Photo-illustration by Gluekit A house — and a life? — transformed for the cameras. A man in the desert touches flame to a snaking trail of gasoline, and as fire whips across a blasted stretch of earth ...

Welcome to House Calls, a feature in which Curbed tours the lovely, offbeat, or otherwise awesome homes of regular Chicagoans. Think your space should be featured next? Drop us a line with a few ...