He is still an owner, but I'm trying to buy him out. He is living in the house, and I'm trying to get him out. Powers said he wants Cornfeld to move so that the 71-year-old house can be refurbished before it is aggressively marketed, but Powers acknowledged that he agreed to put it up for sale with Green.
The brainchild of Friendly's Ice Cream co-founder S. Prestley Blake, who has undertaken numerous building projects in recent years, the estate was a swan song of sorts as he approached the century mark. Blake held his 100th birthday party in the newly constructed residence this month.
Built in 1991, the two-story home features a formal entry with a sweeping staircase that opens to a living room with a fireplace. A formal dining room in red sits off the living room area. An updated kitchen with a 120-bottle wine cellar, a family room with a wet bar, five bedrooms and 4.25 bathrooms also lie within more than 3,900 square feet of living space.
The 22,906-square-foot home, built in 2009, is at the heart of a two-plus-acre compound that includes a tennis court, indoor and outdoor swimming pools and a large motor court. Designed for large-scale entertaining, it features large formal areas, a ballroom and a brick wine vault. The movie theater is Moroccan themed.
This Spanish Colonial-inspired home in Irvine's Shady Canyon community is set up for entertaining with a wine cellar and tasting room, a massive center-island kitchen and outdoor cooking and dining areas. Rows of French doors set off the double-height great room and provide access to a swimming pool and spa, set in the backdrop of mature trees and rolling hillsides.
The recently built Villa Della Costa feels like a private island set high above Santa Barbara's Gaviota Coast. With vaulted ceilings and oversized windows, the sprawling single-story house takes in the surrounding landscape from every perspective. The ranch-style modern Mediterranean shares its 106-acre perch with a helipad, a guest house and a pool cabana.
It's kind of surreal. It opens up your imagination to what the possibilities are for your own family or your friends or if a ballplayer owned it for private training. The surrounding areas are great for training, particularly having hills and trails to run.
The house was originally a ranch hand and foreman's quarters. It is now California ranch in style with hand-carved woodwork reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. A wine cellar was built in what was the root cellar, and a 200-year-old church door was added.
The palatial, 7,500-square-foot house has four bedrooms with marble baths and fireplaces. In the dining room, a waterfall flows over crystal rocks and the embedded ends of severed optical fibers, creating underwater pinpoints of colored light, like drowning fireflies.
I essentially print one copy of the book for the owner. It tells the story of their house and all the owners from the time it was built until today. The books run from 150 to 250 pages, can take more than 200 hours to produce and are filled with boldface celebrity names and archival photos of stars hanging out in the home with famous friends.
Built in 2009, the 8,500-square-foot residence has three levels plus a 3,500-square-foot rooftop deck with a pool, an outdoor fireplace, a wet bar and 280-degree ocean and city views. Sited on more than a quarter of an acre, 14-foot walls of glass frame the landscaped grounds and water features illuminated by custom lighting.
Maloof hand-carved a three-story spiral oak staircase. Other artists created stained-glass windows, copper doors and designer lighting. But the person who has been most involved in the house is Herb Hafif, the attorney, sculptor and art collector who personally split rocks for the stone walls and who has owned the property, through his philanthropic family foundation, since 1953.
Their playbook was to lure women and girls to places where they were isolated, by enticing them with fancy trips to the Hamptons or promises of fun parties then, through drugs or physical force, rape them. The victim's testimony shows the defendant's repeated pattern. They were corroborated by the sheer number of women who testified here. they led different lives But, they had one thing in common: they were each raped by these men.
I was always comfortable in that arena. Her father was a prominent landscape architect whose projects included the landscaping for the Houston Astrodome and Rice University. She grew up in a modern home that was once featured in Architectural Digest. Her father used to take her along to his various jobs.
Smathers' style is evidenced by high ceilings, terrace balconies and formal areas designed for small and large-scale entertaining. Hedged privacy walls and eucalyptus trees, landscaped grounds feature a brick-lined patio, an outdoor dining room, a swimming pool and formal gardens.
The two-story traditional, built in 1959 and since updated, is reached by a quarter-mile-long driveway that ends at a circular motor court. Mature trees and swaths of lawn accompany the home on the acre-plus site, which abuts the Franklin Canyon conservancy. The grounds have an infinity-edge swimming pool.
Built in 1938, the French Normandy home is in the whimsical storybook style popularized during that time period. Later restored by architect and contractor Robert Glaus, the vine-wrapped two-story has decorative timbering, picture windows with square and diamond grilles and a round tower topped with a cone-shaped roof.
The Mediterranean-style house, designed by architect Thomas Allardyce, was built over a four-year period and completed in 2008. Set on more than half an acre in the Vintage Club community, the property includes an entry courtyard, a swimming pool with a spa and an outdoor living room. A built-in barbecue area features a pizza oven. Views of a lake, golf course and mountains are on full display.
An eight-zone Elan g! entertainment and control system features distributed audio, a Yamaha receiver, electronic device docks and high-end speakers that stream music inside and out - all controlled via smartphone.
We've had small parties in cozy corners and large events throughout the entire house and outdoors. Nothing is random. The floor of the guesthouse was imported from a European church. Even the way Tom Callaway conceived the knotty-pine game room with its juke box, pinball machines, multiple TV monitors and soda fountain -- it looks as though it was refurbished in the '40s.
Designed by architect Ambrose Cramer and built in 1931, the Cape Dutch-style estate sits on more than three acres with a backdrop of the Santa Ynez Mountains and panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean. Elaborately rounded gables, sets of double-hung windows and a whitewashed facade are characteristic of the style popularized in the Western Cape of South Africa during the early 17th century.
