Elizabeth Gilbert, the "Eat Pray, Love" author is reportedly selling her home in New jersey for $999,000 because she is a "restless person" and "needs to move all the time," at least that's what she says.
Gilbert is marketing her "Italianate Victorian house" herself and has even dedicated a website to the house "Eat, Pray, Crib" that has a tagline styled after that of her book - "One woman's journey to sell her house."
The marketing ploy is pretty fancy. On the website she has put up a video, where Gilbert herself gives you a complete tour of the enormous mansion that has nine bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and is nothing short of "handsome."
There is an Italian/French song playing in the background as Gilbert gives you a tour.
The house was built by the great grandson of John Reading, the first governor of New Jersey and is done up with all sorts of exotic stuff (the bathroom has exotic Tunisian mosaics that Gilbert imported in her suitcase!)
Interiors of the home feature honey-colored oak hardwood flooring, high ceilings and wooden doors. There is an office, a home gym area and a fully renovated kitchen. But the best part of the house is the "Skybrary" - a library in the sky.
When Gilbert and her husband moved into the place it was just a giant empty attic. But "The Signature of All Things" author brought out all her creativity to create the private space and even wrote the book there.
The staircase leading to the skybrary is super interesting with each word of the line "the soul selects her own society and shuts the door" (from an Emily Dickinson poem) engraved on the front side of each step. It is on top of the house and has an exclusive hand-crafted bookshelf and feels like it has grown there and not built by someone.
Gilbert asserts that the home has everything and needs absolutely "nothing."
"In conclusion, this property is a piece of heaven, in the quietest and most romantic corner of the state. It is private enough for two people to live in utter seclusion, but welcoming enough to absorb a giant and warm family reunion without anyone being crowded. It is a house that breathes light, air, space and tranquility. Summer parties on the lawn are just as appealing as cozy winter evenings alone by the woodstove. This is a home for readers, writers, artists, creatives, collectors, inventors, gardeners, dreamers, imaginative children, lovers of beauty. We've spent six years making every inch of this special place absolutely perfect and gorgeous, but now we are now moving on to the next chapter of our lives!," Gilbert writes.
"SO...is this the next chapter of YOUR life?" she signs off asking.
Take a tour of the house with Gilbert in the video below:
