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Silver Lake · Los Angeles
1811 Micheltorena St
$3,350,000 3 bd 4 ba 2,780 sq ft
“I'm a sucker for a dark kitchen with exposed beams, and this Silver Lake compound had me at the ceiling.”
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1395 Inverness Dr · Listed by Teresa Fuller, Compass
The Zonshine Edit
Some houses are beautiful. The special ones feel alive. After you’ve walked through enough of them, you start to recognize the difference—the original detail that survived every renovation, the strange little choice that gives a room its soul, the way a house seems to know exactly what it is.
These are the houses that spoke to me. They may be my listings or someone else’s, modest or extraordinary. The only requirement is that something about them was impossible to forget.
See the ones that made the edit ↓No ranking. No algorithm. Just the houses that made me stop, and the honest reason why.
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Silver Lake · Los Angeles
$3,350,000 3 bd 4 ba 2,780 sq ft
“I'm a sucker for a dark kitchen with exposed beams, and this Silver Lake compound had me at the ceiling.”
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Mt. Angelus · Highland Park
$1,350,000 3 bd 2 ba 1,531 sq ft
“Homestead chic, or maybe turn-of-the-century Vogue, that's the closest I can get to describing this Highland Park house.”
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Woodland Hills
$3,995,000 4 bd 4 ba 3,756 sq ft
“A soaring wood-beamed ceiling over a wall of hand-stacked stone and a floating copper fireplace hood, and it's R.M. Schindler's largest known residential project.”
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Cahuenga Pass · Studio City-adjacent
$1,695,000 3 bd 2 ba 2,257 sq ft
“The living room ceiling is still the original 1929 bow-truss wood, and out back there's a hammock strung between two trees over a gravel garden that feels nothing like the city it's ten minutes from.”
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Moreno Highlands · Silver Lake
$2,595,000 3 bd 4 ba 2,784 sq ft
“The garage door is painted hot pink, and one floor up there's a loft library looking straight out over the Silver Lake Reservoir toward downtown.”
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Bungalow Heaven · Pasadena
$2,150,000 4 bd 2 ba 1,834 sq ft
“The layout of this house is almost identical to the first one I ever bought, and that's the kind of detail that gets me every time.”
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Los Feliz · Los Angeles
$7,495,000 4 bd 4 ba 4,026 sq ft
“I have walked this house with clients, alone, and trailing a whole pack of other agents, and it gets me every single time.”
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Lower Arroyo · Pasadena
$1,595,000 2 bd 2 ba 912 sq ft
“If you want to be a Disney princess in real life, this is the house you buy.”
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Sherman Oaks
$2,995,000 4 bd 4 ba 3,045 sq ft
“Two olive trees old enough to have gnarled trunks flank the front door of a house that’s otherwise built completely new, and somebody clearly fought to keep them.”
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Sherman Oaks
$4,699,000 4 bd 5 ba 3,739 sq ft
“Every room here seems to be arguing over which view is better, the canyon from the living room or the sunset from the primary suite’s own balcony.”
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Linda Vista · Pasadena
$4,100,000 3 bd 4 ba 3,708 sq ft
“The firewood is stacked into its own wall by the front door, which tells you everything about how seriously this house takes being lived in.”
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West Adams Terrace · Los Angeles
$1,849,500 4 bd 3 ba 2,560 sq ft
“The courtyard cactus is taller than the roofline, and that’s not even the best reason this one’s on the list.”
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