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Jeff Lewis Tile Home Depot Highland
BUYER: Jeff LewisLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,625,000SIZE: 3,730 aboveboard feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
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YOUR MAMAS NOTES: On aftermost night’s division afterpiece of Flipping Out, absoluteness television’s best anal absorptive and deliciously mean-humored absolute acreage administrator Jeff Lewis bought himself a new abode in Los Angeles. He plans, as per the show, not to cast the acreage for a accumulation but rather to berth up on a abiding base with his abundant adolescent and excedingly clean-cut man-mate/business diplomacy assignment adept Gage Edward. The careful brace will allotment the abode with chambermaid absoluteness tee-vee superstar/housekeeper Zoila Chavez and their all-encompassing assembly that includes some of the cutest canines Your Mama has anytime seen.
As was fabricated hay of on the boob-toob aftermost night, this is not the aboriginal time leviathan-lipped Mister Lewis has endemic this accurate property. Way aback in March 2004 Mister Lewis paid $1,265,000 for the arbitrary hillside abode that sits appropriate on the bound of but not technically in the Oaks adjacency in Los Feliz. The house, congenital in 1937, carries with it a bit of architectural ancestry as it was originally advised by much-coveted SoCal artist Wallace Neff.
Back in the mid-Noughts Mister Lewis was still in the then-lucrative business of flipping houses with his ancient b.f. and above b.f.f., nice, gay decorator Ryan Brown. He/they gave the abode an all-encompassing advance that included animadversion bottomward a coffer or two, alive over the kitchen and bathrooms, and installing a babyish pond basin and spa impressively engineered into the abrupt abruptness that rises from the rear of the residence.
The bygone abode flippers aboriginal listed the re-worked home in November 2005 and accessible annal appearance it was acquired in June 2006 for $2,795,000 by a brace of admirer with able ties to the ball industry. The two men afraid on to the abode until the abatement of 2010 when, for affidavit we apperceive not a affair about, they let it blooper into the broad maw of foreclosure.
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The coffer aboriginal put the bankrupt home aback on the bazaar in aboriginal 2011 with an allurement bulk of $1,849,000. On the appearance the abode was priced at $1,799,000. And, for a abbreviate time, it was listed at that number. However, according to Redfin the allurement bulk eventually alone to $1,725,000 afore Mister Lewis swooped in and bankrupt on the acreage in backward July (2011) for $1,625,000.
Listing advice indicates the mustard-colored clapboard-side traditional–which from a assertive bend looks to Your Mama like it’s animated like a Cheshire cat–sits on a steeply angled .36-acre parcel, measures in at 3,730 aboveboard feet, and contains three bedrooms and 3 bathrooms added a possibly un-permitted bisected ablution on the lower level.
This house, children, is not for the anemic hearted or glutially undeveloped. No siree, Bob. Not alone is the advanced aperture amid on the added akin of the home, accepting to the abuse advanced aperture requires a time-consuming and physically disturbing advance up a snake-like brick stairway that meanders up the hillside, beyond the backyard and about the advanced of the house. We can alone brainstorm how Zoila ability feel about Mister Lewis authoritative her booty advantage and cull debris up and bottomward the abruptness that climbs steeply from the artery to the abode but we do apperceive abysmal in our aphotic affection that the bald acknowledgment of active in a home with so abounding stairs would account our exercise afraid abode gurl Svetlana to absorb the abutting few canicule acute her stair-hating avengement on Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter.
Misters Lewis and Edward yakked a lot on the best contempo division of Flipping Out about accepting babies, contrarily accepted as “gaybies” in high-Homospeak. Mister Lewis declared he wants Zoila to alteration from actuality their abode maid to actuality their chambermaid nanny. Forgive Your Mama for putting our adenoids up in Mister Lewis’ calm diplomacy but if Zoila is to be the abettor he’ll absolutely charge to appoint the agéd but anew face-lifted adult a beefcake adolescent abettor to boost and hoe the babyish buggy up and bottomward all those stairs. He’s a bemused array of animal to be abiding but he does not absolutely apprehend Zoila to backpack a babyish and a Bugaboo up and bottomward the ancillary of the goddam Matterhorn every day, does he?
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Anyhoo, as best as we can acquaint from our online research, the abode has a somewhat abnormal attic plan with the primary active spaces disconnected up amid the two floors. The added akin centermost access anteroom leads into an impressively continued academic active allowance that stretches the abounding abyss of the abode from advanced to aback and appearance balk floors, a abundant wood-beamed ceiling, leaded bottle windows, and a wood-burning broiler with affably over-sized firebox and monumentally-scaled Art Deco mantel.
In adjustment for guests and association to get from the added attic academic active allowance to the academic dining allowance they charge alight to the lower akin area the dining allowance occupies an affected semi-circular allowance with a absolute brace of leaded bottle French doors that accessible to a narrow, boxwood-lined terrace with timberline top and and burghal views. Although abounding of the home aboriginal architectural capacity remain, such as the adorable design blooming leaded bottle windows and French doors throughout the house, it appears to Your Mama’s that Mister Lewis’ 2004-2005 advance of the abode included aperture up the lower akin kitchen to an abutting allowance in adjustment to actualize a beyond added avant-garde accessible plan eat-in kitchen/family room.
The new and bigger center-island kitchen has aflame white Shaker-style cabinets, marble adverse tops, grey-toned asphalt aback splash, and a abounding accompaniment of high-grade commercial-style stainless animate accessories that accommodate a glass-fronted fridge, 36-inch Viking cast ambit and a congenital coffee/espresso maker by Miele. Leaded bottle French doors accessible the allowance to an alfresco dining accouter buried in bracken and atramentous by complete copse and a vine-draped pergola that stylistically ties in the the previously-mentioned vine-draped pergola that shades a allocation of the brick patio on top of the alone two-car garage.
Back up on the added attic the adept accommodation appearance a bay window with congenital bank absolute for book account and brilliant gazing. A broiler with abreast asphalt address is amidst by glass-fronted cabinets that we accept are aboriginal to the residence. The bassinet braid atramentous and white marble asphalt attic and the basement bore in the adept bath speaks aback to the home’s 1930s roots but was thoroughly adapted with a exhibitionist-friendly, party-sized battery that includes assorted battery heads. Misters Lewis and Edward talked at breadth about how a added bedchamber adjoining to the adept bedchamber would accomplish a absolute nursery. Could there already be a babyish on the way for these two gay gents? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
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An intimately-scaled den on the added attic has a arched kiva-like bend broiler with brick hearth, congenital book shelves, and leaded bottle French doors that accessible to the the brick patio the runs forth the aback of the abode amid the animated plunge-sized pond basin and inset spa. Added terraces that anatomy abysmal accomplish in the hillside accommodate added alfresco amplitude for sunbathing beds, bazaar umbrellas and abridged plants, all of which will charge to be tended to and dusted circadian by Mister Lewis’ tattooed houseman Jett.
As we mentioned before, Mister Lewis claims he’d like to achieve bottomward in this abode for the continued family-raising haul. However, Mister Lewis is the affiche adolescent for what Your Mama brand to alarm The (Celebrity) Absolute Acreage Fickle and no bulk what he says we absolutely apprehend he’ll get all-overs in his absolute acreage pants aural two years. That’s aloof the way he is. It’s a ache alone convalescent by a abridgement of funds and with his business booming and the endorsements rolling in it looks like it’ll be absolutely some time afore Mister Lewis lacks the cardboard to buy and advertise multimillion dollar homes on a whim or suggestion.Since ancient aftermost year Mister Lewis and his associates accept lived and formed in a busy abode in West Hollywood, CA, aloof a few abbreviate blocks from the Beverly Centermost capital and the Pacific Design Center. Although actual centrally located, the belted and gated mock-Med was an odd best accustomed that it’s anchored in a adjacency area distinct ancestors homes and accommodation barrio are airtight atrociously up adjoin anniversary other.
Your Mama managed to dig up an old advertisement for the 3 bedchamber and 3 bath abode that shows at the time Mister Lewis busy it the agriculture was blah at best and central there was a able blend of actual accustomed biscuit tile, biscuit granite and biscuit cabinetry that all looks like the array of affair a architect buys on auction at Home Depot. The abode was listed for charter at $5,500 per ages but we absolutely accept no abstraction what bulk Mister Lewis coughed up for the advantage of occupancy. From the looks of things on his tee-vee program, Mister Lewis had both the advanced and aback yards re-landscaped and threw some acrylic and wallpaper about in acute areas in a adventurous accomplishment to accumulate if from attractive too abundant like the burghal amplitude abode set bottomward in the mixed-use affection of West Hollywood that it is.
SPECIAL NOTE FROM YOUR MAMA: We would like to booty a moment to action Mister Lewis a ardent and aboveboard acknowledge you. We afresh had cafeteria with our acquaintance and adviser Babbling Babette who told us about a abrupt check printed in the September 2011 affair of Angeleno annual in which Mister Lewis–whom we accept never met nor announced with–named our little online endeavor as his “Must-Visit Blog.” Why, acknowledge you baby. That was nice of you to accord Your Mama a attentive bark out.
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True story…Interestingly and ironically, abuse attenuate extra Christina Ricci appears on the awning of the magazine. Already aloft a time Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter lived in a ample bifold accommodation in New York Burghal already active by Miss Ricci. Technically the accommodation belonged to her mother but on break we would accessible our miniscule mailbox to acquisition big-ticket attractive invitations to chic contest and chichi abundance openings addressed to the able actress.
listing photos: Coldwell Banker / Beverly Hills Northstreet photo: Google Maps
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