’80s time capsule home in suburban Chicago sells for $700K

Mirror mirror on the wall, is this house the most retro of them all?

In the Chicago suburbs, a 4,256-square-foot home replete with mirrors on just about each individual floor — most prominently in its really reflective kitchen — has sold, The Put up has discovered.

Located at 4 Cambridge Generate in Oak Brook, this 1979-crafted distribute — which took a 10 years to enhance and nevertheless oozes a well-managed 1980s look — traded hands for $699,000, in accordance to Realtor.com.

But irrespective of its undeniable a long time-earlier appeal, the new purchaser reportedly plans to make variations — compared with the hordes of fascinated entrepreneurs who had very little but like for its shiny appeal.

“​I have hardly ever experienced a listing where so several people arrived at out to me who loved the decor, and/or were interested in paying for the furnishings and artwork pieces,” listing agent Kathy Di Valerio, of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago, instructed The Put up. “One [prospective] buyer explained to me she required to acquire the dwelling, and almost everything in it. She didn’t want to change a factor!”

The four- to five-bedroom dwelling stated in March for $733,000 and, as explained in its marketing, was an estate sale.

A brick exterior prospects into a glassy interior. The listing photographs of the kitchen show mirrors masking the two-doorway refrigerator, the full-dimensions dishwasher, the paneling encompassing the microwave and oven, as perfectly as the cupboard doorways. In other places, mirrors fill walls of bedrooms — such as in the bed room whose bed has a mirrored body, and an additional whose ceiling was dressed with rolls of fabric in a wave sample. There are even glass panels together the walls of a basement-degree recreation home and those of bogs, which include a single whose mirrors are colored gold.

“You really don’t see a great deal of the ’80s fashion anymore,” stated Di Valerio. “And you most absolutely really do not see an entire house that looks like it was in a time capsule for [decades], like this a single was.”

Other photographs clearly show a staircase with ornamental lucite and reflective gold ornaments, as nicely as other non-reflective partitions painted white, an all-white residing spot with a fireplace and even inside palm trees.

The homeowners, recognized as Frank and Gloria, had different hobbies. Frank loved automobiles — and the listing pictures moreover present a big garage — and Gloria relished dressing her household. (She also appeared to have the grasp recipe for trying to keep the mirrors totally free of streaks.)

“When Gloria bought the itch to enhance she’d choose which room she preferred to renovate, she’d choose a theme, she’d connect with her Interior Decorator, Irv Caplan, and off they’d go to the Merchandise Mart to make Gloria’s eyesight appear to lifestyle,” Di Valerio extra. “If Gloria and Irv couldn’t find precisely what they preferred, they would have furnishings and art pieces custom made to entire the area.”

As for the home’s other aspects, it stands on a .57-acre lot with a entrance porch. The lobby reaches two tales significant, there’s a laundry room, a elevated dressing spot in the learn bedroom and a sunken tub in its lavatory, and closets in the course of. Outside the house, the deep-whole lot yard arrives dotted with trees. Close by stands a patio with room for lounge seating.

Even thought the residence is in new fingers now, the initial owners surely left their mark.

“It took 10 a long time for this dwelling to be wholly pulled jointly the way Gloria wished it,” stated Di Valerio.