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Henry Rodriguez's Casey Key retreat for sale

"It was so much property, set way back from the road, and it had a lot of waterfront," he said. "The house itself was built in 1940 and had been renovated and was really not much at all. I knew we would have to completely renovate the thing, but that didn't matter. I had found this amazing, big private place for us make our home."

Rodriguez and his wife, Susanne, spent the next two years reworking the home into a Old World Spanish villa (elegantly rustic) with the help of architect Thorning Little. They retained the footprint of the original dwelling, but reconfigured every space, gutting the entire house and putting into the home Mediterranean details, such as hand-painted wooden ceiling beams, French doors to the many terraces, stone and hardwood floors, five fireplaces (one in the massive 14- by 28-foot kitchen that features a 15-foot-long, granite-topped island), stone columns, carved interior doors with heavy vintage hardware, opulent chandeliers, ornamental wrought-iron stair and balcony railings imported from Mexico.

But all the amenities are up to the minute, including hurricane windows that look vintage enough but perform to modern code.

Susanne Rodriguez designed the custom furniture and selected the rich fabrics and trim for the 5,484-square-foot (air conditioned), two-story home, which has four bedrooms as well as a media room off the kitchen and a laundry room as big and nicely appointed as a studio apartment in Seville. The couple's second-floor closet room has built-ins that were painted with roses and vines by Tampa artist Joanna Karpay, who did the paintings on the ceilings and walls in the rest of the house, too.

The Rodriguez estate is named Casa Salamanca; it references the girlhood home in Spain of Henry's mother. Salamanca is a city in western Spain known for its exceptionally beautiful buildings and its university. The Old City was name a World Heritage Site in 1988.

Besides the main house, the Rodriguez estate includes a detached guest house and a four-car garage, as well as an outdoor shower and private meditation garden hidden by tropical flowers and foliage. The walled estate that sits on one and a half acres, with 290 feet of waterfront, is now on the market for $5,995,000, offered by Realtor Deborah Beacham of Michael Saunders & Company. The home's custom-crafted furniture is negotiable, separately from the sale of the home. Casa Salamanca is not visible from the street and is set off by a circular entrance courtyard and motor court.

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