to doing everything to the highest standard of quality. “Basically, my dad’s a stickler for quality,” Reilly says. “So he made me redo things over and over and over again until they were right. So it took about three years to build that house.” The result, however, was worth the time and effort invested. Again, Reilly says the home included “all sorts of bells and whistles,” including a “full-blown nightclub” in the basement, with automated lighting and effects and secret doors to the wine room and the media room. “You’d come downstairs, you press the nightclub button, and it would turn all the pot lights down to 15 per cent,” Reilly explains. “It would turn on the LEDs, all the black lights, the smoke machine. I had the smoke machine piped through vents in the stairs as well as from a dragon head that was mounted on a wall. I had lasers, I had a disco ball. It was pretty intense.” The nightclub wasn’t the only special room – the media room had a fibre optic star field ceiling, for example, and the main floor included a living wall with a waterfall. “Pretty much in every single room, I had something special,” Reilly reiterates. “No room was just a regular room.” “From that, I just got so much interest from people,” he adds. “People wanted me to build their places or do renovations on their places because they were so impressed by the stuff I had put in my own house. That’s how I started working in the MARCH 2025
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