South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award, Charlize Theron who just sealed the deal for a newly transformed contemporary bungalow in L.A.’s popular and ever-more expensive Studio City neighborhood. Situated along a quiet and pretty, tree-lined block that’s convenient to the posh organic supermarket Erewhon, Theron apparently appreciated the expensively rehabbed residence so much that the deal went down for nearly $350,000 over the home’s $2.3 million asking price.
Transformed over the last year from a run-down 1940s wart by designer/builder Rob Diaz (one of our snitches called him “the finest builder in the valley”), the roughly 2,000-square-foot structure was taken “down to studs,” according to marketing material. Interior spaces were radically reconfigured, the exterior was given trendy dark-grey cladding, and the all-new landscaping includes a handsome Manzanillo olive tree in the fenced courtyard entry. In addition to a high-performance roof, all-new insulation and high-quality windows and doors trimmed on the inside with Douglas fir, the home’s bevy of high-end finishes include honey-hued white oak floorboards, honed Carrara marble counters in the kitchen, and tumbled limestone floor tiles in the designer-tiled bathrooms.
According to Dirt, Repositioned to the back the of the house, the living room spills out through a bank of telescopic glass sliders to the fenced, hedged and freshly sodded backyard. One of the home’s more unique design flourishes is a huge interior window that allows light to pass through the living room and into the adjacent kitchen. The kitchen’s unconventional arrangement has all the storage cabinets on one side of the room and all the appliances along the opposite wall, with a broad, counter-height snack bar in between.
Two of the three bedrooms are en suite; one of them includes a walk-in closet and a 55-inch circular soaking tub. The third bedroom is perhaps best suited as a library or home office as the only bathroom it has access to is a powder room off the entrance gallery. A two-car detached garage at the rear of the .13-acre midblock parcel has been converted to a flexible finished space enhanced by a wood-beamed vaulted ceiling and custom carriage-style doors.
The home was listed with Compass agent Larry Cole, while David Gray of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties represented the buyer.
Given that the South African Oscar-winning actress and producer, who has several professional irons in the fire, including a sequel to the 2020 superhero streamer “The Old Guard, owns at least three other homes in Los Angeles, including a cozily updated 1920s Spanish cottage in the Beverly Grove neighborhood that is pending sale with an almost $2 million price tag, it seems unlikely the “Monster” star will move to Studio City. Then again, who knows? Strange can sometimes be the real estate ways of the rich and famous.
Sources: Dirt
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