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Then there is living with the retinue. "People buy these big houses and then all of a sudden they're living with a lot of people, so the privacy thing is interesting," says Ms. Kahn. "I ask 'Are you OK having a chef and a server in the kitchen?' "She predicts that open floor plans will eventually fall out of favor with wives who have nowhere to go in their own homes.
A client called her once from a closet, since it was the only place she had privacy, Ms. Kahn says. Another just built a separate kitchen for the staff. Yet another client is putting up walls on the first floor of their new house.
Aparte keuken voor het personeel: OK. Maar waar laat je dan de twee trainers voor je favoriete kapucijnaapje?
The founder of clothing and accessories line Billionaire Mafia and star of the reality television show "Sin City Rules," Lana Fuchs recently upsized from a 9,200-square-foot home in Las Vegas to an 11,600-square-foot Tuscan-influenced home with two kitchens, a wine cellar and multiple bars as the family likes to entertain. She will be bringing her housekeeping staff of three (two live in) and is considering adding a fourth person.
She will also be bringing with her the two animal trainers who come seven days a week to care for Prince Mikey, a white-faced capuchin monkey. Prince Mikey's trainers work with him five to six hours a day during the week and three hours a day on weekends. Mrs. Fuchs says Prince Mikey had become "spoiled rotten," especially compared with her college-age son and her high school-age daughter. The annual cost is in the six figures, but Mrs. Fuchs says it's worth it. "For the first eight years, he had me trained to serve him," says Mrs. Fuchs, age 44. Among his new tricks, Prince Mikey now sits in a high chair and is learning to draw with crayons, says Mrs. Fuchs.
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