Tom Brady lived in a gloriously beautiful home during his final years with the New England Patriots. This is no surprise. The man made hundreds of millions of dollars playing football and endorsing products. His wife, Gisele Bündchen, made hundreds of millions more as a supermodel, actress and businesswoman.
Yet as expansive and expensive as their house was — 9,700-square feet and listed for $39.5 million last fall — it was classic New England, with its opulence cloaked in understated tradition.
The brick construct, the exposed beams and five acres — complete with “barn-inspired” guest house — was all tucked behind thick, foliage-ready trees on Woodland Drive, right on the Brookline-Chestnut Hill border.