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Coeur d'Alene Estate, Estate of the Day

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Today's estate has had a $10 million price reduction and it's still far and away the priciest home near Lake Coeur d'Alene in Idaho. This home is described as an entertainer's paradise but it's really more like a small resort. It is on 15 acres and has 26,000 square feet of living space. Amenities include a helipad, private drive, waterfall, indoor and outdoor pools, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, a par three golf hole and a nine-car garage. The lounge area has room for drinking with friends, the octagonal bar has seating for ten around a light-up marble bar top. There is also a game room with video games and a bowling alley. Many of the rooms have disappearing glass panels opening the rooms to the outside. There are three bedroom suites and a two-bedroom guest house. The home was rebuilt nine years ago with the finest finishes including rare hardwoods, imported marble, and granite. The home comes with the custom furnishings and new owners will also receive two lifetime memberships to the Coeur d'Alene Country Club. This home is now listed at $17.5 million.

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Snowmass Village, Estate of the Day

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I'm showing you today's five-bedroom home in Snowmass Village, Colorado as much for the decor as for anything else. This modern home has direct ski-in/out access to Snowmass Mountain and has glass retractable walls that bring the outside in. The ultra-contemporary home has reclaimed wood floors and a large stone fireplace in the great room. Bright white walls and lights set into the beams provide an art-gallery-like feel. The home's luxury finishings include a Minotti Cuchine kitchen and Boffi bathrooms imported from Italy. The copy of Dwell casually dropped on a bed in the listing photo is no accident, the home's decor looks stripped straight from the pages of the magazine. A ball chair, Barcelona chairs, an Eames rocker are just some of the easily-identifiable design pieces. This home is listed at $8.9 million.

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Palmolive Building Condo, Estate of the Day

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Today's home is located in the Palmolive building in Chicago, Illinois but we are showcasing it to highlight the work of designer Alessandra Branca. The home was built by Bully & Andrews and no expense was spared to create a luxury environment for the urban dweller. The Italian designer has a great flair for using bright color in a way that is stylish and livable. This home has two bedrooms, a kitchen with a wine closet, a playful striped foyer, a cozy library and richly patterned dining room. It is listed at $4.995 million.

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Glen Ellen Contemporary, Estate of the Day

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Modern architecture and a total view of the surrounding countryside define this home in Glen Ellen, California. The home is on three acres offering privacy and the chance to set up either a vineyard or an equestrian estate. The wood and glass modern home has three suites and a huge great room with a fireplace that doesn't block the sunlight flooding through this home. The home has a small, open kitchen, the focus in this home is on bringing the outside in. The property includes a pool, garage and a matching guest house. This estate is listed at $7.8 million.

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Rocking Horse Ranch, Estate of the Day

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Today's home is a Montana retreat on 280 acres that includes not just the usual horse trails and barns but much more. The Rocking Horse Ranch is a private resort with five cottage style homes that total 9,240 sq ft together. The ranch has beautiful views of the Glacier National Park mountains and recreation opportunities abound. There are several fire-pits, bocce ball court, a swimming pool with cabanas and a spa area, waterfalls, five exterior bars, dance floor, many outdoor BBQ areas and an outside kitchen. The estate also has ponds, a driving range, private vineyard and more. Mooring Creek flows through the property so that it can be used as a bison or horse ranch or an elk farm. Rocking Horse Ranch is listed at $12.489 million.

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The Gables Club, Estate of the Day

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The listing calls this the most glamorous penthouse in all of Miami. The two-story penthouse sits atop The Gables Club offering easy access to amenities that include a marina, tennis courts, putting green, pool and clubhouse. The private elevator opens to a 10,000 square foot oasis with marble floors and a sweeping staircase. The penthouse has a large home theater, a terrace with ocean views, a wood-paneled library and a dining room hung with crystal chandeliers. The master suite has a bed facing windows outfitted with automatic shades to put the view at your command. There is a sitting area adjoining his and hers bathrooms. A marble tub in the master suite has its own balcony. Other features include a wet bar and an upstairs game room with a pool table. The home also has a gym, two wine cellars and a laundry room with a full bath. The penthouse is listed at $16 million.

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Edra Blixeth's Casa Captiva, Estate of the Day

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A few weeks ago we mentioned that Edra Blixseth's Rancho Mirage, California compound, Porcupine Creek had hit the market for $75 million. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that another bank-controlled property tied to the once well-propertied ex-wife of timber magnate Tim Blixseth and co-founder of the Yellowstone Club is up for sale. Casa Captiva is an idyllic six-bedroom retreat in Los Cabos, Mexico.

The estate has 280 feet of oceanfront and the secluded cove is situated in the most exclusive and private community of Punta Bella adjacent to Villas Del Mar in Palmilla in the city of San Jose del Cabo. With 10,000 square feet of space with 7,000 square feet of outdoor space there is plenty of room (a good thing for the Blixseths who were collectors). The floors, windows and deck are handcrafted with teak wood and the home has a great room, large kitchen, family room, gym, office, bar and caretaker's quarters. The master suite is a private space with a den and bedroom facing the ocean, two dressing rooms, steam room, Jacuzzi tub and a a meditation room that opens onto a private garden. The property has an infinity pool and large Jacuzzi and the beach is just steps away. The property is listed at $12.875 million.

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Larry Hagman's Heaven, Estate of the Day

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It takes a certain kind of guy to name his home Heaven. Maybe the kind of guy who walks around town in a cowboy hat and is famous for being one of television's most notorious villains. As Hagman tells it in a video (after the jump) it was love at first sight for him and his wife Maj when they saw the hilltop estate in Ojai, California. They bought the property in 1991 and built the Mediterranean-style house with nine bedrooms the following year.

The home is designed for entertaining, there is a guest house and an open but covered space fits more than 200 guests with a lap pool and retractable roof. Hagman may have played an oil tycoon on television but the home is equipped with a huge solar polar system which sliced his electric bill to pennies and enabled him to sell back electricity to the town. The home also has its own helipad.

The property is designed to take advantage of views of the Pacific ocean, Channel Islands, mountains and valley and sliding glass walls offering unobstructed views. This home hit the market last November for $11 million but as the Wall Street Journal reports it is now listed at $9.5 million.

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Michael Strahan in Tribeca, Estate of the Day

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Former Giants superstar Michael Strahan has been spending a lot of time in Los Angeles over the past year while working on his now-cancelled sitcom "Brothers." Last fall he listed his New York City loft for $1.5 million. But now it is back on the market at an increased price. His 2,000-square-foot loft at 25 Murray St. in TriBeCa is listed for $1.85 million.

The NY Post reports that he bought the home in 2006 for $1.6 million. Strahan's two-bedroom unit is a full service pre-war condominium with exposed brick, shiny wood floors and an eat-in kitchen. The 15-foot ceilings gave the 6'5" Strahan plenty of head room. The decor has obviously been staged in this one, Strahan has long ago decamped for greener pastures. He is engaged to Nicole Murphy, Eddie Murphy's ex-wife, a woman with some substantial real estate of her own.

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Tweeting From Menlo Park, Estate of the Day

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Today's home is part of a new trend. Houses for sale that tweet. Yes, today's home, a six-bedroom in Menlo Park, California, has its own Twitter account and sends out tweets like "I'm being shown to some new potential buyers right now! " The home is part of a new house twittering trend, our sister blog WalletPop did a piece on a Malibu home that is also tweeting its way toward a sale just the other day.

The home is a new build in a Dutch Colonial style with an open floorplan. The home was designed for family life with nice details like a breakfast nook and a sunny open kitchen, dining room with a buffet, upstairs office and a downstairs great room with a bar. A marble master bathroom includes both a large tub and a shower stall. Covered outdoor space offers a lovely spot for alfresco dining. This home is listed at $5.499 million.

[Thanks, Andrew]

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Palms Place Penthouse, Estate of the Day

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Need a Las Vegas lair? Today's home might be a gambler's dream, a sky-high penthouse unit in Palms Place. The ultra-modern two-bedroom penthouse is being sold with all its ultra-modern furnishings which include a pool table, leather furniture and large flat-screen televisions. The most "ruler of all I survey" spot has to be the private spa which actually projects out from the building and faces a wall of glass with views of the Palms Casino and the Vegas strip. The home includes large closets and a stainless steel kitchen that looks more like a place for surgery than dinner but this isn't the sort of place you'd cozy up for meals anyway. The penthouses at Palms Place are available for rent so you can check out a similar place for a few thousand a night. This home is listed at $4 million.

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Grand Estancia Estate, Estate of the Day

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Today's home sits within the gated community of Estancia in Scottsdale. The sprawling estate spans three lots in the subdivision at the base of Pinnacle peak. it was designed to blend in with the boulder outcroppings creating a private oasis. Heavy wood doors, tile floors and curving adobe fireplaces add to the feeling of desert luxury. There are eight bedrooms total and over 20,000 square feet of living space if you include both the caretaker's cottage and the large 2,000 square foot pool house. The outdoor space includes large porches as well as several outdoor fireplaces and seating areas and a pool with a waterfall. This home is listed at $15 million.

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Hamilton Penthouse, Estate of the Day

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Today's San Francisco penthouse has to be one of the most fabulous creations I have ever seen. It sits atop the Art Deco Hamilton building on O'Farrell in the Tenderloin District. The building was built as a hotel in 1929 but it was converted to condominiums in 1962. The crowning glory of the building is a 3,879 square foot penthouse. Socket Site has the story of the apartment which was created for a wealthy heiress by the name of Marcia McDonald. She combined four proposed units on the top floor into one full-floor unit with its own private elevator access. She also added the glass barrel-vaulted solarium with imported Greek-style columns. McDonald didn't finish the unit in her lifetime and never lived there. Instead, when she was told she had to spend another $500,000 to finish it she decided not to an lived in a pair of apartments lower in the building. The unit was finished after her death. The residence has three bedrooms,a library, two working fireplaces, formal dining room, gourmet kitchen and a pair of terraces, one of which has an antique fountain. It first hit the market in November and is still listed at $4.5 million.

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Bernardsville, Estate of the Day

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Today's home isn't just on Ballantine Road in Bernardsville, New Jersey, it has a Ballantine provenance. It is the former home of Alice Isabel Ballantine, daughter of brewery founder Peter Ballantine, and her husband Henry Young Jr. The home was designed by architect Charles Alling Gifford and is a stately Greek Revival manor on 28 acres. Inside the venerable old home has been restored to the nines with a muted neutral, gently feminine style that suits a home outfitted with columns and elaborate moldings. The decorator did excellent work here. I'm particularly smitten with the subtle details, like the fact that the chairs in the living room have the legs of a klismos chair, a nice nod to the home's Greek aspirant leanings. One bastion of masculinity remains in what is generally my favorite room of any home, the wood-heavy study, this one is particularly cozy and warmed up with richly toned furnishings. The grounds include an in-ground pool, four bedroom guest house and a tennis court. It is listed at $10.75 million.

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Java Head, Estate of the Day

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A lot of the estates I show you in Florida are newer homes but today's vintage beauty in Coral Gables was built in 1936. Java Head is a beautiful old estate. The three-acre property includes gardens, a tennis court, pool house, a four-car garage with a separate apartment and a protected dock that offers your boat open access to ocean. The seven-bedroom main house has Art Moderne and Art Deco notes. Of particular charm is the massive living room with the 23-foot cathedral ceiling. The lower half of the room is encased in dark wood panels and an old stone fireplace is a relic from another time. A round doorway leads to a mural-covered dining room. This unique home is listed at $13.9 million.

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