Walton Goggins lists three-bedroom modern/traditional Hollywood Hills home at $1,175,000
Walton Goggins, who starred in the crime drama “The Shield” from 2002 to 2008, is putting his remodeled Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1,175,000.
Goggins re-created the three-bedroom, three-bathroom house to blend traditional and modern elements and establish seamless indoor-outdoor flow while retaining the home’s original form. “The bones were there,” he said of the 1960s house.
Born in Alabama, the actor came to Los Angeles from Georgia in 1991.
“I moved 14 times in 11 years,” he said of his early years as an actor. “You look for space that reflects you as a person no matter what budget you have.”
Goggins at first leased the post-and-beam home from a friend. “I called him shortly thereafter and said, ‘You know, I can’t leave this house. You might as well sell it to me now,’ ” he said. So Goggins became a homeowner in 2001 at the age of 29 with the $512,000 purchase.
During his tenure in the house, Goggins worked on it with a contractor friend. “While I’m not as handy as a lot of people, I’m good -- as we say in the South -- at fetching and toting.”
Inside, they installed hardwood floors, remodeled the kitchen and bathrooms, redid both fireplaces, added more lighting and resurfaced the garage.
Outside, they built fences, created outdoor seating, put in fountains and replaced the roof and gutters.
Involved in every step, Goggins even slept in the house without windows and doors while the new ones were being installed. “It made more sense than checking into a hotel,” he said.
Set in a grove of oaks, the two-story house has two fireplaces, clerestory windows in the sun room and wood-beamed ceilings in the guest quarters. The guest suite includes a sitting room with a double-sided fireplace shared by an office/bedroom, kitchen area and bathroom.
The process of renovating the house, he said, “made me feel even more a part of this city, and brought me into the world of being an adult.”
Although Goggins said he wasn’t really looking to move, he has happened upon another property that feels like home too. “I can apply the same passion and love of space to this new home.”
Still, he’ll miss walking through the 1,600-square-foot house and seeing his part in it everywhere. “I poured my heart and soul into it. The house truly is an extension of me.”
He has enjoyed the privacy of living in a home on a small street, having eight parking spaces, getting to know the people in his Laurel Canyon neighborhood, going to Lilly’s at the Canyon Country Store for coffee and picking up takeout food from Pace.
“Nineteen years ago I used to dream about living in the Hollywood Hills and I would imagine myself driving up these streets and coming home,” he said. But, he added, “it feels like I’ve taken this home as far as I can.”
Goggins, 38, will be in Fox’s alien abduction film “Predators,” directed by Nimród Antal and set for July release, and the Screen Gems’ thriller “Straw Dogs” (2011), directed Rod Lurie. He is now shooting the FX crime drama “Justified,” which premieres in mid-March.
Josh Myler of Prudential California Realty, Beverly Hills, is the listing agent.
