The bizarre new essential in Hollywood homes

Chateau des Fleurs is a 5574 square metre giant spread over 4 hectares and is valued at $100 million. Picture: Supplied.

Chateau des Fleurs is a 5574 square metre giant spread over 4 hectares and is valued at $100 million. Picture: Supplied.
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THE mega-rich have long desired more extravagant features for their homes than the next person, but things have become even more ridiculous lately.


If you thought the uber-wealthy had curbed their taste post-GFC, consider the latest must-have home feature: A Botox room.

Dental suites, wellness centres, putting greens and moats. It’s all part of growing competition among designers, architects and developers for the attention of cashed-up buyers in the world of high-end housing.

It’s almost a given that newly listed multi-million dollar mansions will have a home theatre, wine cellar, exercise room and a commercial-grade kitchen.

But in California, there is a return to a trend by property developers to build vast homes decked out with outrageous extras.

Architects are creating special rooms where A-listers can get the cosmetic treatment in the hope it will persuade them to pay tens of millions of dollars for the mansions.

They are also including moats with bridges over them on the properties so that owners can feel like they are apart from the public.

A new Bel Air mansion – Chateau des Fleurs – is just one of many gracing the sales block created by property developers to offer over-the-top extras including Botox rooms, the Daily Mail reports.

Chateau des Fleurs is a 5574 square metre giant spread over 4 hectares and is valued at $100 million. It took more than five years to build and is based on a classic French chateau style complete with a catering kitchen, a squash court and a beauty salon.

Chateau des Fleurs in the upscale neighbourhood of Bel Air in Los Angeles

Chateau des Fleurs in the upscale neighbourhood of Bel Air in Los Angeles
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One Los Angeles home even has its own Intensive Care Unit that is behind a secret panel so that doctors can treat patients on site.

Designer Steve Hermann, who is based in Beverly Hills and has worked on homes for the likes of Christina Aguilera, said that he included the Botox room in a $65m mansion that does not even have a buyer yet.

Christina Aguilera's mansion has a dental suite. Picture: Su...

Christina Aguilera’s mansion has a dental suite. Picture: Supplied.
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A recording studio at Christina Aguilera's home - one of its many amenities....

A recording studio at Christina Aguilera’s home — one of its many amenities. Picture: Supplied.
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Christina Aguilera's mansion has a dressing room complete with make-u...

Christina Aguilera’s mansion has a dressing room complete with make-up table.
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Meanwhile, Aguilera’s mansion has a recording studio, huge dressing room and a vast pool and cabanas to lounge in. Her estate also includes another room with a dental chair so she and her guests can have their teeth whitened or touched up without going out the front door.

Mr Hermann told the
Los Angeles Times
: “Developers are trying to come up with something to set the houses apart.

“It remains to be seen if the buyer will actually use the amenities.’

Other homes in Malibu, which is home to dozens of celebrities, include ‘wellness suites’ so anyone from masseuses to hairdressers can treat celebrities in the comfort of their own homes.

In Brentwood, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bündchen have a moat at their sprawling estate to separate them from the public.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen's Brentwood mansion with a moat to separate them from the rest of the world. Pictu...

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen’s Brentwood mansion with a moat to separate them from the rest of the world. Picture: Supplied.
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Meanwhile, John Travolta’s home in Florida comes complete with a runway for his jets, while Jerry Seinfeld recently added a new guesthouse to his East Hampton oceanfront property which also has a baseball diamond and a 22-car garage and a full size basketball court.

Read more on this story at the Daily Mail.

John Travolta's home complete with runway for his jets in Ocala, Florida. Picture:...

John Travolta’s home complete with runway for his jets in Ocala, Florida. Picture: Supplied.
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Jerry Seinfeld recently added a new guesthouse to his East Hampton oceanfront property which also has a baseball diamond. Pic...

Jerry Seinfeld recently added a new guesthouse to his East Hampton oceanfront property which also has a baseball diamond. Picture: Supplied.
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