The Spanish Revival mansion, called “Los Sueños,” features a four-story water tower that has been transformed into a guesthouse with a bedroom overlooking the ocean.
Back in 2004, Robert Lieff and his then-spouse Susan paid $4.5 million for a notable home in the ocean side territory of Montecito and afterward spent one more $2 million on remodels. After a year, the couple separated and the home went to Susan, with Lieff moving to Napa and San Francisco to be nearer to Lieff Cabraser Heimann and Bernstein, the offended party law office he established in 1972 that is well known for addressing milestone common cases, for example, the Exxon Valdez oil fiasco.
Quick forward a couple of years, and Lieff eventually wound up repurchasing the spot from his ex for almost $12 million in summer 2012. ” I realized I would get this house back at some point or another,” he told The Money Road Diary at that point. ” I generally needed this house.”
Yet, that was then, at that point; furthermore, presently, north of 10 years after the fact, Lieff and his ongoing spouse Gretchen have chosen to put the Spanish Recovery house named “Los Sueños” (meant “The Fantasies”) available to be purchased, asking a robust $33 million. The posting is held by Cristal Clarke of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties.
Constructed and planned by noted St Nick Barbara engineers George Washington Smith and Lutah Riggs way back in the last part of the 1920s for Rachael Ogilvy Douglas, girl of a material producer, the residence was subsequently possessed during the ’80s by Joan Cohn Harvey, the widow of Columbia Pictures President Harry Cohn. During their residency, the Lieffs reestablished the premises and refreshed a nursery initially planned via scene planner A.E. Hanson.
Concealed behind an extended gated and tree-lined carport, on a package crossing a little more than 3 sections of land, the white plaster and earthenware rooftop structure highlights seven rooms and nine showers in very nearly 11,000 square feet of living space embellished all through with a blend of marble and hardwood floors, custom light fixtures and crotch vaulted roofs. There’s likewise a four-story tower guesthouse, which has a twisting flight of stairs that movements from a base living region up to a kitchen, shower and highest level room offering sea sees.
A wellspring clad motorcourt welcomes, with the front entryway opening into a section lobby that streams to a noteworthy focal passage showing highly contrasting marble floors, a taking off rib-vaulted roof, and fanlight-bested French entryways pouring out to a red block patio settled close by a square pool flanked by models. Back inside, a proper family room is enhanced with a chimney and threesome of green-managed French entryways driving out to a gallery, while the connoisseur kitchen is furnished with an eat-in island, top-level spotless machines, a steward’s storeroom and a connecting breakfast niche.
Notwithstanding a conventional fireside lounge area flaunting checkered marble floors and attractive wood-framed library/office, an inn like expert retreat sports a chimney, sitting region, and double stroll in storage rooms and showers; furthermore, outside, the manicured grounds are specked with rose gardens, olive trees and a plantation, and host the previously mentioned yard and pool, alongside a tennis court and four-vehicle carport.
Lieff, 87, and his better half Gretchen, a previous television writer, likewise own and work wineries in the California urban communities of Napa and San Luis Obispo.
