This place is supposed to be a house, according to the article anyway. But to me, if a home has 9 elevators, its not a home. I'm not even sure how to classify this place. I wonder what the guest house looks like? http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/104984/Inside-the-World's-First-Billion-Dollar-Home
It looks to me like it's less of a personal home, and more like a place designed to entertain. I would guess that they only live on 1 or 2 or the floors, and the rest are designed to accommodate guests. -monkey
It's a personal home, but a lot of the space is taken up by their servants and other personel. Besides, if you can't make yourself a massive tower to house your entire (extended) family when you're a multi-billionaire, then what can you do?
tbh if I had that sort of money to chuck around, I would prefer a large green estate, with a lake (and speedboats), several guest houses, a poolhouse and maybe some sort F1 style racing track and a luxury vehicle storage showroom. A lot better value for money than some gaudy city tower...
Jesus Christ.... I bet the service staff would be more than number of kids that went to my high school (450) or the population of the closest town where I grew up.
That place is basically a personal hotel, but if that's thier home, then home it is. Not i what i'd want to call home tho. Imagine raising teenagers there, it would be like "daddy, can you give me a pass to get in the bar on level 14?" dad: "No son, i told you, you're too young for that, you can go to the net cafe or get some exercise on the basketball court or swimming pool you lazy brat!" son: " fine!" goes back to his room and orders some "room service" from his favourite masseuse I wonder how many here wish they lived there right about now?
:O wow!!! It has it's own ballroom - imagine having a whole ballroom in your house? Do you think it'd come with a library also? What about a spa (or hot tub - whatever) ... secret passages maybe? I always wanted a house with secret passages. I think I read too many princess stories when I was growing up.
Pfff - I'd rather have all 300 Veyrons built, 50 db9s, 50 911 turbos, 50 F430s... hmm, I'm still only up to 1/2 the price of that house Maybe throw in a couple of F1s then. Oh and a lifetime subscription to nurburgring (at least writing one off wouldn't be a problem)
I really wouldn't want to live there. I wouldn't want to live in a 1 roomed flat (apart from a few years at uni maybe) but equally, that is completely ott. You would never be able to find anything, and I wouldn't feel able to invite any friends back because it is just so ridiculous.
wow... 22 stories... I bet if a bum got in there they wouldnt find him for weeks! And 80% of the ceiling in chandeliers? My word....
Looks nice inside, but yeah, not my cup of tea - a bit TOO big if you ask me. Were I a billionaire I would problalbly have a mansion, but id also get people to live with me at very very affordable rates - otherwise id get lonely
