At some point, I just lost track of all of the “geniuses” that Kanye West was comparing himself to on a daily basis. I remember Walt Disney was in there, as was Steve Jobs. Did he mention Stephen Hawking? I’m sure he did at some point. But here’s one I’ll make for Yeezington: he’s like Frank Gehry. Only Gehry has NOTHING on Yeezington. Yeezington is the best architect OF ALL TIME. Yeezington knows everything there is to know about building designs. You think you need a load-bearing wall? F—k your rules. Yeezington just Gehry’d all over you.
In the new issue of Life & Style — on newsstands now — sources reveal Kanye West’s elaborate list of renovations to his already gorgeous Bel Air pad is costing millions – and will have his family holed up at Kris Jenner’s Calabasas, Calif., home until at least July or August!
“To date, Kim and Kanye have spent $4 million on the house and the renovations will cost in excess of $6 million when it’s all said and done,” a source close to Kim Kardashian tells the new issue of Life & Style, on stands now. “They won’t be in there until July or August.”
On his massive list of home improvements so far? A new gym, movie theater, bowling alley, “top quality” recording studio, over-the-top dressing room and basketball court.
North’s dad has also ordered millions of dollars of custom furniture from Italy, nearly $1 million worth of Electrolux kitchen appliances, a Swarovski-encrusted fridge-freezer and beds made from cashmere, virgin lamb’s wool and Mongolian horse hair.
“Kanye is obsessed with every single aspect of this house,” shares another insider. “He says it’s like a work of art and that there’s no detail too small for him to be involved in.”
Another source close to Kim, 33, says she wasn’t expecting such a big project, since the mansion was move-in ready when the couple bought it.
“It’s frustrating for Kim,” especially because the 36-year-old rapper isn’t particularly open to her ideas. “He’s impossible to please and thinks nothing of changing direction midway and starting over.”
Let’s just hope the wedding planning isn’t nearly as difficult — wishful thinking.
You would think that Kanye would want to finish this project quickly so he and Kim and Nori can go ahead and move out of the domicile of Lucifer’s Homegirl. I guess not though. Lucifer’s Homegirl must be really nice to Kanye. She must tell him he’s a genius artist on the reg. What a wicked web she weaves. As for Yeezington’s artistic eye of architectural detail… well, I seriously doubt he’s doing anything that will help the resale value. I’m wary of people who personalize their home renovations to this degree, especially when it’s someone like Yeezington. I mean, it’s not like he’s going to live in this house for the rest of his life, you know? Whenever he and Kim split, they’ll put it on the market. It’s never too early to think about resale values.
Here are some photos of North, just because. All of these are taken from Kim’s Instagram.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Kim’s Instagram.
tl;dr: Kanye is still an ass.
Sorry i just can’t pass on this.
I am an architect and Kanye really needs to bleach his mouth before mentioning people who have actually made history.
STFU Kanye.
This statement really pisses me off.
I have to admit though that Kim needs some high engineering skills to lift those breasts and contain that ass but Kanye really needs to STFU.
Just to be clear, Kanye didn’t say he was like Frank Gehry or whatever, I was saying that sarcastically.
Sorry Kaiser.. I just read the piece.
I was fuming over the title and i wrote before reading.
My bad.
Frank Lloyd Wright was also supposed to have been an egotistical asshole, but if you’ve ever been in one of his houses….it’s enough to make this atheist fall to her knees and praise Allah for God’s gifts. Kanye is delusional.
I read the whole thing and still came out thinking he’d said that, the title was too suggestible not to.
Swarovski fridge. People with money to burn, eh?
RJ
More often than not history is revealing most geniuses were absolute monsters to work with and be around. It’s not until they were long dead or out of the spotlight that we’re able to step back and view their art seperately from our feelings of the artist.
Not saying this for Kanye. That guy has a severe case of megalomania. And so far I’ve only enjoyed his very early stuff. He and Lady Gaga should talk about how their genius isn’t appreciated.
Let me start by saying Nori is so adorable! She seems very calm and sweet. Kanye?? It’s too bad we can’t blame his ego on drugs or liquor? I will never understand why they aren’t renting a place and continue to live with her mom? Bizarre!
@FLORC I agree with you, especially with artists, musicians, and actors. When their body of work proves greater than their personality, it somehow mitigates being an asshole. But Kanye is far far from that. When you’re at that level you don’t proclaim yourself a genius, everyone else (outside of your entourage) is busy doing it for you. The movie America’s Sweethearts gives a good perspective of how many stars live, and why ultimately they end up being such narcissistic jerks
I took the article more to mean that Kanye thinks he has great interior decorating skills, not that he thinks he’s some great architect.
It all makes sense when you read the excerpt! Speaking also as an architect I would say no self respecting designer I know would have anything to do with a Swarovski crystal encrusted freezer – good greif – LOL
I don’t know why they need expensive appliances for, they always eat out anyways. Imagine a toddler near a crystal encrusted fridge.
I always wonder what these people will do to sustain their lifestyle once their 5 minutes are over.
Interior designer here and oh GIRL, I agree. I was highly vexed when it was reported that Gisele was “taking the lead” on designing her house and that she thinks she’s some sort of interiors genius now. Annoying as it is for those of us who worked our behinds off (maybe Kim should try architecture school? I’m awful.) to get that AIA or IIDA, I’m kind of into the idea of a West & Bundchen, Unschooled Know It Alls, AIA firm hahaha!!
I don’t think either Kim or Kanye would go further than 1 year at architecture school!
A superficial materialistic place of junk. Very fitting for the 2 princesses of delusion.
Ummmmmm, anyone who has a Swarovski crystal studded fridge has ZERO level of taste. End of story.
So true!! I can’t even imagine how tacky this whole place will be. Will he be hitting up Architectural Digest for a cover just like he’s begging Anna Wintour for a Vogue cover?
Seriously? Why? My God it has to be the ugliest thing ever to look at!
Glad I read before I posted an almost exact version of what you said. It’s tacky, not classy. Unfortunately, Kanye is not quite genius enough to know the difference.
@Kaiser: Laughing my a$$ off at “Lucifer’s Homegirl.” Best description ever.
I’d think “hooking up” with the tackiest woman in this country is a little hint that Kanye has no taste whatsoever. Therefore, a Swarovski encrusted freezer isn’t a big surprise.
This joint is going to make Liberace’s house in Vegas look like a model of restraint and class.
They will most likely have spots/track lighting in there as well and that thing is going to be blinding. How absurd.
I see visions of bankruptcy and nobody wanting this insane house when they try to sell it.
If it’s studded all over I think i’d hate it, but (and don’t kill me over this) if it’s lightly studded and looks more like a faint shimmer of frost that is barely visible until light catches it the right way I think it would look ok. And crystal studded anything in a kitchen would look bad, but I seriously doubt what we view as a kitchen’s styling isn’t the same for them.
And here I was thinking, “Hmmmm a crystal studded fridge could be quite nice!” LOL. I really like the Swarovski covered Kitchenaid machines. I’m thinking of getting mine covered in them haha.
Also, what is a bed made of “virgin lamb’s wool and Mongolian horse hair?”
Is that a thing? Is that super luxurious and soft and amazing, like cashmere? I’ve never heard of those two things.
I had to look it up…….
http://www.nowthisnews.com/news/royal-state-bed/
I read elsewhere that they bought over a million dollars worth of them. So, like 5 beds.
Girl Bye, making a McMansion into a behemot is NOT a sign of genius, shit, every yockel in the boonies here erects yet another monstruosity (aka Versailles in literally, the everglades!) on the regular, even the lowest or seediest of your peers has one of em things (HI MARC ANTHONY!!)
We have a lot of those around here too, my friend dubbed it “Renaissance Hick”.
*spits juice* Rennaisance Hick?!? OMFG Love it
I see those driving to my in laws. Tasteful homes for a good stretch and then BAM! A 5 car garage, 3 story home with a huge brick gate on a hill. So much glass in the front I thought it was a church under construction.
I don’t know whether its funny or sad that most people think that one day THEY WILL split up. Boy that will be epic, i don’t see Kanye whimpering along like most of the Kardashian exes.
Go away Kanye and Kim! They are the greatest of NOTHING, but PR Whores.
What kind of new mom would cut her baby’s head out of a photo so she could post a photo of herself to Instagram?? Wow. My daughter is 2 now and I still post mostly photos of her or the two of us together. But to cut her out of a shot? That is damn cold. Kim, what is WRONG with you?
Agree and same for me. Most if not all of my photos are of my toddler or of her with us in it. You can always tell about how vain and selfish a person is by the photos they post.
Everyone can, except of course the person doing it.
Yes. Most if not all people who take selfies are incredibly vain and selfish. Posting photos of the babies too. Get over yourselves, am I right?
Haha. Exactly what I was going to say. The ONLY pic anyone has ever seen of her holding her baby, and, once again, she makes it all about HER, not the baby.
As ScotiaGirl said, just GO AWAY K and K.
+1. Just commented about Kourtney and how different she and Kim are. Kim is about Kim, but Kourtney is a mom out doing things with her kids. Kim just has to have all the attention, even when it comes to her child.
Seaweed has a shocked ” I don’t recognize this woman” look hence the cropping! But seriously nobody can’t take the limelight away from Kim even her own child! This woman is sick sick sick!
Yeah word, Nicolette.
The four pics of North, where she’s not looking at the camera, I’m gonna take a leap and guess that Kim’s taking the pictures, and North is looking at her Nanny, cos she sure as shit isn’t looking at Kim.
^^This!!! The back of her kid’s head + sexy me face = very strange priorities! We want to see the kid, KK, not you. We’ve seen you enough!!!
I didn’t get the last pic.
Me too. Like, why?
I don’t know why she has to insist on every picture of her looking “sexy.” Like, just hold your lovely little daughter and who cares if your double chin is showing. Geez.
I think he just picked wall color in a gym and immidiately went: I’m the best. I’m just like… (googles “greatest architect off all time”) …Frank Gehry!
Kanye West is the greatest architest since Brad Pitt
Ummmm…difference being that Brad Pitt actually went to college and was on the verge of graduating when he left for Hollywood. They are not the same.
Except he didn’t study architecture, it was journalism.
LOL.
I love when celebs claim to be experts in a field that takes a lot of pretty intense schooling and years of real experience. See also Tom Cruise, medical genius.
Their baby is very cute also
He’s impossible to please!! But he’s with Kim ? You know she has no say what so ever plu he doesn’t live with Kim and Kris, he lives in a condo apartment so where near by. This is going explode and the mansion will burn to the ground . Cute baby thou.
Kanye must be exhausting to live with….I almost, I SAID ALMOST, feel sorry for Kim…
I don’t! Girl wanted this and she got him. There’s no other couple that belong with each other as much as these two do.
I don’t! She wanted all of this. Must be exhausting to live with someone who has to spackle 10lbs of make up and spend all day to get ready just to walk aimlessly on the street!
What a jerk. He is so full of himself. What is he going to do when those millions of his are spent and Kim is off with yet another guy because it will happen. I’ve heard that their wedding is already topping 30 million and now this house and that he is bitching and begging Anna Wintour for the cover of Vogue for Kimmode and not to mention the kid beating episode that we all suspect was either for their show or a P. R. stunt. People and I think his friends are included in this are sick of these two. I hope South Park does another show on these two soon because they get more ridiculous by the day. And can anything make Kim look less dead in the eyes because it sure isn’t North by north West.
Why did he just not build a new home.
It would have cost half as much as this ridiculous renovation. And they would have already be moved into a new home.
Idiot.
He will be MC Hammer broke within the next 5 years, if he keeps on spending like this on a house. Meaning, that spending idiotic amounts of cash on a house, never ends well. You just end up broke. And a house that no one wants…. with its bedazzle refrigerator.
I totally agree. I am all for savvy real estate purchases as investments, including giant celebrity homes, but this will not end well. It will be unsellable.
Exactly – anyone who buys it is probably going to have to majorly renovate or tear down, and they’ll be out millions.
All this spending, I too foresee money troubles in the future. Especially since the Kardashian brand is steadily crumbling and he’s become something of a joke.
Don’t forget the gold plated toilets that are going to be installed.
If I had a fraction of the money he’s throwing around on that place, I’d have a wonderful, tasteful mid-century modern house with a lot of Wright influence. You know, a place that would be a simple, pure pleasure to live in. I keep two ‘dream’ books on my desk: a book on Frank Lloyd Wright’s mid-century modern houses, which I drool over, and Forgotten Modern about California Mid-Century Modern houses. Fantastic books.
Meh. In Kanye’s social strata, 6 million isn’t what it used to be. If two mill went for furniture and appliances…….phhtt! They’re slumming.
The only thing Kanye is the genius architect of – is his own downfold.
Even the baby thinks that’s hilarious.
A million dollars in Electrolux appliances? What for? I doubt Kim ever sets foot in a kitchen. I’d be surprised if she can boil water.
Is he also including a head that pops up in the toilet so his ass can get kissed every time he’s on the throne?
hahaha
Nicolette, I LOVE that visual!
Precious baby!
that baby is not cute
Can you please leave children out of it? All babies/children are beautiful and cute and should never be critized on looks or anything else for that matter.
Universal rule – children are off limits.
Also, it’s just not true in this case. That baby is frackin’ adorable.
You lie, that kid is all kinds of adorable.
I thought there was a solid rumor out there that Kanye is NOT living at Kris’s house? Kim is there but he is elsewhere.
Just goes to prove the old adage…. Money doesn’t equal taste or class.
The baby is precious. No comment on everything else.
They don’t deserve such an adorable little girl.
This is Life & Style magazine. I’m sure it’s exaggerated. They even got wrong that they are living with Kris. They moved out a long time ago. into a rented home. Having said that, I’m sure he is handling all the design details and Kim has no say, just like he handles what she wears, her hair, her makeup, on an on, and I’m sure he thinks he’s a great designer and architect. LOL I’m just not sure all of the specifics and costs are true.
That baby is super cute. Those cheeks!!
That house is going to be a tacky mess, just like its owners.
Doesn’t seem like such a “baby proof” house.
The only good thing, is they are making a gym, salon, bowling alley inside the home which means Kim shouldn’t have to do her usual pap strolls to the salon/gym anymore, right? LOL.
Also, does anyone else agree that Kim is not paying a dime for this house and it’s all Kanye’s money?
I can see Nori chewing the crystals right off the fridge.
I really wish he’d sell tickets to his world. I’d pay a dollar to see what rattles around up there.
Wow, he’s smiling ,,, one smile out of one hundred frowns….North is a beautiful baby.
The headline is misleading. It should say “the greatest architect EVER.” Ha!
Also, this sounds like he’s into interior decorating, and not architecture.
because I am with someone who is obssessed with the Kardashicrap, i now know way more about them then i’d care to.
I love reading your posts because i feel like you have to write about them because you are a blogger, but you don’t enjoy it anymore then i enjoy hearing about their various exploits from my bu.
but i have a question, i assume Lucifer’s homegirl is momager Kris, does that make Lucifer Ryan Seacrest??
Who is Lucifer in this scenario, because i would have thought Lucifer is Kris, which would make Kim her homegirl….
Well to me Kris Jenner is both Lucifer and PMK and Lucifer’s home girl is Kim because Kim is her favorite because she got the ball rolling and will do anything to ensure that the family stays in the limelight. I prefer PMK (pimp mamma Kris) because to me that is what she does more than anything else. I don’t believe for a minute that Kim loves Kanye because I think love to her is just a word that gets her what she desires at the time. I think they were friends but I don’t think that will be forever. I do believe that she thought she would be going to the Grammys and that she would get the cover of Vogue and that he would force people to forget how this family got to this point and that she would have a ton of A-list friends. And sadly none of that is happening to or for Kim. I am sure Kim gives to Kanye as good as she gets from him. I think she will gladly spend his money now (and the next 17 years) but I can see her leaving quickly if someone who had more money and status was interested in her.
Yeah- she’ll leave him soon enough. She thought Kanye was her ticket to the A-List, and it turns out that Kanye West can’t turn Kim into Beyonce, no matter how loudly he screams that she’s the most talented woman in the world. The world isn’t buying what he is selling in regards to her. She’ll move on the second she can get someone “better.”
will he turn around and not live in it and be disappointed when a Ye masterpiece does not sell for 100 million dollars and he actually loses money??
Narcissistic control freak is going to have a hell of time controlling every aspect of his child.
I don’t know, Kris Jenner has done pretty well controlling all her kids and husband – hence the soulless dead eyes, addiction to plastic surgeries, immoral behavior and general tackiness all of them display. Kanye uses his temper to get people to do what he wants! Someone like him is a loose cannon leaving everyone walking on egg shells in his presence. I just feel so bad for Nori – does she have anyone who will teach her to be a kind happy girl with a sense of self-worth and self-esteem? Certainly, from what I see, it won’t be either of her parents! She’s just an accessory to them – a means to an end!
their consumerism is borderline sinful. i know people always say “it is their money, they can do what they want with it”, but i really reject that mentality. we should all be much more responsible and consider the environment first before consuming, consuming, consuming, especially on Kanye and Kim’s scale. North is so cute, Kim and Kanye are asses.
Love to see what happens when they try to sell it no one else is going to want that crap and pay top dollar for house they have to gut. Talk about a waste of money. I can see Kanye thinking he was some sort of genius no matter what he does. If Kim is getting no say she can’t expect any for the wedding or for any part of their relationship. It is going to end no doubt in that and then lets see how well Lucifer’s Homegirl treats him. Secretly she is probably keeping note of all the stupid think Kanye has said and done. I am wondering why Kim doesn’t dress North in pretty clothes she seems to always be in grey or some bland colour. Why no little dresses? You can get some amazing baby clothes so far North hasn’t worn any.
Kanye is having a hard time selling his bachelor pad right now. He decorated the inside and you have to see pics to understand why no one wants to buy it ! I think Kim doesn’t have much say in the house or wedding because she’s probably not paying for any of it. It’s Kanye’s money and Kanye’s ideas.
Of course Kris is keeping notes, why else did she demand Kim and Kanye live with her? She’s gotta keep her eyes on things lol.
All that… and electrolux appliances? Seriously?
That baby is so cute. She has Kanye’s eyes. Cute cute cute!
Swarovski studded [insert lame shit here] just reeks of class and sophistication.
That kid does not look like Kanye.
You can’t post your kid’s drawings on a Swaorovski encrusted fridge. I’m guessing they will have some 14kt framed bulletin board for that. Bur how do you clean the fridge? And how long do his housekeepers last? I would think I’d be gone inside of 24 hours.