Celebrity Home Designs: Taylor Swift

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Taylor Swift's house in Rhode Island

Taylor Swift's House: The Fickle Songstress Pays In Cash
Taylor Swift seems to be rather obsessive about having two things, boyfriends and property. She also has an unfortunate penchant for getting rid of these two things, almost as quickly as she collects them. However, that deserves a whole other article of its own. Over the course of the last couple of years, she's gone through three high profile romances and three high-profile house deals, and as winter turns to spring in 2013, she seems destined to keep racking up homes. The 23-year old Pennsylvania native has been writing and recording music professionally since 2006, and has amassed a ridiculous number of awards and staggering album sales over the course of her comparatively short seven-year career. Though her blonde-haired, blue-eyed pretty girl-next-door looks, and her lyrics about teen heartbreak, have endeared her to a million "tweens" around the world, one need only look to her personal life to see that she has the makings of a major diva. Her penchant for buying ever more opulent homes, is one sure sign that the princess of country-pop is ascending the throne of full-grown country-pop queen. Most recently, she purchased a massive mansion in Rhode Island… in cash.

Taylor Swift's house in Rhode Island, is an 11,000 square foot home overlooking the water. The eight-bedroom, ten and a half-bath house, rests 65 feet above Little Narragansett Bay, and was built in 1930. Inside Taylor Swift's house there is a 45-foot sun room, a massive kitchen with an attached family room with its own fireplace, and an equally impressive dining room. The bedrooms are all large, and the majority of them have their own bathroom, or bathrooms. There is also a roof terrace, a wet bar, and a recreation space on the lower level of Taylor Swift's house that opens to the beach. The list of amenities goes on and on and includes multiple balconies, a pool, a fitness room, and a five-car garage. The house was on the market for $24 million, but because Ms. Swift was willing to pay, in full, via wire, the price was dropped to a noticeably smaller, but no less heart attack inducing, $17.75 million. With that rather spectacular purchase, we can officially say that the princess has become a diva.

Taylor Swift's House in Rhode Island.

Taylor Swift's House in Rhode Island.

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Friday, December 28, 2012

Homes of Country Music Stars: Johnny Cash, Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum

Country music stars exchanged boots, jeans and plaid for dress shoes, suits and gowns this past Sunday for the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. In honor of the evening, we’re taking a look at the homes where some of the biggest names in country music hang their hats and kick back with a glass of sweet iced tea.

Johnny Cash

185 Caudill Dr, Henderson, TN (below)

You can’t talk about country music without paying homage to one of the most iconic singer/songwriters in the 20th century. Johnny Cash penned dozens of hits, including “Ring of Fire,” “I Walk the Line,”and “Folsom Prison Blues,” among others. While he spent most of his career in a lakefront home in Henderson, TN, he moved across the street to a ranch home in his later years, as the lake home became difficult for him to get around in. Cash’s final home — often referred to as “Mama Cash’s House” — has been on and off the market since 2009 and was last listed for $595,000.

Taylor Swift

Beverly Hills, CA (below)

Blonde songstress Taylor Swift may sing with a little twang, but the country girl calls the bright lights of Hollywood home and picked up a secluded estate in Beverly Hills earlier this year. Swift’s 2,826-sq ft Beverly Hills home was built in 1941, and unlike most Beverly Hills estates, it is Cape Cod-style with 4-bedrooms and 4-baths. Swift burst onto the country music scene with her hit “Tim McGraw” and has garnered a bevy of awards, including four Grammys at the 52nd Grammy Awards.

Alan Jackson

17949 SE Federal Hwy, Martin FL (below)

Alan Jackson’s songs were a country music mainstay in the early ’90s and he collected several Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association awards, as well as chart-topping albums. Born and raised in Georgia, Jackson moved to Nashville in the mid-1980s in order to pursue his singing career. While he still resides in the country music capitol, Jackson picked up a few vacation homes in Florida, including a Key West property currently listed for $900,000.

Faith Hill

Chickering Lane, Nashville TN (below)

Faith Hill has garnered quite a career on her own, but her marriage to another country music superstar Tim McGraw has made her even more of a household name. Hill became famous in the late-1990s with her mainstream-friendly hits like “Breathe” and “The Way That You Love Me.” Hill grew up in Mississippi but her and McGraw currently live in a custom estate in Nashville. The pair designed and built the home from the ground up and moved in December 2009.

Lady Antebellum
Cherokee Park, Nashville TN (below)

Country music group, Lady Antebellum, has had a busy road to stardom since earning their first number-one single in July 2009, with “I Run To You” from their self-titled debut album. The Nashville-born group is composed of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, and Dave Haywood and since 2009, has collected quite a few Grammy nominations and awards as well as nods from the ACM Awards and Country Music Association. All three group members currently call Nashville home, and lead singer Kelley bought his first home in 2010: a 2,700-square-foot, 4-bed, 4-bath house built in 1910.

John Rich

3403 Love Cir, Nashville TN (below)

Country music singer John Rich has had quite a few hits as a solo artist, but he is best known as the other half of the group Big & Rich, who made it big with the hit “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.” Rich recently sold his first house for $486,900, marketing the home in a video and asking buyers if they “wanted to be his neighbor.” The country music star built a new home next door, so close by that Rich explained, that “you could probably throw a rock and hit my front door.”

Gary Allan

106 Rebecca Ct, Henderson TN (below)

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Taylor Swift Cape Cod Love Nest (PHOTOS)

Taylor Swift Hearts a Kennedy, Allegedly Buys Cape Cod Love Nest (PHOTOS)

Does Taylor Swift have a serious summertime romance going on? Rumor has it that the Grammy Award-winning artist purchased a new home in Hyannis Port, MA, right down the street from current beau, Conor Kennedy. According to the Boston Herald, the 22-year-old singer plucked up a 4,400-square-foot property to the tune of $4.9 million – a pretty savvy move considering it was previously listed for as much as $13.5 million in 2010.

While the specifics of the home are few and far between, Swift’s alleged new purchase, a whitewashed Colonial, is said to have been built in 1928 and offers a total of seven bedrooms and six bathrooms. Besides its waterfront local and stretch of private beach, the home itself is quite similar to another of Swift’s recent real estate purchases. The country heartthrob shelled out $3.975 million for an East Coast traditional in the Franklin Canyon area of Beverly Hills, CA back in March of 2011.