Celebrity Houses In Tarzana - Real Estate Pictures

[one_fourth]Price: $3,450,000[/one_fourth]

[one_fourth]Size: 8,204 sq ft[/one_fourth]

[one_fourth]Bedrooms: 5[/one_fourth]

[one_fourth_last]Bathrooms: 8[/one_fourth_last]

Maybe Scary Spice was always screaming, loud and a little less than refined, but you couldn’t tell it from her elegant 8,200 square foot home recently put on the market. In fact, it’s more like a home you’d expect for Posh Spice. The couple paid $3.159 million for this beautiful mansion in Tarzana, California less than two years ago. Then they put another million into when they added another detached cottage style building on the property containing a state of the art movie theatre, a mirrored gym, game room, gym, and wet bar. Why would Melanie Brown and Stephen Belafonte be selling so quickly? The couple may love the home, but they’re not too fond of one another and decided to call it quits.

The rooms in this French style mansion have beautiful Venetian chandeliers, marble or hard wood floors and look very continental. For those who want to watch how they eat, the dining room sports mirrored walls. There are huge his and her walk in closets, which rival the size of most people’s bedrooms. The bathrooms have the look of a posh hotel with one having a double window that opens to view the skyline of the city.

Of course, as with any mansion, there are plenty of bathrooms and bedrooms. You’ll find five bathrooms and eight bedrooms in this mansion. All of which are large and spacious. Some of the bedrooms are more ornate than others are, but all are contain the French decorating style, even the rooms for Angel, Phoenix, Giselle and new little Madison, the children are replete with that décor.

One big draw for the mansion is the outdoor living area, which is nicer than most of us enjoy inside the house. It offers a dining room, complete with a chandelier, an open but covered kitchen area, a large outdoor living room and a pool area. Of course, the no living room, indoors or outdoors, is complete without a huge flat-screen TV and this one is no different.

There’s a stone fire pit area for those cool nights also sitting atop the huge flat stone patio. Upon looking at it, it seems as though this would be the perfect place for any outdoorsman to set up camp. Okay, change that to “any outdoorsman who wants five star accommodations.” Therefore, if you have a box of marshmallows and a few million lying around, you might want to check out this prime piece of real estate.

Pictures of Melanie Brown’s Tarzana House For Sale

source: Los Angeles Times + Realtor.com

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[one_fourth]Price: $2,175,000[/one_fourth]

[one_fourth]Size: 4,650 sq ft[/one_fourth]

[one_fourth]Bedrooms: 5[/one_fourth]

[one_fourth_last]Bathrooms: 5[/one_fourth_last]

[box] What do you buy after losing 40 pounds and starting an exercise routine? Most people immediately respond with the answer, “new clothes.” Not Jonah Hill, instead, he purchased a new house, even though he just spent $1,865,000 on a new home just off Mulholland Drive in May of 2010.[/box]

The $2,175,000 sale went to a trust linked to both Jonah and his father for the home in this posh Tarzana suburb snuggled in the Santa Monica Mountain foothills.

At first glance, this sprawling 4,650 square foot home looks like the results of a marriage between a ranch and a Cape Cod style home, but it has its own unique hybrid personality, just like the new owner. The outside appearance is park-like and serene with ample areas for Jonah to get exercise swimming, jogging, playing bocce ball or tennis.

Contrary to the listing information, it does not look “as if it were plucked right out of an elite neighborhood in Connecticut,” but that doesn’t mean it isn’t appealing. In fact, the multiple small terraces and lounging areas, including the one in the private citrus grove, are perfect for relaxing whether you’re a star or an accountant.

If you had a checklist of items you wanted in your perfect house, this one would contain many of them. The bay windows and French doors throughout are a huge plus. The private terrace off the master bedroom, rates a plus, plus. The kitchen with the quaint shaker style white cabinets with glassed upper levels, add a triple plus. The butler’s pantry, probably bigger than most living rooms and something I’ve always dreamt about, rates another huge plus.

However, one negative aspect of this home is the painfully out-of-place coffered ceiling in the family room/kitchen area, which is a huge thumbs down! It somehow conflicts with the rest of the symmetry of the area and looks a bit like the ceilings you would find in old bingo halls that were once factory areas. As disturbing as this ceiling is, the coved ceiling in the master bedroom is rather delightful.

There are so many desirable elements of the house, such as a bathroom for each bedroom and a half bath for guests, two showers in the master bathroom, one with steam and a soaking tub. The hardwood floors throughout the home starts the saliva flowing and you’ll really drool over the Carrara marble back splashes and countertops in the kitchen.

All in all, this is a prime piece of real estate with a wonderful floor plan, plenty of outdoor bonuses, and closely located to the entertainment capital of the world. If it wasn’t for that pesky ceiling that seems so disconnected from the style of the house, we’d be head over heals for this estate. But i suppose that is a rather minor ‘con’ in the grand scheme of things. Congrats on the new purchase, Mr. Jonah Hill!

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