"I hate the term 'bachelor pad, ' " says Mr. Davis, who currently has a girlfriend.

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The hopefuls will live together in a villa in southern Europe with Henson based in a nearby bachelor pad.

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He also added bachelor pad touches like sports memorabilia and a pool table.

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For 12 years Lewis paid Gehry to toy with models for a bachelor pad he wanted in the Cleveland suburbs.

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Designed by Albert Frey, the "desert modernist" best known for the historic Tramway Gas Station (now the Palm Springs Visitor Center), the stucco home became Elvis's bachelor pad after Priscilla left him in 1973.

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Back in 2003, a guy in Colorado named Matthew Cole cut out a giant square hole in his living room floor, sunk in a hot tub and turned his modest bachelor pad into a magnificent poor man's grotto.

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And, this way, for the rest of his life -- be it in the fraternity house, his bachelor pad, or his family's home, as he frantically tries to feed his own growing offspring -- when he opens that front door, smiles at the delivery person, and smells the chicken and broccoli in brown sauce, the kid will think of me.

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Although bachelor-pad-type homes don't attract families among potential buyers, their resale value continues to be very robust, brokers say.

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