KISCO CHIC: Food Network star chef Sandra Lee shows off her and Gov. Cuomo’s sumptuous new Mount Kisco home. (Eric Piasecki/Elle Decor)
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Even Gov. Cuomo has a man cave.
The state’s chief executive and girlfriend Sandra Lee have settled nicely into their Westchester dream mansion — which has all the trappings he needs to blow off steam and she needs to play the perfect hostess.
Cuomo’s exercise room has everything from boxing gloves to a weight bench — with a giant poster of rock legend Jim Morrison hanging on a floor-to-ceiling mirror.
For Lee, a star on cable TV’s Food Network, the “house with the pond” in Mount Kisco was the only one in the area that she wanted — even though it wasn’t even on the market when she first started house hunting.
“It is the quintessential American house, and it just seemed to have wonderful energy,” Lee told the July/August issue of Elle Decor magazine.
Lee said she looked at dozens of places in the area but slowed down in her car to gaze every time she drove past the sprawling, 1950s Colonial.
It took two years to renovate the home that Lee has dubbed Lily Pond.
The dining room “was the only one in the house Andrew had specific ideas about,” she said.
He furnished it with a reclaimed wooden banquet table and adorned the walls with antique prints and letters by key signers of the Declaration of Independence.