You’re rocking that dining room table like a boss, but can you accommodate up to 150 people for a dinner party, or 200 people standing up at a cocktail event?

Nah, but Bill Gates can. His dining hall also has a 6-foot-wide limestone fireplace, and a 22-foot-wide video screen on another wall.

We won’t count that as a fact about ‘Xanadu 2.0’, Bill’s Medina, Washington estate that took him seven years to build.

Suffice to say it’s not a bad place to rest your head, the 66 000 square feet home packed to the rafters with high-tech functionality.

Via Business Insider, let’s pick eight more to focus on:

A high-tech sensor system helps guests monitor a room’s climate and lighting:

When guests arrive, they’re given a pin that interacts with sensors located all over the house. Guests enter their temperature and lighting preferences so that the settings change as they move throughout the home. Speakers hidden behind wallpaper allow music to follow you from room to room.

You can change the artwork on the walls with just the touch of a button:

Situated around the house are $80,000 worth of computer screens. Anyone can make the screens display their favorite paintings or photographs, which are stored on devices worth $150,000.

Cool, but does he have cushions with plastic forks stuck in them?

There’s a trampoline room with a 20-foot ceiling:

No word on how big the trampoline is, but we can imagine it would be a fun alternative to your standard exercise routine.

The exercise facilities total 2,500 square feet and also include a sauna, steam room, and separate men’s and women’s locker rooms.

An enormous library houses a manuscript Gates paid more than $30 million for:

The 2,100-square-foot library has a dome roof and two secret bookcases, including one that reveals a hidden bar. On the ceiling you’ll find a quote from “The Great Gatsby” that reads: “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”

The library is also home to the Codex Leicester [above], a 16th-century Leonardo da Vinci manuscript that Gates bought at auction for $30.8 million in 1994.

The guest house is just as high-tech as the main house:

…the 1,900-square-foot guest house was the first building to be completed on the property. The house — which has its own bedroom and bathroom — was meant to be a test of the technology that would eventually be used in the main house.

Gates wrote much of “The Road Ahead,” his 1995 nonfiction book on the future of tech, at this guest house.

Gates has a favourite tree, and it’s monitored electronically 24 hours a day:

Gates reportedly became fond of a 40-year-old maple tree that grew close to the home’s driveway. It’s monitored by computer, and if at any point it becomes too dry, water is automatically pumped into it.

An artificial stream is kept stocked with fish:

The stream and wetland estuary were created to solve any problems with runoff that the property’s large walls might have created. The water is kept stocked with salmon and sea-run cutthroat trout.

The house uses its natural surroundings to reduce heat loss:

Xanadu 2.0 is an “earth-sheltered” house, meaning that it’s built into its surroundings to regulate temperature more efficiently.

Must be nice.

You’ll find 10 more facts over HERE.

[source:businessinsider]