Tasteful friends. What do we think of Ben Affleck's humble abode?

That's odd, I can't find the recording studio

Must be a wet bar in every room if that broken down drunk bought it.

Ooooh! Stables!

Hope he doesn't get drunked up and have a fall in the pool .

It's beautiful, but...quite feminine/romantic energy for a whiskey-swilling, poker-playing, stripper-lovin' straight dude, no? It looks very similar (design-wise) to his place in Georgia.

I actually think JLo might have been the one with the more masculine/modern design tastes informing their last home when I'd assumed it was the other way around.

Beige, beige everywhere. I guess it fits the aesthetics of the home, but it's so boring.

It's RIVIERA ORCHARD, dear.

Very nice, but I don't think he bought it for the stables. It's right off Sunset, literally a 4 minute drive from Jen Garner's house and the kids.

It's miles away from the behomoth palace he lived in with Lopez. Where is she moving to?

It'll smell like horse shit.

I don't get the Home Depot picnic table just sitting on the lawn.

Also, seems like a simple old rancher that's been remodeled several times... looks ok, but those big plaster moldings in several rooms just look their "grand quality" overwhelms the house. Like Brentwood trying to be Bel Air.

OMG I'm glad someone else noticed that funky broken down picnic table! LOL

I think it's a nice house. Apparently TMZ thinks this is proof of imminent divorce.

Hard to believe there is horse property in Brentwood.

No hot tub? Pfft.

What's not to like about it?

I didn’t know he was horsey.

I don’t care for the huge fireplace inside the kitchen and the other baronial details built into what is otherwise a farm house. Also, enough with the ceiling beams. Finally, too much house squeezed into too little property, though that’s not unusual for the area.

How do LA addresses work? Why 13233 street number on a street that’s just a couple of blocks long?

[quote] How do LA addresses work? Why 13233 street number on a street that’s just a couple of blocks long?

So that all addresses correspond to cross streets maybe? For example: Maple St. is 40 blocks long. Running parallel is Oak St. at only 6 blocks long. Both cross Sycamore St. If you know 224 Oak is at the corner of Sycamore, then you also know 224 Maple is at or near the corner of Sycamore.

Is there another way of doing it?

It's not his first time around the rodeo.

I love it! Unlike the last place, it's a house that you can imagine humans actually living in.

[quote] Hope he doesn't get drunked up and have a fall in the pool .

He'll end up floating in the pool as the orderlies gently lead JLo away, all ready for her closeup.

Beware of rebound relationships...

Will JLo still be making booty calls when he's drunk and horny?

[quote] It's right off Sunset, literally a 4 minute drive from Jen Garner's house and the kids.

You seem awfully familiar with this family and where they live. 🥺

It's that 1940s Hollywood ranch casual style that always underwhelms me but gets the LA architecture set rock hard.

It's a very pleasant property with a lot going on in its 2/3rds of an acre. I think the siting is the star here, more more than the architecture which is of that Less Is a Bore school that Californians like. Casual living, easy entertainment, thr kush gardens never more than a French door away... I get it. I can like it in theory. But in practice there's insufficient architecture.

Years ago Affleck wrote (or had ghost written) a travel piece about driving the coast of Georgia where he would later buy his historicist Greek Revival 21stC plantation house. The article was rather good and he was clearly drawn by the evocative landscapes and historic architecture. He seems to have more than a kernel of good taste in architecture and I would say this is a solid property of it's type (if it misses the mark of my taste, it comes closer than it does to my wallet.)

My guess is that for him it's a perfect antidote to the JLo shiny coke dealer/arms trader Star Island mega-mansion that that the latest ex roped him into. In this place, honey, ranchy, unpretentious, and with a (likely) boozy Hollywood history.

So good for him. I hope he enjoys it in peace.

I'm picturing him naked in every room.

Think it looks good....nothing that a bit of color won't fix R6. Over all aesthetically pleasing.

I like it but it does need color.

Polar opposite of the ridiculously huge, cold mansion they're now trying to offload.

Definitely needs color. And again - no jacuzzi/hot tub...?

[quote] I'm picturing him naked in every room.

Including his flat ass, hideous back tattoo and “titties”?

I really like it, but it’s very very neutral.

It’s almost as if the seller did some repainting to leave a blank, inoffensive canvas for potential buyers.

Do they paint the houses beige to make it look like a blank canvas in the photos or do rich people actually live in beige. Maybe people who live in these places have multiple houses and want them to look like a hotel for when they drop by but it’s so bland.

Bland like the owner.

Stables with that tiny bit of grass just seems cruel to the horses

OP, I'm really not getting why this house merited a "tasteful friends" thread. It's a little dull, but in no way hideous, and obviously Brentwood is still a desirable area.

[quote]It's beautiful, but...quite feminine/romantic energy for a whiskey-swilling, poker-playing, stripper-lovin' straight dude, no?

I'm pretty sure that place was staged, and if so they may have already yanked everything out. Even if not, I assume he'll redecorate the place – it's not like they typically come furnished.

[quote]I think it's a nice house. Apparently TMZ thinks this is proof of imminent divorce.

Well, he and JLo just sold a far *more* expensive house jointly purchased in Beverly Hills for $68 million – and they've both purchased other houses – so I think that's a very reasonable assumption.

[quote]Years ago Affleck wrote (or had ghost written) a travel piece about driving the coast of Georgia where he would later buy his historicist Greek Revival 21stC plantation house. The article was rather good and he was clearly drawn by the evocative landscapes and historic architecture.

Ben's one of those celebs, along with Brad Pitt & Courteney Cox, who seems to have a legitimate interest in architecture, though they trend more modern than him.

[quote]Do they paint the houses beige to make it look like a blank canvas in the photos or do rich people actually live in beige.

Usually the former, and that's pretty standard in real estate generally for homesellers. The idea is for potential buyers to be able to envision a given place for themselves, and that's more difficult to do if it has unusually striking interiors.

R30. Both.

The two very wealthy folks I know have similar beige/neutral living area colors, but both have more interesting bath/powder rooms and other more intimate spaces.

They also have very nice furniture and artwork, which might be lost in a more busy background.

Were the horses part of the staging or where they just there for the pics?

[quote] Well, he and JLo just sold a far *more* expensive house jointly purchased in Beverly Hills for $68 million

Did they actually sell it, or is it still listed?

Their big $60M house is so fucking sterile you could perform surgery on the dining room table.

Not sure if it has sold, but the fact the asking price is/was below what they paid is telling, especially in the burgeoning super high-end US real estate market.

It must be nice to have fuck-you money.

[quote]Do they paint the houses beige to make it look like a blank canvas in the photos or do rich people actually live in beige

As R34 notes, it's a common preparation to sell a place, especially in Southern California.

And in LA and even California generally (the rich parts), I think it's genuinely a concern for many more buyers than elsewhere that the architecture and decoration not outshine the sometimes famous owners. The place is thick with decorators in the tradition of Michael Taylor: white and off-white and more if the same, with a glass and driftwood table . The California Aesthetic of Neutrals, Neutrals, and More Neutrals.

I wonder what he's going to do with the stables. I can't picture him owning horses.

R38. I do not know of this Michael Taylor.

That seems like a tiny piece of land to have horses. Don't they need space to run around? Am I missing something?

R41. With the “hottie” moving, in, it’s clearly a “stud farm.”

[quote] Stables with that tiny bit of grass just seems cruel to the horses

Is this sufficient?

Thank you Shecky aka R42!

[quote]Did they actually sell it, or is it still listed?

My mistake: I thought they'd sold it, but apparently not. It's still listed.

[quote]How do LA addresses work? Why 13233 street number on a street that’s just a couple of blocks long?

I don't think it's specific to L.A., but it *is* specific to the West Coast (and possibly only California). I've seen a number of street numbers there that start with a *two*! There doesn't seem to be any correlation to actual block numbers, however.

[quote]That seems like a tiny piece of land to have horses. Don't they need space to run around? Am I missing something?

No, I think it's a "Brentwood thing," for lack of a better word, and partially because actual equestrian uses were much more common in the past, when land prices were far less extreme. (It's basically bragging rights of a sort if you own a house & have enough room for stables, even if this seems silly to non-Angelenos.) If a pool & tennis court are expected in upscale houses elsewhere in the area, you can add stables to Brentwood listings, even ones like Ben's house that aren't that big. This seems particularly true for parts of the area, including Ben's house, that are close to the Santa Monica Mountains and various other dense parks on the west side. (The "real" horse people left L.A. entirely decades ago.)

Very nice pool

It’s already been said, but I don’t understand how all that fits on 2/3 of an acre.

I think it's gorgeous. A little more color might help, but it is a stunning home.

Ben is just going to stumble around there drunk, so I'm sure it will be fine for him.

R49. Hmm, like I did for my elderly, wobbly parents, I hope there will be there to remove area rugs and take away the keys…

R47: A mature and complex planting scheme, ancillary buildings and the house itself push to the very lot lines, a house of unusual shape with wings that define zones of the property, and -my favorite- dense hedges and privacy screens at all the lot lines to make the whole place a private, walled series of house and garden rooms. Itś the absolute best thing about Southern California housing to my view. It's quite contrary to the usual US ideal of front yard house, back yard, and lots of distance from the neighbors. This densely developed 2/3-acre gives a lot ofprivacy and also a lot of illusion of space because the space is complex and compartmentalized, broken into many functional and visual zones.

Only a few houses on the street. Another being Diane Keaton's "The House that Pinterest Built". Robert Wagner and Bea Arthur were residents of the neighborhood too.

It looks homosexual to me.

Recall that Ben and Garner (Jen I) lived in a very nice Cliff May house when they were married, not far away from this new house, at the entrance of Sullivan Canyon. So I'd say he has at least a mild interest in California architecture.

It's a popular type of spread and area popular with other celebs. Christian Bale has a very rustic spread further up in Sullivan, also a Cliff May design if memory serves. Bea Arthur was a neighbor of his, Norman Lear lived up the road and over one street.

R23 and r45 are informational and summarize LA tastes well.

He will end up with Garner down the road, may be a decade or so...

One of Ben's stable whores. I knew he wasn't interested in horses.

^^link stinks (for me)

Linky done gone stinky

It's queeny, just as I expected. I mentioned in another thread that Ben is quite queeny sometimes.

I can't seem to break him of his fagginess.

Fuck! It's Bradley.

It's Bradley Cooper.

Use Imgur, R56/R61/R62.

He probably wants to distance himself from Jello, as she will be the star witness in Puffy's trial(s).

I like SJP's cottage. Color.

[quote]Why 13233 street number on a street that’s just a couple of blocks long?

It corresponds to all east-west addresses going west from downtown LA. Theoretically, it's 132 blocks from whichever street they start counting at.

So the house numbers impose a sort of virtual grid not reflected in the street names?

But the other Brentwood Houses listed on the realtor’s website don’t follow the pattern. Only a few have five-digit house numbers. Most are three- or four-digit.

Three- and four-digit numbers run (roughly) north and south. Look at N. Rockingham. It's numbering starts at the 100 block, which is at Sunset Blvd. One of my friends grew up in the 3400 block of Mandeville Canyon Rd., another on S. Gunston, one block south of Sunset. Her address was in the 100s.

Fuck

[Quote] I like it but it does need color.

We’ll help.