By Michael Klein
Inquirer Columnist
The supersized house on Fitzwater Street in Bella Vista that's known pretty much as "the House" is on the market - less than a year after owners Dana and Michael Spain-Smith moved in after nearly three years of construction.
Asking price is $6 million - it's loaded with art-deco pieces and antiques and is lit up by 20-some chandeliers - or $5.5 million unfurnished.
"It's too much house," says Dana Spain-Smith, former head of Philadelphia Style mag.
It has 10,000 square feet of living space and 1,000 square feet of formal gardens.
It's a one-bedroom with three full baths and 21/2 half-baths - and the master suite is enormous. Dana Spain-Smith has a 1,500-square-foot boudoir with enough closet space for her collection of a "couple hundred" pairs of shoes. Michael Spain-Smith, a commercial photog, has his own "man's room," which includes a pool table and - why not? - stripper pole. The couple plan to downsize into condos here and in Paris.

Sheesh.

You know, there is an awesome house sitting in a traffic island at 6th and Catherine, has its own 2-car garage and a triangle-shaped backyard.

I'm dying to know if the owners ever intend to sell.

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Which house is it? I assume it is that crazy one with like 15 different kinds of masonry?

in that whole house there's only ONE bedroom? ok, it's "enormous" -- but still.

Some of the neighbors call it the Garage Mahal

How do you get 2 1/2 half baths? Whats the 1/2 half bath? A urinal? A bidet?

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OMG Becky, look at her blog...

A half bath is a bathroom with no bathtub or shower, like a powder room.

A half bathroom entails having only a toilet, and no shower.

Hey everyone -
re read the original article...

it says two and a half HALF BATHS....

how you DO you get a half of a half bath? Maybe its a sink?

That place sounds like a disaster. It just goes to show that money does not buy class. Tacky, tacky, tacky.