Filed under: Buying, Celebrity Homes, Selling
By Melissa Allison
UPDATE: Comedian Dennis Miller and his wife sold their oceanside California mansion south of Santa Barbara for $19 million — $3.5 million less than they were asking for the stylish estate.
ORIGINAL POST 1/4/2015: The beach retreat Dennis Miller and wife Carolyn Espley-Miller are listing for $22.5 million has an office — but the buyers should expect to accomplish very little there, she warned.
“We joke that no work ever gets done, because we’re either staring at the view or talking on the phone about how beautiful the view is,” Espley-Miller told House Beautiful. “I had such a strong vision of a serene, whitewashed house on the sea. So I just gave the whole place a big dollop of white, from floors to ceiling.”
The 6,063-square-foot home has views of the Pacific Ocean and the mountains. It sits a little back from the beach on a half acre along Padaro Lane in Santa Barbara County, with five bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms and 63 feet of beachfront.
“Besides it being right on the sand, the Padaro location is the crème de la crème of beach locations for this area,” said Dina Landi, who listed the property at Riskin Associates.
“One of the things that makes that particular house on Padaro Lane special is its very open floor plan, the incredible amount of natural light that comes into the house and the privacy you get” from it being set a little back from the beach, Landi said.
The light extends all the way to the master suite, where the bathroom is “very white and very simple,” Espley-Miller told House Beautiful. “I wanted nothing to detract from the incredible view and the light.”
Miller, perhaps still best known for his roles on “Saturday Night Live,” appeared in the television series “House of Cards” in 2013 and narrated the reality series “Forever Young.”
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