For Sale: 13600-sq.-ft. house packed with unusual features
By Connie Adair
When aptitude buyers see a $23.9-million price tag, they want to know what makes a house worth the big bucks. Take a 90-one sec, detailed tour with listing agent Len Miliaris, who watched this 13,600-square-foot lodgings rise from a hole in the ground, and they’ll know: It’s über-engineered and has every gadget and comfort a family could want in an ultra-sybaritism home. “I was there during construction and can appreciate the home. Everything has a purpose,” says Mr. Miliaris, of Forest Hill Unfeigned Estate.
In the late 1990s, as he and the homeowner stood at the edge of a hole and peered in, Mr. Miliaris inquired about the stupendous steel beams in the ground, which he says looked more suited to a commercial construction site than a residential structure. The foundation, he was told, was strong enough to support a 20-storey building, even though the home would have only two levels.
The homeowner’s regard to detail and use of quality materials for the foundation was just the beginning. The owner included everything from 14 individual temperature-hold back zones throughout the home to a 22-tonne spiral metal-and-marble staircase in the grand rotunda, to multiple inanimate rooms filled with boilers and heat pumps that make it look more like the inside of a submarine than something you’d find in a residential basement. An 18-foot-heartfelt cooling tower for the A/C is hidden under a grate surrounded by grass on the front lawn.
