Monday Morning Millionaire (Extraordinaire): Stonebriar Estates Estate Has Circular Card Playing Room, Event Pavilion, Can be Your Private Wedding Palace

Like seriously, this is not a home, this is a resort! An environment! What else would you call a spread on 10.332 acres? But here’s the good part: you don’t have to share all the amenities –and there are many — with any other guests! Just you, yourself, and your family… if they are nice… can enjoy 10,780 square feet (on 10.332 acres, that’s like a thousand square feet for every acre!) jam-packed with all the usual goodies of luxury living but also – a circular reading room, a card room, music parlor, exercise room with sauna, tennis court, basketball court, 50,000 gallon pool, private pond with fountain, an event pavilion that will hold 300 and the icing on the cake: numerous outdoor gathering spots including a private wedding altar!

How cool would it be to have a private outdoor wedding altar? You could start your own private wedding business, a $70 BILLION/year industry, right at home! On average, couples spend $25,656 for their wedding. However, the majority of couples spend between $19,242 and $32,070. I know we spent at least twice that much! Let them spend it here!

Maybe you just renew your own vows year after year, right in your own backyard.

Or, maybe you like some variety, and just want to get married to a new person every year, right here at 5 Stonebriar Place? I am thinking of some folks in Dallas who might find this very appealing as long as alimony is not involved. Guys, of course.

You know how couples used to carve their initials on trees? New twist: carve the names of spouses and see if you can out-marry Elizabath Taylor, who would have loved this house. It’s so “National Velvet”!

You get the picture. 5 Stonebriar Place is a most unusual property, even for a mega-estate! Asking price is a mere $7,775,000.

So here are the vitals: Six bedrooms, 8 full and two half baths. Looks like the home was built in 1987, but a former owner, developer extraordinaire John Zouzelka, tells me current owners have just poured the world and more into this place: granite, slate, onyx, river stone and wide-planked custom wood floors, exposed beams. The topography is great, perched on a  hill, and the guest quarters are in a whole separate building.

This (below) is the formal living room — not so formal? That is a hand-carved “tree of life” over the mantle. Above, breakfast & Keeping room.  This (above) is the music room, off the living room. Ahhh the card room with windows for fresh air on poker nights. A double decker master suite with an elevated bed platform. Va va va voom! The family room (below) is so large, measures 36 by 25 feet, that agent Myla Patton says she can’t even get the whole room in a photograph! 

This is the guest house complete with it’s own kitchen. I’ll be a guest here anytime!

The kitchen is decked with Viking, SubZero, double dishwashers and a triple sink. That master has a lot going on upstairs, and we don’t mean romance! There is the library so you can go read while the spouse sleeps, plus private patio if you MUST get fresh air. There is also the spa master bath, and exercise room and a full sauna. Upstairs are four large bedrooms with baths, and that circular reading room where you will never find a square corner.

Downstairs is one more guest bedroom, and then probably the most extravagant outdoor kitchen in North Dallas:  the event pavilion where you can entertain 300 easily has an outdoor catering kitchen. Of course there is a bathroom and shower for apres pool or apres tennis. And you will love the long, winding drive that leads you to this property every time you come home.

Now John was asked if he really used all 10,000 square feet of the home when he lived there — his answer was most definitely, yes. With three kids, there were always friends over and the lot is large enough to hold a stable and a horse ring, so kids can go horseback riding and groom their horse. Hec, they can even take trail rides on those ten acres… and ride a horse to school!

Just like the “olden days”.