Thom Filicia of "Queer Eye for the Straight Man" fame has bought his house in Skaneateles, New York, to a childhood buddy.
“Queer Eye for the Straight Man” inside designer Thom Filicia has bought his Skaneateles, New York, house in an off-market deal for $4.6 million.
The TV host not solely discovered a purchaser for the five-bedroom upstate lakefront unfold, however a purchaser who’s a longtime buddy.
“They individually purchased about 60% of the furnishings and so they need to reupholster and replace some items,” Filicia, who hails from close by Syracuse, informed The Publish. The client, who requested anonymity, additionally needs to work with Filicia on renovating the boat home, making the house extra child-friendly (they've a younger daughter) and customizing an out of doors cooking space.
Filicia bought the property, the place he spent weekends when away from his Chelsea condo, for $965,000 in 2008, Syracuse.com reported. He stumbled on it whereas driving again from a buddy’s wedding ceremony and recognizing a “For Sale” signal.
“I used to be not available in the market to purchase the home,” he stated — a theme for Filicia, who additionally simply purchased a Sag Harbor house after discovering a property by happenstance.
“My brother was in search of a brand new home within the Hamptons and asking me my opinion,” he stated. Filicia discovered a home he favored — on the water, gated and with three fashionable barns — and instructed it to his sibling.
Then, a number of weeks later whereas in Los Angeles, his cellphone rang. It was the childhood buddy, and she or he wished to know if she might purchase his home and enlist his experience for personalizing it.
“I made a decision that as an alternative of getting two properties in Skaneateles, I’d work out one thing else, and I assumed, ‘Wait a minute, there’s the home I discovered with my brother in Sag Harbor. Possibly I ought to see if that’s obtainable,’” he stated.
It was, and now it’s his. (His brother went with one other house within the space.)
“It was form of like this storybook” of natural coincidences, Filicia stated of the collection of real-estate offers.
He now plans to separate his time between fixing up the Sag Harbor house, spending time in New York Metropolis and persevering with to take pleasure in Skaneateles, the place he nonetheless owns a federal-style mixed-use constructing he’s within the means of changing into residences.
As for his extremely good luck with property acquisition processes, all he can provide by the use of an evidence is just that “[rescue] canines and homes all the time discover me.”
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