You come up the walk to a brick and vinyl front that has been carefully kept, starting with a roof that is only about five years old. Inside, the living room stretches 23 feet with a bay window pulling light across the hardwood, and it does not stop there. It runs straight into the kitchen, where a big island sits in the middle of everything and the dining space opens right off it.

The family room is where this house earns it. Twenty two by sixteen with a gas fireplace anchoring it, far enough from the bedrooms that a movie at full volume does not wake anybody. A bedroom and a bath sit right next to it, which quietly solves the guest room problem, or the office problem, or both at once. Keep going and there is a finished recreation room with a small dry bar, the kind of space people end up planning their weekends around.

Outside, the fenced yard holds a maintained above ground pool with a deck off it and a shed for everything else, and the attached garage runs 26 feet deep. Four bedrooms, 2,512 finished square feet, and a fenced yard in Hawthorne Hills at $374,900. Dyer puts you minutes from 394 and the Illinois line, so the drive into Chicago or the south suburbs stays straightforward, and Franciscan Health Dyer is right down the road.