The best place to buy a masnion
We all have big dreams for our lives. One of those big dreams might be to own a large and fabulous mansion one day.
Many of us have an idea of what a mansion should look like, but we don’t always have to imagine it. There are some fabulous mansions that we already know about or at least that already exist. Many of them are owned, or have been owned, by some big name celebrities in the Los Angeles, Hollywood and Beverly Hills area. Let’s take a look at four intriguing mansions.
The biggest mansion in California is the Aaron Spelling mansion. How big is it? How does 57,000 square feet, 123 rooms grab you? And that doesn’t include the 17,000 square foot attic, or the basement, which has a bowling alley. This mansion is meant to be lived in, and if you never left you wouldn’t ever know it.
Talk about luxury! How about more than a dozen large bedrooms, 26 bathrooms, multiple living rooms, including one that’s actually a screening room, where a 23 foot screen comes up in the middle of the floor, the shades automatically close, and some pictures raise up to reveal the projector? The house has 30 foot ceilings, and most of the rooms have European chandeliers. There’s a library, beauty parlor and barber shop, home gym, two pools with a spa, three kitchens and a wine cellar. All of this and more on around 5 acres of property; amazing. It’s not quite Buckingham Palace, but it will do.
And guess what? It’s now on the market, with an asking price of $150 million; practically a steal! After all, Mariah Carey is rumored to have bid on the “much smaller” 53,000 square foot Fleur de Lys mansion, formerly owned by billionaire David Saperstein, which is on the market for “only” $125 million. She must be slumming.
And what about “poor” Oprah Winfrey, having to live with her 23,000 square foot, $50 million, 6-bedroom mansion on 42 acres of land? Winfrey’s mansion has 6 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, 10 fire places, and a home theater, a lake, tennis courts, and an orchard. Truthfully, she bought it for that amount back in 2001; now it’s been appraised at around $85 million.
Then there’s the Playboy mansion, which every male over the age of 15 has been hoping to get an invite to at some point in their lives for over 40 years. Hugh Hefner’s mansion is just under 22,000 square feet, with 29 rooms including a game room, wine celler, a zoo, and a special room known as the “Elvis Suite” that no one except Hef has seen since the early 70’s. Oh yeah; he has a smaller mansion next door that his former wife lives in, which has just gone on the market for $28 million. This mansion is valued at $50 million.
Finally, we have the one time mansion of rapper M.C. Hammer. This wondrous mansion of excess, at least considered so at the time, is over 11,000 square feet and the only ranch style mansion on the list, which makes it look bigger than it really is. It sits on 12 acres of land and has six bedrooms, Italian marble floors, a recording studio, tennis courts, a bowling alley (celebrities seem to like bowling), a 33-seat theater, two pools, and exercise room with two saunas, and its main outdoor feature, a waterfall, which he considered as one of the centerpieces of the mansion. At one time it was worth around $9.5 million, but after he declared bankruptcy he sold it for around $5.8 million, and its value right now is around $8 million.
Do you want to live like a celebrity? Think big; buy a mansion, and live it up.
Luis Pezzini Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/real-estate-articles/the-best-place-to-buy-a-masnion-940109.html
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