A Renovated 4-Bedroom Arts & Crafts Beauty In Sauganash: 6030 N. Kilbourn
This 4-bedroom arts & crafts vintage bungalow at 6030 N. Kilbourn in the Sauganash neighborhood of Forest Glen came on the market in September 2012.
It has been renovated with all new windows and skylights yet retains many of its vintage features such as stained glass palladian windows.
Built in 1920 on an oversized 40×137 lot, it has a 2 car garage and landscaped yard with paver patio.
The house has a massive 25×23 renovated kitchen with a large island and stainless steel appliances.
3 out of 4 bedrooms are on the second floor with the fourth on the main floor.
There’s also a large family room in the lower level.
It has space pak cooling.
The house is listed at almost double its 2000 price at $949,900.
Who’s the target buyer for this house at this price point?
Patty Cerny at Baird & Warner has the listing. See the pictures here.
6030 N. Kilbourn: 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, no square footage listed, 2 car garage
- Sold in June 1989 for $230,000
- Sold in July 1997 for $325,000
- Sold in November 2000 for $435,000
- Originally listed in September 2012 for $949,900
- Currently still listed at $949,900
- Taxes of $6196
- Space pak cooling
- Bedroom #1: 19×18 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 12×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #3: 18×12 (second floor)
- Bedroom #4: 16×15 (main floor)
- Family room: 28×25 (lower level)
- Kitchen: 25×23
This place really is beautiful, and it looks like the current owner might have done a lot of work. But it’s difficult to see how that justifies a price nearly double the Y2K price.
$750K is more like it.
It’s a beautiful house….but those owners need to do some serious de-cluttering. It is really hard to focus on the features that make this a great house. As a realtor I would advise the owners to tone down the colors, eliminate some of the furniture,get rid of all the knick knack stuff, trim some of the back yard foilage etc. As I looked at the pictures I was distracted by all the stuff in the place. I do think its an awesome house …it is just hard to see it. It is also overpriced….I would think its more a 750-780K house.
Quite nice in many ways, but I think asking $950K for a bungalow is a bit excessive. I’ve been in many, and always felt that the slanted ceilings on the second floor and the one staircase usually being in the back of the house by the kitchen translates to lower value.
Nice renovation, but very taste specific. The slanted ceilings in the bedrooms are killers at this price point, I would think – usually with a jumbo bungalow you have some dormers / better ceiling clearance on the second floor, I’m kind of surprised this one doesn’t.
I agree that it’s very taste-specific. Some of the wood-heavy rooms have kind of a sauna vibe.
I’m not seeing it go for $949. Then again, 6244 N Kirkwood is listed at $829 and is rather tired and dated looking, and has only 3 beds, 2.2 baths. The Kilbourn property has a bounty of full bathrooms (which look decent, from the limited # of photos), and while I don’t like the kitchen and decor, you can’t say that it isn’t updated and modernized.
Arts and crafts inspired renovation, look to the villa for some real arts and crafts remodels. That being said, I see a $661,000 plus what appears to be a $130,000 from 2003 that may or may not have been released. For someone asking nearly a mil for their home, I wouldn’t be surprised if original $130 from 2003 was still on there.
I think there’s only been one house to sell over $750 in teh last year in the ‘hood defined by the major streets to the NSEW. that sold for $780 so this is way out of the ball park
Great curb appeal, more so than the typical bungalow.
Nice thing about houses in the city, and many older places in some burbs (e.g., NS east of GBR), is that the garage isn’t in front.
Totally agreed, anonny — parts of Park Ridge fall into this category, too.
This house keeps flashing-up on the realtor web-site, and I was wondering where such an overpriced bungalow would be located. Sellers have “wishful thinking” syndrome; too bad their listing agent hasn’t reviewed recent comps with her sellers. I’ll say $650,000.
The east half of park ridge has alleys. A good chunk of the homes have 2 car garages at the back of the property with the driveway in the front; which unfortunately eats up a lot of your side lot and backyard with a driveway and large garage structure. But that’s the trade off for living in the ‘burbs so close to the city. The standard lot in PR is 50’ usually by 125 or 130 or even 150 every so often. You have to get outside of the inner ring suburbs to get the bigger lots that are 50×175, 200, I have a buddy in the western burbs with an acre it’s 175 x 275 or something crazy like that. It’s not manicured so it’s just a lot of old trees, brush and dirt. It’s a huge lot that’s a lot of land. He can set up a huge tent in the summertime and throw these massive parties and no one cares. Once you start getting farther out it’s generally bigger lots, that’s why people moved farther out, but that changed in teh 2000’s, when moving father out meant that the developer crammed as many homes as possible onto the smallest possible piece of land.
I hate front garages (except maybe in mansions where the garage might be in the front, but the house is so huge that it doesn’t matter). I don’t understand why most suburbs have eschewed alleys. I would never live in a sfh that didn’t have an alley in the back.
“I don’t understand why most suburbs have eschewed alleys.”
I you have big lots they don’t make sense – too much extra pavement to maintain for too little purpose. But I totally agree for suburbs with smaller lots – garages in front are a pet peeve of mine.
Nice house, the decorating though not to my taste is well done. The kitchen probably cost a lot with the large amount of cabinets and likely remodeling necessary for a large kitchen in a bungalow (where kitchens tend to be small).
I grew up in an area with alleys but our street did not have one. It gave us a deeper lot which some residents on the street used to put up a standard 2.5 car garage. We got by with the one car attached set back garage just fine. In fact I am a huge fan of an attached garage for the rainy, cold, and winter seasons. Much easier solution for groceries etc but I do hate it when the facade of the home is 50% garage.
The best solution on a large lot is to add a portico with a garage behind. The portico allows you to unload while covered, takes that mass and bulk out of the front of the home, gives a peek into the yard and garage behind, yet still leaves a great parking solution. If the garage can be built with a bonus room above it is the ultimate win!