Bill removed the stone balustrades on the backyard balcony and replaced them with iron railings inspired by the hotel in Capri where they married.
In the kitchen — the epicenter of the house, and Giuliana's favorite room — a large island is made of honed white Calcutta ducale marble, sanded down to look old and worn, typical of what the couple saw during their Italian travels, Bill said. Bright and airy, the kitchen marries country quaint and high-tech sleek.
The cabinets had an unpleasant greenish undertone, so Bill hired an artist to stain them white and distress them by hand. A white farm sink shares the room with top-of-the-line appliances, including a Sub-Zero refrigerator and Wolf stove.
Bill's favorite additions are the iPads he built into the wall in the kitchen and elsewhere in the house to control temperature, security cameras, lights and alarms. He can control those devices from his own iPad, so if he forgets to switch off the lights or needs to let someone inside, he can do so from anywhere in the world.
The kitchen's long farm table, rustic and wooden, exemplifies Giuliana's design philosophy: Spend little on things that look like a lot. Like much of the furniture in the house, she purchased it at wisteria. The Rancics kept some of the home's classic features — an old-fashioned "lady's office" beside the kitchen and dignified "butler's pantry" with soaring wooden armoires —- but changed others to suit their needs.
In a space the original owner had intended to make a music room, Bill built a "cigar and scotch room," a dapper dwelling with navy-blue walls, white wainscoting and a sleek, white Calcutta marble bar, behind which are a humidor and an impressive collection of liquor.
Bill, who shortly after college started a successful cigar club called Cigars Around the World, said he smokes cigars only once in a while, but likes the room for entertaining.
In the basement — heated with energy-efficient radiant floor heating — the Rancics converted two rooms into a spacious gym with rubber floors, a couple of treadmills, weight machines and free-weight area. Beside that is a chocolate-hued movie theater with stadium seating, upholstered in Chesterfield saddle leather.
As important as the inside of the house was the outside. After marrying in , Giuliana and Bill have created a massive empire built on real estate, television, and more. A zip code with a hefty price-tag not that Giuliana has to worry about price , Brentwood Park boasts some of the most luxurious real estate on the West Coast. Built in , the home will likely undergo renovations that suit the entrepreneurial duo and their family.
After flipping and selling their last home in Los Angeles in , time will tell how long the Rancic's reside in their new digs. With 8, square feet of space to work with via The Chicago Tribune , the new Rancic home features five bedrooms and 5. Orland Park native Bill and his wife will offer up furnishings from the show during a sale this weekend in Highland Park, to be held from 10 a. Saturday at Old Skokie Valley Road.
Prices will be available beginning at a. All proceeds will go to breast and ovarian cancer charity, Fab-U-Wish. Giuliana became involved with the charity after battling breast cancer. Items up for sale include "designer chairs, a Chinese sideboard, a pickled oak chest of drawers, a white linen button-tufted Chesterfield sofa with matching pair of club chairs, lamps, bookshelves a mahogany server designed by noted designer Alexa Hampton for Hickory Chair, a coffee table, rugs, a white leather and wood bassinet and an Arcade Party Pac-Man game by Namco," reports the Sun-Times.
The couple, who once lived in Hinsdale, have owned a home in Chicago for years. Since Your Mama and the Dr. From our brief bit of research on the interweb we understand that much of the program revolves around the bumps and bounces of the very busy newlyweds who maintain an inter-state marriage.
Her doctors suggested she try to put some meat on her bones in order to increase her chances of getting preggers. She did get to be with child, but in September of Missus Rancic had a miscarriage, an horrific and intensely personal event filmed for their reality program. A few weeks ago on an episode of their reality program, the couple was seen hunting for a house in upscale Hinsdale , IL, due west of downtown Chicago.
Ever since then Your Mama has received an unusual number of queries from the children who want to know which house shown on the show Mister and Missus Rancic purchased. By whatever method, the Rancics clearly plan to make or acquire babies. Listing information for the property that Your Mama teased out of the internets shows that all the cabinets, floors, plumbing, heating, windows, and doors—much of which had yet to be installed at the time of the purchase—were included in the purchase price of the hulking house that stands three stories tall.
Listing information indicates the house has scads of stone and brick detailing, numerous stone columns, a double staircase to the upper level plus an elevator for when they feel lazy , a wine cellar and media room.
Listing information shows the 5, square foot townhouse has 3 bedrooms 3. We think 10 tee- vees is probably to be expected from a tee- vee couple but Your Mama would go out of our damn mind knowing there were 10 tee- vees in the house.
The 2 bedroom and 2.
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