Anyhow, today we head back to the hills of Palos Verdes to check out a home I've admired the last couple of years. The home was built on spec by Elite Homes Inc, a South Bay spec builder that generally does multi-unit projects in Torrance and neighboring communities. Occasionally, they've built a few other custom homes including a couple on the Peninsula. This home is on the same street as the Chadwick House, the first home I wrote about as part of my series on the Palos Verdes Home Tour. In fact, this home is literally two houses over.
Designed and built in 2004, the home measures 7,465 square feet and sits on a generous 0.6 acre hillside lot. As I mentioned before, the house is a well-designed, Italian home unlike the Beverly Hills McMansion variety (which is usually plagued with excess windows and columns on the facade). Outside of the structure itself, the views are incomparable to any other spot on the Peninsula. As I said, it shares the same view as the Chadwick House - to refresh:
That's right - Malibu to downtown LA, to the PV Country Club and Valmonte - oh yeah, and the Pacific Ocean as well! Anyway, back to the house.
The house itself, with its 7 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms was built on spec in 2004. Elite Homes bought the original home and lot in November 2000 for $1.75M, built this home in 2004, and later sold it to its current owners (marketing exec) in June 2005 for $6.25M. At the peak of the housing market, this house would've touched $8M.
Given the hillside slope, the house actually sits below street grade (see above). Its only upon standing literally right in front of the house that one can appreciate the architectural details. The roof pitch. The stone entrance surround. The sparing use of columns for the second floor balconies. The symmetry. The color and texture of the exterior walls. It all just works!
Parking for this home is accommodated by what looks to be a four-car garage on the right side.
What's more - this house is ALL about the views. And the architects knew that - just check out the rear of the home.
As you can see, over six different viewing terraces and balconies on the rear and left side of the home. All to accommodate that amazing view! It's one thing to have a city view. It's another thing to have an ocean view. Its rare to have all of that in one single shot.
By the way, check out the pool - it looks like the jacuzzi is one level above it, and if my eyes serve me right, it looks as though (potentially) the water from the jacuzzi cascades down into the pool (infinity edge?). Neat.
Overall, this home is a beautiful example of Italian done right. If I only had a spare $6M....
KEY STATS
Location: Valmonte, PVE
Style: Italian
Year built: 2004
Architect: Elite Homes (architect unknown)
Square footage: 7,465
Lot size: 26,530 (117 front, growing to 234, by 153 feet minimum depth)
Style: Italian
Year built: 2004
Architect: Elite Homes (architect unknown)
Square footage: 7,465
Lot size: 26,530 (117 front, growing to 234, by 153 feet minimum depth)
1 comment:
Usually I agree thoroughly with your critiques, but I disagree on this one. The front facade is uninspiring, the rear too busy and chopped up. Of course they took advantage of the view, but this could have been done much better IMHO.
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