Kevin Costner - whose "Dances With Wolves" won seven AcademyAwards last month - his wife, Cindy, and their three children aresettling into their newly built home in the foothills near Glendale,Calif.
The 6,500-square-foot house has five bedrooms, four fireplaces,a viewing room with a hidden screen and movie projector, and anoffice for the Oscar winner.
The Costners' home has a swimming pool and about 75 pine andeucalyptus trees, which can be viewed from verandas and curved wallsof glass.
"We didn't want to cut down any of the trees, so we didn't,"said John McInnes, the architect-builder. "One tree is 100 yearsold, and many are 30 to 40 feet tall."
McInnes has known the Costners since the late 1970s when theactor was a framer on a house McInnes designed. Until they movedinto their new home, the Costners lived in the small Pasadena housewhere they were living when McInnes met them.
"Kevin said then that two things were going to happen: first,that he was going to make it big in the entertainment industry, andsecond, that he'd have me design a house for them," McInnes recalled.
He remembers spending years helping the Costners find a site,which they bought about four years ago.
"Cindy wanted an Old World, European-style residence, and Kevinwanted a rustic, natural environment where blue jeans, cowboy bootsand a T-shirt wouldn't look out of place," McInnes said.
The end result is an Italian Mediterranean villa, which cost abit less than $1 million to build and landscape. "It's not glitzy,"McInnes said. "It's a country retreat."
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