PHOTOS: Legendary musician selling Florida mansion | WFLA.com

MANALAPAN, Fla. (WFLA) – Billy Joel has put his beachfront Florida mansion on the market. Joel bought the Manalapan mansion in 2002, along with the next door lot, for $18.2 million, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.

Manalapan is between Palm Beach and Boca Raton.

The mansion and neighboring lot extend from the Atlantic Ocean beach to the Intracoastal Waterway. There’s 300 feet of beachfront property and, on the Intracostal side, another 300 feet, with the lots tota… (View original article)

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Inside Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s New Mansion – ThePostGame.com


Floyd Mayweather, Jr. just dropped some major cash on a new place to call home. The retired boxer just purchased a Miami waterfront residence for a cool $7.7 million.

The house is a new construction with a modern interior boasting high ceilings, oversized windows, and plenty of bright spaces. Take a look for yourself at Mayweather’s beautiful new mansion.

Floyd’s Gated Residence

5501 Pinetree Drive is a 4-bedroom, 5-bath house.

Front Of The House

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1906 Atherton Mansion Knocks $1.3 Million Off Price – Curbed SF

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Inside Britney Spears’ $8,000 a Night Airbnb | Celebuzz

Now this is how you spend a long weekend.

While the rest of us plebes were spending our Memorial Day weekend like a basic, Britney Spears stayed at a $30 million mansion with her family and friends. Courtesy of Airbnb, the singer, recently stayed at an $8,000-a-night home-away-from-home in Malibu all without spending a dime.

Sitting right on the beach, the luxurious seaside property boasts has four bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms between not one, but two open-air bui… (View original article)

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Sweet Piece Of Chocolate History, The Ghirardelli Mansion Is For Sale « CBS San Francisco

PIEDMONT (CBS SF) — Chocolate lovers can own piece of the Bay Area’s delicious past. The Piedmont mansion of chocolatier Gieseppe “Joseph” Ghirardelli is on the market.

Son of the Italian-born patriarch of the Ghirardelli chocolate empire, Domingo Ghirardelli Jr, Joseph died before he could actually live in this 6,479 square foot estate. Instead, it would be home to his widow Ellen and her new husband Thomas Cushing. Together they remodeled the then-dated Mission Revival manse int… (View original article)

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Stay at Princess Diana’s childhood home, Althorp Estate, for $37,000 | Stuff.co.nz

Stay at Princess Diana’s childhood home, Althorp Estate, for $37,000

Last updated 16:51, May 30 2016

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Guests can now stay at Althorp Estate, Princess Diana’s childhood home.

Princess Diana’s brother Earl Charles Spencer has announced people can now stay at her childhood home, Althorp Estate, but at a price.

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Mathieu Lehanneur creates pool of marble for French chateau


French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has sculpted marble into a convincingly rippling pool for his Petite Loire installation, created for this year’s International Garden Festival (+ slideshow).

The 7.5-metre-long patch has been created from a single section of hand-polished green marble, and was designed using 3D software.

The material has been carved into realistic waves that replicate water that has been “gently ruffled” by the wind.

The piece reflects on the hidden … (View original article)

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Welcome to the Museo Cerralbo, Madrid’s Secret Gaudy Time Travel Palace – The Daily Beast


Murano chandeliers, glittering jewelry, Venetian mirror-clad ballroom, Instagram-ready staircase—welcome to Madrid’s little known throwback to turn of the century aristocracy.

“I looooooove Barcelona.”

Those are the sentences I always hear when I tell a fellow American I’m headed off to Spain again.

Spain’s capital city, with its labyrinthine layout and its craven failure to be perpetually awash in sunlight, sadly is often less loved by tourists. Char… (View original article)

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Country girl: Peek inside a renovated farmhouse and a castle once attacked by Cromwell – Independent.ie

Take someone who welcomes paying guests into his/her home – sure, it’s lovely if the grounds are great, the decor is charming and the food served is all home-made, home-grown and artisanal, but a lot of foodie entrepreneurs offer all that and more. There has to be something extra.

Caroline Sweeney of Legan Castle Farmhouse has it sussed; she has a delightful 200-year-old farmhouse on six acres of pure get-away-from-it-all countryside, and she cooks divine food. Into the ba… (View original article)

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French Postman Named Horse Spent 33 Years Building a Castle of Pebbles


Is This The Temple of Angkor Wat?

The very eccentric Ferdinand Cheval (his real name) built a striking palace entirely made of pebbles he collected on his postal work route. He was a modest 19th-century postman in the town of Hauterives, in the Drome region, a rural and remote part of France.

On a special day in 1837, while walking his 18-mile work trek by foot – not even a bicycle was available to him – he picked up one stone of original shape, and the rest is histo… (View original article)

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