- The mansion took 7 years to build and cost $63 million.
- The swimming pool runs 60 feet long and includes an underwater music system. As well as a locker room that has four showers and two baths.
- The home includes a 2500 sq ft. gym. (That is the size of a house)
- The dining room is 1,000 sq ft. (That is the same size as the average apartment)
- When a guest arrives. they are given a pin that interacts with the sensors in each room. Depending on their preferences, the temperature, music and lighting will change wherever they are in the home.
- The home is an earth-sheltered house which means it uses its natural surroundings as walls for temperature and to reduce heat loss.
- Bill Gates pays $1 million worth of taxes on the house each year.
- The house has a trampoline room with a 20 foot ceiling.
- Located somewhere inside the house is Leonardo Da Vinci's 16th century notebook that Gates purchased for over $30.8 million.
- There are 84 steps down from the entrance to the ground floor. Of course you can always just take the elevator.
- The 2,300 sq ft. reception hall can seat 150 people for dinner or 200 for a cocktail party.
- The house contains 24 bathrooms, including 10 baths.
- Speakers are hidden beneath the wallpaper and allow music to follow you room to room.
- The house has a 23 car garage.
- Anyone in the house can call up a favorite painting or photograph on $80,000 worth of combination TV computer screens that is run by several $150,000 computer storage devices.
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