Weekends With KLLL
Taylor Swift loves to write songs based on the idea of fairytale romance. Her latest, 'Today Was a Fairytale,' from the 'Valentine's Day' soundtrack builds upon that theme quite nicely. But the reigning princess of pop and country music is building on the whole idea at home, too. Taylor is wielding her magic wand to cast a whimsical spell over the living room of the 4,062-square-foot penthouse she recently purchased in Nashville."It's going to be my fantasy world," Taylor says in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine. "There's a pond in the living room ... the pond is a moat around the fireplace, and may possibly have koi fish in it."
But wait ... there's more magic to be spun!
"You step on a stepping stone in the pond in order to get on a spiral staircase, which takes you up to the human-sized bird cage observatory," Taylor continues. "They're delivering a human-sized birdcage, which I'll put a brass telescope in. The ceiling of my living room is painted like the night sky."
Taylor has spent the past few months designing the interior of her first home, located in The Adelicia in downtown Nashville. The 18-story apartment tower offers such luxurious appointments as a 3,000-square-foot gym, a sprawling rooftop deck with Olympic length lap pool, a private pool-side lounge with catering kitchen for private parties, a resident's only dog park and 24/7 concierge and security services. Other tenants reportedly include Julianne Hough, Kings of Leon lead singer Caleb Followill and 'American Idol' creator Simon Fuller.
Taylor Swift's Designing New 'Fantasy World' Penthouse
Yahoo! Music, Jan 26, 2010 3:00 pm PSTTaylor Swift is self-designing her new Nashville apartment in a way you might never imagine — unless you're a 20-year-old with more money than you know what to do with. The country-pop star is having a moat-like pond built around her living room fireplace, and she says she's considering adding a few exotic koi fish to the opulent centerpiece. While that kind of decor might not be so hard to imagine, the Disney-gone-surreal accoutrements are a little beyond what one might find in someone's home — even when that home is a 4,062-square-foot penthouse.
Swift gushed to Rolling Stone this week about her renovation plans for the luxirious 18-story Adelicia apartment building. They're imaginative, to say the least:
''You step on a stepping stone in the pond in order to get on a spiral staircase, which takes you up to the human-sized bird cage observatory," Taylor told the magazine. "They're delivering a human-sized birdcage, which I'll put a brass telescope in. The ceiling of my living room is painted like the night sky."
Swift can certainly afford whatever she can dream up, home-decor-wise. The singer and actress, who stars in next month's chick flick "Valentine’s Day," was ranked No. 69 on Forbes Magazine's Celebrity 100 last year, having taken in an estimated $18 million in earnings. And this is an especially good week for Swift, whose fittingly named ''Valentine's Day'' soundtrack single, "Today was a Fairytale," is selling like crazy on iTunes. If history holds, Swift’s sales will skyrocket yet again after this Sunday night's Grammys broadcast, where she'll be performing the song — and hoping to turn her eight Grammy nominations into trophies.
Guests entertained in Swift's new apartment "fantasy world" might include singer-and-Twitterer John Mayer, who was spotted with Swift and friends at a Nashville restaurant earlier this week.
While Swift's living room sounds like something that needs to be seen to be believed (and hopefully she'll give a tour when it's finished), between the water, the fireplace, the fish, the stepping stones, the staircase, and the birdcage, let's just hope nobody gets hurt.
Until that fateful day when Swift takes us on a MTV Cribs-like video tour of her new digs, we can keep our peepers busy with the trailer for ''Valentine's Day.'' The movie arrives in theaters on February 12.
Photo credit: Tom Gatlin of Tom Gatlin Photography, Nashville, TN.
