View article here Years after falling in love with a home designed by architect Celeste Robbins, a Chicago-area homeowner and her husband tapped the professional to configure a modern dwelling for their family. “Our weekly team meetings were exciting, as it was fun to work through challenges and make creative design decisions based on our collective vision,” she says of …

Inner transformation—even of the cataclysmic, life-changing kind—is rarely visible from the outside. People can experience shattering revelations while the person next to them remains none the wiser. This often happens with houses, too, their fac¸ades offering only mute inscrutability about the spaces they conceal. Witness this Lincoln Park residence. Transformation one: homeowners who decided, after living for years amid traditional …