A Man With a Passion for Large Houses
Rock star Rod Stewart, who has been on tour, and his wife, model Rachel Hunter, are building a major addition to their 21,000-square-foot home in the Beverly Hills area.
The Georgian-style home, which they had built on two acres in 1992, is getting a 1,000-square-foot screening room and three new bedrooms on the second level, for a total of seven family bedrooms plus a master suite. The addition, which will increase the home size to 25,000 square feet, is due to be completed in the spring.
Stewart, 53, has been here for part of the construction, but he, Hunter, 28, and their two children are expected to spend the holidays in his native England, where he recently paid about $4 million for a 15,000-square-foot mansion on 50 acres, 60 miles from London. The home, built in 1877, has 15 bedrooms.
Architect Richard Landry designed the addition, which is being built by Rob Glass.
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Mitzi Shore, owner of the Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip, is getting ready to sell the West Hollywood mansion she calls Cresthill, which was formerly owned by owners of the legendary nightspot Ciro’s. The Comedy Store opened on the former site of Ciro’s in 1972.
From the 1940s to the 1960s, Cresthill was used to accommodate such Ciro’s stars as Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Redd Foxx and Milton Berle. More recently, the house has been used by such Comedy Store performers as Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and Pauly Shore, Mitzi Shore’s son.
The Spanish-style house, with city views, has four bedrooms on 3,600 square feet. Built in 1925, it still has its original light fixtures, tile, wrought-iron work and arched doors.
The house will go on the market Jan. 10 at $890,000 through Fred Henry, manager of the Los Feliz office of John Aaroe & Associates.
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Donna Mills, who gained fame playing Abby Ewing on the longtime CBS series “Knots Landing,” is working on the interiors of her 60-year-old Westside home, which she bought last summer after selling her Beverly Hills-area home for close to $3 million.
“I just finished a total redo of the master bath, ripping everything out. So now the bath has a dressing room and closet,” she said, “and I’m redesigning the living room, putting in new drapes and having a [fireplace] mantel carved.”
At the same time, she is redecorating the dining room and planning a kitchen renovation.
“I enjoy the process,” she said, “but I’m just praying now that my mantel will be finished so we will have somewhere to hang our stockings on Christmas.”
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