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A sneak peak inside Bill Gates house
To kick things off, let me show you teaser of inside Bill Gates House. Apparently this is a famous snap of a room inside moneybags crib…I’m not entirely sure how authentic this is, but apparently it’s real. Regardless, I don’t know about you, I think it looks swell, but i’m not sure how safe i’d feel with sharks and killer whales floating around so closely to home…what if the glass cracks?
Location
Bill Gates’ house is a large earth-sheltered mansion in the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington in Medina, Washington. To please the crowd that see Gatesy as a sexual object (I hear there is a huge bucket load of you out there), 1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, WA 98039, is his exact address. If anyone plans on stalking moneybags, be careful, apparently the place is protected by robots that are equipped with lazor guns. No, really.
Design
The house was designed by a guy called James Cutler, the best-known architect of Northwest Style, apparently. “Pacific lodge” is the chosen style for the residence. What does that mean exactly? Well, it’s just made from huge wooden panels to give it a “cabin lodge” effect from what I can make out. Can anyone explain further?
There has been lot of speculation that the house was designed on a Macintosh. I’m guessing only computer geeks will “speculate” about which type of computer the Microsoft Mogal used to design it. Normal people wouldn’t give a damn. I’m sure if you search on Google for long enough, you’ll find someone called Howard who has whipped up an article in his parents’ basement, on how Bill Gates backstapped his own company by using a Mac to design his house.
Pictures of the Gates’ complex are both private and copyrighted- what a shame. There are a lot of pictures available, but they’re mainly of the building exterior and the grounds. Additionally, information regarding the house is quite limited.
Features
- The house occupies 50,000 square feet on 5.15 acre land. Garage space and outbuildings occupy an additional 16,000 square feet
- A 17 × 60 foot (5.1 × 18.2 metre) swimming pool, which has an underwater music system and a fossil-motif floor
- Swimmers can dive under a glass wall and emerge outdoors by a terrace
- Lights automatically come on when you enter a room
- Speakers are hidden beneath the wallpaper to allow music to follow from room to room
- Visitors to the residence are surveyed and given a microchip upon entrance. This small chip sends signals throughout the house, and a given room’s temperature and other conditions will change according to preset user preferences
- grand staircase
- large private library with a domed reading room
- formal dining room
- exercise room
- outdoor sports courts
- Property records indicate eight bedrooms and four building levels
- Much of the Bill Gates house is built underground into the hill, so the house looks smaller than it actually is.
- The beach sand on the bank of the lake is not from Lake Washington, it is barged in annually from a tropical beach in St. Lucia
- The wood columns from main floor to roof in entry area are over 70 feet tall
- Some of the interior passage doors weigh over 800 lbs, but are balanced for easy use
- The roofing is stainless steel
- Hidden cameras are everywhere, including the interior stone walls
- Gates insisted on saving a 40 year old maple adjacent to the driveway. The tree is monitored electronically 24 hours per day via computer. If it seems dry, it gets just the right amount of water automatically delivered
- All woodwork is flawless. Much of the woodwork is of various rare types from all over the world - imported especially for this house
- The theater (underground in a concrete shell) is the most state of the art theater in the world according to specialty contractor
Virtual View
Birdseye View
View from lake
Fakta-fakta dari seorang Bill Gates
1. Bill Gates menghasilkan US$250 setiap detiknya, itu sekitar US$20 juta sehari dan US$7,8 milyar setahun!
2. Jika dia menjatuhkan US$1.000, dia bahkan tidak perlu repot-repot lagi untuk mengambilnya kembali karena sama dengan waktu 4 detik untuk mengambil, dia sudah memperoleh penghasilan dalam jumlah yang sama.
3. Utang nasional Amerika sekitar US$5,62 trilyun, jika Bill Gates akan membayar sendiri utang itu, dia akan melunasinya dalam waktu kurang dari 10 tahun.
4. Dia dapat menyumbangkan US$15 kepada semua orang di dunia tapi tetap dapat menyisakan US$5 juta sebagai uang sakunya.
5. Michael Jordan adalah atlit yang dibayar paling mahal di Amerika. Jika dia tidak makan dan minum dan tetap membiarkan penghasilannya utuh dalam setahun sejumlah US$30 juta, dia tetap harus menunggu sampai 277 tahun agar bisa sekaya Bill Gates sekarang.
6. Jika Bill Gates adalah sebuah negara, dia akan menjadi negara terkaya sedunia nomor ke 37 atau jadi perusahaan Amerika terbesar nomor 13, bahkan melebihi IBM.
7. Jika semua uang Bill Gates ditukarkan ke dalam pecahan US$1, kita dapat menyusunnya menjadi jalan dari bumi ke bulan, 14 kali bolak balik. Tapi jalan itu harus dibuat non stop selama 1.400 tahun dan menggunakan total 713 buah pesawat Boeing 747 untuk mengangkut semua uang itu.
8. Bill Gates sekarang berumur 40 tahun. Jika kita mengasumsikan dia dapat hidup 35 tahun lagi maka dia harus membelanjakan US$6,78 juta per hari untuk menghabiskan semua uangnya sebelum dia pergi ke surga.
9. Tapi! Jika pemakai Microsoft Windows dapat mengklaim US$1 untuk setiap kali komputernya hang karena Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates akan segera bangkrut dalam waktu 3 tahun!
