This 1880 Apartment Building Was Turned Into a Single Family Home
For a growing family, the design team at Studio Gild set out with a big mission: to convert three units in an 1880s apartment building, located in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood, into a single home. “The original real estate listing read, ‘All you need is a shovel,’” the Studio Gild team recalls. “They understated it a bit. The home needed a new kitchen, baths, flooring, windows, doors, stairs—new everything.”
The building was originally split into a duplex and a second-floor apartment with the kitchen, living, and office areas all in one large room. Behind the apartments were fire porches that doubled
