Almost two months after her death at age 79, Diane Keaton’s final Los Angeles home is newly available. The Oscar-winning Annie Hall actress, interior design author, and prolific house renovator and flipper purchased the Los Angeles estate in the horse-friendly Sullivan Canyon community on the border of Brentwood and Pacific Palisades in 2011 for $4.7 million and subsequently fashioned her combination barn/factory dream home.
Using the photo-sharing app Pinterest for inspiration, she enlisted architect David Takacs and designers Stephen Shadley, Cynthia Carlson, and Toben Windahl to transform an existing house into an earthquake- and fire-resistant, rustic-industrial structure that was finished in 2015. She later penned a book about the project called The House That Pinterest Built. Now, after initially going up for sale earlier this year at $29 million, the sprawling estate has returned to the market for just under $27 million. Andrew Gulyas of Destination Home holds the listing.
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The inside and exterior feature 75,000 reclaimed clay bricks Keaton handpicked and shipped from Chicago, a steel roof, and a silo. The eye-catching abode offers five bedrooms and seven baths in roughly 9,200 square feet across two levels punctuated throughout with hardwood, brick, and stained concrete floors; French and sliding barn doors; and steel-framed commercial windows for plenty of natural light.
Set beyond walls and gates on nearly three-quarters of an acre within the Riviera Ranch enclave, which was originally developed by noted architect Cliff May, the dwelling’s main living area is spotlighted by a fireplace encased in a whitewashed brick wall and high wood-beam ceilings dotted with large metal pendant lights. Elsewhere is a formal dining room, a bookshelf-lined library, and dual primary suites, as well as an expansive sky-lit kitchen outfitted with a blue-gray island and matching cabinetry accented with chicken wire, a tall Sub-Zero cooler, and a walk-in pantry.
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Outdoors, the tree-laced grounds host a wood-clad guesthouse beside a heated pool with a spillover spa, plus a fireside patio ideal for alfresco lounging and entertaining. A circular driveway leads to a gated motor court flanked by a detached two-car garage, and topping it all off are some massive 3-D letters hanging on a brick wall that spell out California.
Keaton listed her Brentwood home in March, about six months before she passed away in October, but the property failed to trade hands and was delisted before her death. Before that, she occupied a Lloyd Wright-designed midcentury home in Rustic Canyon that was recently up for sale. She was also the onetime owner of a striking Spanish Colonial Revival in Beverly Hills that’s currently on the market for $25 million.
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It has such an industrial feel to it.Would definitely have to redecorate. The way it is organized and the grounds are beautiful.
White elephant! Who would want to live there?