Thursday, May 24, 2012

Lady Antebellum's Dave Haywood Buys and Buys Again

BUYER: Dave Haywood
LOCATION: Nashville, TN
PRICE: $2,100,000
SIZE: 6,750 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 6 full and 2 half bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Last week we picked apart the recent real estate activities of Lady Antebellum lead singer Charles Kelley who recently upgraded his living situation in Nashville, TN. Now comes word, via The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial that another of pop-country phenom's three co-founding members has also been in the mood to snatch up some star-style NashVegas real estate.

In early February 2011 frequently touring Mister Haywood paid $329,000 for a modest and low-maintenance condo in a fairly new mixed-used complex located in the burgeoning shopping and dining mecca in downtown Nashville called The Gulch.

Listing information Your Mama coaxed up out of the dark underbelly of the interweb shows the mid-floor, tower unit has 1 bedroom (plus den) and 1 bathroom in a fairly compact 942(ish) square feet of interior space. Listing photos from the time of the sale show polished concrete floors throughout; a stacked washer and dryer; an unexpectedly large closet/dressing room; and an open plan living/dining/kitchen with long wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and glass doors that open to a balcony just about big enough for two or three people to stand around, shoot the shit and smoke.

Half a year after Mister Haywood signed all the necessary documents to acquire his compact condo in The Gulch he went and got himself engaged to a music industry executive gal pal he'd been friendly with for about five years, so the story goes. They were married in mid-April 2012, just about six weeks after he/they dropped $2,100,000 on a much larger, family-type spread on a quiet cul-de-sac in leafy Belle Meade, TN, an upscale community southwest of downtown Nashville.

Belle Meade is a quiet place—we understand from well-heeled locals—but it certainly claims its fair share of high-profile homeowners who include Nashville native turned Tinseltown queen Reese Witherspoon; 80s lady K.T. Oslin; former vice president and climate change advocate Al Gore; country couple Vince Gill and Amy Grant; HCA heir and former Republican Senator Bill Frist; and King of Leon's Jared Followill, just to name a few.

Listing information shows Mister and Missus Haywood's new, French-ish, kinda-Tudor-style mansion was built in 2002, sits on a shy, mostly landscaped acre and has 6,750 square feet spread out over three floors with a total of 4-5 bedrooms and 6 full and 2 half bathrooms.

A curving driveway sweeps past a two-car parking pad at the front of the mansion and curls down and back around to a small, lower level motor court at the side of the house with attached two-car garage. A short set of stone steps an a brief walk across an elevated, stone terrace leads to the front door discreetly tucked into a shallow porch at a crook in the tepidly baronial, taupe stucco structure.

The mansion's main public spaces orbit around the wood-floored center foyer and adjoining stair hall. The formal living room has a carved stone fireplace and two walls of floor-to-ceiling built-in book cases while the formal dining room has a uniform row of three very narrow, arched windows that open to the aforementioned front terrace. A more casual, double-height Great Room—we hate that term but that's what it's called in listing information—has a second fireplace with carved wood mantelpiece and wide bank of multi-mullioned windows that extend almost all the way to the floor and provide an elevated view over the back yard that slopes gently down and away from the house towards a thick stand of trees.

Both the dining room and the (so-called) Great Room have direct access to the spacious, cook-, party- and family-friendly center island eat-in kitchen outfitted with antiqued white cabinets; glass-fronted uppers, some sort of expensive-looking, stone counter top material; two-stool snack bar; warming drawers, ice makers and all the other accoutrement customarily found in a luxuriously equipped multi-million dollar mansion's kitchen; and a wide, semi-circular breakfast area lined with windows that overlook the backyard.

Two guest/family bedrooms with separate en suite facilities on the second floor share shared den and game room convertible to bedroom. Double doors in the formal living room connect to the main-floor master suite appointed with nearly identical his and her bathrooms and a fourth bedroom on the lower level has a private attached bathroom and direct access to the backyard. There's also a second den (with third fireplace) on the lower level that opens through a pair of French doors to a wide stone terrace that extends off the full-width of the back of the house.

Stone steps descend from the stone entertainment terrace to a grassy lower terrace with pergola structure off to one side. A few more steps lead down to a lightly tree-dotted and slightly sloped soccer pitch-sized grass patch ringed by a thicket of mature trees.

Now, children, have some sense and recognize the listing photos show the house decorated by the seller and does not (necessarily) reflect the decorative taste(s) of Mister and/or Missus Haywood.

The boys from the band aren't the only ones who have (fairly) recently bought properties. Turns out in late 2010 the lead lady in Lady Antebellum—that would be Hillary Scott who recently hitched her romance wagon to Love and Theft drummer Chris Tyrell—spent $725,000 to buy a relatively humble, completely renovated and expanded 4 bedroom and 3.5 bathroom bungalow with loft-like open plan interiors in Nashville's West End neighborhood.

listing photos: Showcase Photographers for Worth Properties

12 comments:

Carla In California said...

Wow! Another magnificent home for an amazing price! As a native in L.A., the business district is much better here otherwise I'd move to Tennessee.

Congratulations Dave Haywood. Well done.

Anonymous said...

Is it just me, or do the exterior and first four interior photos give a subtle nod to a miniature Collingwood, after Barnabas remodels of course?
Rabbi LaTess

Anonymous said...

Nice, spacious kitchen. Not a bad price either.

Anonymous said...

Yes, a nice sized home and not a monstrosity like the former Spelling manor. Good investment.

DC Guy said...

Out of all the recent Lady A purchases, this appears to be the nicest! Glad to know my iTunes purchases of their music is going toward something nice!

Anonymous said...

Whats up with Georges Marciano 1000 N Crescent Drive Beverly Hills House for sale listed as Bankruptcy proceeding?? OH DEAR

Anonymous said...

revro
well Rabbi, barnabas was living in the old house which was rather colonial style i believe, than this mansion. or maybe i didnot watched the entire serie till end :)

anyway here are few photos from whats left of the carey mansion (exterior for dark shadows)
https://www2.bc.edu/~kuchar/collinwood.htm

if you look at detail you see exterior needs repairs

Anonymous said...

Yes, Anonymous 9:01 a.m., you are absolutely correct!

In the masterfully conceived TV epic, Barnabas remodeled and resided in the Old House. Angelique cursed Barnabas in the Old House, where generations later Dr. Hoffman would conduct her scholarly medical experiments. May I now provide a few more details for Mama and the Children?

The exterior photos of the Old House were of the "Veruselle" estate of the Hopkins family, which was adjacent to Lyndhurst (see below), in the Hudson River town of Irvington NY. This truly abandoned home, with it's elegant columns, burned about forty years ago, and arson was suspected. LGB, Snowman, Children, in what architectural catagory would you place Veruselle?

The exterior photos of the Collingwood Great House were of the Carey Estate on Rhode Island, and its interior provided the basis for the television stage sets. The maintenance-deferred Carey mansion is now used for dormitories.

The gothic revival Lyndhurst home was used for the two 1970s Dark Shadow movies. As indicated above, Lyndhurst is in the lovely Hudson River Valley town of Irvington NY.

Mr. Dave Haywood's new home above, reminds the Rabbi in a teensy and modest way, of Collingwood in the brand new movie, after Barnabas renovates!

Rabbi Hedda LaTess

Anonymous said...

Oops! Lyndhurst is in nearby Tarrytown NY. My mistake, attributed to the Manischewitz. Mama, put away your wooden spoon, I'll atone on Yom Kippur!
Most humbly yours,
Rabbi Hedda LaTess

lil' gay boy said...

Ummm, early White Housesque?

Actually it could probably get away with Gothic Colonial . . . it must have been truly something in its heyday.

Loved DS; on eof the directors had a home in our summer community . . .

Anonymous said...

Very nice house and very good price; however, real estate in Nashville is depressed. Deals are to be had! As for Belle Meade, Vice-President Gore aside, it's a hotbed of conservatism (and is also known to harbor big snakes, no kidding). Former Senator Bill Frist does not live in Belle Meade; his house (very much like the White House) is on Bowling, in the Whitland neighborhod

Nashville Newsletter said...

The house looks great and such a deal with the price. Congratulation Dave on the new house.