The Lytle Mansion

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 10th 2005 at 11:07AM

This Washington state home makes yesterday's Snoqualmie estate look like a log cabin indeed. The Lytle Mansion on Mercer Island is full of amazing details. Let's start with this indoor saltwater pool and its cloud mural and Egyptian-style columns that have been specially treated to look aged. The home is full of architectural treats and special details including a Dale Chihuly chandelier spiraling twelve feet of crystal hanging over a marble floor. The house is full of inlaid stones, marble fireplaces and everything is done on a grand and ornate scale. It has four bedrooms but with nearly 23,000 sq. feet of space there is room to roam. The home has two wine cellars, an exercise room, massage and tanning room, music room, steam room, sunroom and a dining room with a gleaming gold leaf ceiling. The master suite has a raised platform bed, a marble fireplace and an amazing bathroom where the tub is set on a pedestal and has a chandelier over it. The home sits on two acres and has an outdoor saltwater pool and 175 feet of waterfront including a boat dock that can accommodate a 140 foot yacht, and landscaping by designer R. David Adams. It is listed at $40 million and it looks like it has been on sale for at least a year. The Lytles orginally bought the home in 1989 for $2.5 million and then bought another house next door in 1995 for $1 million in order to expand.

[Thanks, Chris]