2326 W Erie Street, Chicago, IL 60612

You'll notice it before you can name it. Standing out front, taking in the clean lines and quiet confidence of this 5 bedroom, 3.5 bath contemporary masterpiece, something reads differently. The extra width, a full 30-foot lot where nearly every home nearby was built on 25. Five feet that change everything past the front door. The house doesn't narrow. It opens. Sunlight travels the length of the main level, and the rooms give way to one another with an ease that can't be engineered into a narrower footprint. The kitchen is a chef's dream and the most seductive room in the house; designer through and through, dark against light, warmed after dusk by soft lighting beneath the cabinetry. It was made for long dinners and late conversations and it never sends you away from your guests: the living space lies open beside it, the rear doors just past that, so an evening drifts from counter to sofa to garden without a single pause. Outside, that evening finds a paver patio with a full outdoor...