Interior designer Kate Marker and her husband, Kenneth, on Sept. 14 placed their six-bedroom Arts and Crafts-style mansion in Barrington Hills on the market for $4.99 million.
A designer since 2000, Marker runs Barrington-based Kate Marker Interiors, and she oversees a variety of interior design projects. She also frequently comments to the news media on interior design topics.
In Barrington Hills, Marker and her husband paid $860,000 in early 2020 for the home. She then set out to renovate the mansion, which was built in 1926 and now has five full bathrooms, three half bathrooms, original plaster and wood moldings, reclaimed wood and stone flooring, Dutch doors and a kitchen with an ILVE Italian range, dual Sub-Zero refrigerators, a built-in coffee station, marble and soapstone countertops, a walk-in pantry and herringbone wood floors.
Other features in the 9,210-square-foot house include a breakfast room, a rear staircase, a family room with a beamed ceiling and a wood-burning river rock fireplace, a mud room with built-in lockers and heated brick floors, a sunroom and a primary bedroom suite with custom-built walk-in closets, exposed brick walls and an exposed rafter beam ceiling.
Outside on the property are a heated saltwater pool, a hot tub with a pergola, a herringbone fire rock patio, a fire pit area, a 1,000-square-foot coach house, views overlooking Flint Creek and garage parking space for seven cars. The mansion sits on 10 acres.
Mimi Noyes of @properties, who is co-listing the house with Coldwell Banker’s Dawn McKenna, told Elite Street that the house was built by Charles Buckley of Highland Park, who wanted to create a gentleman’s farm.
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