Resort style La Habra Heights home
made for celebrity-caliber entertaining. Few luxury estates approach the high life character of this extraordinary, La Habra Heights home and tropical grounds. From its ornate interiors to its spectacular outdoor features, the nearly 9,000 square-foot, tri-level residence has been designed for living and entertaining on a superstar scale.
The splendor and elegance of the interior recalls the celebrated Madonna Inn in its attention to very high-end, traditional European-styling in etched glass, opulent woodwork, and original wall murals throughout. A towering rotunda foyer, ornately painted floor to ceiling, serves as the center of the home that leads to separate wings, each of which is enhanced with signature amenities: a large office with exclusive cabinetry; a baroque-style formal parlor with Roman columns adjoining a formal dining room with a faux-painted ceiling of sky and cherubs; a gourmet kitchen with large island and surprising touches such as a built-in fryer and steamer; built-in bars, four powder rooms and a downstairs “casino” game room with meticulously restored slot machines, soda and candy vending machines and a carnival-style popcorn machine immediately adjacent to a movie theater. The rotunda also provides access to the dramatically luxurious master suite and sitting room, whose many opulent features include a soaring, vaulted ceiling nearly 18 feet tall, two-sided sculpted natural-stone fireplace and beautifully furnished view sitting area with a full bar and French doors that open to a stone-paved balcony.
The home’s exterior grounds are no less striking and perhaps even more dazzling, with a setting the likes of which are found only in the world’s most exotic boutique resorts. The main terraces and patios are built around a deep swimming pool with water slide landscaped to look like a cool, clear, natural cove below a rocky bluff with an 8-foot waterfall. A full, outdoor kitchen with granite counter and bar seating for eight lies beneath the shade of a beautiful wood awning. This mini-restaurant has everything one could ask for – ceiling fans, granite backsplashes, several sinks and refrigerators, Viking gas stoves, ovens, hooded barbecue, microwave, wood-burning pizza oven, five flat screen TVs and more. Five umbrella-shaded bistro tables on the walkway in front of the kitchen and bar extend the “cafe” feel of this cleverly designed eating area. Several gazebos with plush seating located throughout the multi-leveled palm-forested grounds provide additional space for grand soirees. Guests may also gather around the bubbling, warm-water spa with blue-ice fire pit while watching games or movies on a 42-inch flat screen TV that rises by remote command from a recessed pylon in one of the spa’s natural stone walls. Two additional, undeveloped acres offer ample space to expand the resort-living vision to include tennis courts or stables.
Explore these and more incredible delights on this amazing property, located minutes away from Southern California’s major freeways.
This home is offered at $7,800,000. For more information, call Sean Stanfield of First Team® Real Estate at 714.421.3377 or visit www.SeanStanfield.com.
