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Brandon Inge Lived In Frilly Style -- Who Knew? Peek Into The Local Home He's Selling

January 01, 2014, 3:43 PM by  Alan Stamm

Prepare to be surprised by former Tiger third baseman Brandon Inge's taste, if that's the right word.

Actually, we're hardly qualified to judge. We don't look at glossy "shelter books," as home design mags are called, and we favor function over frou-frou. 


Dining area reflects the French Country motif.

So we'll report and let you decide if the 11,237-square-foot Ann Arbor spread with five bedrooms that Inge lists at $2.6 million is tricked out in a style suitable for a 36-year-old major leaguer.

The guest room above has a convertible sofa-bed draped with yards of silky fabric in a kind of sultan style. (Oops, we're trying not to judge.)   

The informal dining area at right upholds the home's Country French motif with scroll-leg chairs and other elements from a century and country not our own.

Thirty-four more photos are at the listing page, which calls the residence "exquisite." They include an outdoor pool with waterfall, bedrooms with fabric-covered everything and a formal dining room with dizzying patterns and draperies trailing languidly onto the floor for several inches.

On a more manly side, there's also a leather living room chair and ottoman. an indoor batting cage and "a fully stocked fitness center with a weight room [and] a basketball half-court," according to a post by Neal J. Leitereg of Realtor.com. 

The 36-year-old catcher and infielder . . . originally paid $2.1 million for the five-acre property two months into the 2010 Major League Baseball season.


Decorating taste is highly personal, so we don't judge Brandon Inge. Well, maybe a bit.

After being released in April 2012 by Detroit, where he played 12 seasons, Inge spent one season with the Oakland Athletics and was signed to the Pittsburgh Pirates' minor league system in 2013.   

He and 42-year-old wife Shani Inge, who may be the main interior design influence, have two young sons. 

The Ann Arbor estate's decor is a target of social media mockery as a snarky post by Joe Kinsey of a site called Busted Coverage gains attention.  

"That interior is tacky,"  Detroit business reporter Bill Shea posts on Facebook. "It looks like someone's grandparents decorated their gigantic modular home in 1995. There's a glass case of Hummel figurines in there somewhere."

Jessica Soulliere of Detroit comments on the same thread: "Gawd. The entire decorating scheme makes me want to vomit."

That said, who among us would care to see strangers' reactions to 36 pictures of how we live?


Read more:  Realtor.com


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