At almost the exact same time he recently closed on the $6.9 million sale of a six-bedroom Craftsman-meets-Cape-Cod-style home in the affluent ocean-side community of Manhattan Beach, Calif., tax records show sports media personality Colin Cowherd, host of the popular Fox Sports radio program “The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” sealed the deal on the $6.9 million purchase of a five-bedroom Nantucket-y traditional along a serene and leafy street amid even more substantial estates in a plum pocket of the well-to-do Brentwood area of Los Angeles.
White picket fencing runs along the front of the slightly more than quarter-acre property, and a flag stone path bisects a swath of evenly mown and generously irrigated lawn as it makes its way to the front door of the just over 6,700-square-foot home that’s handsomely clad in grey shingles and topped by a weather vane mounted to a tiny cupola. Painted wooden gates hung between lantern-accente stone pillars swing open to the driveway and front-facing two-car garage.
Inside, the five-bedroom and 5.5-bath home is refined and unquestionably high-end yet relaxed, evoking what marketing materials describe as the “sensibility of a vacation home” on Martha’s Vineyard and combining the laid-back comforts of quintessential indoor/outdoor California living with all the modern-day accouterments required (and rightfully expected) in a home of this size, caliber and cost.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Wood floors polished to a watery glossiness, along with scads of custom millwork painted a creamy shade white, define the central foyer and stair gallery that are flanked in classic style by ample formal living and dining rooms.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A marble-trimmed fireplace anchors the living room that features chevron patterned floorboards, chunky exposed wood beams across the ceiling and a row of windows that provide a verdant view of the front yard. The dining room strikes a more glamorous chord with its shimmery silver-leafed ceiling and shoulder-height wood paneling.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com An intimately scaled den with a black marble fireplace overmounted by a flat-screen TV spills out to the backyard and opens to a roomy casual dining area enhanced with tongue-and-groove paneling on the ceiling and a cushioned window seat between glass-fronted built-in cupboards.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com Intricately patterned and vibrantly colorful floor tiles punch up the dining area and open-plan kitchen that’s arranged around a doublewide island with an integrated snack bar. The island is topped with an exotic wood while the rest of the counter tops are fashioned of delicately veined white marble.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com In the separate butler’s pantry, where there are cornflower blue cabinets and a hammered copper bar sink, a discreet rear staircase makes a convenient connection between the kitchen and a second floor games room.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The fireplace in the den is double-sided and shared with an adjacent sunroom that opens though French doors to the gardens and leads to paneled library/office with built-bookshelves and coffered ceiling treatment. Interior windows in the sunroom and library/office provide tantalizing views in to a temperature controlled wine cellar.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com A luxuriously proportioned main floor guest suite includes a small sitting area with backyard access, plus an en-suite marble bathroom zhuzhed up with eye-catching abstract wallpaper.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The rear stairs in the butler’s pantry climb to a games room that sport a vaulted ceiling with exposed structural details. Walls are sheathed in trendy shiplap, and a built-in entertainment unit incorporates open shelving and plenty of enclosed storage for puzzles, games and other indoor entertainments.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The main bedroom comprises a spacious bedroom with fireplace and an adjoining reading lounge, a separate office space with built-in desk, and a marble-sheathed bathroom that glistens with three-way mirrors and gold fixtures.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The unconventionally shaped and not especially big backyard offers extensive stone terracing with a fire pit a well as a swimming pool with inset spa bordered by a lush strip of lawn. The simple landscaping includes meticulously trimmed boxwoods and thick hedging tall enough to completely blot out any view of neighboring homes.
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Image Credit: Realtor.com The veteran sports authority and his wife, Anne, who together have a total of six children from previous marriages, also maintain a six-bedroom contemporary getaway with wrap-around mountain views in a prestigious guard-gated enclave in Park City, Utah, which they acquired in late 2017 for an unrecorded sum.
The Brentwood property was listed with Mary Lu Tuthill at Coldwell Banker Realty; The Cowherds were repped by Randy Forbes of Compass.