I had just signed a new contract with the TN Titans so I was going through contract negotiations. Football was going on and it was a very busy time in our lives.

We wanted to be secluded a little bit, but we wanted to have a lot of space, I guess you could say, for the kids to play and for us just to have our privacy. We wanted to have all the amenities that you could have in a house so we didn’t have to go places to enjoy ourselves. Such as having a swimming pool and a game room and a theater and stuff where we could enjoy our house and not have to go out and enjoy those things very often. So far so good. We’re enjoying our house and loving it. It’s great!

We did a couple of balconies with BBQs upstairs and downstairs, so we could entertain if we wanted. We created a big kitchen because I love to cook. I usually cook most of the meals around here. We wanted to have plenty of space in areas where I could create my masterpieces.

Our cabinet guys were awesome. I went thorough and pulled pictures from magazines; they just kind of recreate what they saw in the pictures. They did an amazing job!

Being from the Seattle area, I’m not used to the hot and humid area during the heat of the summer. In order for me to be outside here in the summer, I needed to have a pool. We created a nice area in the back where we can cool off and relax in the heat of the summer.

Hugh was really great about working with us and doing all the things that we wanted. He really just did a great job finding people to create and do things that were maybe a little bit different and out of the ordinary that most houses don’t have. He did a good job of working with us and finding the right people to create and do some of those things we wanted.

It’s a wonderful house and we plan on living here most of our lives, or at least until the kids move off and we have to downsize and move. But it’s all we ever dreamed of, and we’re enjoying every minute of it.