With a tour guide that’s the perfect combination of Robin Leach and the Orbit gum commercial woman, the above video takes us through CAVU Las Vegas, a modern desert oasis designed by award-winning architect Eric Strain. The 13,255-square-foot, three-level home is currently on the market for $12 million and features five bedrooms and nine bathrooms. With crazy attention to detail, it seems as if every decision made in the design and construction of the home has a distinct purpose. Instead of fighting the environment, CAVU works with it, like the three-foot-thick rammed earth adobe wall encasing the house to naturally protect it from the desert heat and regulate temperature.
The home is organized into three self-explanatory floors called Eat, Sleep and Play. When you hop in the hidden elevator, those are the call buttons you see instead of the typical numbers. No matter which floor you’re on though, you are surrounded by custom concrete flooring with glass chips, Ipe wood decks, a David Singer-designed lighting system, 10-foot exterior doors, Starfire glass railings, teak doors with glass slits, and fixtures without visible drains.
Starting in the upper Sleep level, there is an office, master bedroom (with a hidden retractable TV under the bed) and bathroom, an outdoor spa, deck, and a guest suite. The main level is the Eat floor, which gives you everything you could ever need from a casual living space. From the custom-made kitchen and library to the guest suite and spa, there is a lot going on here. The lowest level is for Play and is where one will find the gym, wine cellar, bowling alley, bar/lounge, theater, and Vichy spa with a Japanese soaking tub and outdoor shower.
Outside you will find a fully-enclosed dog run with an electric door, a zero-edge pool and spa, a drop-down movie screen, fire pit, and an outdoor kitchen with a wood-burning pizza oven. It’s also pretty hard not to notice that CAVU is set underneath a massive 140-foor “airplane-wing” shading structure that’s covered in zinc panels, which makes up the interior ceiling as well.
If you don’t want to live here after all of this, we don’t know what you could possibly be looking for, because this place really has it all.
