Troy Aikman Sells Highland Residence, Moves to Stunning Tatum-Brown Built Beauty on Normandy!
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Get the popcorn, wine, frozen margies whatever IT’S FRIDAY but you need to pull up a chair and see this house. Yours truly has been scurrying to find out where our darling Troy boy has moved and let me tell you, I am SO IMPRESSED! Troy Aikman, Allie Beth Allman, A PLUS PLUS PLUS!
First of all, a bit of background. Troy Aikman’s new Normandy home was built in 2007/2008 by Mark Danuser of Tatum-Brown Custom Homes, who is, of course, one of my CandysDirt Approved home builders — these are the folks who I would trust to build a home for Troy, dear friends and myself.
STUNNING! 10,662 square feet with five bedrooms, five full and four half baths, seven living areas, three stories, wine room on the first floor, there is no basement, elevator, a morning room with fireplace! I love morning rooms, Troy, I’m coming over for coffee!
There is a covered outdoor living area with outdoor kitchen, separate sitting area off the second floor master, gameroom, study and “her” office — oh now, who would this be for, Troy? There is a media room with a very cool concessions bar counter, exercise room, a 3 car garage, fabulous landscaping and it all sits on the corner of Normandy and Golf so that lot is a roomy 75 by 192. That’s almost a third of an acre, but with much less maintenance than the Highland Drive residence.
McCullough Middle School is right down the street. Interiors are all highest quality limestone, hand-scraped wood floors, marble, granite. If Mark Danuser puts it in, it’s solid, first class and staying for 1,000 years.
Now interesting background on the house. Owned by a lovely St. Louis couple named Christine and George Tamke, I am told, and this is just scuttlebut, they bought the house as a Dallas pad for when they came to town to visit their grandkids: their daughter lives in Southlake. They were at the house RARELY! But you can see how darling the bedrooms are, decked out for the grandbabies when they were there.
“They were there maybe 4 or 5 times total, ” says one neighbor. “Very nice people.”
Mr. Tamke appears to be Senior Operating Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc. which bills itself as one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the world. He has held all kinds of CEO type positions at places ranging from Kinkos to The Culligan Company (“Hey Culligan Man!”) to Hertz. Mr. Tamke holds an M.S. in Management from Stanford University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
The home has been on the market since April of 2011, listed with Joan Eleazer et al of Briggs Freeman Sothebys, which started at a high of $6,850,000. Price was lowered to $4.6 and Troy paid $4,250,000.
RELATED: Troy Aikman’s House on Normandy: Sold, Closed, Has New Owners | June 2015
Of course, there is a remodel underway — making the closets biggers, re-surfacing, and I just cannot see Troy living with the leopard carpet on the stairs, can you? Nothing major, just some freshening up to make it more of a bachelor pad, perhaps, than a grandkid’s crib. Troy’s way too young for that. I have no doubt it will be stunning and teen friendly: Troy’s interior designers are from Robert Trown & Associates.
Who bought Troy Aikman’s old house? That, my dear readers, is a tale for another day!
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This house is so gorgeous it is just killing me!
This house is so gorgeous it is just killing me!
So happy for Mr. Aikman. The kitchen is a little underwhelming, don't you think?
So happy for Mr. Aikman. The kitchen is a little underwhelming, don't you think?
Candy, when someone pays $4.2 million for a house, do they get any/all of the furnishings as part of the deal, or is it all staging (like it would be for your average house)?
Candy, when someone pays $4.2 million for a house, do they get any/all of the furnishings as part of the deal, or is it all staging (like it would be for your average house)?
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@John well remember no one has really cooked here!
@John well remember no one has really cooked here!
@Derek: When you buy a home, $400K or $4 million, you can negotiate to leave certain items and purchase them in addition to the home price, or perhaps to sweeten the deal. What would you ask the sellers of this home to leave?
@Derek: When you buy a home, $400K or $4 million, you can negotiate to leave certain items and purchase them in addition to the home price, or perhaps to sweeten the deal. What would you ask the sellers of this home to leave?
Holy cow! My husband grew up there (in the house that was torn down to build this one). A lot of happy memories there—hope Troy has the same.
Holy cow! My husband grew up there (in the house that was torn down to build this one). A lot of happy memories there—hope Troy has the same.
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[…] Don’t want to be mean or anything, and we are ever so flattered when you guys at the DBJ grab our stories (and our name) and churn them into your own… a little love link would be ever so nice and appropriate… but just thought we’d let you know since you cover real estate and all Troy sold this home and moved into University Park. Normandy. You can read all about it right here. […]
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How mach is the total price for this home
How mach is the total price for this home
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The interior decor is horrendous. Although very expensive, it’s dated and heavy. I wish it was more contemporary and classy. I hope the pictures are just from staging and not really Mr. Aikman’s taste.
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The interior decor is horrendous. Although very expensive, it’s dated and heavy. I wish it was more contemporary and classy. I hope the pictures are just from staging and not really Mr. Aikman’s taste.