Montecito

  Panoramic Ocean View Remodel Prospect

Designed by noted Beverly Hills architect John Elgin Woolf in 1960 for a member of the Huntington family, this International style home commands expansive public rooms, 12-foot ceilings, panoramic coastal views and a Montecito location at the center of what is considered best of the best. This property represents everything a renovator wants – a triple “A” location among major estates, panoramic coastal views that extend from Carpinteria to the Santa Barbara Harbor and great bones with a solidly built original home with great dimensions done by a well known architect. The extremely spacious three-bedroom suite home contains an inviting main drawing room, formal dining room, charming guest suite with private library sitting room, a second large two-room guest suite or library, a four-room master suite of generous proportions and a kitchen of more than 500 square feet all emanating from a 27-foot long, grand central hall. The details of the original construction were not slighted in the least and include handsome moldings, parquet floors, and marble fireplaces. The main home sits on a promontory at the rear of its 2.4-acre island view grounds, which includes a pool, one bedroom pool house and a 4-car garage with a two room, two-bath staff apartment.

All plumbing and fixtures have now been removed from the home and it awaits the new owner’s choice of exterior style, French country, contemporary, or almost any other choice that would best use the wonderful interior dimensions, and their choice of interior fixtures. A blank canvas with much of the basic construction already accomplished and a remaining approval process much easier than if this were to be a newly constructed home on a vacant lot.