Find Me A Luxury Home - Studio City to Los Feliz to Santa Monica - Episode 7

[Music] hi everyone welcome to our show today were in sunny Los Angeles and we're gonna be meeting our buyer Philippa she's from South Africa but she's looking for the perfect la home we'll show her three homes and see which one she ends up choosing stay tuned I feel up a how are you so good to see you again good to see you this morning I'm excited about our day are you excited cannot wait fantastic okay so I'd love to do a little review since we've discussed what you're looking for just do a little review and remind me of what we're gonna be looking for today for you okay so I need a home that has a gorgeous kitchen somewhere where I can entertain where I can get cooking classes where I can do my charity events I want a house that's got lots of life lots of windows probably three to four bedrooms okay and a swimming pool is optional okay so these are all great things we're in California I think all these three homes will have different attributes that we're going to show you today the first one is in Studio City it's on Laurel Canyon we're in a very desirable area how do you feel about the location well I love to drive coming up here and I love the whole feel of this of the of the area so that's wonderful I don't even mind that it's on the street because it kind of reminds me of the you know traffic reminds me of the sounds of the ocean so that's how I can't stock magical thinking so it doesn't really worry me perfect so it's therapeutic for you we'll get through that that's done it's a beautiful property it's 2,200 square feet we're gonna go inside and take a look and I'm gonna tour you through and see what you think thanks are you ready [Music] here's the main space but isn't this lovely full of light really open yeah and it extends out to the pool which is a great entertainment space this I think this is gorgeous so you've got a great space here and then as we go onto this area so this is the formal dining room it's being used as a creative artistic office space but the nice thing is it transitions from the living room and then we're gonna go see the kitchen which I know is a place you really want or not love the bay window yes great light again gorgeous here's our kitchen it's nice and large gorgeous again windows great when I'm not the clean look of the kitchen now is it you can chop on here right yes it is a stone okay I give this is absolutely wonderful can you see yourself cooking in here in Pokhara for your big event quite differently and I love it that it's got a gas hob I love the gloss shelving because that gives us an open feel okay this kitchens gorgeous okay good so we're entering the master suite and it is an ensuite and it has a really interesting Balinese style bathroom you've got knob knob I thought you I I have to tell you the both is useful it's too small no interesting do you like to take baths out of you shake boss oh I'm use a shower and I wash my hair otherwise I take a bath every day what we could do is extend that and extend the back in there and then you would have this as a bath then we can tighten that shower yeah so this is one of the houses that you love and want to move forward with there's a solution here's your master nice bright windows pocket door here that leads to the outside it's too small I like that you know what you want yeah I like a bedroom where you can have a seating area maybe a disc is room for that what if we had smaller furniture no I need a big baby that's even bigger okay I'm single I love to sleep on the diagonal not having a husband the whole babies and I'm okay that's okay what you know what we'll see the rest of the house and see how that fares for you and then we stop two more just so good okay let's go okay Philip I know you said the bedroom was small but look at all the space that you have back here for entertaining then I love that hill and the fire love loved it okay and you have a guest house oh really well yeah there's a lot here that I think that's a gorgeous home adds a lot of value to the property based on your budget yeah so don't write it off completely no not at all okay so let's go look at these lots of wonderful things to it yeah I agree with you yeah we're gonna see two more but before we wrap it up here what do you think they're asking for on this property asking price to - yeah you think - million yeah how much 795 yes so it's not too bad right not bad within your budget yes absolutely oh okay that's a good thing to know let's see what the other two branes you know and we'll take it from there okay lovely okay let's go the next house is a 3-bedroom English Tudor home perched in the hills of Los Feliz could this be the one house number two so we're in Griffith Park if you notice while you're driving up to this location we passed the park so the house is set in the park grounds so to speak and it's a beautiful English Tudor it's right behind us I'm curious what you thought as you're driving up to this property compared to the first one this area is magnificent and I love that it's so close to the park and the house itself even though I was saying to that I wanted something modern there's something about the style that speaks to the Englishman inside and it looks it reminds me of something that Hansel and Gretel would have lived in yes it has a lot of historical value and it is an English Tudor and it definitely has the vintage essence and the story you'll see as we'll walk through the house so we have to cross the way and go take a look are you ready to go see this it's just good let's do it so we've got a bit of stairs to go up but you're right it does feel like it right it does it looks like belong in the fairytale [Music] so you're gonna see a larger house than the one we saw before and the grounds are breathtaking totally different feel than the first complete you just really the essence of its originality he's also a marvelous energy to this house the owner is a healer so you will see a lot of spiritual pieces throughout the house that you'll probably gravitate towards you because I know you appreciate some of that as well that's what I felt immediately walking into this house is that there's something quite marvelous and comforting about being in here and ground and you will feel that throughout this in some walk through here you see the light coming in which you wanted a slough and the beauty of the landscaping on the exterior is oh I love it that that goes up there yes you can hike up there and wait till I take you to the backyard oh my god this is cool this must be so quaint and you have a formal dining room here I love that lies between does that come with the house we could ask oh you can definitely ask but that's a Tiffany and it is stunning it's really beautiful gorgeous we were passing by the kitchen which is a very important element for you and I know for your cooking and entertaining and it is enveloped by the exterior landscaping and garden so it does feel there isn't it hot enough I love that another that the windows and the l-shaped purposes the home was built in 1928 so you have a lot of original factors and home it's not the of its electricity at home okay and you do have two double oven yeah okay that's a very good for cooking yeah and you can look out here the whole time garden there which would be wonderful yes is this absolutely incredible to get this amount of land in Los Angeles is unbelievable is rare and in a lemon tree how you do have a lemon tree and if you look all the way above to the top what do you see there so that for moms to describe to you so that belongs to this property you can actually the meandering trail goes all the way up and that property line advanced to the Griffith Observatory isn't it stunning this land alone invaluable yeah it's hard to deny this moment right here it's really beautiful but I think one of the key elements that's so interesting and historical about this property is that you have this hidden man cave which back in the Prohibition era apparently great it's a great talking point what do you think of the size here I love I love the windows on the side of the beard it's gorgeous and all the landscaping do I'm gonna grab it oh my god I love this for you that's the way the wind that's so English that's why I think this house speaks to my soul that's why we brought you here because we really thought it would connect you know to you and it has some originality and you'll see the windows bring so much light into the property which is a very important element you know I wanted these the earthiness of the it brings the outside inside which I love yes in the bathroom I want to show you okay so that's your tub yeah and then you have a nice larger broader area but I know the tub was important for you this is a nice feature so what did you think of the bath you do have two closets in here yeah bit small okay so now that we've seen the property and it's 700 square feet bigger than the first one and we have almost an acre of amazing grounds here that abut all the way to the Griffith Observatory with the two chairs where you can sit in there's a little belly it does what do you think the asking price is here on this property well the last one I was out yes you are too far off though okay you guessed a million on the last one so this one's probably two three very close to point seven oh really two point seven but in the middle of Hollywood one of the best locations almost an acre of land so you're getting a lot of value and it is a vintage not an astute er beautiful property large you might want to change some things around but it has potential oh they fit differently does okay and it's got the space to create us as well so we have one more house to see okay but we're going to Santa Monica it's a little different location but just as beautiful we'll see what you think of that one okay let's go let's do it Phillipa warehouse number three I'm so excited to see this one it looks incredible right it's very different from what you saw earlier the last two homes we are in Santa Monica on Dewey Street there's plenty of house to show you here so I am excited to get in there and show it to you let's go take a look how about this door oh my god it's gorgeous isn't that beautiful it's like the soul of the house you see it as you enter absolutely now this is a really beautiful contemporary which was completed a couple years ago and it's got a bit of a jewel box appeal where you can see outside and they can see within and then big windows big windows all the landscaping plenty of open space direct access God look at this hold on I want to show you the kitchen first so let's go see that oh wow look at this come here and look at this kitchen I don't want you to see the outside yet so you've got an open scale kitchen here this is the largest of the three we've seen you can't I mean I think you will love cooking you know what I love about this that you could have a cooking class around here and everybody can be standing here and participate in the class it's a great area to converge you can really do a beautiful job of cooking and teaching while you look outside you're only seeing a partial of that garden area which I will show you later but I really wanted to show you how to do this look how extensive the kitchen is you have your prep area here and a pantry look at this pantry great pantry and then you've got this great living room space and I know you're being drawn to the outside but I've got to show you the master first okay and then I will take you to this beautiful outdoor space okay let's go see the master this house is magnificent I know it is that's why I left it for last this is a proper master I know you're so distracted so I need to show you look the size of this yes this is a great room but I want to show you the bath first because this was a maid a deal-killer for you in the last two homes like a perfect the bath is a perfect size absolutely perfect and I love it that it sits in this window and these two basins with these tiles on those is perfect this is absolutely exquisite so this is something that I don't know how to dream about okay so the bathroom is perfect yes the size is perfect I like it now I really want you to see what you've been wanting to see take it in I will give you a moment to take it and is remarkable large enough perfect size and a fireplace and a desk did I not say I wanted to disappear you did and you also said you wanted to do Oh beautiful it's my outdoor space it's just absolutely breathtaking yeah I now know why you didn't want me to look at the look at the outside you yes because I wanted you to see it from the top floor and really take in the view above and you know oh you're taking and you've got flat area there kitchen outdoor kitchen pools really is a natural kitchen there's a little bar service area that's amazing so do you want to go see it do a drive an in person downstairs this week oh my god this is exquisite now you saw it from above and now look at the lower part of this because it's a two-story backyard space so this was the outdoor kitchen I was talking to you about you have a great alfresco dining area fire pit it opens to your main living space another additional area for entertaining here these are the pocket doors that actually are edgeless and it doesn't even obstruct your view from your home living space perfect for entertaining cooking I don't know if you notice this when you're in the pool yeah and you're actually looking at your house it's an infinity edge really not really but from this side of your purpose and look how much space you have been seeing if you were to have a big party it's absolutely so bathtub check master bathroom check if your check now we have to talk about the price so what do you think the asking price is on this home I know what my budget is this house is probably three nine three nine yeah that's interesting that you say that it's probably worth a lot more and could probably sell for three nine you know they're asking three point seven are they so what does that make you think it makes me think that I'm breaking my heart you're breaking my heart because it's at the top raised for you really but it has everything I know it's got everything well let's talk about everything that we did see today we saw three home yeah home number one was in Studio City master bedroom was not favorable for you the bath was a little small but you liked the open space you liked the kitchen looking out to your corners the inside still had a contemporary feel to it adesh appeal to me a lot it did you're right and number two the house that we saw was in the Los Feliz area on red oak near Griffith Park which is a beautiful location you had almost an acre there of land the house was a 1920s Tudor style and it had a lot of the natural elements that that house would have and we had the prohibition bar just gorgeous and and those two chairs up at the top of the hill which was decent and you felt the bath was a little small for you and the master was small but you loved the window and all the soul and the heart of the home and the energy and then home number three which was a modern beautiful over the consummate stuff over 4,500 square foot house everything's done you don't have to do anything yes I'm gonna go away I'm gonna let you sit for a while and we'll regroup and you're gonna tell me what you decided all right I'm gonna walk around you do that okay I'll see in a bit welcome back we've seen all three houses on this LA house hunt the first home was a 3-bedroom mid-century oasis in Studio City the second home was a 3-bedroom English Tudor in Los Feliz the last home was a five bedroom modern estate in Santa Monica this house there's no question I would grab it in a heartbeat the only problem is the price it's time for Philippa to make the big decision the other part you have a big smile on your face that means good news yes I've made a decision oh my goodness so I'm really excited to hear what your decision is at this very moment but I want you to walk me through your thought process as you were considering all three homes okay the first house it has you know it's very similar to this house and that it has it the same contemporary feel the could be the cleanness of it that's what I like and you know that's what I love about this house minimalistic nature yes and I actually like the combination between the outside being more traditional and the inside being more contemporary I like that contrast the second house it's just it needs too much work even though those gardens you know the position is just magnificent but it needs too much work for too much for you hands down this house one's first second and third price house number three the house number three but the price point is just I can't do it what I want is to still be able to put some money into my nonprofit and you did mention that and that's so commendable I think that's amazing that you want to do that that's your priority and then you want to have a home that you can obviously do all the other things that you wanted to do yeah so given that that is dictating your decision but you still want a great home which house of the three are you choosing so you're gonna keep me waiting tell me I'm just dying it out I'm going to choose house number one Oh number one so exciting I knew that was the perfect house for you because when you walked in it really kind of checked off a lot of things although a couple you could still get with but it allows you to do the work that you want to do as well and also you gave me such a great idea about the bathroom yes you know just to make the shower slightly smaller have a bigger boss and his perfect solves your problem yeah well I don't know excited for you gradually

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Length: 20min 20sec (1220 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 13 2019