Ravine Modern Residence Design

A ravine bordering a golf course becomes site of this modern living residence. An H-shaped house plans of double height volume is main structure of this house. Defined by service and bedroom wings flanking a great room for entertaining the couples’ family and grandchildren. The master suite on the ground floor consists of a study, bedroom, dressing rooms, bath and exercise room. The second floor contains an office and guest bedrooms.

The house is perched at the edge of a ravine with terraces and gardens on table land. Extensive use of glass gives the house a feeling of being in a tree house looking down at the wooded ravine.

Materials include rough-sawn Red Cedar siding, Crema Marfil marble floors on the ground floor, as well as at the fireplace and master bedroom suite, Brazilian black slate, Zebra wood millwork in the great room, and Anigre millwork in master bedroom, kitchen, and study. This luxury home designed by Grunsfeld Shafer Architects, located at Glencoe, Illinois.