Deal Estate: A Contemporary Lake Forest Farmhouse

List Price: $1,599,000
Sale Price: $1,300,000
The Property: The architect Frederick Phillips designed this simple but striking house in 2000 for his widowed, 80-something mother, Katherine Bennett, who had lived nearby in a renovated 19th-century barn for four decades. "She only needed a few rooms," says Phillips, but she had always cherished her views of the woods around her." Phillips designed a house that put all his mother's needs -
kitchen, living and dining room, bedroom, bathroom, and a big deck - on the second floor, with windows all around and elevator access from the drive-up foyer on the ground floor. In addition, there are two guest bedrooms in a perpendicular wing that appears to stand on stilts over the rest of the house...

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