Shopping for a home is a dream that many individuals nonetheless maintain pricey to their hearts, with plenty of owners being nice with buying a good-enough abode and fixing it up a little bit. Nevertheless, there are additionally folks like HGTV star Alison Victoria, who purchase a spot with the aim of doing main renovations. Now, after the Windy Metropolis Rehab skilled did simply that together with her “dream” dwelling in Chicago, she’s determined to promote it for hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
What Did Windy Metropolis Rehab’s Alison Victoria Say About Promoting Her Chicago Dream Dwelling?
In the summertime of 2023, followers had been in a position to watch as Windy Metropolis Rehab mistress of ceremonies Alison Victoria traded in beach-set bikini picture shoots for the down and soiled work of renovations, throughout her spinoff, Windy Metropolis Rehab: Alison’s Dream Dwelling, which adopted alongside as she turned a 1927 warehouse into her (you guessed it) dream dwelling. Nevertheless, after finishing that huge problem and calling it hers for some time, she not too long ago spoke with Us Weekly about placing it in the marketplace for $2.9 million. She stated:
Having 7,000 sq. toes to your self appears opulent and dreamy, however in actuality, it grew to become a bit lonely, so I made a decision to downsize and discover one thing that suited my life-style higher. I journey a lot for work and wasn’t actually there to take pleasure in it as a lot because the area deserves to be loved.
My home is lower than 1,000 sq. toes, so with out having seen the Barbie Dreamhouse Problem star’s place in her present, I completely wouldn’t even have been in a position to image what a lot area would seem like. Nicely, I can let you know, it’s MASSIVE. And, as everybody who enjoys watching the designer remodel properties round her dwelling metropolis will count on, simply as creatively attractive as one would suppose.
Victoria (who handled years of lawsuits over her unique hit sequence) had purchased the place years earlier than turning it into her dwelling, utilizing it as her workplace and design studio, and he or she liked it a lot that she thought making it a house was an amazing thought. She continued:
Once I bought the property and had it as my workplace and design middle for years, I might all the time sit in there and take into consideration how dreamy this area could be as somebody’s dwelling. Once I had the chance to show it into that, my desires really got here true. Once I was there, I actually by no means left. All the pieces you can ever need all beneath one roof makes that very straightforward to do.
Whereas she referred to as the house the “sexiest place I ever designed” shortly after the sequence aired, she additionally admitted that the reno, as an entire, value her an especially fairly penny. Not solely that, however she was in debt to the tune of $400,000 to 2 of her pals that she borrowed cash from (so as to add issues like a year-round courtyard which was likened to one thing from Versailles, a fitness center, theater, bar, and “heated marble herringbone flooring” within the lavatory) to get the whole lot executed the best way she needed.
Sadly, the frequent dwelling renovation competitors present star completed her dream dwelling, moved in, and easily realized that though the area has actually the whole lot she may need or want, she simply wasn’t in a position to spend sufficient time there for it to actually be value it for her life-style. Hopefully, another person can snatch the place up and put it to good use now.