Downstairs, the first floor is mostly taken up by three massive rooms. The living room, which is accessed through the main entrance, the dining room, in which the Ackers once (comfortably) seated 120 people for a wedding, and a theater/pool room. There’s also a 1,000-square-foot kitchen.
The project was fully completed, she says, by 2004, nine years later.
“My husband made a lot of the furniture in the house, and he made the cabinets in the kitchen,” Acker says. “In the dining room, I can’t see anything he didn’t make except for the chairs at the dining table.”
Tourist Appeal
Acker says she and her husband never intended to sell the house or turn it into a commercial venture.
“We didn’t want to turn it into a bed and breakfast, because we didn’t want to have to wait on people,” she explains.
Acker acknowledges that it might appeal to someone interested in reverting it back to a hotel, but says that the area—a tourist destination roughly in-between Phoenix and the Grand Canyon—means that the home could appeal to well-heeled buyers in search of a vacation home.
“A family might like this as an extra home,” she says. “A lot of people from L.A. come out to this area—there’s Lake Powell and so many attractions.”
Acker says that she’s fine with selling the house. “I guess I’m selling because I’m going on to a new phase of my life,” she says.
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.