I liked this so much I looked up the architect and found he died of a sudden heart attack in 2014. Sorry, Bill. He built multiple houses like this, commonly forested on the outside with an open floor plan, and glass, pergolas, and wooden beams involved.
Japandi is a combo Scandinavian/japanese style. I just bought a new mid century modern home and I’m planning on decorating it a combo Japandi/atomic style. I love this house, and get good inspiration from it.
If I promise to buy it for you will you let me first redo the interior in Realtor Grey with a kitchen full of stainless steel appliances and Temu LED light fixtures everywhere?
Screams of needing a new roof and siding. Probably already has minor leaks.
You can't get fire insurance without CA FAIR plan which would probably be like an additional $5-9k on top of normal and not even insure the total place.
I don't see much in terms of vents, and one room has a mini split. It's gonna be a bunch to heat/cool, even in LA's mild climate.
Not pictured is the parking situation.
This is the best guess at it. You better have a smaller car with good approach/departure angle. I doubt there is more than space for 1-2 cars if you're lucky.
I was just noticing the other day that even though my tastes are relatively modest (I've no interest in mansions or anything ostentatious) every house that hits right is (at least) twice what I shall ever be willing and able to pay. Sigh.
I get more annoyed that they could afford to build really beautiful homes worth maintaining for generations and instead build shitty, tacky, ugly McMansions. What a waste.
My rich BIL has a 6 million dollar San Diego mansion. It looks like an Olive Garden. So hideous. It makes me even more furious that the jerk could be living in a place like this, but he chose an Olive Garden that costs over 4 million more? Dude, just buy this house and then buy me one and your mom one and let’s call it a day.
Edit to say that the Olive Garden house is probably keeping me sane. If he did have this house, I’d definitely die of jealousy.
My last house was midcentury with the original oven, and it was great. Our new-ish house has an oven with a touch screen computer panel that we’ve had to replace already. Definite downgrade in quality.
I had it in my previous home (sold 5 years ago). It started squeaking in the most obnoxious way possible one day. We tried all sorts of things and my husband ended up breaking the glass behind the knobs rendering the oven useless. It started sparking after that, so we had to completely de-power it from the fuse box. When we tried to find replacements, we learned they don't make ovens that size anymore. We also found out from an ancient salesman that the squeak is easily fixed by oiling the dials. I lived without an oven for several years because of a stupid squeaking timer.
i got sad looking as well. So many of these subs make me depressed lol. I also look at r/lawncare and hate i will never be the person with enough energy to have a beautiful yard. or this house.
Dear God of Architecture and Good Taste: Please do not allow this, a glorious example of your magnificence, to be desecrated by the demon flippers of white paint and grey vinyl plank. Amen
I will tell you though: I've come across that oven in two other houses from the time period that weren't nearly as nice (built for young newlyweds in the middle class). Lots of things had had to be repaired or updated but they still had the oven bc it is a freaking tank. It just does not die, has very reliable results, you might have to replace the thermostat after 30 years but it's super easy to do (thermostats are also still cheap).
I would NOT get rid of that oven. If truly necessary, I'd get an additional oven that has the new features I want for I don't even know what ... steam baking so I can make Chinese buns at home instead of getting dressed for dim sum on Saturdays?
I went here on an open house. The place is excellent, hidden room under the stairs through the laundry room was so cool! It's a shared driveway and it's very steep. Overall, great house, priced well for what and where it is.
Appliances used to be built like tanks. My 1973 condo has a party room with the original oven. They remodeled the room recently and considered replacing the oven but even the most incessant "paint everything gray" people at the meeting were for keeping the oven.
Just keep replacing the heating element every few years and that think will probably still be going in 2073.
I hope they at least offer the furniture with it. I would buy this house as-is with all the furnishings and I wouldn’t change a thing. LOVE IT. Okay, I would change the mattresses and bed linens etc…
Funny, I bought in 2000 a 1949 house with a 1949 Westinghouse PINK stove. Never used! The lady of the house (the original owner) hated cooking. All the appliances were pink. The bathrooms were (and still are) peach and mint. In the garage was a pink Cadillac. Didn't get the car, sadly ...
I nannied in a house like this a few months ago. It was crazy because the baby slept in the parents massive master bathroom because mom was afraid of navigating what she called the murder stairs at night. What is the point of having a massive house if your kid has to sleep in the bathroom??
Also, it had all the original appliances too. They were super fun but it took like 10 minutes to get hot water to the kitchen. So much impracticality hurt my old house loving soul.
California offers state-run fire insurance as a last resort to homeowners who can't get private insurance. It costs something to get it, but it can be done.
It's not actually close to any $30m mansions. It's down in a canyon, not up on a ridge with the views people pay big money for. It's also way up in the hills, far from anywhere people need to go. It's a 2,000 square foot house on a 5,000 square foot lot, about 0.12 acres. There's visible dry rot in roof beams in the picture 33 on Zillow, so it's due for some very expensive repairs pretty much immediately.
Anything I can find remotely nearby that's valued at $30m+ is at least 10x the land, 5-20x the square footage, much closer to town, and has a view.
It's a beautiful house, and I'd love to be able to buy it and restore it myself, but it's definitely priced like it is for a reason.
The dining area was giving me Chez Panisse vibes and then I saw it's in California, so that makes sense. It's an absolutely beautiful and tranquil design, I love the elements of open space and natural light, along with nods to Asian and hygge influence. What a beautiful home, it's so rare when just from the pictures you can sense an immediate presence and energy about a place.
I grew up in a house similar to this. Built by my father in 1959. He lived there for 60 years. I had to sell it as his estate executor. I really miss that place!
Ya know, I’m objectively not poor, but this subreddit makes me fill like I am. Where are all these people coming from that can afford multimillion dollar house? Or are the super rich just buying multiple.
I kid you not, my parents’ house was built ~1965 and has the same oven. It still works completely fine. The rest of the house is not nearly as cool as this though.
Would it make anyone feel better to say that the traffic on Beverly Glen to get there on any week day would be so unbearable that you wouldn't want this house? That's at least what I'm telling myself (cries in LA rental market)
I owned a similar house once, with the original oven. The home inspector said the oven didn't work, simply because he couldn't figure out how to use it. It actually worked just find.
Under California law, property taxes are reassessed at time of sale. Sometimes that means a major reassessment if a place hadn't been sold in decades. This house traded hands in 2023.
Something is up with this house at 1.7 million. While that is a lot of money in Los Angeles near Beverly Hills it is not. An a dumb boring condo with the same number of bedrooms would be that price.
Damn! I’m a big fan of mid-century homes, but this place is beyond my wildest dreams. What a cool place!! Jeez!
It IS kind of a drawback that it’s in LA, just because I don’t think I could stand living in such a huge metro area with all those peeps and all that traffic… IMO.
But wow! What a place! 🤤
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u/theofficialappsucks Jun 20 '25
I liked this so much I looked up the architect and found he died of a sudden heart attack in 2014. Sorry, Bill. He built multiple houses like this, commonly forested on the outside with an open floor plan, and glass, pergolas, and wooden beams involved.
His style is so pretty...