Lots More Home for the Holidays

Sylvester Stallone has completed a two-year expansion of the newly built Beverly Hills-area home he bought in December 1998, for about $10 million.

Just in time for the holidays, Stallone, who starred in the fall remake of the movie “Get Carter,” put some finishing touches on the home that he shares with his wife, model Jennifer Flavin, and their two children.

Much of the work, including landscaping and improvements, is apparent even from a bird’s-eye view. The Italian-style villa, on two-plus acres, was given an older, Tuscan look. The estate, behind bronze gates, also has a long driveway and grounds dotted with marble statues of lions, crocodiles and other creatures.

A colorful outdoor play gym with swings and slides has been installed for the children, and the grounds have been completed with a pool, two cabanas, expansive lawns and many trees, among them redwoods and pines.

When Stallone bought the house, it had five family bedrooms and two maid’s quarters in about 16,000 square feet. He expanded the home to an estimated 20,000 square feet, adding a library, more bedrooms and garages.

Stallone, 54, is known to have a passion for building and architecture and a keen sense of design. He had considerable input in the completion of his home, area Realtors have said.

Stallone teams with Burt Reynolds in the sports action-movie “Champs,” to be released in April, and he stars in the police thriller “D-Tox,” also due in the spring.

Dugally-Oberfeld, chaired by Aleck Dugally, was official builder-designer of Stallone’s home and its expansion, overseeing architecture, interiors and landscaping.

A Pacific Palisades home built for theater designer Anthony Heinsbergen Sr. in 1931 and owned for about 20 years by actor Joseph Cotten and his wife, actress Patricia Medina, is for lease, starting in a month or two, at $24,000 a month.

The ocean-view house had been on the market at $5.2 million.

It is owned by Orie Rechtman, chief executive and chairman of Wareforce.com, a provider of computer equipment and services, and UMember.com, a customized, online virtual community and e-commerce opportunity for members of associations and other groups.

Rechtman renovated the home after buying it in 1998.

The four-level structure has a master suite plus two secondary suites in about 7,000 square feet. The home also has an indoor swimming pool, a tennis court, staff quarters and a three-car garage.

A guest house on the property was built for Cotten, who starred in such movies as “Citizen Kane” (1941). Cotten died at 88 in 1994.

The 16-foot-high vaulted ceiling in the living room was painted in oil on canvas by Heinsbergen, who died at 86 in 1981. He was renowned for his murals and gilded work, epitomizing the Art Deco style, in hundreds of movie palaces built during the ‘20s and ‘30s. Heinsbergen’s work, restored by his son, can be seen at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.

Michael Edlen of Coldwell Banker Previews, Pacific Palisades, has the listing.

One of the Victorian homes on L.A.’s Carroll Avenue, in the historic Angelino Heights area, has been sold for its full asking price of $595,000.

Angelino Heights, L.A.’s first suburb, was built in 1886. It has one of the highest concentrations of Victorian homes in Southern California. On one block of Carroll Avenue, 17 homes are designated historic and cultural monuments by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission.

Some of the homes were moved to Carroll Avenue from other places. The Carroll Avenue Restoration Foundation, a nonprofit group, has installed vintage street lights, planted trees and moved houses to Carroll Avenue that were in danger elsewhere of demolition.

Artist Kim Dane, who grew up in a Victorian, bought the home that just sold. The home, sold by designer Cecil Dover and Beverly Hills hairdresser Edward Postnikoff, includes a two-bedroom main house and a detached, two-bedroom carriage house.

The main house, with front and back parlors, was built in 1885. It was moved to Carroll Avenue about 22 years ago, when Dover and Postnikoff bought the property. The carriage house, with its three-car garage, was built in 1990.

Dover did much of the work himself in restoring the main house and building the carriage house. The “painted ladies” have such Victorian features as stained glass, a tin ceiling in the kitchen and decorative woodwork. The main house also has a remodeled kitchen.

Bob Weatherford and Karen Weiss of Fred Sands Realtors, Los Feliz, had the listing.

A 1,000-acre ranch with an 18-hole golf course on Lake Elizabeth, near Lake Hughes and just north of Santa Clarita and Castaic, has come on the market at $12.5 million.

The property has a clubhouse-lodge, where there once was a stagecoach stop. It also has a baseball diamond and a swimming pool.

The owner lived for a while on the property, which he has owned for about 40 years. He now lives in Montana.

Raymond Bekeris of John Bruce Nelson & Associates is handling the property.

In separate Orange County deals, a house on Harbor Island was sold to a couple from Colorado, and a house on Lido Island, with accommodations for a 100-foot-plus yacht, was sold to a local businessman. Each property sold in the $6-million range.

Before buying on Harbor Island, the Colorado couple had a vacation home in Southern California. They are in the business of staffing hospitals with nurses.

Linda Taglianetti of Coldwell Banker Previews, Corona del Mar, represented the buyers in both sales. In October, Taglianetti, an office coordinator in Coldwell Banker’s fund-raiser to help children with autism, became the firm’s top fund-raising agent in Southern California by personally raising more than $30,000 for the cause.

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The former home of Patricia Medina and her late husband Joseph Cotten.