Tasteful friends-Beverly hills mansion?

It looks like some trashy place I'd expect to find in Atlanta.

Does it have a cee-ment pond?

Fancy. It looks like it could be in Paris France.

Why do these nouveau riche always build houses that look like the Disney version of the Palace of Versailles? Tacky, tacky, tacky!

This is ROD STEWART'S house he has been trying to unload for years. Very 90s Saudi folie de grandeur. I like that style when it's huge and the rooms have good proportions, as here. I could easily be happy in such an ersatz Palais because I'm tacky that way and I respect the decent effort the architect has made.

I would strip the ceilings of can lights and vents. Horrible faux pas.

"90s Saudi folie de grandeur..."

Love that, R5. We should just end the thread now, because no one is going to top that. 🙏

Quite a cute little cottage!

I could work with it.

I lot more thought went into this than is usual. There are still some clumsy details, but for the most part this is surprisingly correct in terms of proportion and color. The can lights are an abomination. I will never understand how they are popular.

It’s new. They couldn’t buy something historic? Instead they build something to look historic?

R10 has a point. There is so much amazing architecture in LA already that needs restoration.

But would my neighbor's son really feel at home laying out by that pool?

The only thing that horrified me was the white embossed carpet in the one bedroom, more for the idea of how much work it must have taken to keep spotlessly clean rather than how it looked.

Built in 1933 - so has some credibility. However the place has 12 shitters but no pics of said shitters?

You misread R14 - it was built in 93, not 33. But as others have said above it’s much better designed and proportioned than the usual McMansion - it almost could be from 33, but for the horrible can lights.

Is it close to good schools and shopping?

It's fucking awful. Every single surface and furnishing is overdone, overblown, complicated and too much. It's ugly and trashy.

You gotta remember, R17, that you'd be buying the house, not the furnishings. The rooms themselves are generally well-proportioned, and you can assert your own taste and style. It's not like those hideous places with the ugliness built in.

I wish it was an open-concept! And please replace the closet doors with sliding barn doors!

It's suitable for the servants, or maybe Tori.

The exterior of the house is surprisingly tasteful...But what good is a nice facade when the interior looks tacky as hell.

R21 - But that's perfect for Hollywood.

New Orleans Whorehouse Chic.

In previous listings of Rod's house, there was a zebra skin bar, I seem to remember. Correct?

Those curtains in the living room would make wonderful play clothes for the kids!

I actually like this, bar the can lights and the horrible art/pictures everywhere. As R9 and R15 say the basic are pretty good and correcting what isnt wouldnt be too difficult, and a lot of the detailing like the ceiling mouldings etc are actually really well done for once. It wouldnt be a big stretch to make this look exactly like a historic house. I even like a lot of the furnishings, and the picture frames are good, its just what they are framing that isnt so great.

It is too big for my liking, but could work really well as a commune providing I could find several like minded individuals to form a collective with

Built in 1993 and it shows. Not all aspects of the house are bad, but it's a collection of design anomalies, a catalogue of overwrought and badly proportioned spaces and details that don't come together as Classical but romance novelist kitschy.

Its true the capital order changes room to room.

How many days per year is it feasible to light the fireplace in the library?

The library ceiling is smudged black so I think often enough. Cool evenings in winter.

I would never live there. If someone gave it to me, I would sell it immediately. I can't stand that tacky overly formal bullshit. It looks like Persians live there.

Rod doesn't even look Korean, let alone Persian.

He can’t unload it because it’s listed for EIGHTY MILLION. Should be reduced to Eight.

It takes creativity to come up with a room this bad.

The ceilings are too low for all that decoration. They would look better with something much simpler and understated.

The brown curtains in the first photos are truly atrocious.

exactly.

This room is half decent.

Take off the weird/pointless railings on the roof of the house, and below the front windows, and remove the statue from the fountain and you’d have something quite passable. Euro-twee, sure, but not offensive.

And get rid of the artworks and can lighting from the house and it could be quite liveable.

I think it's beautiful. I really love the color of the barroom.

I just don't see how people feel comfortable living in a place like that. Everything is so ridge, uptight, and formal. It's one thing to say that a room is not bad in a photo, it's another to have to live in it.

It was on the market for $70 million, then they took it off the market in November. Then in December they put it back on the market for $80 million.

Take all the shite out of it and it's just another plaster cast dump. Totally over priced.

Trump could move right in.

Is it two houses facing each other across the fountain??

So hids.

The room at r34 looks like a VIP/high rollers lounge at a Vegas casino.

The value of this property is not so much in the McMansion itself but the fact that this Monstrosity is on THREE acres- which can be subdivided into three properties and therefore three McMansions can be built there which gives it a great deal of value.

Not worth it.

I'm shocked it was built 30 years ago. It looks like the typical gaudy trash they build today.

The grounds are nice.

Rod Stewart puts $70M price on English Country estate in Beverly Park

British rocker’s house features a 200-year-old crystal chandelier

The 200 year old crystal chandelier must be worth at least $10 million alone!

How dare you call me a 200-year old chandelier! And I'm only 50!

- Penelope Claire Lancaster, Lady Stewart

Why, it's almost as old as he is!

The grounds are nice but the inside is just ugly. And I’m not talking about furniture. I can get new stuff at Rooms to Go.

I’m sure I’m in the minority (it’s not a beloved style) but I really like his collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

^Neo-classical, surely r55? It’s very French academy.

[quote]I just don't see how people feel comfortable living in a place like that. Everything is so ridge, uptight, and formal. It's one thing to say that a room is not bad in a photo, it's another to have to live in it.

R39 I'd be totally comfortable in this, its really busy and ornate which I find relaxing. I couldnt live in a place thats all grey concrete and white paint though, I'd find that depressing. Like a prison

It actually look nicer in the pics at R50's link which really show it to best advantage. I agree that the room that R34 linked really doesnt work, its probably the least successful room in the house. It needs a lighter wall colour and a nice patterned carpet

I wonder why the price has gone up to $80 milllion, 70 was closer to the market

Actually the best pics are in the original Architectural Digest article linked. Art also appears to be different - I think what's there now isnt the owners but just for staging, so mass produced fillers

It looks like some trashy place I’d expect to find in Texas.

[QUOTE]this Monstrosity is on THREE acres- which can be subdivided into three properties

How much does this kind of acreage go for in BH? How much of the $80K is for the house? I assume it will be tear down and reconstructed.

This is a house for someone who needs to scream to the world "LOOK AT ME, I'M SO RICH, I'M RICHER THAN ALL OF YOU, DON'T YOU WISH YOU WERE ME!!".

It's not an English Country-style house. It's Beverly Hills Mediterranean.

^$80M at r60

English country estate?

More like a whore's handbag.

The modern interiors of Kathy and Rick Hilton's former house in Bel Air are much nicer.

The property is in Beverly Park, the gated community.

That stomach full of sperm has really clouded his mind.

That place is worth about 17 million tops. And that's mainly because that house would be a tear down.

R65 nope. Now that is tacky. Ugly light fittings, all white and griege inside, and its not even a particularly beautiful house either. Its just big. I'd call this a McMansion far more so than OP's one

Rod's house is not a McMansion. Nor is it a "English Country House".

Nor is it authentic.

[quote] How much of the $80k is for the house?

Obviously I know you meant $80 million, but it's pennies on the dollar, especially in that area.

80k in LA probably wouldn't buy you a cemetery plot.

[quote] Nor is it authentic.

The house is the typical architectural overkill designed for the nouveau-riche. People who came from little and were fortunate to make or come into big money at some point, and need to show everyone how rich they are, and don't want anyone to find out they were once suburban tract house types.

This place exemplifies the difference in new money and old money. New money people drive an Escalade. Old money people drive a Camry.

I completely disagree, v8fairy. I think the interior of the Hilton house is tasteful even though the exterior is very uninspired.

The ceiling mouldings in OP's house look terrible. Whenever nouveau riche people try to do the French baroque style, it always comes out as a tacky imitation.

[QUOTE]80k in LA probably wouldn't buy you a cemetery plot.

You're not kidding. I have a neighbor who works at a cemetery here in Sacramento. Previously she worked at a cemetery in San Jose in the Silicon Valley where years ago she and her husband bought plots with an employee discount. They decided to move here to be closer to family and sold their plots for nearly $100k. More than 1000% profit. This was about 5/6 years ago.