Listed just last week for just under $1.8 million: the maxxed-out home in Southampton that NBA star Shane Battier and his wife, Heidi Ufer, bought just a couple of months after he joined the Houston Rockets in 2006. Battier was traded back to the Memphis Grizzlies this past February. A few pro basketball players who’ve spent time in Houston have held onto their homes here, but Battier is putting this one up: a quaint little 1905 farmhouse-looking thing expanded and tricked out by previous owners to just under 6,000 sq. ft. Sure, there’s the media room, the game room, the commercial-grade appliances, the big barrel-armed furniture, and the earthy tones straight out of NBA interior design school you’d expect to find here, but there are a few surprises too:
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Like this cozy 2-room wine cellar, decorated with these unusable French Oak barrels. And yes, it’s in an actual Houston basement:
A place to hang your jerseys:
Upstairs, there are 5 or 6 bedrooms, depending on who’s keeping score. The home has 4 full and 2 half baths.
It all fits on a 7,440 sq. ft. corner lot, leaving a fenced side yard along Wilton.
- 2102 Wroxton Rd. [HAR]
Enormous, but it actually looks quite charming.
That reminds me, I was driving down Banks ST. (16OO OR 1700 block?), and there was a HUGE whole in the ground. I’m not sure but it somehow reminded me of something they call basements up North.
And I really like their house. What is that little mini picket fence in the backyard for?
Dang. I was hoping he’d get traded back here, retire, then run for Congress. (Kinda disappointing to only see ~20 books, though.)
More barrel arms than books.
I wondered about that little fence too.
Miniature horses, just out of camera range.
Overpriced for the lot size. Might be able to pass it off to a jock sniffer though.
For $1.8 million I would want a little more dramatic entry. Including a stair case instead of just stairs,. But, well, it’s in Southampton. Some just want to live in Southampton. And will apparently pay whatever they have to to live there.
For $1.8 million you could probably do similar in River Oaks and probably get a stair case too.
What’s up with that kitchen sink?
#9, sally—
Check out photo number 10 on the HAR listing. Farmhouse sink.
Kitchen arrangement does not look efficient to me, especially with the fridge off “over there”.
Do we know what his stance on the Ashby Highrise was? Did he have an anti-Ashby sign in his yard?
The little fence could be a dog run. We have utilized something similar in our backyard to keep our lazy dog away from the kid area. She could easily step over it, but why? I am pretty sure I heard her verbalized the dog version of “meh” the first time she saw it.
Might be a good idea to take down the pennants with your kid’s name before photographing the room for a public real estate listing.
I laughed at the picture of his kids room. Zeke! What a name!!
I’m fondly reminded of the numerous “Zeke’s” that graced Gary Larson’s The Far Side. To Gary, “Zeke” was a dogs name…
“Dramatic entry?” It’s a house, not a community theater production.
Er, it’s not like his kid’s name is a closely-held secret.
It’s a shame to see him go. Battier is such a class act.
Regardless, Zeke is a funny name, though it’s certainly not a bad name.
I also find it sad that we seem to make a bigger deal over wealthy celebrities who act in a classy, responsible manner, than we do the one’s who are jerks, and act like fools! Society has changed much… or has it?