Tasteful friends - Check out Illeana Douglas's Greek Revival Bungalow in Hollywood

Awesome. Who?

Maybe TOO tasteful. I don't think it's "quirky" - what, the Spanish Breakfast At Tiffany's poster?

Perfectly pleasant. Too many white walls.

It would be perfect for a young single if half of the "decor" clutter was removed

[quote]if half of the "decor" clutter was removed

Well, she's not likely to leave that rubbish, is she?

I'm an old (by gay standards) single and I would take it as is. I love it.

I'd happily buy it, if I could sink a pool in that backyard. I wonder where in Hollywood exactly. Not my favourite part of town.

I'm a Westwood gay.

She just accused Les Moonves of sexual assault. Is she being driven out of town?

Whatever bit of 'Greek Revival' there was on that poor little bungalow got decimated when that room was added on the fucking front of the house. UGH.

"Well. I never in all my life!" --Old Biddy from the Library Video

[quote] her comfortable and pleasantly un-fancy Greek Revival-style bungalow in the historic Spaulding Square neighborhood in Hollywood, Calif.

$1.8 million for that?!? No. There is nicer for that kind of money. Even in LA

Glad to hear it, R12.

I always mix her up with Alison Janney.

Boring and too grandma. No real style - although it is very pretty on the outside.

Here is the listing:

Well found, R16!

With some color on the walls it could be cute.

It's a nice bungalow. For some reason I expected something more modern from her, but she is a Connecticut girl. I wonder why she's selling.

It's not in a nice part of town. Real no man's land. LA can be very depressing.

No window coverings in the bedroom. Too much light!

Almost $2 million for that dump? And not even a full tub?

I love how realtors just throw any random style name out there. There is nothing Greek Revival about that house.

I just checked out the street on Google Maps...none of the houses have garages so everyone has to park on the street. No thanks.

I think you are wrong, R24. If you look to the left of the house there is a narrow driveway towards the back of the house where the garage is.

I used to live in that neighborhood, in an apartment. Had I known she was my neighbor, I would have invited her over for tea, scones, and a session of, "Tell me how horrible it was when you worked with Madonna!"

Aperfectly charming little home,and I like the decor as well,but $2 million dollars ?!? Are people really that stupid?

Who’s her realtor? Didn’t it tell her to stash everything in the bathroom out of sight? You can see a toothbrush, squished up tube of toothpaste and bottle of Scope on the sink. The metal bed frame and wheels are showing in one of the bedroom pictures, too. That realtor is doing Deanna no favors putting out these lousy photos. As R3 said: she needs to clear out a lot of crap if she expects to get anywhere close to two million dollars.

[quote] You can see a toothbrush, squished up tube of toothpaste and bottle of Scope on the sink.

How about the casually thrown blue towels?

I like it. But $1.8 million?

Is Plummer Park somewhere you used to be able to go and suck dick?

There's very little 'crap'. The place is practically empty. I think she lives in NYC most of the time.

I like the view of the back of the house at dusk.

But it's a lot of money for not very much in a very blah part of LA.

The mahogany gaming table and the two wingbacks are good, perhaps the rug. It's not like I'd kill your mom for them, though.

I like that it's not decorated, but it has good adult-level shit. I don't allow posters on walls, but whatever. Just happy Illeana doesn't have a brood of macrame owls or some other twee shit. She's good at staying just this side of nauseating - looking at you, big-eyed girl sketch.

LOL It's one block down the street from where I live. I used to walk my dog by it every morning. Two houses down is where Melanie Mayron lives.

[quote]Two houses down is where Melanie Mayron lives.

Doesn't she live next door to her ex?

It's not the most attractive part of Hollywood, that's for sure.

R34 Correct.

If I were to run into Melanie walking my dog I'd embarrass myself and gush all over her "OMG you were so great in thirtysomething! Do you still keep in touch with the cast? Wasn't it awful when Gary died! OMG!...do you think Melissa married Leigh? What happened to the actor who played him? OMG!"

I would have said I loved you in Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold starring Kim Basinger and Don Johnson. she was also good in Harry & Tonto. Illeana's Grace of My Heart is a camp masterpiece. I think she needs cash because she hasn't worked very much the last ten years. she needs to write something maybe a role for herself or a racy memoir.

I love it too. I don't even think it's too cluttered.. Love all the built ins, especially.

I'd ask her what she's been doing since Harry & Tonto, r36, so I'd probably annoy her more.

I'd rather buy Mitch Pileggi's condo.....but only if he leaves a few pairs of his boxers behind.

^ Much too sterile.

What about Cher's place? What do we think about the antlers on the dining room table?

OP is correct, there is absolutely no such thing as a Greek Revival bungalow. I would term it Classical Revival, but even then, that may be overkill. It's a perfectly nice little cottage with a pretty jerkin head roof line above the front door and some lovely molding detail. It does seem a bit steep, but I am not familiar with pricing in that area.

If I ran into Illeana Douglas in front of the bungalow I'd ask her about - tell her about, Six Feet Under and how fucking great she was in it, because she was fucking great in it, most people were great in it for some reason, but she was especially good.

and I don't think a single person right here on this thread who saw it would disagree with me.

I think she was great in everything I've seen her in, r44.

It’s a flippin’ bungalow, no better than the bungalows in Berwyn IL!!! I think that addition was a mistake too, it ruins the whole front of the house, sweet little bungalows rely on the eye drawing you completely toward the entry, that addition destroys the balance. In addition look at the size of the addition!!! She has an UGLY Georgian loveseat that barely fits in it, and it is the ugliest piece of furniture in her house, it totally needs to be reupholstered. And probably the wood on it should be refinished.

Having shredded her home, I like her a lot, and I like that the home is a blank canvas. It seems like she just isn’t into decorating, she obviously chooses to put her energy elsewhere — much rather see that than bad decorating. She is an incredibly gifted artist imho.

[quote]what, the Spanish Breakfast At Tiffany's poster?

Some of these posters can be quite beautiful (and expensive). She's a cinephile, so I'm not surprised she collects.

[quote]she needs to write something maybe a role for herself or a racy memoir.

She did write a memoir. I think it came out last year.

That condo is hideous, R40.

[quote] Illeana's Grace of My Heart is a camp masterpiece.

I never saw that. The song was awful. Put me off.

[quote] She did write a memoir. I think it came out last year.

I got it and put it down pretty fast, it keeps staring at me telling me to give it another chance. It's one of those weird books in which she doesn't talk about the shit you actually want to read about - like the movies and Six Feet Under. That's probably why I put it down.

Who dis thot?

I’d just love to say I live “off Sunset.”

I thought addresses south of Sunset were South Whatever Street.

Anyway, since writing, I've given her book another chance and it's like wading through mud. It's the opposite of what you might expect from such a seemingly entertaining actress. Much like her house. Fucking boring...and just a bit, off.

R46 - Good point about those bungalows in Berwyn. The Chicagoland properties actually look a lot better than this one because those folks would never let their lawns get so bad.

Would be ideal with a pool but right now it's missing a little something.

I googled "Spaulding Square" and up came house after house designed on the same basic template with the same basic facade this one features. For your 1.799, you're not even getting something unique or even unusual.

R20 It's not in a nice part of town. Real no man's land. LA can be very depressing.

I used to live on Ogden just north of Hollywood Blvd. It was a beautiful, wonderfully convenient place to live. This home is on Ogden just south of Sunset. Basically, the same neighborhood.

It's pretty but also so...modest. Is she poor?

Where does she keep her stuff? In a storage locker? This little bit doesn't have enough room even for my suits and shoes. How very depressing.

Every house on that block has at least a driveway R24. Nobody has to park on the street.

That house seems very sad to me. Some of those wing chairs, that home office, the pathetic attempt whimsy with the purple front door.

She was awful in Cape Fear by the way. Just awful. But now I feel bad for her after that Les Moonves crap. Hollywood must be horrible for talented but eccentric and middle aged actresses like her - or Parker Posey or Mary Louise Parker ...

Eccentric? I'm not sure. I think she plays eccentric, but her book is dull and so is she in interviews...and this is not the house of an eccentric person AT ALL.

See if you can last the whole 3 minutes of this >

Bug-eyed bitch!

How can a normal person buy a house in LA? That house would go for about $300,000 where I live.

R64, you live in Bugtussle Arkansas, no one wants to live there.

Totally not worth $1.8MM. Buy a nice mid century in Encino before that. Or Silverlake even.

She dated Martin Scorsese for ages (I learned that in the Ronan Farrow piece). I would've thought she'd have a grander place than this. I live in a place where no one wants to move but even so, this house would not be more than 65k.

What are the comps in the area? Then you'll know if it's overpriced or not.

I think this is just her LA pied a terre. She lives in NYC. The "edgier" actresses tend to live in NYC and feel superior and edgier than the ones who live in LA.

Also, they tend to abandon one for the other every time they get a divorce or a big relationship ends.

Remember "INTIMATE PORTRAIT" in the 90s?

"Her marriage over - she packed up and moved back to New York..."

Her memoir was called "I Blame It On Dennis Hopper" - the only good song on the Grace of my Fart soundtrack is the Elvis Costello song.

I didn't think she lived in NYC since the split with Scorsese. She must have a family place in Connecticut, though.

She and Parker Posey should write a script for themselves, since they both want more work. I'd watch a film with the two of them in it.

No she lives in LA. She has a live Sirius radio show which also airs on youtube. She talks about living in LA.

In Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker piece, she was quoted saying that while Moonves was being handsy, he promised her “a house with a pool”. It’s like a pedophile luring a kid with candy.

She is of the grandma couch age - there's something about these pressed-back velvet wonders that sends 50-something women into a victoriana revery. Plus, those things can be any weight. Some are light bullshit and some are packed with concrete.

How did she get the money to have a place in LA and a place in NYC? I'm serious. I like her, but what does she do? Occasionally she has a small part in a movie, but that work must have dried up by now.

[quote]She just accused Les Moonves of sexual assault. Is she being driven out of town?

Didn't he have better looking women to demand head from? I know that sounds like a putdown of Ileana, but I'm being serious -- she's not a great beauty. There are gorgeous girls brimming over waiting for tv work. And he harassed Ileana? She's ok looking but wouldn't he want a Torrey Devitto/Evangeline Lilly/AnnaLynne McCord type to suck him off? (Not that any of them would, I just mean the type.)

On the house, I like it but some of the rooms are too old-ladyish. Easily remedied though.

Ileana Douglas might not be a classical beauty (i think she's attractive, tho) but she seems fun and smart. Maybe Moonves is not a total pig, he has some standards for his victims.

What does she have against window treatments? Anyway, I like the house; a bungalow is fine for a single person. My sister is buying a huge house and she’s a single middle-aged woman. Why not a condo?

Back to Ileanna. The decor is blah, but she has some nice rugs. It seems overpriced but I don’t know LA.

HINT: the photos are stages. Window treatments and the like were probably taken down in order to get as much light as possible into the rooms.

Her neighborhood is very quaint, it's a five block by two block enclave and it's expensive because it's incredibly centrally located.

A two-bedroom house though is fine for a single person or a couple, but not really for a family. That would seem to be the sticking point

Can those of you who like window treatments please show us some you would install in this house?

I think a lot of women (& men) feel safer having their bedrooms UPSTAIRS and not on street level.

There was someone here on dl a while ago who discovered stuff outside his bedroom window when he awoke one morning. He was creeped out.

[quote]Didn't he have better looking women to demand head from? I know that sounds like a putdown of Ileana, but I'm being serious -- she's not a great beauty.

Maybe he thought he'd have a better chance with someone of his calibre.

A lot of people (probably on the Daily Mail site) think she left it too long to cry wolf about that guy....22 years or something. I don't know what I think of exposing these people so many years later.

someone of his calibre.

** her calibre.

Centrally located? Nothing in LA is centrally located.

in my mind, the center of Hollywood is centrally located.

"any place in L.A. takes 20 minutes!" Cher's father in "Clueless" - now an Off Broadway musical

[quote] Maybe Moonves is not a total pig, he has some standards for his victims.

Any guy who dangles work over his victims' heads if they will slurp his dick until he cums in her mouth is not looking for an "edgy, off-center provocateur." He's looking for a bimbo to ogle while she goes about that tacky business.

Very cute. Awful landscape.

I'm reading her memoir. If you skip the childhood part, which is rather dull, the book is actually quite engaging.

R46 I agree with you the sette is ugly, but it Victorian, not Georgian.

R66, no one moves to the Valley by choice.

Slapping a couple of columns on a ranch house does not make it "Greek Revival". That's funny.

Anyone remember the very funny and irreverent, but short-lived 1999 TV show, ACTION, starring Illeanna Douglas and Jay Mohr? Great show and take-down of Hollywood culture and business.

a house cannot be both a bungalow and greek revival, that's total real estate bullshit. the styles are totally antithetical

Horrid mishmash of terms R93. Sounds like something a dumbkopf on HouseHunters would say! This reminds me of so many invented decor and architectural bullshit words. From an historic perspective I detest the term "Hollywood Regency" to describe a decorating style or the style of a piece of furniture. Complete and utter bullshit! I'm adding Greek-Revival-Bungalow to my now revised compendium of annoying bullshit terms used by bullshitters.

To the person asking how she can afford a place in NYC and LA: She can't. She doesn't have a place in LA. On her podcast (which is quite interesting) she often discusses how she lost interest in NYC. (like a lot of us did---when it became Disneyfied)

[quote]She doesn't have a place in LA.

Wait, what? She's selling her LA place.

[quote]On her podcast (which is quite interesting)

Does she have more than one? I only listened to "I blame Dennis Hopper".

Oops I meant she doesn't have a place in New York.

She doesn’t like NYC because it’s become too Disny’fied so she lives in LA, the home of Disney.

She sounds like an idiot.

Ileana has always lived in charming, quirky abodes. Check out her celebrity ghost story about living in the Parc Vendome on 57th street in NYC.

[quote]Check out her celebrity ghost story about living in the Parc Vendome on 57th street in NYC.

OMG I had a good friend who lived there. Used to go there a lot. Don't remember finding it spooky at all.

R101 There were rumors of bizarre deaths and other typical old-apartment-building-lore. It's a huge building, spans two blocks basically.

A modest dilapidated Greek Revival. Douglas has a souped up bungalow. The end.

Yes, I remember, R102 - my friend's entrance was on 56th St.

I'm watching the clip you linked now. No reference to it being the Parc Vendome.

They probably weren't allowed to say the building by name for legal reasons. It's kind of bad for business if a piece of real estate is haunted, but i know she lived there

Yes, R105 - but YOU knew somehow,

Come to think of it, my friend who lived there (for many years) has completely disappeared off the face of the earth.

I felt sad for Illeana in that spooky haunted show you linked. I hope her life is better now.

[quote]She doesn’t like NYC because it’s become too Disny’fied so she lives in LA, the home of Disney.

[quote]She sounds like an idiot.

You sound like you don't know LA or how much more of an artist place it has become in the last ten, fifteen years. Or why people say that Manhattan has been Disneyfied.

r97 It is a weekly series she does on Sirius Radio live and then all the episodes go up on youtube. They are all titled "I Blame Dennis Hopper"