It looks like the island was put in backwards.

I like the floor, is it linoleum?

It's two sided I think, to the extent that you can cook from either side if necessary.

It's a pretty kitchen but lacks convenient prep space. The shallow counter by the window could be used as extra prep space, except as bpath noted, the island is oriented backward for that to be convenient. It looks like there is lots of storage, at least (assuming the white doors on the right are pantry storage).

But pal, the sink faucet and the dishwasher are oriented for one-side use only.

i really like the storage wall of closets. That makes perfect sense.

Its a pretty house.

http://312rodeo.com

It is a modest kitchen but the rest is better.

This picture changes a lot for me, the island makes more sense now. And a built-in blender!

Thanks for the link, jn, it IS a pretty house. I have a thing for courtyards.

But that bathroom...I used to love that kind of wallpaper, had it put in my bedroom of our 1970 Brady-Bunch-style house (mine's a bit airier, and it's still there, and I still love it there, I'd even consider it now if I had daughters). But it goes even worse in a California Spanish-style house.

Built in blender at a desk? Perfect for those all day margarita guzzling binges I guess.

Huh. Overall it's nice. Love the pantry wall. Don't much like the marble, and I like marble in the kitchen a lot!

It's a neat house, but in an area that is not all single-family houses - much commercial very nearby. The price reflects this. Those courtyards are wonderful and I lust for that bougainvillea - I'm a sucker for that plant.

I'm betting that this is a house that always had daily help and the help did some light cooking as well. The kitchen reflects that, too.

That's most probably a tear down which is why they did almost nothing to it except stage it - note the electric coils on the island cooktop.

The house is located south of Wilshire Boulevard. Beverly Hills was an extremely planned community.

The homes north of Sunset were intended to be estates for the wealthiest.

The homes between Santa Monica Boulevard and Sunset were for the most part intended to be bought by the upper middle class - lawyers, doctors, businessmen. The houses actually get bigger - or relatively less modest as one moves north from Sant Monica to Wilshire.

The homes south of Wilshire were intended to be for the shop owners and middle middle class and are really very modest homes although they can be charming since they were built in a certain era and the homes built in Los Angeles tended to be much more charming than homes built in other cities in the same era. So you can have Tudors, Spanish Colonial, Colonia Revival, ranches all on the same block.

The land is the true value even south of Wilshire Boulevard. And you also pay to be able to send your kids to the public school in the Beverly Hills school district. When you factor in the cost of private school for even two kids, that amount certainly pays for a significant portion of a mortgage - ie. higher price BH home/public school versus lower price LA City home/private school. I am fairly certain that property taxes in Beverly Hills aren't higher as a percentage of valuation than elsewhere in LA County or the LA City.

I'm sure there is a gardener. People who do their own gardening tend to not love bougainvilleas. It hurts to think of it.

What a lovely house. The rugs, textiles, wall hangings are beautiful. And while I'm not crazy about the wallpaper in that bathroom, I would definitely keep the light fixture.

Helen, a tear-down? That is so sad. Honestly, if I win the lottery I'd blow some of it rescuing a few homes from tear-down. To what end, I don't know, but with over a billion (I hear Carl Sagan's voice!) I could spare a few mil.

It's interesting that they didn't upgrade the island counter and the cooktop when they did the exterior counters. It would have made a big difference in the kitchen.

I love the spare but warm decorating style in the updated rooms.

Bougainvillea is worth the pain : ) .

It might not be torn down but it is going to be bought by someone who is going to extensively remodel it - it's a modest three bedroom home and the kitchen and baths are completely out of date. They only show the one bath so god knows what the other two bathrooms look like. In general they don't show anything that is truly beyond the pale on listings.

Beverly Hills does have an anti-McMansion zoning code so one is no longer able to squeeze a Middle Eastern Palace onto a lot where a nice little home like this used to be.

My friend lives in Cheviot Hills which is another highly desirable area - albeit one in Los Angeles proper - and the original multi-million dollar homes are generally torn down. At least the fad for very modern homes that look completely out of place is gone and so now the spec homes look like Leave It To Beaver homes on steroids. You can't really blame people though as the older homes - even if charming - aren't really set up for how people live. My friend's home is large - has a great view and fairly large front and back yards which are beautifully landscaped. However, the interior is essentially a warren of little rooms - a small galley kitchen - small dining room - small living room - small den - small room which was once the maid's quarters when lots of middle class people did have live in help pre WW II :-). So the interior has square footage but it's not laid out in a way that most people would configure in a new build - or even a gut remodel.

The real estate in Beverly Hills - even South of Wilshire is so highly desirable that one assumes anything that doesn't have real architectural significance is being bought as a tear down.

@d-gw - They did't upgrade the island because they did the bare minimum necessary so that it didn't look like a complete train wreck. Replacing the counter materials on the island would have meant replacing the electric coil range. They probably got relatively inexpensive marble for the perimeter and it was an easy and relatively inexpensive fabrication. They did nothing other than what was absolutely necessary to stage for sale because nothing in the kitchen was updated for functionality - electric coil cooktop and what looks like very elderly wall ovens.

The wall ovens are from the late 1960s.

Those GE ovens are more reliable that anything you could buy today. We had those in my parents house, sold the house with them and they worked fine when the house was sold.

Nutone Food Center to the right.

I don't know that the marble around the sides isn't older. I am not sure if they would have reset the Nutone Food Center on the side counter if they just now replaced the counter.

I don't know that that area is a desk so much as it is for seated prep and baking. Many of the attachments that are put on a Nutone Food Center are tall, and it brings the work height up higher.

If it were mine, I'd keep those ovens.

We moved into houses with those ovens, one 40 years old one (Caloric) 50 years old. They worked great (the first was copper colored but had a squeaky door)...had a couple of repairs until the repairs got too expensive.

I love the privacy afforded by the interior courtyards. I think the kitchen folding doors probably hide the washer/dryer, at least for part of the space.

The price per square foot is quite a bit lower than the house where I lived in Venice, which is now valued at over $1,700 per square foot, but it's a much smaller house and on a large lot where land is extremely valuable.

The house is lovely. Love all the rondel glass. Seems only the bathrooms need updating, but pictures can be deceiving. The kitchen doesn't bother me, it works well with the house, but I would want to replace the island tile. The house also fits well with its neighbors, so I hope the new owner doesn't start a trend by tearing down... not that they aren't already tearing down houses left and right in CA, just that this area doesn't appear that way in the aerials.

Gosh..what a lovely house..all the courtyards..such a gracious plan

I'm obsessed with bougainvilleas-started with couple summers spent on the Black Sea I suppose..childhood memories..

They make me abnormally happy

Our very mature, trouble-maker of a bougainvillea was a big factor of me falling for our house.

True..it goes through cycles..and it is very popular with pests..

and I prefer it wild and overgrowing..each time it gets trimmed I'm sad..

I really like the house and courtyards.

Giving the kitchen a 2nd look, for being compact and galley-ish, it's really not a bad layout

It's not a terrible kitchen albeit a dated one with tile. However the layout of the house is not configured in a way that a modern house would be - even with the same footprint and size of the home.

The street is a bit odd in that it is two blocks running between Olympic which is commercial and apartment buildings and one block north it becomes apartment buildings and commercial.