Newsletter: Hot Property: An eye for design
Whether it's a certain celebrity style or designer acumen, the luxury home beat is a great honey hole to fish for ideas and inspiration. This week’s line snared a range of eye-catching homes and features. Here are a few of our favorites.
A lesson of layers
What better place to start our design tour than the Beverly Hills home of Barbara Barry. The famed designer is asking $6.995 million for her villa-style home that has served as her personal design laboratory for nearly a decade.
From the calming hues to the subtle textures to the pieces from her licensed collections, every inch of the 5,000 square feet of layered interiors is an exercise in Barry’s celebrated style.
Barry bought the home in the Beverly Hills post office area nearly a decade ago for $5.44 million. (Anthony Barcelo)
Between a rock and a cool place
It didn’t take long for Rock Hudson’s onetime Studio City home to go pending, and it’s easy to see why.
Listed for $1.095 million, the Ralph Bowerman-designed post-and-beam retains its handsome good looks with clean lines, thick beams and wide overhanging eaves. Walls of glass wrap the exterior, making the home’s tree-topped grounds and drought-tolerant landscaping feel as if they're almost inside.
Expect the current owner, film director Jason Moore, to see a solid return on the $640,000 investment he made four years ago.
Moore put his Studio City home with ties to screen legend Rock Hudson up for sale at $1.095 million. (Luke Gibson Photography | Inset: Getty Images)
Game on
Local football product and NFL punter Chris Kluwe sold his Orange County home this week for $1.84 million, effectively kicking to the curb one of the cooler man caves we’ve seen around these parts.
The traditional-style home in a gated Huntington Beach community had a custom video game room that was featured on an episode of the DIY Network series “Man Caves.” Stadium seating, a dual gaming center and a drop-down projection screen are just a few of the perks of Kluwe’s custom cave.
Kluwe sold his Huntington Beach home with a custom video game room for $1.84 million. (Redfin | Los Angeles Times)
Baywatch boutique
The marital home of Pamela Anderson and former husband Rick Salomon came to market this week in Las Vegas. Set behind gates in the Summerlin community, the 11,000-square-foot home features interiors designed by the former “Baywatch” babe.
Among those of note is a modern kitchen with custom cabinetry, a professional sound stage and a lavish master suite with an oversized tub. Asking price: $5.2 million.
The marital home of Anderson and her former husband, Salomon, is for sale near Las Vegas for $5.2 million. (Eric Penrod / Perfect Images Real Estate Photography | Los Angeles Times)
A window into his world
It’s fitting that walls of glass are a signature feature of Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella’s Seattle-area home. Nadella this week sold the 1960s house, which features, among other things, a two-story wall of windows centered on panoramic views, for $2.775 million. Pretty nice considering he paid just $1.385 million for the pad more than a decade ago.
Rose-to-close ceremony
Television producer Mike Fleiss bet on new construction on the North Shore of Kauai ... and won.
The creator of reality TV series “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” had little trouble finding a match for his newly built compound, which closed sale in about five weeks for $11.4 million.
Features of the sprawling 7.3-acre spread include a Balinese-inspired main house, a separate guest house and a 100-foot saltwater swimming pool. A series of hardwood decks interconnects the property, while a private footpath leads directly to the beach below.
Fleiss sold his custom estate in Hawaii for $11.4 million. (Hawaii Life Real Estate | Getty Images)
New look in the 90210
The longtime home of late entertainers Gary Collins and Mary Ann Mobley is on the market in Beverly Hills for $7.25 million.
Renovated by SimoDesign, the traditional-style home has a contemporary look with such details as a floating staircase, modern light fixtures and a glass-enclosed wine cellar. A wet bar, a theater room and a yoga studio are just a few amenities within the 6,200-square-foot home.
The renovated home on three-quarters of an acre in Beverly Hills was formerly owned by late entertainers Gary Collins and Mary Ann Mobley. (Berlyn Photography | Associated Press)
#TBT to the old Kardashian days
Calabasas has always been home to the Jenner-Kardashian clan, but it hasn’t always been the same house.
In gated Calabasas Park, a Mediterranean-style home once owned by television personalities Caitlyn and Kris Jenner recently sold for $2.351 million. The Jenners owned the approximately 4,600-square-foot house from 2004 to 2006.
The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” stars, who divorced in 2014, bought the house in 2004 for $1.765 million and sold it two years later for $2.425 million. Caitlyn now resides in Malibu, while Kris makes her home in gated Hidden Hills.
From the archives
It was 20 years ago this week that “Friends” star Courteney Cox made a splash on the Westside, buying a home in the Brentwood area for around $2 million. Cox eventually would sell the home on Carmelina Avenue six years later to talk show host Ricki Lake for $5.6 million.
Lake, in turn, owned the house for more than a decade before selling it in 2014 to actor Tobey Maguire for a cool $8.45 million. Maguire, to his credit, flipped the house a year later for a profit of nearly $2 million.
What we’re reading
— A villa once owned by music legend Prince continues to languish on the market in southern Spain with a price tag of roughly $5.91 million, according to Bloomberg. The late pop icon bought the house in a gated Marbella enclave in 1998 as a present for this then-wife, Mayte Garcia. He eventually sold it in 2006.
— Frank McCourt, remember him? The former owner of the Dodgers hasn’t been making much noise on the West Coast since he sold the team, but he’s been busy on the other side of the country. The Palm Beach Post reports that McCourt recently sold an equestrian ranch in Wellington, Fla., for $11.85 million. The Wellington area has long attracted titans of industry, including billionaire Bill Gates, who owns a number of equestrian properties in the area.
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