Kristin Cavallari, Jay Cutler Ready to Sell Off Nashville Mansion

By Mark David

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Reality-television veteran Kristin Cavallari and retired professional football player Jay Cutler have their humongous home in the affluent, semirural southern outskirts of Nashville up for grabs at $7.9 million. The former quarterback and Cavallari, a fashion and lifestyle entrepreneur who will star in the upcoming E! series “Very Cavallari,” which documents the opening of her retail shop, Uncommon James , in downtown Nashville, purchased the more than 8.5-acre spread in early 2012 for $5.3 million.

The ochre stucco and rough-cut-stone-accented, red-tile-roofed residence, described in marketing materials as “Mediterranean influenced” and featuring an astonishing 25 rooms, occupies a high and sunny knoll-top perch surrounded by thickly wooded rolling hills; it has seven bedrooms and 8.5 bathrooms in nearly 20,000 square feet.

Amply proportioned living spaces feature wood floors and extraordinarily high ceilings crossed by rough-hewn beams; these mix with sleek modern finishes and contemporary furnishings. An L-shaped living room has a rustic stone fireplace; the elegantly spare formal dining room features a barrel-vaulted ceiling. Ringed by a second-floor gallery, the library is wrapped in floor-to-ceiling bookshelves; the colossal, double-island kitchen incorporates a built-in dining banquette plus a snack bar and every top-of-the-line culinary bell and whistle money can buy.

A vast, stone-walled entertainment space on the lower level includes a full bar, screening room and elegantly paneled lounge with coffered ceiling and fireplace. A partly screened-in loggia off the main level transitions to stone-paved terracing, a flat and grassy yard and a dining patio next to a sheltered lounge with outdoor fireplace.

listing photos: Zeitlin-Sotheby’s International Realty