Posts Tagged celebrity homes
Celebrity Homes – 50 Cents ‘Crib’
Posted by Jeff Awesome in General Design on September 21st, 2009
I debated doing this house or not but decided I would just to show people how NOT to decorate a house. It isn’t possibly bad in the way you might expect with dodgy diamond and fur lining everywhere in fact it is distincly un ‘pimped’. It does however look like a very 80’s hotel.
I’ll start with the facts first.
- 51,657 square feet
- 19 bathrooms
- 19 bedrooms
- 4 kitchens
- Gym
- Movie theatre
- 2 swimming pools (one with a waterfall!)
- 5 jacuzzis (every self respecting man has 5 jacuzzis)
- 2 billiard rooms
- Indoor shooting range (presumably so he can practice his drive-bys)
- Handball court (what is handball?)
- Night club (yes, really)
So it is very well specced and with the jacuzzi’s, swimming pools, billiards rooms and a nightclub it definitely hints at a bit of a party house and would be the ultimate frat house.
That is the entrance hallway and to me that screams tacky hotel rather than somebody’s house. The use of awful rugs and pointless furniture are the kind of random things that get thrown in to decorate hotels. It just doesn’t seem like a very homely place.
The outside does looks amazing though with stunning landscaping. I wouldn’t mind living in one of the two guest houses thats for sure.
The inside ‘grotto’ pool is very reminiscent of a certain Playboy mansion.
Probably the only part of the house that gets used every day – The gym
The part of the house that never gets used and looks like it was decorated by his mum – the dining room
A rather unimpressive cinema room
And the main attraction point to the house – the in house club! I have to say though it looks pretty awful and if I went to a club that looked like that in town I would probably leave after half an hour.
In general the house just has a very80’s feel to it and needs some major updating.
Celebrity Homes – Bill Gates
Posted by Jeff Awesome in General Design on September 8th, 2009
I am going to start a regular feature today concentrating on celebrity’s homes, after talking about Lenny Kravitz house being for sale I started looking at other famous peoples houses and was stunned by how brilliant some of them were. I’ll start it off today by looking at Bill Gates $200 million* geek pad.
The house is quite private and all interior pictures are private and copyrighted, I’m not going to break Microsoft copyright, fighting against Bill Gates is not good… However there are exterior shots of the house available
It is absolutely massive with the residence taking up 66,000 square feet of land, this means that the house can include 7 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, six kitchens and six fireplaces! Why anyone has 6 kitchens I have no idea, one for each style of cooking? Chinese style kitchen, Indian style etc. Most of the house is actually built into the side of the hill so it is a lot bigger than it looks from the aerial photographs. This along with lots of other parts of the build such as recycled wood being used and very eco sensitive lighting, mean the house is very eco friendly, especially for one that relies on technology so much. Bill Gates is obviously concerned about global warming as well as everyone else (and with his power I’m sure he can help lots!)
The house has a 17 x 60 foot swimming pool that has an underwater music system (err..what!) and swimmers can swim under a glass wall to be in either the indoor or outdoor part of the pool. The house also has a Theatre, Library, Formal dining room, exercise room including sauna, steam room, men and women’s lockers and a tramp0line room. A reception hall that has a 150 person capacity for entertaining and a 63 foot high grand staircase or a lift depending on how you want to move about the home.
Of course being the Microsoft owners house you expect it to be full to the brim of lovely technology goodness, and boy he doesn’t fail there. When you enter the house you are given a microchip pin to wear and this sends signals throughout the home and all the rooms presets for individual people will come up automatically when you go throughout the house. So each room would change the setting of the AC dependent on who was in it and amazingly all the art in the house is digital and will change to the users preference when they are there!
The floors are also pressure sensitive so that any resident or any member of the security team knows exactly how many people are in the house and exactly where they are. His kids must not be able to get away with anything! and lastly to continue the eco friendly theme lights automatically come on and more importantly go off as you walk around the house, so not more fumbling for switches in the dark and tripping over furniture.
Here is a little video that is a digital tour of the house to show you some more information
* In 2005 anyway