Strong points lightly made
Sculptural screens and panels of steel and other metals line the exterior, giving the multilevel home a shell-like appearance that is both subtle and expressive. A meditation garden leads to a towering glass front door. The light-filled entry flows into an open great room lined with walls of glass and finished with concrete radiant-heated floors.

Its guesthouse has a guesthouse
At that price, the private and gated estate in the North Ranch area is rubbing elbows with the high-priced mansions that are often associated with L.A.’s Westside. But of the nine L.A.-area homes publicly listed at $80 million or more, only one sits on more than 20 acres.

Dream factory’s European fantasy
The style arose in England in the late 1800s as part of the Arts and Crafts rejection of both Victorian ornamentation and Industrial Age artificiality. The Tudorstyle homes were supposed to recall a pre-modern, pre-industrial, pre-urban and pre-class- and ethnic-conflict period, said Kevin D.

Loft has a proper edge
“I wanted something a bit warmer, with more tension between the building and the space,” said Paige, 48, co-creator and executive producer of Freeform’s “The Fosters” and an actor known for his character Emmett Honeycutt on the Showtime smash “Queer as Folk.