Bilbo Baggins’ charming property only exists in the fictional Shire, but a Chicago property that bears a hanging resemblance to it can be yours for $495,000.

In the Windy City’s Irving Park neighborhood, this 1,869-square-foot, three-bed room unfold has nabbed a lot more than 24,000 sights on Redfin because it was listed virtually 3 weeks ago, according to Block Club Chicago, which has almost everything to do with its whimsical decor.

Tucked driving an unassuming white exterior surrounded by greenery, the inside will come totally stocked with antique knickknacks — which includes wooden gondola lanterns from Venice, a wood cupboard carved with Christian motifs, stained-glass windows and a French chaise percée that conceals the grasp bathroom’s toilet with the shape of a chair. The listing illustrations or photos demonstrate that every single corner of the house is accented with decorations — even the kitchen, the place cabinets are partly hid by wreaths and framed paintings dangle around a forged-iron AGA range, the latter of which is bundled in the sale.

Fittingly, it is owned by a female named Christa Brachert, who owned an antique store right up until previous 12 months when she retired immediately after 50 yrs in the small business. And for her, the charming litter is just what she would like.

“I really don’t like owning factors place absent in storage and hardly ever touched,” she told Block Club. “What are you saving it for? I really do not see the perception in that.”

Her other possessions include things like tapestries adorning practically each wall in the house and elaborate garlands hanging from the picket ceiling of a breakfast nook. She earlier tried sticking to a one decorating topic, but observed it too constricting — and finished up mixing with each other anything she appreciated.

Brachert and her partner, artwork vendor Donald Paset, are not absolutely sure wherever they’ll move immediately after they sell the dwelling — and they’ll auction or donate the antique goods as well bulky to take. They bought the 1904-designed house in the 1990s.

“When I was searching for a home in the area this one particular stood out as a blank canvas, which was amazing,” Brachert advised the publication. “It had a substantial lawn that did not have substantially in it. No pool. Nothing at all. We decorated above the several years in this amazing way and I have designed this my snug household. It is cozy and attractive and amazing. I adore it. There is something magic about this dwelling.”

It’s even charming outside the house, where there is a pool, a wooded spot that shades a seating location and a eating spot that also options a number of attractive wreaths.

Both of those her backyard garden and the house by itself gained the enjoy of her neighbors, who ended up astonished the few outlined the property for sale.

“I’ve admired your back garden each time I go by,” a neighbor, Dana Soedt, wrote in a postcard right after the listing strike the market. “Here’s hoping that your property retains each and every ounce of attraction beneath its new ownership.”