The Pulidos were married but living apart, she in Chicago and he still in their native Australia, in 2004 when he came for one of his regular visits “and she told me she had bought a house.”
They then spent over a year rehabbing the place, with an eye toward “giving it a modern, elegant aesthetic,” Rena Pulido said, “while also respecting its past.”
Working with interior designer and architect Despina Souhlas of studio ESS in Chicago, they opened up the main rooms up from their cramped historical layout, put a wine room and guest suite in the basement, and redid the kitchen and baths, not to mention turning a low-ceilinged top-floor space into the airy, sunlit space it is now.
The Pulidos are relocating back to Australia. They had this house on the market prior to the pandemic, then rented it out for the duration. Now they plan to put the four-bedroom, 3,200-square-foot home back on the market June 14. Represented by Karen Ranquist of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago, it’s priced at a little over $1.62 million.
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