Home Description

This is a beautiful, livable home and among the best you would ever find already built and ready to go for a growing family with special needs. Huge pines afford both privacy and shading from the sun. What better home for a person with MCS or one who is EI than one owned by a family dealing with the same challenges. A partial listing of our homeís features and amenities would be Eight-room, two-story, brick and frame construction with an attached, two-car garage (with enough space to hold motorcycles or snowmobiles or a freezer, etc.), and a finished basement including a work room. Itís big enough and well insulated enough to require a wireless intercom for floor-to-floor communications. The driveway can hold six cars. Starting on the first floor, we have a living room (17 X 13) that has a southern view through a picture window and is equipped with a wood burning fireplace that has a gas starter. There is a dining room (14 X 14) which is fitted along with the living room with custom drapes (seasoned but clean) along with chair rail and crown molding. The kitchen is great (19 X 18) equipped with a new, no-wax solarian flooring, a ten-foot island, oak cabinets, and two pantries. It has a stainless steel sink equipped with a new disposal. There is under-counter lighting and a built-in desk for a phone center with cabinets to hold shelves full of cook books. Non-cooks would be lost here. As a bonus, the laundry room equipped with oak cabinets, a new laundry tub, and a closet is also on the first floor. The laundry room and the kitchen are both equipped to handle gas or electric appliances (we have electric). On the second floor are three bedrooms and a family room (17 X 17), yes a paneled family room on the second floor. The master bedroom (18 X 18) has a 38 sq. ft. walk-in closet and an attached dressing room with a newly remodeled bath. The other bedrooms (12 X 17) and (15 X 13) both of which have ample closet space and share a full bath also newly remodeled. The upstairs hallway affords a linen closet and a pull-down ladder leading to a full attic for storage. The basement features oak paneling, a half bath, two closets, a work room, a bedroom/office (10 X 10), and a family room. The basement wall surfaces and floor are as dry as those on the first floor. There is no mold ñ period! Additional information This a builderís home, occupied by the builder after construction. It has 12î fiberglass attic insulation 2 X 12 floor joists Exterior walls have 1 Dow high efficiency insulation The roof is only five years old The furnace/dehumidifier/central air is less than five years old The brick chimney has been treated with a water seal All the windows are Andersen white clad The home has undergone a full electrical system audit to assure the service has adequate capacity and conformance with current safety standards using GFI etc. For comfort control, all upstairs rooms are equipped with ceiling fans and there is a central ceiling vent fan and an attic vent fan.

What makes your home a Green or Healthy Home?

What better home for a person with MCS or one who is EI than one owned by a family dealing with the same challenges. This home is as one would expect it to be. There are no pets, no perfumes, no use of pesticides, herbicides, nor fertilizers. To minimize VOCís, only water-based low VOC paint has ever been used, the carpeting is not new, and even the furniture while beautiful, is seasonedî, not still out-gassing.

Neighborhood Description

Suburban, The charm and beauty of Wisconsin within the borders of Illinois? This is it! In McHenry County is Oakwood Hills, a small, independent village built around man-made Silver Lake on which no power craft are permitted. Our home sits on Lake Shore Drive and affords an idyllic view of the lake (not lakeshore footage). As village residents, we have access as boaters, swimmers or fishermen. Immediately adjacent to the home is a large park and fen suitable for hours of hiking and quiet reflection. How people friendly is Oakwood Hills? The children actually say, Helloî, and, Thank you.î On several occasions we have inadvertently left the garage door open overnight, and nothing was disturbed. We are only minutes from two high-quality public access golf courses (Chalet and Foxford Hills). While there is no downtownî, this is small town living at its finest ñ all the benefits without the headaches. We are ten minutes from commuter rail transit to the Loop and within a half hour from a shopping mall and I-90. This is an opportunity to have it all your wayÖ. a house thatís perfect for MCS sensitivities, a neighborhood thatís as peaceful as possible, and still close enough to all basic needs.

Market Area

We live in the Northwest quadrant of the Chicago Metro area, one hour from O\'Hare. While McHenry county is one the fastest growing areas, zoning is such that this area will see no conversion from agricultural uses to other than residential or strip development (office or retail).

School District

Prairie Grove thru G8, Crystal Lake thru 12