His formal roots were established seven years ago when he acquired 27 acres of magnificent real estate in Tesuque.
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Kilmer and his then-wife, English actress Joanne Whalley, moved into what he describes as "a seventies condominium-looking disaster with glass walls," despite the fact that the property was gorgeous.
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"There was no dining room, and the area that is currently the living room used to be a greenhouse with an uneven floor and a tin roof. Kilmer bemoans, "I should've blew it up and started from scratch. "I had no idea just how drastic remodelling might be."
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As soon as he discovered that no one he interviewed shared his vision, he chose to become an architect.
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The outcome is 6,000 square feet, which is twice as much space, of fluidly arranged adobe chambers.
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I'm pleased that despite the house's three-decade existence, locals still pass by it without realising that it was previously this depressing paradigm of the 1970s.
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He added a dining room, a master bedroom upstairs with linked decks, a tennis court, a stable, and an outside enclosure just for a herd of buffalo.
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