"I think it feels like home, " says Mr. Gebbia.

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Now some popular hit makers like Cyndi Lauper and Sting are finding it still feels like home.

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They opened it to paying guests in 1996, but it still feels like the home of the coolest people you know, especially when everyone gathers in the living room for cocktails and dinner at a communal table.

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It feels like I have come home again so I'm really happy.

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The stage, said the Baptist minister's grandson, "always feels like home - it's where I belong".

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Notable: The owners of this brown shingled home perched on a Mill Valley hillside say it feels like a tree house albeit one with three levels, a wine cellar and a "Harry Potter" room under the stairs where their daughter once liked to hide.

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"The at-home experience has gotten better and cheaper, while the in-stadium experience feels like it hasn't, " said Eric Grubman, the NFL's executive vice president of ventures and business operations.

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