3240 Deronda Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90068
Asking Price: $1,300,000
2 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms
Drive past Beachwood Canyon’s charming Two Stone Gates and enter one of Los Angeles’s best, most stylish and sought after neighborhoods and you’ll find this gorgeous mid-century modern home built circa 1958 by architect and artist Ronald L. Buck. The home simply exudes the mid-century modern form and function and typifies why the style was so in demand at the time and why it’s in the middle of its long lasting resurgence now. They don’t make homes like this anymore.
Beachwood Canyon and Hollywoodland are two of my favorite neighborhoods because you’ll find a number of historic or architecturally significant homes in a variety of architectural styles including the Storybook style (popular in the ’10s and ’20s), the Spanish and Mediterranean styles (popular here in the ’30s), the Traditional (the ’40s) and the mid-century style we’re looking at today (popular from the early ’50s to the late 1960s). You’d actually be neighbors with a Schindler or two, perhaps a Lautner, and a Lloyd Wright. When we see this beauty, ask me what other one-of-a-kind homes are in the neighborhood.
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Inside 3240 Deronda Drive, you’ll find an incredible open floor plan with a spacious living, dining & kitchen area features dramatic walls of glass that frame amazing DTLA and lush hillside views, not to mention this dreamy wood paneling.
The impressive woodwork continues in the high vaulted beam ceilings, virtually untouched since the time the home was built, they help to make the house feel connected to the nature nearby and combined with the walls of glass help to create the signature Southern California indoor/outdoor feel that was so popular at the time and continues to be so.
Cork tile floors and well maintained carpet can be found throughout.
The kitchen opens directly to the living area and has a large eat-in island.
The kitchen features a pantry and built-in glass cabinets.
The kitchen also opens to a private slatted wood enclosed patio with a stacked stone terrace garden. You’ll love it. It’s a calming place to spend an afternoon or evening.
A great dining room is no frills while remaining chic, stylish, and emblematic of the period.
The bright and ample master bedroom has walls of closets, easy balcony access, and, I must say, a really lovely quilt. I’m gonna need to find out where or who made that.
The home boasts two full baths.
The second bedroom is just as impressive as the first.
In fact, most rooms have access to the wraparound east facing wood deck that has seriously some of the best hillside views you’ll see in the canyon.
This exceptional and sleek home also has a hallway with a bank of wood double door closets, central air and heat, an updated electric panel, two-car caport, and two basement level storage rooms.
With plenty of areas to relax or entertain, 3240 Deronda Drive is sure to impress friends and visitors and most of all, well, you. You’ll know you got a great example of mid-century modern design at an amazing price.
While, yeah, you may want to replace the carpet with cork or hardwood, the home presents a fantastic opportunity to remix with modern touches and revitalize with upgrades or for the architectural purists to refurbish it and keep it (mostly) as is. Regardless of what you do with the house, you’ll always have these indelible and sweeping hillside views.
Don’t miss 3240 Deronda Drive. Call me today at (937) 243-2349 or email me at tatiana.tensen@sothebyshomes.com.
Listing provided courtesy of Nick Small, Rodeo Realty Inc.