With this Aurora home, you can really play the angles.
The contemporary design features angles on the ceilings, walls and floor spaces. This 7-year-old house is at 780 Bloomfield Ave., three miles southwest of Fox Valley Shopping Center in the Georgetown subdivision, and it`s listed at $142,000.
Listing agent Bill White of Re/Max Affiliates of Naperville is highlighting still another angle: the home does not have a definitive floor plan, so many different layouts are possible.
”The real selling point,” White said at a recent open house, ”is its openness and the fact that it can be utilized according to one`s lifestyle, from a two-bedroom to a four-bedroom home.”
The unusual layout has areas of spaciousness and areas that are tightly designed for space-saving efficiency. Inside the front door, the house seems huge, with a two-story living room and a spiral staircase leading up to a large, open loft.
The door to the garage is just a few feet from the front door, with the entryway serving both doors.
Above it all
Winding, wide-open stairs lead up to the loft, currently open and used as a family room. The builder`s original floor plan, however, included a wall that would enable part of the loft to be used as a third bedroom; a new owner could do the same. The loft bathroom and a walk-in closet would serve that bedroom.
A fourth bedroom could be created in a dormered area off the loft, over the garage, in space now used as a playroom. Although this space is large, at 20 by 12 feet, the severely angled ceiling line would make the bedroom best suited for children or very short adults.
Even if those two rooms were walled off, a loft area would still remain, with natural light streaming in from a high window in an angled corner and from a floor-to-ceiling Palladian window downstairs.
The 19-by-16 living room has a gas-starter fireplace that`s visible from the loft. Adjoining it is a 12-by-9 dining area, which has a bay window with a built-in window seat.
Across a breakfast bar from the dining room is the U-pattern kitchen-efficiency-sized at 9 by 8 feet. The stove/range/microwave is included in the home`s price and the refrigerator is negotiable.
The pantry/utility room is cramped-just the width of the washing machine on the left and the dryer on the right. Pantry shelves line the back wall, but food storage might be limited by the heat from the appliances.
Sleeping quarters
The entry doors to the main-level bedrooms are angled. The 12-by-11 child`s room has a large closet and peach-toned stucco walls.
The master bedroom, at 14 by 12 feet, has handy corner shelves, built in to take advantage of its unusual angled door, and three wide sections of closet (with a floor-to-ceiling mirrored exterior). Two sections have a full- length clothes pole and one has a double rack.
The bathroom has a hallway door, a door to the master bedroom, an oval-shaped ”garden tub” and angled shelves behind the door.
The multi-level deck outside the dining room is also angled, and takes advantage of the home`s 2/3-acre lot with terraced back yard. A gas grill is included, and a child`s play set, with swings, a slide and a ladder, is negotiable. Also negotiable is a big-screen TV that currently takes up the corner of the loft family room.
With such non-traditional space usage, how did agent White decide how many bedrooms to say the house has?
”Really, the builder makes that call,” he said. ”I advertise it as three bedrooms, because that`s what the plans call for, but it could easily be a two-bedroom or a four-bedroom.”
