“Huge” Is the Word: Inside Mark Wahlberg’s New Nest

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Welcome home, Wahlberg: a pre-construction rendering from the Landry Design Group, courtesy of the Daily Mail.

Famous actor, Bostonian, and erstwhile rapper Mark Wahlberg just completed construction on his new digs in sunny Beverly Park, California – and wow, is it big. The home, which clocks in at over TWENTY THOUSAND square feet, took a whopping five years to build and plan.

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Welcome home, Wahlberg: a pre-construction rendering from the Landry Design Group, courtesy of the Daily Mail.

The good folks at Yahoo! got a hold of some aerial shots of Casa Wahlberg, and it completely looks more like a palace than a single-family home. Done in the style of a French manor with dramatic landscaping and a large fountain in front, the exterior is elegant and classic. There’s a basketball court, a rock-lined swimming pool with a waterfall, a gym, a wine cellar, and a putting green. In addition, the grounds feature an immense covered loggia (perfect for entertaining) with limestone floors and a fireplace. Artist’s renderings from before ground-breaking reveal a traditional wood-paneled library, an enormous motor court, and a home screening room decked out to rival any state-of-the-art theater… for those weekend screenings of Boogie Nights?

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Aerial shots, via Yahoo!, show the huge home nearing completion.

All this was the brainchild of Richard Landry, of the vaunted Landry Design Group. Landry & co. are designers to the stars, having recently completed Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s extravagant Brentwood home.

Wahlberg won’t be wandering the cavernous halls by himself, luckily. The two-time Oscar nominee shares his home with wife Rhea Durham and their four young children. As the Yahoo! article pointed out, that’s still over 4,000 square feet per person… so no worries about anyone tripping over their siblings. Wahlberg, who grew up in a working-class family, has an estimated net worth of over $200 million.

Congrats on your big-ass new home, Mark. May it give you good vibrations for years to come.

(Okay. I’ll see myself out now.)