Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Facts About Celebrity Homes

By Sam Cloud

Each of us does our best to create a space of our own that we can call home and begin to furnish and decorate it a way that closely represents both our lifestyles as well as our sense of style. Since the urge can be found in all humans, there's no surprise to find celebrities using their bank balances to do this exact same thing with their bundles of cash. Often they go overboard buying up massive mansions to live in where they can entertain several guests without each of them feeling a lack of privacy.

Many of the best celebrity homes are situated on estates that cover several acres, the houses themselves occupying several thousand square feet. While some have used all that space to recreate a mini paradise for themselves, others have gone ahead and turned their homes into extravagant yet tasteless retreats. Obviously though, it's the best ones you'll want to hear about.

Afternoon TV queen, Oprah has a massive 23,000 sqft mansion that sits on a sprawling 42 acre lot that she's named Oprah's Hearst Castle. While the landscape includes a man-made lake filled with rare species of fish, and a Montecito sandstone brick driveway, the house itself is a six bed, 14 bath affair that also includes a home theater and ten different fireplaces. Winfrey's home is situated in Santa Barbara, CA.

The Tudor-style manor that Goldie Hawn and her husband Kurt Russell owned temporarily in Vancouver, Canada is next on this list. The famous couple shifted in to be close to their son who was making an entry into the world of professional hockey. The massive home came with eleven fireplaces, an entrance hall with two dens, a kitchen, a fireplace, a yard and a coach house, a huge living space for formal occasions, a dining room, a dressing room with the master suite, a conservatory, a gym, a theater and five bedrooms.

Let's now head to Laglio in Italy, the small town where George Clooney owns a stunning villa with twenty-five rooms, a pool, and a garage large enough to house Clooney's many motorbikes. He claims to love the villa a lot spending as much of his free time there entertaining the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. The villa has also been used to film a few scenes for Ocean's Twelve.

Jerry Seinfeld's home since 2000, is also one we ought not to end this article without mentioning. Purchased by Seinfeld from Billy Joel, this mansion is situated in New York's East Hampton. Seinfeld paid a whopping $32 million for this Tudor mansion built on the waterfront. Set on 14 acres, the home consists of three buildings that together contain 24 rooms, 8 baths (and an additional 5 half-baths), pools both indoors and outdoors, a bowling alley, a gym, a tennis court, a music room, a cottage for guests, a wine cellar and a smoking bar.

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