Singer Beck Puts His Restored L.A. Home on the Market for $2.45 Million
Beck’s ongoing real estate roulette is continuing with the recent listing of his 1930s traditional home in L.A.’s Los Feliz neighborhood. The Grammy Award–winning singer and his wife, Marisa Ribisi, recently put the 2,099-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom home on the market for $2.45 million, the latest in their ongoing cycle of buying and selling in the area. (The couple purchased it for $1.82 million back in September 2017; prior to that, they bought an unassuming 1940s red brick cottage on the same street for $1 million, and just last year, they dropped just under $3.13 million for a late-1930s Spanish Colonial Revival, also on the same street.)
The humble-yet-charming home sits at the end of a long and wide brick driveway, with many of its original detailing and fixtures still in place—including a distinctive red-tile roof. Inside, the home opens onto a small central hall with an original stone staircase spiraling up and back toward the second floor; the space is sandwiched between a sunny living room, with a vintage brick fireplace and large picture windows, and a formal dining room featuring walls with a mint green trim. The charming (and likely carefully restored) kitchen boasts a similarly nostalgic color scheme, with checkerboard pattern flooring, a vintage range, and butter yellow and sage green tile countertops. The cabinets, it should be noted, are also a soft yellow hue. A tiny breakfast nook just off the kitchen has room enough for a built-in corner buffet and two smaller windows. An entirely pine-paneled den just off the living room and a small en suite bedroom with a wood-beamed ceiling round out the rest of the ground floor.
Upstairs, the home takes on an airier vibe, with two bedrooms commanding the space. The smaller of the two includes an en suite bathroom that has a vintage blue-and-white-tiled bathroom with a deep soaking tub and attached shower. The master suite is considerably larger, with a separate dressing room with two walk-in closets, as well as a restored bathroom with vintage tiles and a uniquely hued blush pink bathtub. Both bedrooms open directly out through French doors onto a slender veranda that spans nearly the entire length of the front of the house, with views of the trees and rooftops of surrounding homes. Back on the ground floor, both the living room and the dining room similarly open out onto a shared covered patio with a brick fireplace in the back, nestled between the home and a solid wall of rock. Just around the corner of the rock face is a set of stairs leading up to a freshly painted sports court.
In addition to the two other homes that the couple own on the same street, they also maintain a midcentury bungalow in Malibu that they picked up for $2.68 million in 2016. They also previously sold a Hancock Park mansion to TV megaproducer Shonda Rhimes in 2010, which she put on the market for $9.995 million late last fall.
