CHICAGO — Every time Margaret Hohmeier's parents needed a break, they'd send her downstairs, to her own house.
Hohmeier grew up in a four-bedroom, 5,000 square-foot ranch home built by her father, a professional woodworker, in Sauganash at 6282 N. Kolmar Ave.
Along with a sauna and a 1,100-square-foot rec room, he created a 200-square-foot playhouse in the basement as a Christmas present for his six children.
Now, Hohmeier is putting the home on the market, basement playhouse and all.
The tiny model home, with a ceiling about 5 feet off the floor, includes functioning lights and wood cabinets that are "probably better quality than the rest of the house," Hohmeier laughed.
Between that and the larger house's sprawling backyard spanning three city lots, Hohmeier was rarely bored, she said.
"We were constantly down there playing, and our friends always wanted to come over," she said. "I don't think I realized as a child how beautiful, how unbelievable a place it was to grow up in."
The asking price for the home is $1.1 million. Hohmeier would sell the playhouse separately for about $5,000, she said.
