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There are three more bed rooms upstairs, one for guests and one for each of their daughters. The base ment is where Angelo and Nicole both give free rein to their passion projects. “That first landing coming down the steps, you’re in a completely different style,” Casey says. “We wanted a totally different look downstairs.” The basement is more rustic, with a leathered granite bar, dry-stack stone behind the bar and on a nearby column, luxury vinyl plank floors and a darker brown and gray color scheme. Angelo is a bourbon connoisseur. More than 150 bottles of different vintages are behind the bar. (He’s par tial to Jack Daniel’s Coy Hill, a small-batch high-proof whis key.) “I told John I needed shelving for a bourbon col lection,” Angelo recalls. “He said, Do you think six shelves will be enough? I said, I’d need a counter too. It was a pan demic hobby that got a little out of hand.” A custom-built shelving unit underneath the three TVs — one for Angelo, one for Nicole and one for their daughters — contains a variety of video game systems, including a PlayStation, Nintendo Wii and Sega Dreamcast. “I’m the gamer,” Nicole says. “This is my bourbon.” The Zimbardis moved into the home in 2022, the end of a process nowhere near as complicated as they expected. “This is a perfect marriage between us,” says Nicole.

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