You come up the drive and the world gets quieter. The house sits high on the hill, tucked back against the mountain, trees closing in behind it like the land decided to keep this one for itself.

Inside, it's the great room that stops you. Light, height, a stone fireplace sets the backdrop and ten acres of Fox Valley on the other side of the glass.

This house has been becoming something all year. New wide plank flooring. Fresh paint. New fixtures. Two bathrooms entirely refreshed. And the kitchen - the last piece - finishing with intention by Sep. 12. The finished house is yours.

Downstairs the walkout is unfinished, and that's on purpose. Somewhere to grow into later, when you know what you want it to be.

And out past the trees, there's a campsite. A real one. The kind of place where cool nights end around a fire, with the mountain at your back. That's the part that isn't in any spec sheet and the part you'll think about later. All that's lefts left is the living, and a property unlike all the others.