Welcome Home! As you drive in to your fully organized, 2 1/2 stall garage you can't help but to notice that you finally have room to easily open your car doors. Enter your meticulously maintained family enclave through the exceptionally functional and cheery informal entry where you have plenty of room for hats, coats, boots, book bags and a place to conveniently store and charge your portable electronics. Now that you have shed your coat, docked your mobile devices and donned your house shoes, you have easy access to the large laundry and powder rooms and to the heart of your home. You are greeted by the warm, state-of-the-art kitchen, which is open to the large-yet-cozy gathering space; it is professionally decorated and designed for an active family to live, dine, entertain, and just be a family. The spacious, three-level island is designed for quick snacks, sharing a cup of coffee with neighbors, preparing a gourmet meal for friends or entertaining during your favorite holiday. Full-sized, dual dishwashers eliminate everyday drudgery and make holiday clean up a breeze. Top off all of this with a fully appointed wet bar, home office, granite counters, solid maple cabinets, quarter-sawn oak flooring, a central vacuum, security system, intercom, sound system, Pella windows, and appliance names like Sub-Zero, Thermador and Viking.

A bay window with automatic shades provide the background for the Yamaha grand DiskLavier that graces the open piano nook and flanks the inviting screened porch on one side and a deck on the other - all connected by the outdoor, tumbled-stone patio that leads to the professionally landscaped private yard and custom pergola. Piano melodies wafting through the air will set the mood for all seasons and any reason.

Retreat to the bright and airy, first-floor, master suite with plenty of room for king-sized bedroom furniture. Beveled glass French doors lead to custom, dual, walk-in closets that keep your personal effects simply organized and easily accessible. As you start your morning with a refreshing shower in the oversized marble shower or you end the day with a relaxing soak in the Kohler therapeutic tub, you will be certain of one thing: This is home.

Whether you are conducting business or relaxing with a good book, the large, cherry-paneled study will enrich the experience. The study is a place where you can retire for the evening or spend a quiet Saturday morning surfing the net or playing a game of chess with a friend or monopoly with the family. Alternatively, mornings may find you rocking on the spacious front porch and chatting with neighbors. Warm days and quiet evenings will call you to the screened porch where an outdoor Casa Blanca ceiling fan maintains a comfortable breeze.

The sky-light-illuminated, cherry staircase leads up to a large landing that can accommodate a day-bed and several cozy seating arrangements for one to escape inclement weather or when feeling under-the-weather. The landing in turn provides easy access to three additional spacious bedrooms and two full baths. One bedroom has its own full bath and makes for a perfect guest room or semi-separate living quarters for older children, in-laws or an au pair. The second floor has a separate H-VAC system to maximize comfort and efficiency. Eight large, custom closets make the second floor even more efficient and usable.  (This does not include the seven first floor closets.) Modest attic space provides storage for those seasonal and large keepsake items that have yet to find a permanent purpose. A plethora of utility outlets make it easy to arrange furniture to create the perfect marriage of form and function.

The cavernous dry basement with a stone fireplace has been designed to be finished to meet a variety of needs and desires. Rough plumbing is included for a future full bath, a kitchenette/wet bar, a sauna and separate laundry connections. The concrete floor has been prepped for radiant, in-floor heat to provide a year-round, comfortably-dry, environment. A separate room was created with concrete walls for a future wine cellar/cold room. Three escape windows were installed to allow for the possibility of a fifth bedroom. There is adequate room for all of the above plus a large work room, exercise room, storage area, game room, family room and a separate home theater.

A custom, cedar, garden shed in the rear yard stores all the lawn tools, sports equipment and supplies one will ever need - a place for everything and everything in its place. Whether you are a gardener nouveau or a seasoned green-thumb, the covered potting bench will be a delight as you raise fresh spices for your next culinary experience and create flower displays for the window boxes, hanging planters, or seasonal flower beds to adorn your home and yard. A soft path leads to a shady setting under a century-old buckeye tree where a swing and a hammock await those interested in a little fun and relaxation. A fenced and gated area serves as the perfect space to create compost to enrich your garden and lessen your carbon footprint.

From your back yard, a visitor would guess you to be in any small town America. And yet, you have access to all that a vibrant metropolitan area has to offer. Within a few blocks or a few minutes in almost any direction, you will have access to everything you need. The Park Ridge Metra train station is an easy five minute stroll, and you can be in downtown Chicago in thirty minutes or less. Many top-rated public and private schools are within walking distance. You can easily walk or ride your bike to schools, to the library, to the park, to the Forest Preserve, to the pool, to the post-office, to dining, to the theater or to the Community Center. As you stroll down your street to a spacious boulevard park lined by stately homes and a canopy of complimentary trees, it will be easy to imagine that you have stepped back to a more genteel era. However, the reality of your new home will keep you firmly rooted in your elegantly simple and rewarding life.

Act now to make your dream home a reality.  Your new life is waiting.