40 Million Reasons to Love 2025

What’s up, friends?

2025 is coming to an end 😔 But 2026 is about to begin ☺️

So, for our final hometasrophe of 2025, I’ve found an artistic home that encapsulates 40 million reasons to love the past year… with a measly $40 million dollar price tag too!

Built in 1989, this 7-bed, 9.5-bath, and over 12k sq. ft. property was expertly crafted by architect John Portman on the Coastline of Sea Island, GA. He modeled the home after the philosophical concept of “entelechy” -a state where potential reaches its fullest realized form. And it’s with that optimism that I want to celebrate the ending, and new beginning, that we’re all entering. 

After strutting up the foliage-lined grand steps, make your way inside… kinda.

How do we travel into the home? Of course, we take the slightly-outdoor walkway of water features! The lack of walls is followed up with a hallway that  is covered in ginormous ones:

Once we finally get inside, the first room we enter is circular, has glass for walls, and a grand piano. Similar to what you’ve seen so far, this is only a glimpse into the foretold luxury.

There’s a chance that this is my favorite dining room of the year. It plays with shape, color, curvature, indoor, outdoor, and everything in between!

Plus, above you in a skylight of circles: a complimentary pairing to the squares formed by… well, you’ll see once we get back outside.

Hot take: despite the rotund nature of the space, that includes two seating areas, this doesn’t feel like a communal living space. There’s nothing inviting about sectioned-off areas of a plan floor that are supposed to do that naturally. 

The thing about having multiple living rooms with exquisite natural light is that you get an even better view of the outside…

Wait, this isn’t outside -well, it kinda is. 

Some of the windows look at the interior-exterior, where the fully-outside vines and waterworks are on full display, while the others allow a peek at the Georgia landscape. In this way, the “view” is both the surrounding outdoors, the house itself, and the converging point where they meet.

Above you, the grid pattern provides shelter while allowing the sunlight to beam through. It’s like living inside a long, bright, beautiful Excel spreadsheet. 

Some of these design elements edge on… not functional? I feel like, between the balance of beautiful and practical, many of these stairs and archways are a bit excessive. You can’t tell me you haven’t seen an ornate patio like this at an art museum. And those places are not known for the comfort of their chairs!

Regardless of the furniture, there is a functional AND gorgeous space in this house: the pool.

I can’t begin to describe the awe I feel while looking at this expressionist piece of artwork that has been fluidly incorporated into this home. Plus, there’s a darn moat around the pool!

Thankfully, the lounge chairs do look comfy. And, although we’ve reached the exterior, don’t think that the artistry of this home is over yet. There’s still plenty of snapshots of sculptures around the premises: 

My personal favorite is the white tower with the blue block. That shade of blue stands out in a unique way.

Even from high above, the geometric forms of the property stand out from the surrounding homes. Every angle is breathtaking, especially when you can see your house as you float in the nearby Atlantic Ocean.

And that, folks, marks the end of another year of Hometastrophes. I’ll see you next year (next week 😉) with another exciting find. 

From myself and everyone at Estate, we wish you a happy and healthy 2026 🎉🍾

Sarah @Hometastrophes