This Nevada Home Is Preposterous in a Maximalist Way

It’s been a while since I have written about a house that was utterly preposterous. This week, though, I knew the real estate gods had smiled on me when this Nevada home appeared on my screen. Now I know what you are thinking: “Nevada! Great! Another home filled with stripper poles and sex swings.”

No, no. I said this house was utterly preposterous. We have become accustomed to homes filled with sex swings and stripper poles. I love writing about those types of houses. What I am not used to is a house that looks like it was designed and decorated by someone who had the best of intentions but…

Oh Bob Ross, you would check your positivity if you saw this place. You see, it seems that the person who did the decor really likes the Renaissance period. They are so in love with that period that they filled 14,756 square feet of space with paintings and statues that have the uncanny ability to follow you with their eyes. You can not have sex swings and stripper poles in a house where you have every painting and statue following you.

Now it is not simply the décor that jumped out at me, it is the overall design. Let us take a quick peek at the roof.

In the roofing world, you have the option of domes, cones, octagons, pagoda-style roofs, and mansard roofs to go along with hip, gable, 3-Hip and Half-Hip roofs, and flat roofs. When considering all those options they just said, “Yes, please” and went with all of them.

A couple of things about this hallway, ol’ fruity Pierre does not seem like a welcoming chap. It is as though he and his little gang of fellow paintings have the same attitude. When I showed this picture to the Gusman, he said it looked like Hogwarts and that he would not go down that hallway.

Want to read a book? Grab a dueling pistol and use it to fend off the condescending bust and statuesque lady by the shelves.

While the view is incredible, at some point you will be staring down the zebra and Mona Lisa and her gal pals on the wall. This is why there are no stripper poles and sex swings. Who could handle the look of disapproval from the artwork?

The statue on the second floor gives me palpitations. It looks like it is going to take a half gainer right into the lap of anyone sitting below.

I have one more statue for you.

I give you a Native American woman standing before the pantheon and Rolls Royce. If that is not preposterous I do not know what is. 

See more photos of this private mountain top home located in Henderson, Nevada.