This marvellous five-storey doll’s house in central London has just been listed by Savills estate agents for £25,000. The exquisite Barbie –like House boasts individually laid parquet floors, hand-crafted furniture, Nina Campbell walpapers and remote control lighting. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to charity.
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This Malibu home was once the summer residence of Dick Clark and his wife. The single story home has a cave-like interior, 22 acres of land, and great views of the ocean. Bottomless car not included.
If you have a knack for gardening and you hate winter as it keeps you away from it, Danish designer Simon Hjermind Jensen has come to your rescue. The invisible garden house he designed will keep you warm enjoying your hobby and the offerings of the summer time. Actually the designer designed it for a family living North of Copenhagen and it consists of three domes connected in such a way that they form a house.
The star of blockbusters Ghost and Indecent proposal Demi Moore and Punk’t creator Ashton kutcher’s luxury Hollywood love nest sits on around an acre of land boasting privacy as well as openness to nature. Tucked on a canyon hillside in Beverly Hills, the house gives you a feeling of ‘hanging in the trees.’
French and Japanese architects have conceived the utmost architecturally extravagant building that will combine features of both France and Japan. Dubbed The White Tree House/L’Arbre Blanc, on account of its tree-inspired shape, this 17-floor tower block is going to look like a tree, with branches from countless stair-step balconies hanging in all directions and shade decks which will create an atmosphere suitable for vegetation.
The star-studded affluent city of Malibu, in Los Angeles County, California, boasts the company of, among other residents (Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel, Danny DeVito, Dustin Hoffman, Ray Romano, Jami Gertz or Pierce Brosnan are just a few of them), noted film director Steven Spielberg, three-time Academy Award winner who owns a little over one acre of prime land.
Although Kim Kardashian, 33, and Kanye West, 36, purchased their $11-million Bel-Air digs only in January, they are already hunting for a new property so as to expand their real estate portfolio. The reality TV star is reportedly still staying at her mother’s Californian home in Calabasas while the hip hop recording artist, film director and fashion designer is still living in his bachelor pad in Chicago. Anyway, the unmarried couple have multiple residences and will stay in any of them depending on the situation.
This stunning historical Scottish mansion, included in the Cairngorms National Park, is nestled on 14 acres of woodland in Strathdon. Despite being located in an idyllic rural setting, Candacraig House is just 65 miles away from Inverness, the capital of the Highlands, and only 45 miles away from Aberdeen Airport.
Nearby the Don River runs through the valley in front. The neighbourhood provides an array of sporting spots for lease for deer stalking, grouse and pheasant shooting, salmon and trout angling. No more than 10 miles away is the Lecht Ski Centre and a little farther is the royal family Scottish retreat, Balmoral Castle.
Built in the 17th century, the residence was extended and altered into a French-chateau inspired residence a century later by Aberdeen’s first city architect, “Tudor Johnny” Smith for the Andersons, who lived there for 10 generations. In the 1920s the estate underwent further additions executed by the Aberdeen-based architects George Bennet Mitchell & Son and in 1955, after being badly damaged by fire, it was reconstructed in a modern manner, retaining, though, its traditional Scottish accents. In 1986 the Rodick family completely refurbished the building into a luxurious modern abode and purchased the adjacent walled garden and courtyard cottages in order to restore the original property.
Taylor Swift, the 23-year-old Grammy–Award winning country singer/songwriter, has just purchased one of the most coveted walled, gated properties in Rhode Island – the Harkness House – an 11k-plus square-foot mansion unfolding over 5.23 waterfront acres in the spectacular seaside village of Watch Hill.
Reportedly built in early 19th century in a very exclusive street, Carlton House Terrace, in the St. James’s district of the City of Westminster, with just a few residential properties, this majestic white-stucco faced residence is rumoured to be listed on the secret ‘grey market’, as the alleged Saudi royal owner is very secretive, forbidding any interior photographs for reasons of security. Apart from the eye-popping price-tag, the buyer will have to pay £17.5M in stamp duty.