Custom Home · Long Grove
Wooded Lot Custom Home in Long Grove
A custom home in Long Grove, built on a village lot where the trees and the setbacks had as much to say about the plan as anybody else did.
The trees had a say
Long Grove keeps its lots wooded, and that is the first constraint on any house going up there. Where the trees stand decides where the driveway comes in, where the house sits and which way the main rooms face. We walk that before the architect is asked to commit anything to paper.
Once the siting was agreed, the plan went through the usual back and forth until nobody wanted to change it any further. The specification meeting followed, then a quote built from it. Through construction we walked the house regularly with the owners, so progress was something seen rather than reported.
The short version
- Type
- Custom Home
- Where
- Long Grove, IL
- Scope
- Custom residence built in Long Grove
- Photographs
- 17
The gallery
A house set among what was already there
Approach shots come first, because the drive and the mature planting were fixed before the footprint was.
Worth noticing
Three things about this one
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Sited among mature Long Grove trees that set the driveway approach
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Orientation of the main rooms decided on the lot, not in the office
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Regular walkthroughs with the owners on site as the house went up
Ask what this one cost
We can tell you the budget, the schedule and what went sideways on the way. Every job has something. The useful question is what happened next.