Midcentury style, but wired for today
Selected as Metropolitan Home magazine’s design house of 2007 and Westweek’s featured house this year, this home is reminiscent of Midcentury Modern models.
The Hollywood Hills house has white terrazzo floors, 12-foot-high Douglas fir ceilings, a free-flowing floor plan and exterior walls of glass.
The newly built house was designed and developed by architect Paul Ashley and Xorin Balbes, who have refurbished such well-known L.A.-area properties as architect Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House and the Norma Talmadge estate. Balbes has restored or rebuilt more than 30 homes in Los Angeles and Montecito, Calif.
About this house: It was designed for entertaining and has a pool, a spa and a grassy yard with a fire pit.
Asking price: $6.8 million
Size: There are six bedrooms and six bathrooms in 5,200 square feet. The house sits on nearly half an acre. There is also off-street parking for eight cars, which is rare for the neighborhood.
Features: The home has two islands in the kitchen, a fully equipped outdoor kitchen and dining area, and wiring for audio, telecommunications and security. There are three fireplaces.
Where: The house is on one of the “bird streets” in the Hollywood Hills, an area that appeals to many in the entertainment industry. It overlooks the Sunset Strip.
Listing agent: Billy Rose, (310) 650-2999, and H. Blair Chang, (310) 560-7320, both of Prudential California-John Aaroe division, Beverly Hills, (310) 777-7800.
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