Linda Evans Puts Beverly Hills (Post Office) Home For Sale

[SFK]

While we're in Los Angeles, have you guys seen Chelsea Handler's new place? Commenters are hating on the exterior but I can't help but like the modern neo-classical/beaux arts mash-up. I like the taste of the interior, though again, too clinical and waiting room-looking.

Cut the crap and get to the pics:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_61djkGwfEZo/TOQAJYGX2TI/AAAAAAAAFeE/2rsTRacXfe4/s1600/CHandler_BUY_PICS.jpg

Full article courtesy of our friends at Real Estalker:

http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2010/11/chelsea-handler-home-for-holidays.html

I would soften the facade with a Japanese maple to the right and some very manicured bushes/flowers along that part that looks like a planter box. Hell, why not cherry blossoms, the place does kinda look like a mini-golf version of the Lincoln Memorial.

[Sylph]

Yes, I have seen it. I would agree that the exterior has something that is appealing and that I can't really pin down. I would, however, need to see the whole house from above, for example, in order to make a final call.

The sitting room with the piano is simply atrocious. The carpet, the sofa, the armchairs, the chandelier, the mirror – I can't decide which one is worse.

The kitchen. The purple bar chairs?!

Then what is that? Another sitting room? Horrible, together with that bedroom. Too much chocolate brown in there. Wallpapers to together with those peachy elements in the bathroom are equally atrocious.

The pool is magnificent.

Yo' Mama really hates it! LOL.

[All My Shadows]

That exterior is ugly as hell. It's not inviting, not comfortable at all. I'd feel insecure knocking on the front door.

[Sylph]

Since SFK started it... I might as well continue: what do you all think of Hadid's Le Belvédère interiors and exteriors? Joyce Ray said in a video she sold it for $72 million (the listing price), but The Wall Street Journal says it was for $50 million. Then it again got sold for $30 million (?). Money laundering? Who knows.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/09/belair-le-belvedere-sells_n_756719.html#s101395

[alphanguy74]

I really like the inside, and the decorating taste. Except the black countertops. I feel an asian decor is the only kind that can pull off black countertops. Once again, we see driveway right up to the front door. You pull up and it's "Welcome to my stucco". I see more and more high end mansions with this type of thing going on, Victoria Gotti's house was like that, not a tree or blade of grass, just hardness next to hardness, next to hardness. I hate the outside of this house, perhaps a different color might help, but I agree with AMS, it looks very foreboding.

[DaytimeFan]

Hate it. Versailles only happens once. That just screams Euro Trash to me.

[alphanguy74]

the exterior is much better than most. It actually has mature landscaping (gasp). The interior, while not my taste... is very well done. Perfect balance of design elements, and use of color. However... the light fixture in the "indoor swimming pool?" room is HIDEOUS, beyond ugly. But most of the rest of that interior is what I was referring to in the other thread of that "classic grandeur" look that I thgouht might appeal to you.

[Sylph]

I don't like the wood. I hate wood. The stairs are atrocious. The only thing I think that has a Versailles vibe to it is the movie theatre, and it's hideous. The rest of it is a mixture of English castle-style furnishings, Texan oil and Topkapı. Perhaps it might make no sense, but to me this house would go well with minimalistic, modern, glassy interiors. Very bright and white, translucent. LOL.

[All My Shadows]

I love the inside. And I'm just gonna leave it at that lol I don't know if it's a bathroom or an indoor swimming pool, but that room is gorgeous. I also love the staircase.

[Sylph]

And let me be nagging, again: no Candy Spelling musings from you, correct? Not even a word, a tiny word?

And, I posted this in the True Blood thread and no one said a word:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/22/la-villa-contenta-in-mali_n_772157.html

[alphanguy74]

That's the room with ugly ass chandelier. the rest of the room is ok, but I don't know who designed that light fixture. Sylph, you dont like wood? Oh my... I LOVE wood. For me, it's what gives warmth and richness to a decor. My great room is about 70 percent wood. But i'm also anal about it, and ALL of it stained with the same stain. I want my wood to be TOTALLY matchy-matchy.

[Sylph]

May I defend myself by saying I don't like this particular kind of wood décor? I also hate wood around pools, no matter how protected it is.

The room you two are talking about – that's a Turkish bath, I presume.

[alphanguy74]

Thank you... a Turkish Bath. I was grappling as to what it was. I don't like wood around pools, either. But I do however like wood when wer'e talking walkways over a koi pond or something like that. Of course, with ALL these houses, being a landscaper... the landscaping is the first thing I look at. I had a client once who was in the floorcovering business, and naturally, she always looked at the floors first. But one thing I have noticed, is that most of these mansions out west seem to not have nearly as much landscaping as ones in other parts of the country... maybe it's due to lack of water? I know California is pretty strapped for water. But a picture is worth a thousand words, so I might as well show you what my idea of proper landscaping is for a house. These are all the same house, and it's gotten a chance to mature somewhat since I did designed and installed this landscape in June 2002: (and yes, SFK, that's a Japanese Maple at the front corner of the house, but it's the second one, the old one, whch was twice that size, was killed by a freak freeze in 2007)

[Sylph]

Oh, the Japanese maple... I love that tree! It comes in so many leaf colours and shapes, it's absolutely fantastic!

I would agree with you that many of these Platinum Triangle mansions have horrid landscaping. It's either a leftover from previous owners or a whole new set of ridiculous choices. What surprises me is how very few of them have typical Mediterranean plants, for example I saw few cypress trees (and I know cypress is a tree for the cemeteries & graveyards, which comes from ancient Greeks thinking that tree is a link with the Underworld).

Wood walkways around and across Japanese-style ponds are gorgeous too! I love Japanese gardens, it's one of my favourite landscaping choices, but it has to have a proper house to go with. Say, Larry Ellison's Woodside estate, a Japanese feudal castle of sorts.

[SFK]

I love Japanese Maples, didn't know they came in more colors than that purplish-oxblood whick looks so good against just about anything.