2115 Wabash Road

The backyard here does not feel like a city lot. It runs back deep enough to hold a grape arbor with vines thick enough to prove real age, a fenced vegetable garden with raised beds already growing inside deer netting, and a run of mature pines and spruce along the back line that blocks the neighbors out entirely, the kind of privacy screen that takes a decade to grow and cannot be bought at a garden center. A stone edged path connects it all, and a picnic table sits at the far edge of the open lawn. There is room here for a chicken coop, permitted under the city's ordinance, more raised beds, or whatever the next owner decides to build. Out front, the covered porch is trimmed in iron scrollwork, echoed a few steps over on the breezeway connecting the detached garage to a second outbuilding, ready for a workshop or storage. A basketball hoop already stands at the edge of the driveway. Inside, the living and dining space opens straight into the great room with a single step down, no hallway, no separation, just one open run of space built around a brick fireplace with a beamed ceiling overhead, where the wood and the brick carry the character rather than paint or trim. The kitchen keeps its oak cabinetry, tiled backsplash, and a peninsula with counter seating, arranged so whoever is cooking stays part of the conversation happening in the next room. A laundry closet sits just off the kitchen, out of the main path through the house. A three season porch off the kitchen, painted a deep blue, catches the morning sun through a bank of windows and looks straight out toward the garage. It is a room built for daily use from spring through fall, coffee in hand, before the rest of the day gets moving. That three season porch sits beside a completely separate office, its own room with a door that shuts, not a corner of a bedroom or a nook off the kitchen. Built in shelving flanks the entry, and a window borrows daylight from the porch next door without giving up the sense of being closed off from the rest of the house.