Making plans for future Powerball winnings? This Aledo mansion may be a nice start

There is always (at least) one property feature in each of these luxury real estate auction listings that the average non-millionaire has never heard of.

It serves to keep us in our lane, so to speak, in the real estate conversation. Don’t know what a porte cochere is? Then consider yourself Julia Roberts in the Rodeo Drive shopping scene in “Pretty Woman.”

The feature written into the listing for this sprawling dream home near Aledo that keeps the regular folk at arm’s length is something called a “dirty kitchen.” Are the super rich not into cleanliness anymore? We thought that was fundamental.

In this case, at 107 Nueces Trail, the “dirty kitchen” is just your second kitchen. Which kind of makes sense on a pure square-footage basis, because the sprawling estate includes 19,265 square feet on more than 113 acres.

The property, technically nearest to Annetta South, will be put on the auction block on Sept. 21, in an auction held exclusively on New York-based Concierge Auctions’ mobile app. The site says the property has never been offered for sale before.

The “dirty kitchen” doesn’t have a breakfast bar, as Kitchen No. 1 does, or a butler’s pantry! So where are your butlers to store their dry goods when they’re in the east wing? It’s one of the few design flaws in the rustic mansion that also somehow blends a little Mediterranean into its traditional architectural style.

Some of its featured amenities are more standard these days: fitness room, wine room (separate from the wine cellar), dog room, theatre room, and a custom bar with a Lonesome Dove-themed mural. Also, an outdoor bar with the commercial grade ice machine that spews the crunchy little balls of ice like what Sonic restaurants have.

Oh, also a safe room in the basement, where both you and your piles of money are sure to survive the coming zombie apocalypse.

It has two master bedrooms, the second of which is called the “snoring room,” and five guest bedrooms, not including the detached guest quarters. Two of everything, it seems. It’s just what the builder had to to do to fill out 19,000 square feet.

Outside, you’ve got views for miles, that resort-style pool and a seven-car garage, which doesn’t seem hardly enough for all the moochers that are going to want to come over.

This story was originally published August 20, 2017 at 12:05 PM with the headline "Making plans for future Powerball winnings? This Aledo mansion may be a nice start."