This four-bedroom, 2½-bathroom Italianate home in Evanston has 11-foot ceilings, new oversized custom windows and window treatments, original plaster moldings, hardwood floors and designer lighting.

This was the ugliest, smallest house on one of our favourite roads in the village – 'little more than a shack with a dining room in a lean-to', according to its owners. But just look at it now... The ...