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What attracts me to this home, billed as a “gentleman’s ranch” in Spicewood, Texas, is the sense of space. The center of the home is anchored by a big great room that’s ringed with limstone archways that lead to other rooms. The main home has been designed for two with the guests ensconced in a separate six-bedroom guest house. The main home is designed for entertaining on a grand scale. The kitchen is big and there is also a 1,500 bottle wine room and a massive pantry. The Owner’s suite includes a separate living room and study, sleeping quarters and a hobby room. The master restroom is a bit kooky with one of those round tubs which seems to be placed in front a shower area. The property is 18 acres total and the rest of the buildings are clustered around the pool and patio area which includes a summer kitchen with a grill, refrigerator, sink and granite countertops. The land also includes a six-car garage with attic and closet space plus a half bath. This home is listed at $4.25 million.

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Enjoyment isn’t a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. – Paul Goodman

I’ve been thinking more about the concept that I mentioned a few blogs ago - Do what you like and like what you do - and how it relates to the decision of “retirement.”

Is “retirement” really a viable concept for baby boomers this day? My husband has all the points necessary for a full retirement, but he’s staying at his 25-year job with a large company, but only while he is “having fun.” Simple for him to say this; he has a nice defined benefit retirement package, including health care insurance. Some of us (me included) don’t get health insurance after retirement.

So what about you? What will be the “tipping point” for you, to make you retire? Will it depend on whether you’re ‘having fun’ or will it depend on something more concrete, like having health insurance?

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Oh my, today’s estate just stirs up all my dreamy tiny artsy bohemian fantasies. As the Wall Street Journal’s Christina S.N. Lewis reported in the Private Properties column, a farm in Spain’s Catalonia, owned by the family of surrealist Joan Mir

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the NY Post’s Gimme Shelter:
–Newly married Harvey Weinstein has sold his SoHo condo for $8 million.He bought the loft apartment in 2005 for $6.8 million and he and his new wife Georgina Chapman now live in a townhouse in the West Village.
–Former and potentially future first daughter Chelsea Clinton is interested in a $3 million, two-bedroom, two-bath apartment in the coveted One Madison Park condominium complex.

From the NY Observer’s Manhattan Transfers:
–Popular real estate broker Robby Browne closed last month on a two-bedroom apartment at Robert A.M. Stern’s new Fifteen Central Park West which he plans to rent out for somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000.
–Former internet entrepreneur Wayne Correia was briefly worth about $400 million during which time he paid cash for a New York City penthouse. Later he moved into a steel bus traveling the country. This month, his old eight-room penthouse at 136 Waverly Place closed for $8.7 million.
–The man who wrote Beyonc

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If you’re a fan of Santa Fe style, this is the one for you. It’s a newer Bob Ritter built stone and adobe home that took more than 500 tons of native moss rock and 53,000 adobe bricks to complete. This home is located in the Club Estates area and is on over 9 acres overlooking the 14th fairway of the Sunrise golf course. There are four bedrooms and over 7,000 square feet of space total. The details here, like the wood beamed ceilings, the smooth adobe fireplaces and the hallways rimmed with stone are nice but there’s something about this home that feels off and chilly. Perhaps adobe does not lend itself to the vastness or perhaps its the ultra Southwestern staging job. This home is listed at $4.6 million, which seems a bit high.

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Filed under: Estates, Journeys

Luxury and Fort Lauderdale are not exactly synonymous but the new 105-suite il Lugano resort hopes to change that. The hotel, which opens on January 2, offers oversized one-bedroom suites and the two-bedroom suites with huge balconies. There are also entertainment suites with terraces that are capable of handling up to 50 guests. Amenities include full-sized refrigerators, microwaves and cook-tops and washers and dryers.

The top four floors are given over to 23 residences. The units range in size from 1,600 to 7,000 square feet with 10- to 11-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass windows. European kitchens and huge balconies. Unit owners are entitled to use all hotel amenities. A three-bedroom condo is currently listed at $1.95 million.

The hotel has a swimming pool, fitness center, lobby bar and 10 boat slips on the Intracoastal Waterway. A signature restaurant fronting the Intracoastal will be announced next spring. Introductory rates start at $199.

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