
Wow. Just wow. If I won a multi million dollar lottery (a really big one – not just $20M), I would buy this just to be funny. And to use when I wanted to torture small animals and children.
”NO ATTENTION TO DETAIL WAS LEFT OUT
He really meant to say that there was no attention to design….Someone will but this place someday at some price. I just wonder what the “after” photos will look like!
“This is precisely the reason why if I hire a male interior designer he has to be gay.”
From my community…Thank You for noticing our fine taste…
Such a HUGE difference in this house and the one from yesterday. Both modern but in totally different ways…one good and one exceedingly bad.
I only wonder what clio would have to say about this place. I imagine it would read something like “Oh those poor, poor hard working souls who saved and saved for years finally will be granted entrance into the rarified world which only I am allowed to inhabit.”
Speaking of…don’t you all wonder where he is? Hours have passed since his last post.
At the Cook County Sheriff’s or DA’s office taking out restraining orders or orders of protection against all of us perhaps?
…AK47 look out!
Poor taste abounds in Straight male man caves.
I am almost embarrassed to admit that I have a few of those exact theater recliners…thankfully that is the only thing my house has in common with this one.
Sonies: “This is my now 3rd favorite listing ever seen on crib chatter behind the chinatown bordello, and the liberachi duplex in costco…”
All three places are very revealing about their owners. It takes all sorts to make this world go ’round (or at least make it interesting). I’m glad that flamboyant people can express themselves in their residences. However, when it comes time to sell, the rude awaking about how much other people value your taste will be quite harsh.
What’s notable about all three examples is that the owners only got to live in their dream homes for a couple of years. The rap mogul never even got to live in his Kennedy Kastle.
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
what a disaster
I bet that everyone who is invited over tells them how ” unique” or “awesome” it is. The market will now be educating them about those unique decisions.
What bank got stuck with this?? Reminds me of the medieval tower Cole Taylor financed in Burbank-took it back and the village made them tear it down.
Hey, does anybody know what happened to these guys? Had a building on Janssen I was interested in, looks like they disappeared..
http://www.brytondevelopment.com/
Oops- gotta read the above posts before I comment
From the exterior, this house looks like a three flat of condos with a duplex down on the first floor.
“It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
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I can’t wait to buy this place and get the gang back together for some Dungeons and Dragons!
Price went up to 1,749,000 — sale pending. Hmmm…