Bill Gates House

02 Jan 2008

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

Inside Bill Gates HouseTo 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
Bill Gates House- Birdseye View

Bill Gates House- Birdseye View 2

View from lake
Bill Gates House- View from lake

Bill Gates House- View from lake 2

Bill Gates House- View from lake 3

Bill Gates House- View from lake 4

Virtual View
Bill Gates House- Virtual View

Fireplace
Bill Gates House- Fireplace

Virtual Tour

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Talk / 109 Comments left so far

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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
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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
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Sitthykun wrote this on 2009-12-09 18:04:17 I like bill gate and also his house!!!! 68
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Tinashe wrote this on 2009-12-10 13:11:14 Bill is an inspiration so is his house. 69
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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
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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
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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
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arjun mehta wrote this on 2010-01-09 09:23:28 i think he has ran behind excellence not behing sucess 73
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ketan wrote this on 2010-01-20 06:24:03 this house is so beautiful 74
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GOPI wrote this on 2010-01-20 23:04:58 god bless he deserves it.all the money and good house peace. 75
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bnm wrote this on 2010-01-25 01:14:52 u are right. it did look alittlesmall 76
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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
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ght wrote this on 2010-01-29 13:39:17 this house must of taken like a year to bulid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 78
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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
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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
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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
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izzy wrote this on 2010-02-13 04:50:14 that water tank is amazing bill you are a great guy 82
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usman wrote this on 2010-02-23 17:57:42 its amazing house i wishing to see in real eyes 83
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knowledgeable wrote this on 2010-02-27 22:38:26 I can say one thing to those of you who wish to someday live like Bill Gates. Go to school and get an education. Bill Gates has become the man he is by surrounding himself with the smartest young people in the world.
My younger brother was hired at age 22 having graduated from Stanford, and became Bill Gates speech writer and assistant. The well educated people that he selects from the finest schools in the world are the backbone of Microsoft, and an asset Bill can rely on.
If you think you can live like Bill, but cannot spell, or even write in complete sentences, you are grossly mistaken.
Think about it.
KGR 84
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BillyBobJoeJr. wrote this on 2010-03-03 23:34:38 omg his house is so pro if i could marry his daughter i would own the house and i would never leave the house but i might get rid of the whales and sharks but put much more fish in. 85
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Earth wrote this on 2010-03-11 20:26:55 well, people...things wont last forever...eventually every single thing in this universe will vanish soon.
the important is when u live ur second life..
iternity is only 1 God. 86
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Ori Vaes wrote this on 2010-03-18 10:48:42 Please, please do a little bit of research before you make Bill Gates a God, omg. He's a real copycat who was very lucky to be hired by IBM that really launched him... But whatever I would love to be this guy, he might be a copycat, but he still designs the stuff and he really is a smart guy and he really has a great point of view how to achieve things, how the market works and how to sell his product. He was so smart building a GUI (graphical user interface) that was installed using DOS, and letting all the DOS applications work on his system, while MAC has a much better graphical interface, but not the applications, ... everyone was allready running DOS...
But I'm not going to much in detail on this.

Still, the house is like heaven, I read/heard that when he enters his house, a computer scans his mood (I don't know how) and so adjusts music and paintings.

And sorry but please take a look, read the comments and you'll understand that that can't really be a real tank with sharks and whales... 87
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CHANDIRASEKAR KANNAN wrote this on 2010-03-20 07:18:02 this is not a home it is heaven we are only dreeming but BILL GATE do it work means BILL GATES BILL GATES MEANS WORK. 88
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Kiara wrote this on 2010-03-27 20:17:50 *Click on the closeup of the aquarium pic..... I was trying to figure out what didn't seem right about the decor fitting in with a Sea World theme. The things inside the room don't match the taste of someone who would want such a lavish focus in the room.... So look really hard.... If you can't tell what's wrong. The scuba diver inside is significantly bigger than the couch!!! 89
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sikalundu owen wrote this on 2010-04-04 01:07:03 what! well nice house,atleast he has tried.bt God says he has gone 2prepare real mansions for us for free.so guys remember our original mansions bigger thn this awaits us in heaven.actualy its plus plus thn wat we seeing in ths page.kitwe,zambia 90
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Lizzy wrote this on 2010-04-22 08:11:15 Ilove Billgate house but there is a big mansion that cannot be compaire with his house waiting 4 me in heaven and I shall get there, Billgate please be there too 91
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HANGFORD MUTAMBO wrote this on 2010-04-24 12:18:20 Wow...call that a house???

Guess that's a serious understatement!!!

I think we all have our houses exactly propotional to the size of our dreams and "brains".

Will be submitting mine on the webb ...and guess wat??? you'll know my dreams and brain size then...lol.

Bill really filled his bill! 92
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kanchan wrote this on 2010-04-27 10:23:00 wow!!!!! what a house man!
i wish if i could stay out there for atleast a day yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar! hats off to u man:-)
lol 93
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HANGFORD MUTAMBO wrote this on 2010-05-04 17:07:51 Hey Christian friends!!! I guess we are getting jealousy for nothing! Bill Gates worked for his riches and deserves this house...I only hope he makes it to heaven and will dwell in a real mansion up there!

His house doesn't make him any evil than the rest of us, he too can make it to one mansion of his in heaven!

You can live in the smallest house down here and thats no guarantee that you'll have a mansion up there ......God rewards hard work but we should aim for his everlasting salvation as our prime yearning on earth. 94
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simon wrote this on 2010-05-08 21:49:25 omg this is one amazing house!!
its got whales in his house!!!
omg omg omg omg cool. 95
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dumpling wrote this on 2010-05-13 12:36:22 what a house.It looks like a park!My house is so bad 96
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qwertyupo wrote this on 2010-05-22 00:26:58 Hey FYI there supposedly isn't glass in that room with the dolphins, that is supposedly a picture from a projector, on of the houses many tech features 97
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jesca yustas wrote this on 2010-06-09 06:56:48 For sure the house is nice and i real love it hope one day i will build a house like that. Congrats Bill Gates you are a HERO 98
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HASAN KHAN ,JAISY wrote this on 2010-07-12 16:43:02 hi... this shows that, this is the reason of great effort and good luck. aapko dekh kar bahoot kuch seekhne ko mila thank you .if i need some help can u help me ? 99
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evelyn wrote this on 2010-07-16 12:38:53 i find no word to discribe how lucky is bill gates. i admire him. by the way what is his religion . is he religious. how is he when he was still a child. is he human. i am evelyn bacalla residing in cebu city philippines. . 100
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john mwangi wrote this on 2010-08-03 13:06:26 no comment to this rich man 101
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renaaaayyy wrote this on 2010-08-08 01:52:29 ommmmmmmmmgggg uu have the bestest friken house int he world well ofcousre ur the richest man but ur house is beautifuulll selll it to me lolll nah jokes u have whales in ur loungeromm just like a aqarium mann!!! it is soo cooolll bill gates is so lucky but i want to know how did he . become rich?? 102
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rayan wrote this on 2010-08-08 01:55:38 i love bill gates he is the best in the wholee wild word but soz eveyoneee i have a wayyy better mansionnnnnnnnn in washingtonnn i have g ot a movie theatre rooom a big gym on the top floar and a swimming pool at the back and the 2nd floarrr pfftt im joking im wihsing i have a jouse like dat hahahahaaahhaa 103
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prabakaran wrote this on 2010-08-10 18:59:07 what a house, i am lucky to see this, and i try to build like i try reach that... 104
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Nick2_0999Raver wrote this on 2010-08-17 04:38:49 Bill Gates has the best house in the world. If only Bill Gates can share some of that wealth with the rest of the U.S.
GO MICROSOFT 105
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margaret frank wrote this on 2010-08-18 15:07:50 i love bill gates he is the best in the whole wild world, l was wondering if bill gates can help me by sharing his wealth with me, i know that lm nobody. 106
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peter wrote this on 2010-08-23 06:33:46 Thats the most expensive house I have ever seen. 107
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Yousaf wrote this on 2010-08-23 09:15:09 that's bullshit, that aquarium is fake. You can guess from the size of the person floating inside the cylinder and the sofa in the lounge room fools, but over all the house is not bad. 108
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Brett wrote this on 2010-08-29 17:39:12 I think that black fish farted in the fake aquarium 109

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