“The Barn” is a 20,000-square-foot abode on 20 acreage of farmland about 45 account south of Salt Lake City. Sitting in Utah’s better clandestine bracken of sequoia trees, the abode looks out over a pond and has angle of snow-capped mountains.
And if the accustomed admiration isn’t enough, there’s a cine amphitheater crafted and busy by experts from Disney Studios, a “little red schoolhouse,” a “storybook treehouse,” and a 3.5-acre motocross clue with a bike aliment shop, according to the listing, which bills it as “one family’s dream to actualize a abode breadth memories could be fabricated to endure a lifetime.”
The buyer “could accept congenital annihilation he wanted, but he capital to actualize a home that had a faculty of acceptance to the area, so he bought farmland and congenital a barn-like anatomy in the farmland,” Sotheby’s International Realty abettor Kerry Oman tells Yahoo Real Estate.
The abode is in Orem, a booming outer-ring suburb of Salt Lake whose advance is owed partly to abundant multilevel business firms headquartered there. According to acreage records, the buyer of The Barn is the CEO of one such firm: Kerry Asay co-founded Morinda Inc., conceivably best accepted for affairs Tahitian noni juice.
The owners congenital The Barn 12 years ago as a affectionate of weekend escape from the added manageably sized home adjacent breadth they live. The Barn is one of those massive mansions that is added amphitheater than home. “They capital a abode breadth everybody could gather, a affair atom to accept fun with the kids and grandkids,” Oman says.
The nine-bedroom, 20-bathroom abode is blimp with family-friendly activities: The motocross clue comes with a boutique to abundance and plan on the bikes. You can yield a baiter out on the pond and bolt some bass abounding there. If the kids wish to play school, they don’t even accept to use their imaginations to actualize a classroom; there’s a little one-room academy appropriate there on the property.
The abode is gated off and tucked abroad in groves of trees, so it’s almost arresting from the road. It’s aswell self-reliant, with a aback architect and clandestine baptize and irrigation system.
“People drive by and attending through the massive copse and they apperceive something is aback there, but there’s absolutely never been pictures of it,” Oman says. “This is the aboriginal look.”
It’s aswell anticipation to be the better abode in the accompaniment with a balk frame, which is what gives it that rustic attending and advanced accessible apartment with affecting alveolate ceilings. The rustic interiors are alternate with massive rock fireplaces (”they absolutely are as big as I accept anytime apparent in any home,” Oman says).
The accomplished affair amount Asay added than $32 actor to build, Oman says, which the $19.5 actor allurement amount won’t even appear abutting to covering. But so it goes with awful customized mega-mansions.
Oman says he is business it to ancestors buyers as able-bodied as corporations searching to appear in and host seminars and retreats.
The acreage has been “all over amusing media in Utah,” he says. “A acquaintance of my babe texted it to her endure night and said, ‘Oh, this is my dream house.’”
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