Brad Pitt Lists Mid-Century Modern Beach House in Malibu & More Real Estate News

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Brad Pitt is selling his mod Malibu Beach House for $13.75m: Realtor.com.

Guess the Duggars will be changing the title of their show to 20 Kids & Countingnow! So many people have been searching my site for it this week, I�ll make it easy for you: The Duggar Family House.

Garrison Keillor�s St. Croix Retreat for sale: Listing.

Jenna Lyons is selling her Park Slope townhouse: Curbed.

What were the best and worst design trends of 2011? Centsational Girl.

7 ways to change it up when there�s no cash for decorating: Nesting Place.

A quaint old church converted into a house in Colorado: Listing.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart�s New House in L.A.

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Mega movie star Harrison Ford and �Brothers and Sisters� actress Calista Flockhart started dating in 2002, a year after she adopted her son Liam. The very private couple tied the knot in June of 2010 while Ford was filming Cowboys and Aliens. Now Real Estalker reports that they quietly purchased a new home together in L.A.

Wanna see it?

They reportedly bought the sprawling, nearly 14,000 square-foot home for $12.65 million. I�m surprised that a house with such a hefty price tag has such a prominent garage (assuming this is the front of the house).

The house was newly constructed and originally priced at over $15 million when it first went on the market in early 2010.

The house has 7 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms�plenty of room for family members to visit. Ford has 4 grown children and 3 grandchildren.

Like it? It�s a lot of white, but as a newly built house I assume it was staged to sell and is probably a lot warmer with Ford and Flockhart�s furnishings.

For more information about the house, visit Real Estalker. Photos found at X17 and you can see more of them there. (Thanks to Kim for the link!)

Billy Joel�s West Village Townhouse

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on JULY 6, 2010

One of the first celebrity houses I featured when I started this blog was Billy Joel�s beach house in the Hamptons. He was a newlywed at the time, having just married 23-year old Katie Lee, and insisted in interviews that he would have fallen for her even if she were 30 years older than he was. (Really? Because it�s hard to imagine he�d find her as attractive as an 85-year old�)

But I digress. Here�s a photo of the great room in their beach house that I showed you then:

He and Katie had just gone on Oprah to discuss their marriage and his trip to rehab (April 2008). On that show, Katie gave us a tour of their fab West Village townhouse in New York, decorated by Nate Berkus.

Now that the couple has split, the townhouse is on the market for $12.9 million.

Katie showed off her favorite meatloaf recipe for Oprah viewers in the dining room:

Here�s how the dining room looks in the listing today:

Because cooking is Katie�s thing (she wrote a cookbook and hosted the first season of �Top Chef� on Bravo), there is a �chef�s kitchen� that includes a 6-burner Wolf stove:

(Is that a cat sleeping in the corner?)

You can watch the video tour on Oprah.com. For more information, check out the listing. More photos and info on the rumors that LeBron James might be buying it on Huffington Post.

To see my original post about Billy Joel�s beach house in the Hamptons, click here.

Kate Walsh�s 1920s Spanish Home in Los Angeles

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on OCTOBER 20, 2011

Kate Walsh, the actress who plays Dr. Addison Montgomery on the TV drama �Private Practice� (which I haven�t gotten into, but I liked her on �Grey�s Anatomy�), is selling her charming 1920s house in Los Feliz. I remembered seeing it in InStyle magazine a couple of years ago, so I set out to track the photos down and compare it to how it looks in the listing. Wanna see?

According to the article, Walsh was sharing her home with two pups (Rosie and Lucy) and a pair of cats (Pablo and Billie).

Kate told InStyle, �I wanted to mix 20th-century design with French and Spanish antiques�and not have it look like a garage sale!�

�The gated home retains its 1920s details in the intricately tiled main hall and staircase, arched windows and passageways, and stenciled beamed ceilings,� according to the listing.

The dining room has an oval inset ceiling:

Here�s how the dining room looked in InStyle magazine in �09, with a glass table and different chairs:

The kitchen is a little blah for me, almost like it was tacked on without a lot of thought to the rest of the house.

I like the back staircase that comes down into the kitchen. I�ve always wanted one of those!

Here�s that same room as it appeared in InStyle in �09:

The house has 4 bedrooms, 6 baths, and nearly 6,000 square feet.

The master bedroom was shown in the magazine, along with the explanation that the artwork over the sofa was painted by her brother Joseph:

Master bath:

One of the four bedrooms was turned into a big walk-in closet. I hope there�s more space for hanging clothes in it than this photo would suggest:

Walsh told InStyle that she loved Addison�s bedroom on �Private Practice� so much that she hired the show�s set decorator, Melissa Levander, to help her with her real house, too. Those of you who watch �PP� will have to tell us if you see any resemblance between these rooms and the ones on TV!

There�s also a 3-room guest house on the property, with office space and a Pilates studio.

She unsuccessfully listed the house in May of 2010 for $4.295 million and put it back on the market recently for $3.995.

Like it? You can see more at InStyle (magazine photos by Francoise Halard) and check out the listing on Trulia, offered by Juliette Hohnen of Teles Properties in Beverly Hills.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Tribeca House Now Just $12.5M

Guess the whiff of scandale hasn't done much for the sales prospects of 153 Franklin Street, the now-notorious Tribeca townhouse rented by Dominique Strauss-Kahn for the duration of his house arrest earlier this year. The place, the product of a Leopoldo Rosati renovation, was previously for sale at aPriceChopped ask of $13.995 million�and it's been hanging out with the PriceChopper again. The new ask is $12.5 million, a cut of 11 percent, or $1.495 million. The home's still for rent at a cool $50,000/month. If anyone needs a house arrest home base, full gallery right over here.
� 153 Franklin Street #BLDG [StreetEasy]
� 153 Franklin Street coverage [Curbed]