We Love Home Theaters: 6043 N. Kilpatrick in Sauganash
Why go out to the movies when you can comfortably enjoy them in your own home theater such as that in this single family home at 6043 N. Kilpatrick in Sauganash.
The 4-bedroom French Provincial style house was built in 2002 and features hardwood and marble floors as well as oversized windows.
Listed since September 2008, it has been reduced by $250,000.
Alla Kimbarovsky at Prudential Preferred has the listing. See more pictures and a virtual tour here.
6043 N. Kilpatrick: 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 half baths, 2 car garage, no square footage listed
- Last sale I could find was in December 1991 for $240,000
- Originally listed in September 2008 for $1.875 million
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $1.625 million
- Taxes of $13,240
- “Motivated seller”
- Bedroom #1: 21×18
- Bedroom #2: 15×13
- Bedroom #3: 13×12
- Bedroom #4: 11×10
Oh, the phony French chateaus. My husband had the idea at one time of opening a roofing business called “Chateau Chapeau” because this style was so pervasive in new construction on the north shore for the last few years.
No idea on price. I would say this is overdone, but that is Sauganash for you. One of the neighbor’s Christmas decorations involves taxidermied deer, for crying out loud.
another great example that money does not necessarially equate to taste
“another great example that money does not necessarially equate to taste”
Funny thing is you would be amazed how many people like this shit. I am not one. Acoustically that room looks like a disaster (When it comes to a theater it should always be function over form)
“Funny thing is you would be amazed how many people like this shit.”
True, true. I was just thinking you could plop my mom down in this house and she would think she’d died and gone to heaven.
I don’t care how much upgrading they did, if it was a 240k house in 1991 no way is it a 1.6MM house today, barring a complete teardown and rebuild at at least 3x the original size.
Sounds like this baby boomer spent all their monies on renovations and expensive pianos and has no other retirement fund to fall back on other than “this (not old) house”. Good luck.
3008 above-ground SF. 4-car garage.
Bunch of unreleased mortgages.
“I don’t care how much upgrading they did, if it was a 240k house in 1991 no way is it a 1.6MM house today, barring a complete teardown and rebuild at at least 3x the original size.”
Um, look at the thing Bob. They clearly tore the whole thing down and built new. Might not be 3x original, but more than double, easily.
Ok fine then they’re gonna learn a hard lesson about: 1) spec houses and 2)owning one of the nicer/est houses on the block.
I think it looks pretty good from the outside. In an understated Mtv cribs kind of way. If I lived there, every time I rolled up in that driveway I’d think.. “I’m home, fo shizzle.”
“they’re gonna learn a hard lesson about: 1) spec houses and 2)owning one of the nicer/est houses on the block.”
No argument there.
…looks like this atrocity belongs on the ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’.
My parents still live near here. This house was probably constructed by one of Lincolnwood’s “pick-up truck ready” amateur contractors of Eastern European ethnicity and entrepreneurial zeal. Exuberant self-expression is often present in this type of McMansion. Formerly charmingly mid-century modern in character, Lincolnwood is now literally littered with similar bombastic amateur McMansions of dubious construction quality and low-brow material choices, vacant, and slowing decaying, because Village of Lincolnwood long failed to enforce its Building Code and its Zoning Code. Saugnash suffered some of the that same “McMansion” tear-down zeal. Look at the volume of empty McMansion listings in Lincolnwood and Saugnash.
Whereas there may have been similar “cash business” entrepreneurs attracted by this type of clumsy infill McMansion squeezed upon to its lot, their cash-based businesses are also suffering same recession factors of declining cashflow. Who will buy these houses?
My appreciation for his home rises correlates directly with the price. If I could buy this at foreclosure for $500k I’d love it but at 1.5mil it’s a piece of garbage.
“this type of clumsy infill McMansion squeezed upon to its lot”
Looking at streetview, it’s not too much out of scale with the immediate neighborhood. Totally out of character, but not too far out of scale.
Off topic:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2810
“A title search tool. If in the course of your browsing you come across a Cook County Property Index Number (PIN) (format 99-99-999-999 or 99-99-999-999-9999) in your browser window, select it and “right”-click and on the context menu you will be offered options to open new tabs of relevant information from Cook County websites.”
I don’t know what took me so long to find this, it is incredibly useful. Redfin usually gives the PIN, highlight and right-click away.
The add-on is even better than a law clerk! 😉
Wow – great plug in, homedelete!
Thanks HD.
But just a caution: Redfin’s PIN numbers aren’t always correct.
“Funny thing is you would be amazed how many people like this shit.”
really? while i dont agree on all the furniture and to a very limited degree the theater room (looks a bit ‘lodge’-y, needs better furnishings), all in all i think this place is badass. and usually i have a more modern taste.
i guess to each their own.
still, i think homedelete is right. $1.6M is probably too much for this place, as most w/ that kind of money usually find themselves better places out in the burbs.
I’m always a little amused when the furniture in a unit for sale is in the focus of these listings. Especially that third picture: piano, leather chairs, flowers…
Are they selling the low-taste/high-money lifestyle? Or the house itself?
has anyone google-mapped the exact location? it’s basically on top of I-94…
“it’s basically on top of I-94”
Nah. Even in a straight line, it’s a quarter mile away. By that standard, everything west of LaSalle and south of Chicago Ave is “basically on top of” the freeway.