Top 10 Most Expensive Homes for Sale in Beverly Hills
The “Good Life” doesn’t get much “gooder” than this! Here is a sampling of the 10 most expensive homes currently offered for sale in Beverly Hills.
Free your home from summer heat – and save some money too
Summer is upon us! Get a move on prepping your home for the Golden State’s seasonal heat wave by tending to your heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) unit. The average American homeowner’s spends $2,200 a year on utilities and half of this is for heating and cooling costs. So it’s important to keep your […]
Elizabeth Taylor’s Bel Air Estate for Sale
The home of the recently departed Elizabeth Taylor is now on the market. It’s not unusual after a death for family to sell the parent’s home. Usually it’s to settle the estate, dividing the proceeds amoung the heirs or simply because most people don’t want to live in grandma’s house (decorated to Grandma’s taste). Since […]
The Ellen Degeneres Compound For Sale
TV show host, comedian and sometimes talent show judge, Ellen Degeneres has quietly listed her amazing Beverly Hills compound for sale. She and her her partner Portia De Rossi-Degeneres have spent the last few years assembling the adjacent lots and creating their own private shangra-la. The main house has over 9,000 sq ft of living […]
Charlie Sheen’s Home for Sale
Star of TV, Stage and Screen, Charlie Sheen, is trading up. He has put his Tarzana Warlock’s Lair up for sale and is relocating to roomier diggs a few blocks away. He just lost his job and is getting a bigger place? I need to start drinking Tiger Blood so I can start “Winning”, too. […]
Hollyhock House – Hollywood
This notable home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Aline Barnsdale, a Pennsylvania oil heiress. His son Lloyd Wright built the home, and Rudolf Schindler supervised the design. Aline Barnsdale originally envisioned the creation of an artists’ colony of sorts. Her complete vision was never realized. The home was an attempt by Wright to […]
Dodge House – West Hollywood
This notable home was demolished in 1970 yet is still considered one of the 10 best homes in Los Angeles. The home is famous for being one of the earliest examples of modernism, being built between 1914 – 1916, anticipating the architectual trends that would emerge after WWII. The home was designed by Irving Gill […]
Ray Kappe House – Pacific Palisades
This notable home was designed & built by Ray Kappe for himself, in 1967. It’s located in Los Angeles’ Rustic Canyon. The multi-level wood and glass home runs along and over a hillside. It is also built to allow a natural spring to run through the property. “It is the quitessential tree house,” said Ron […]
Eames House (Case Study House # 8) – Brentwood
This notable home was built by Charles and Ray Eames as part of a Case Study home competition sponsored by Art and Architecture magazine. The plans for the home appeared in the magazine in 1949, and the couple moved into the the home Christmas of the same year. The home was conceived a residence for […]
Kaufmann House – Palm Springs
This notable home is one of the most photogrphed homes the world and considered to be “one of the most important examples of international style architecture in the United States. The home was designed by Richard Neutra as a winter home for department store magnate Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. It was built in 1946. Kaufmann […]
Schindler House – West Hollywood
This notable home is famous for being the first home built in the modern style. It is also know as the Kings Road House. The architect, Rudolph Schindler came to Los Angeles to supervise the construction of Hollyhock House for Frank Lloyd Wright. While in Los Angeles he built Schindler House. The 2,500 sq ft […]
Top 10 Best Houses in Los Angeles – LA Times 2008
In 2008, the Los Angeles Times surveyed leading architects, historians and experts on their choice for the top 10 homes of all time in Los Angeles. These are the results. 1. Kings Road House Rudolph Schindler West Hollywood, 1921-22 2. Kaufmann House Richard Neutra Palm Springs, 1946 3. Ennis House Frank Lloyd Wright Los Feliz, […]
Jacobsen House – Hollywood Hills
This notable home was featured in the James Garner film “Twilight.” Jacobsen house was designed by John Lautner. Its a hexagonal framed home with stunning canyon views. The heavily wooded surrounds and the use of natural materials in the interior blur the distinction between the inside and out. This is a common theme in Lautner’s […]
The Garcia House (Rainbow) – Hollywood Hills West
This notable home has appeared in “Lethal Weapon 2” where it was the headquarters for a South African drug ring. Mel Gibson famously demolishes this landmark house in the climax of the film. This house was designed by John Lautner for Russ Garcia, an arranger for Stan Kenton and built between 1958 – 1962. it […]
Hollywood Casts Modern Homes as Villians (video)
Modern homes blend naturally with their settings and blur the line between inside and outside living. So, why does Hollywood continue to portray the residents of modern architecture as cold, unfeeling villians?
Reiner / Burchill House (Silvertop) – Silverlake
This notable home was put on film during the making of the 80’s classic film “Less than Zero,” starring Robert Downey Jr. He would later star in “Iron Man” in which his character Tony Stark lives in a Lautner inspired Malibu home. Sorry, the “Iron Man” home only existed as a stage set piece and […]
The Getty House – Windsor Square
This notable house was made famous by the motion picture “Sunset Blvd,” in which William Holden’s body ends up face down in the swimming pool. The home was originally built for $250,000 by US Mexican Consul William O. Jenkins, in 1924. It had 14 bedrooms and was built to last…having 13 inch concrete walls. The […]
The Elrod House – Palm Springs
This notable house is famous for its appearance in the James Bond classic “Diamonds are Forever.” Bond girls Bambi & Thumper rough 007 up a little before he successfully rescues billionaire Willard Wyler from his arch-villian kindnappers. The 8,901 square foot home was designed by John Lautner for interior designer Arthur Elrod, in 1968. The […]
The Ennis House – Los Angeles
This notable house has been featured in the movies “The House on Haunted Hill”, “The Day of the Locust”, “Blade Runner” and TV show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” This was the fouth and largest of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mayan revival style textile block construction homes in Los Angeles. It was built by his son, Lloyd […]
The Lovell Health House – Los Angeles
This notable house was featured in the movie “LA Confidential” as the home of the villianous Pierce Morehouse Patchett. The house was commissioned by Dr. Philip Lovell and designed & built by Richard Neutra between 1927-29. The house is reputed to be the first steel frame home built in the United States. This technolgical innovation […]
The Gamble House – Pasadena
This notable house is famous for it’s appearence in the movie “Back to the Future” where it was depicted as the home of “Doc” Brown. The home is considered to be an excellent example of the American Arts & Crafts movement in architecture. It was designed by Greene & Greene for David and Mary Gamble […]
The Stahl House / Case Study #22 – Hollywood Hills West
This notable house was made famous by a widely published photograph taken by Julius Schulman, depicting two women lounging while suspended over the city lights. Since then, the home has been photographed for many print ads, editorials, commercials and movies. Movies have included: “Nurse Betty”, “Why do Fools Fall in Love”, “Galaxy Quest” and “The […]
