Bill Gates House

Most people would assume that the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, would live in a house that makes P Diddy’s house look like a cardboard box in Harlem. I can’t quite confirm the speculation, but I can confirm that Bill Gate’s has one hell of a pad (as you can see from the teaser snap above); it’s worth a few pennies, too. There is one thing that is safe to assume, the place is filled to the brim with gadgets and other useless sci-fi junk that is certain to make any Star Trek fan wet their pants.

So let’s take a look at what, where and how the richest man in the world lives…

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 theatre in the world according to specialty contractor

Worth

My mate Billy actually purchased the plot of land for $2million back in 1988. After 7 years of intensive makeovers; according to King County public records, as of 2005, the total assessed value of the property (land and house) is $200 million, and the annual property tax is $991,000. I imagine it’s probably worth more than that now.

Pictures

Birdseye View

View from lake

Virtual View

Fireplace

Virtual Tour

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Talk / 81 Comments

maheshbabu wrote this on 2008-09-26 06:26:05 i like billgates house very much it is soo good and sooooooooooooooooooooo beautifull i want to visit there once and stay atleast 1 day 1

fjunior chris wrote this on 2008-11-10 16:28:27 bill's house ougth to b the white house for u.s.a
junior uganda 2

Wilbert Dandadzi wrote this on 2008-11-16 03:52:27 One house worth a ministry in the developed world!! Money Speaks. I would want to work in the house as a dust remover on some of the electronic devices!! 3

rock wrote this on 2008-12-19 10:02:19 bill gates is cool customer. 4

Timothy Mok wrote this on 2008-12-26 09:04:13 much like New Timothy House, near Ernest/Birmingham town area. 5

kaylei luther wrote this on 2009-01-08 02:38:44 i love this house i would love to stay and swim with his fish lol but ya im going to make it a goal to stay at his house 6

Rajinder wrote this on 2009-02-17 10:34:59 This looks so beautiful

I want to marry Bill gates Daughter and stay in his house for
my whole life 7

Stanley wrote this on 2009-02-20 01:36:21 Dang....thats huge. 8

marissa wrote this on 2009-02-20 03:26:29 i wish i could have a house like that.....it is like sooo amazing and beautiful. im young and i have a future ahead of me u never know i might get a nice house like bill gates. just put ur mind to it and everything will be cool. 9

=D wrote this on 2009-02-20 03:29:05 holy crap! me and my friends are going to buy it from him lol! i want to go there for class trip. if hes nice he will let us.... 10

samme wrote this on 2009-02-27 18:29:14 i think it is very unsafe for you to have killer whales and sharks in your house but other then that you have a beautiful house 11

dave wrote this on 2009-03-01 13:37:27 its not real its a pik of whales an sharks in is room 12

James Chang wrote this on 2009-03-08 01:45:16 This is unbelievable, Bill Gates House is worth US$ 147.5 Million in 2008.

I reckon that the valuation for this property is too over price.

The size of the building from the overhead picture is no bigger than our SUPER MANSION.

No matter from outside or inside look, the materials of this building are mostly timber construction as I can see from the following pictures.

The swimming pool of that size is impossible to content a whale in that pool (5.1 × 18.2 metre) , therefore that is only a holographic image.

Also that you can see the diver in that pool is much bigger than the red sofa underneath, therefore I am sure that is only a fake image.

How can the writer worry about the glass cracks?

If the valuation that the writer mention underneath is correct, then that will explain why the American financial meltdown can become in such a irrecoverable way.

This house is impressive, but if compare with our SUPER MANSION, it doesn't really impress me.

Come to see our "SUPER MANSION" in the folowing website address.

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jameschang2000tw/article?mid=145&prev=146&next=-1

Best regards,

James Chang 13

kkalyan wrote this on 2009-03-16 10:21:49 hii everybody,
i like bill gates most.
i love his house.. its so beautiful..
i too wanna built a house which looks like bills house in NEWYORK in future after becoming a bill gate.

i hope i will surely reach my aim.

bubyeeeeeeee every body 14

paco demayo wrote this on 2009-03-29 00:14:47 bill gates is my hero!!!!! 15

Philip Zaman-Bangladesh wrote this on 2009-03-30 17:33:52 Bill Gates is my idol. He is just one piece in the world. He is the lifetime hero. 16

jimmy b wrote this on 2009-04-06 06:47:12 Dude Bill Gates is such a cool guy. My grandad did some electrical work for him.
pimp .is proba 17

tahani almasri wrote this on 2009-04-08 18:33:58 Bill Gates is the one good of this life this house is little for him I wont to ask him if he can help me i need many from him pleas help me in this number my mobile 0975797210 on Jordan Amman thank you i wait you pleas help me 18

JUANA wrote this on 2009-04-11 15:15:14 IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE..CONGRATULATIONS.

I ADMIRE YOU BECAUSE MY SON'S (14 YEARS OLD) KNOWS ABOUT COMMUNICATION BY WEB,HE IMPROVE HIS KNOWLEDGE THANKS YOUR INVENTION,
HE KNOWS DESIGN, MY CONCERN IS HOW CAN I HELP MORE. 19

Matt wrote this on 2009-04-17 05:08:24 1. The so called "tank" is just a picture that is placed to look like your looking into the sea.(realize theres light in the "tank" but its not reflected on the floor, hmmm)
2. It is a very nice house, the man worked hard for what he has, and think he got his start digging through dumpsters learning code, bet ya didn't know that.
3. His garage is humongous, its large enough to hold a 1988 Porsche 911( i beleive thats the model), a Stretch Corvette limo, as well as few more grand cars, one if which only 3000 were made.
4. The pins people are given upon arrival, are pins of his own design, and his own software that he wrote, not to be released to the non-rich and glamorous any time soon.
But in all actuality other than the most state of the art security, and people friendly devices, his house is the way it is so he can get away from the Hustle and Bustle of the technology word, hence the earthy look to it.

Matt 20

cody bunn wrote this on 2009-05-03 02:01:08 nice house. How much did it cost you? 21

i live in northern illinois wrote this on 2009-05-04 16:06:34 i hate microsoft and u. 22

Philip Zaman wrote this on 2009-05-04 16:28:02 Dearest Tits Magee,

you are jealous. You can never become Bill Gates, Bill Gates is Bill Gates he is second to none. I remember before 1900 we all were using PC at DOS mode, just look at the invention he has made. He should have better house than what you see in the picture. We should feel ourselves lucky to have the chance to look at the photos of his house.

Bill Gates was not born rich, he made his fortune with his hard work.

This is our inspiration. Please go and invent something, if you really can.

Best rgds/
Philip Zaman
Bangladesh 23

poe wrote this on 2009-05-04 21:37:38 yeh your right phil ,. bill is a clever guy mate 24

Caolan McPolin wrote this on 2009-05-08 09:41:58 Apple os is better 25

Stephen Bryant wrote this on 2009-06-02 17:29:23 I want a house like bill gates' 26

AL Garcia wrote this on 2009-06-09 06:30:12 I think Rich people are too extravagant.for him,his wife and 2 or 3 children he has,it seems very extravagant to have all this space when it's not necessary. 27

jamal from lebanon wrote this on 2009-06-11 18:45:58 it's a nice house but realy weird
frankly i don't like it but some parts are good but not sure it's safe.any way good for him. wish to meet him just to teach me some tricks in the computer. 28

Bob Dole wrote this on 2009-07-05 08:48:37 I am sorry to say that maybe Bill Gates may not reach heaven when he dies. Bcs all the kids in our block are using his XP OS software to see porn. Now how much sin would he acquire by being part of so mush crime. Duh, must be more that nude magazine seller on our street corner.

I tell you, that is the problem with high tech these days. 29

Vic wrote this on 2009-07-11 08:29:02 !!!What can i say, the guy's got class and b**ls to live with sharks and killer whales staring down at him everyday. 30

Ms. Hema wrote this on 2009-07-18 15:36:58 Steping into the home, brings the brightness..awesome. And I see the great architure of gates right then...I will imagine myself there atleast for a cup of coffee with Mr Bill Gates if he permits. For a moment I thought it is Mr. Bill gates screen saver on the wall. Salute !!!

Microsoft live forver pls !!! 31

durgesh yadav wrote this on 2009-07-24 14:21:49 billgates is the most inteligents men in the earth.
such a nice guy.
wt a brain .
he's proved any person who is ability go ahead
bil gates ke samne sare actor fail koi nahi payega bilgate ko
.bilgates is my ideol. 32

Chris wrote this on 2009-07-26 04:36:06 I'll sell my Black n White Mobile and buy this House Tomorro... :D 33

Glen Masuluke wrote this on 2009-07-31 07:49:24 One thing for sure, I agree with Philip when he says Mr Bill Gates was not born rich, but he made his fortune out of hardwork!! what I can advice people, is to stop stressing themselves out on the issue of becoming the second Bill Gates, that'll never ever happen unless if you can walk to heaven without an aerospace (or using stairs for that matter).

knd rgds,
Narrow valley (Glen) 34

carol balog wrote this on 2009-08-01 21:26:42 your home is beautiful and I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for sharing with the world. (In so many ways) May you and yours have good health, love, peace, and real joy. 35

williams osasu wrote this on 2009-08-03 18:35:35 hello bill gate wiliams i like u so much dat i desire to see u i need some money to school in new yorkmpls help me today so i can help my family and pple
call me 2347070195041 23427257063 i love u bill gate
am from nigeria..... send me $5000 usd...
greet ur melinda 4 m3 36

Philip Zaman wrote this on 2009-08-03 18:42:43 Hi Williams Osasu,

You love Bill Gates or his money? Why can't you love others who do not have enough money.

Best rgds/
Philip 37

DARSSHAN wrote this on 2009-08-07 10:31:48 HI BILL GATES,

YOUR HOUSE IS COOL AND BEATIFUL. YOU ARE LUCKY 38

Adeniyi wrote this on 2009-08-19 23:15:26 The house looks like a wonder on earth, I wouldn't mind to visit and see the place, if given the opportunity. 39

Nicholas Abiagom wrote this on 2009-08-21 14:08:09 God hv mercy,dis house looks simple n complicated,everything about d house is appalling,ironically.God i want 2 live in such houses,y dont u hear my cries. 40

helen wrote this on 2009-08-21 15:54:46 It awesome and WOW!!!! I Have not seen such a home really however i believe everyone would to experience living in his home atleat once. 41

amanda wrote this on 2009-08-26 23:09:51 i love this house. its incredible. 42

benaja waterberg wrote this on 2009-08-30 05:01:55 My name is benaja waterberg and i'm from suriname and i do like bill gates house.is a nice house. 43

benjamin yao Dziwonou wrote this on 2009-09-07 16:41:54 The house is wonderful and I really really appreciate it but what I like most in all this is that even though the man is sarounded with this weath, he still live a simple life which he demontrate trough his recognition of God exitence , his fear God and his help he allways give to the less privilaged people.
CONGRATULATION.
I WOULD LIKE THE HOUSE TO CONTACT ME FOR I WANT TO SHARE SOME IDEAS WITH THEM. 44

justina first wrote this on 2009-09-09 15:31:25 Bill gates i love your house.
Please marry me!!!!! 45

sage wrote this on 2009-09-18 13:15:29 sweet crib holmes. 46

Gareth wrote this on 2009-09-24 12:12:51 bill if ur reading this stop being greedy and give me some money 47

malcolm wrote this on 2009-10-01 23:14:24 his house was designed with a mac computer . 48

Dhurata wrote this on 2009-10-02 11:28:45 wowww veryyy good, but I still love my flat :P - Dhurata 49

evelyn wrote this on 2009-10-02 16:15:21 im really amazed when i saw the picture of the house of william bill gates. i couldnt believe it. its one of the kind in the world.how i wish to visit that house even though in a dream. 50

dabo mustapha wrote this on 2009-10-03 16:44:47 what a beautiful house.i wish i could just stay there for 1minute...............................pls.i wish i could just see myself in a dream there. 51

Jerry H. Swaniker wrote this on 2009-10-05 18:15:27 I think his house is just gr8. I admire him 4 his brilliance & life-enhancing philanthropic wrk. More power 2 ur elbow, Mr. Gates! 52

rathnakmurthy wrote this on 2009-10-06 07:55:12 U R THE INSPIRATION FOR THIS GENERATION. U R AN GREAT

ACHIEVER. GOD WIL GIVE BRAIN 4 EVERYONE BUT ONLY FEW

PEOPLE LIKE U THEY WIL USE N BECOME GREAT PERSON

N ALSO RICHEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. U R THE

INSPIRATION 4 ME ALSO 53

Odum george wrote this on 2009-10-12 09:54:51 Bill gates is my role model.i just like everything about him,his family,house.God bless the womb which gave birth to him.Ghana,West Africa. 54

lalover wrote this on 2009-10-13 20:07:53 love the house i wish i was living in tht house love it haha beautiful 55

Henry Chise wrote this on 2009-10-19 11:34:05 I love Bill Gates heis the bestman and the great achiever in the world.that house is beutful.
Malawi, Central Africa 56

emmanuel wrote this on 2009-11-09 06:32:19 i like billgates house very much it is soo good and soo beautifull like house even though in a dream and incredible above the world.......... 57

Jeffery Gromis wrote this on 2009-11-12 16:55:15 i wish i was bill gates son if i was i would help make new microsoft designs and equipment 58

hayleab wrote this on 2009-11-17 12:07:02 i will pray bill gates to give me educational oportunity. 59

Mark wrote this on 2009-11-17 16:35:52 I think there is a lot of people in here talking about how good a man bill gates is and how much he deserves his money. To all who is thinking so...

THAT IS WRONG

Bill gates did invent something good once upon a time, but by now, his corporation is at a world-damaging state.

Did you know that your windows computer(except for windows 7 atleast) is so slow, because microsoft want it to be slowed down?

If you have ever tried a computer with linux or mac OS, you would realize that.

They are slowing your computer down because they want you to buy a new computer, so they can make money the new OS they are selling.

And they are able to do that because they own so much of the current OS marked. 60

Alex wrote this on 2009-11-18 21:04:09 Nice house u are sooooo!!!!!!! !lucky!!!!!!!!!

LLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!
Do you really have those animals in you're home
Microsoft is awsome!!! 61

bizg wrote this on 2009-11-20 13:42:35 well all i can say is bill gates family is the luckiest family in the world for now at least....until the next billionare comes up and shows his crib but anyhow bill gates your house is extremelyX3 AWESOME!!!! 62

James wrote this on 2009-11-22 04:42:16 To be honest, I think his house is quite ugly (On the outside) and not impressive in the slightest.

Not saying I wouldn't have it if offered it... But even still, I like big tall and majestic looking houses/mansions. 63

epanda chilaire wrote this on 2009-11-24 13:49:52 every think has been said about you Mr bill i do not know if it is a house because we do not even dream about thing like that,zho will give us the oportunity to live this type of thing, aperson like you have travel all over the world, and have see how people are living, we need only aducation,to realise some of our dreams i am in cameroom ,thank God blse u 64

jflow008 wrote this on 2009-12-03 15:34:59 Im not sure if the writer of this article is serious or not but that picture of the whales and sharks etc. is multiple displays that are forming one image. Its not a tank with actual fish. Im guessing he must know that as no one would think a blue whale, dolphin, porpoise and great white are all just gonna chill in your aquarium with your own private diver. Is a great house though no doubt. Look up the united emirates palace in abu dabi 65

fola wrote this on 2009-12-03 20:19:05 The noise about the house is too much than what I saw, Heaven is the real home, surrender it to Jesus Bill gate 66

subramanya wrote this on 2009-12-04 09:06:38 I just want to say thanks to bill gate becoz he had showed to the whole world that how he made life easy. 67

Sitthykun wrote this on 2009-12-09 18:04:17 I like bill gate and also his house!!!! 68

Tinashe wrote this on 2009-12-10 13:11:14 Bill is an inspiration so is his house. 69

Ryan G wrote this on 2009-12-29 17:35:12 okay for all the assholes that said the tank aint real, then why is there sand at the bottom that is visible..? why can you see the light beaming down, and also coming in from the windows to the right.? and if this is a picture why in the hell would there be a diver in it? huh. 70

lizzy wrote this on 2010-01-05 10:56:55 God bless you I think i appreciate God's work in your life you are wonderfully made keep it uo 71

Harlan wrote this on 2010-01-08 07:27:45 I'm still trying to find 4,000,000.00 Rs(Sri Lankan) (40,000$) to buy a house to stay in. :( 72

arjun mehta wrote this on 2010-01-09 09:23:28 i think he has ran behind excellence not behing sucess 73

ketan wrote this on 2010-01-20 06:24:03 this house is so beautiful 74

GOPI wrote this on 2010-01-20 23:04:58 god bless he deserves it.all the money and good house peace. 75

bnm wrote this on 2010-01-25 01:14:52 u are right. it did look alittlesmall 76

ashok wrote this on 2010-01-28 09:29:09 bill gates s aoooooooooooool customer and his house looooook so osum and wnt 2 wisit his house once in my life time..............bill gates rockz...........................the entire world................... 77

ght wrote this on 2010-01-29 13:39:17 this house must of taken like a year to bulid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 78

sandhiya wrote this on 2010-02-01 11:16:53 i am damn sure that the Hard work and selfconfidence of billgates will make him to reach more than this. long live bill gates. but his family members are really lucky. 79

Harrison Egbo wrote this on 2010-02-02 14:05:10 Hello i hate bill gate house because it looks suspicious and it contain a lot of destructive robot Actually i have being there for a while ,ask uncle bill gate about this 80

sahil malhotra wrote this on 2010-02-05 15:41:33 ya i love the Bill's daning room .
I want to stay his house for 1 day n ask him how to make this. 81