I love your rugs! Particularly the blue & white rug! Beautiful home!

Brrrrrrr....

A work of art! I chuckled at the house-shaped mirror frame.

your house is soo beautiful, i could live on the rug in the living room

great Job!

I love what you did with the nook with the striped curtains and Moroccan tables....How did you do that wall with the design? Is it wallpaper or decals?

This is hugely inspirational. I'm dealing with a dark interior and am constantly looking for ideas that will brighten the space, without breaking the budget - the limited use of wallpaper textures, the metallic finish on the (I can make that!) side tables...

The idea engine is humming!

Love the perfectly restrained use of texture and pattern, coupled with the exuberant overload of that one bedroom.

This is a house that is not afraid to have fun.
Very nice.

Love the lighting, rugs and my fav the 2 morroccan style tables! So well put together :)

Beautiful. Also makes me a little sad because I know I will never reach that point.

Photos 13, 15, and 16 of the colorful guest room are pretty.

Wow, those brass lamps against the purple wall are great.

Totally digging the green wood in the bathroom. Funky, funky. :)

A little less chilly than some modern, but not much whimsy. Don't you think it sounds a bit pretentious to say that your biggest embarrassment is not having a pool! Really?

@beejers: I grew up in L.A. and to me, it's practically a requirement to have a pool. I spent every HOT summer cooling off in our amoeba-shaped pool with water slide. We weren't affluent, by any means, but my parents made a pool a priority.

Maybe it is a suitable comment considering the location...just seems like a lot of the house tours have considerable more actual things that seem like an embarrassment. Just hit me wrong...but I have been wrong before!

I love the bedrooms, the bathrooms and the windows!

The rest is very nice, just not my style.

Great job by the designer :)

Is that a lovesac?

I like the balance of stark b&w and explosions of color.

Hands down, my favorite house tour yet. This house is insanity. It obviously has a LOT of money put into it, that many of us cannot put into decor of our homes, but man oh man is this perfection. Perfection!!

It's very beautiful. But it seems a little crowded, like you would always be tripping over chairs and end tables on your way around the house.

Please tell where I can get that chandelier?!

My black and white cat would like to live in and coordinate with your bedroom.

Could this possibly be the house Steve Martin's Character resides in in 'Shop girl'??

Lots of nice pieces but kind of off in the way it's all put together I think. Not as cohesive as I would like to see it. It comes off as someone trying too hard to impress their friends and neighbors to me.....kind of like everything was bought all at once on a single shopping trip instead of pieces bought over time you found you had to have. I do wish I had the budget you had to have to buy what you have though.

I love a place that reflects being planned, designed, and implemented with a vision and a purpose. So much of what I usually see here is haphazard and, frankly, sloppy. This is quite refreshing. Good work.

What is the wall treatment in the bath please?

At first I questioned why this place was on Apartment Therapy - a vast, impeccably coordinated luxury home in Brentwood is the antithesis of what AT is all about - but then I realised that it really is true that we can take inspiration from aspects of a home rather than from the home as a whole. In this case, I'm inspired by the idea of injecting colour into a bathroom via the cabinet doors rather than, as is traditional, the tiles. It'd be so much cheaper (and easier!) to change as fashions evolve! Genius!

Really love the colors in all the bedrooms. The house is fun and sexy. I envy those views!!

The house looks like a professional decorator decorated it. I love the black and silver chandalier. It has a 70's feel to it. I like the rugs and the bean bag chair in the bedroom.

It appears from the photo that the wall-mounted TV in the living room is placed a bit too high and too far from the sofa for optimal viewing. I'd suppose that residents of LA would be extra sensitive to that issue.

Another thought about the TV in the living room: it's a shiny black object that sits above the credenza, which is also a shiny black object. The two match. Maybe that's just an accident, but the similarity helps to integrate the TV into the overall decor.

This is what I want my house to look like...when I grow up :)

I come to AT to feel better about my small apartment, but lately all the posts have been expensive pristine houses... kind of has the opposite effect of therapy. I'm going to go dig a hole now and live in it.

And beautiful house, nicely done.

You're right, @rahskir!
These places put the "therapy" in Apartment Therapy.

I love so much about this house, it's not even funny. It's actually kind of ridiculous. If this house met a 1900 Victorian and had a baby that's a little 1950s bungalow... I would live there. Fantastic job.

The little nook with the Moroccan tables, striped curtains, and awesome patterned wall is amazing!
The lighting is intriguing, and the windows are beautiful (but not energy efficient for my Minnesota winters).
I can see my uncle, Kevin, living here and not making drastic changes for once. It's about 90% his style. The other 10% being there is nothing denoting horses - his daughters' favorite.

Great house but don't care for the decor. I suppose the "You have to carefully cultivate your decor over time" editors are off today.

Perhaps there should be a House Therapy and Apartment Therapy. I thought this site was about and for people who live in apartments?

Anyone who liked the chandelier above the dinner table should look for the Fuga lamp by Raak (designed in the 1970s by Finnish architect Maija Liisa Komulainen). These lamps are still for sale. See also this article: http://www.archithings.com/the-raak-fuga-organ-pipe-sconces-by-maija-liisa-komulainen/2011/07/23

I have to agree with the challengers, here. As I read I kept asking myself, "Is this what apartment therapy is about?" Paying an interior decorator to do it for you? Very old-fashioned idea that I thought AT was trying to be the answer to. I guess not.

While this home is very lovely, it looks like something out of any given design magazine. It also looks like one of the home staging projects I used to do at my old staging job, down to the perfectly placed tchotchkes on the coffee tables. Everything looks great and perfect but it's not reality. While I think AT posts home like this in the hope readers will gain inspiration from it, I find I gain much more inspiration from the "regular" houses/apartments that are created by the people who live in them, not a professional designer.

I agree with Juliejulezzz, mreiss and mercury. It's kind of costumey and not inspiring as an apartment dweller. (But of course, I did love it!)

I could understand the negative remarks, but are they necessary? I'm happy that AT shares all kinds of apartments/homes whether professionally decorated or not.

Would there be an uproar if we were to tour the interior designer's home?

I propose a drinking game where you take a shot for every different chair/sofa you see in this tour.

I've counted 39!

Either this house is massive, or their is just an excessive amount of seating. On a kinder note, I do particularly like the use of the square chairs with the Saarinen-style table.

Holy Wow! Amazing and lovely lovely lovely. The exterior...there are no words do describe my awe.

Ditto Blandwagon, the bathroom cabinets were about the only thing I felt was interesting and personal.

Lovely home. I don't get it though. I am in love with the soft-colored rugs in pics 10 and 16. It's a stretch for me to see them in the same house with the black and white in pic 33. But what is up with the psychedelic bed in pic 13? As we used to say, it looks like a bad acid trip. Must be me, but this house reminds me of the show "Design Star", with a bunch of people expressing their own vision, with varying degrees of skill.

I can see myself living in this house. Great design, beautiful colors!

This is too dark for my taste, but it is a beautiful house. I love the touches of green.

I like that AT features big beautiful houses to tiny, quirky apartments and everything in between.
If it were all the same, we'd be bored.
Let's face it, we get to be voyeurs here and who doesn't mind sneaking a peek at someone's home whether its our taste or not.
PS - Tatchan - Craig Olsen's house was featured a few weeks back... so there we go. Full Circle :)

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/house-tours/interior-designer-craig-olsen-shares-his-personal-home-for-the-first-timehouse-tour--152458

I like almost every peace per se, but I don't think that Mr. Craig Olsen done some great job here. Colors are nice, patterns too, but in my opinion, it could all be mixed much better. Because of that and the size of a budget, it's like amateur's work, no hurt feelings. Maybe that's the reason why it doesn't look warm or cosy.

And I have to say that I like all AT tours, no matter of size, apartments, houses, style or personal decorator. You can always see nice things, get some inspiration, but the most important thing is that you have an opportunity to experience every single tour like unique vision of its author. It is simply like art, you love it or don't, but it has to be appreciate.

Elegant contemporary.

I too like when such a well decorated home is featured "between" all the apartments, whose
decor can become rather predictable.

Thanks for the bedroom inspiration!!!

If I had gone into entertainment law instead of employment law, I might be caressing beautiful chartreuse bathroom cabinets right now instead of trying not to touch the "office" desk in my kitchen dressed in a Target tablecloth. I'm wondering how you get any work done when you can just stare at pretty all day. Thank goodness there were no shots of the closet (or thank goodness I missed them), as it surely would have spiraled me into a deep dark depression.

Enjoy that beautiful house. I'm sure you worked your tushie off to get it. Now I will go bill my hours and wonder why the heck I thought employment law was so great...

Beautiful house, beautifully decorated. Very, very cool. It contrasts the fabulous location so well. Excellent job.

Wow. SO ELEGANT.

Love the gold lamps in the bedroom, the white furry 'pouf' near the bed and the outdoor circular chair/lounge/chaise?

I love the details, the combinations of colours, the accents... it's one of my favourite tours ever and I'm bookmarking it for inspiration!!!

This is the first time I have been inspired to leave a comment on Apartment Therapy. The views from your home, and the pieces you have brought into it, are pure perfection. The eames chair, the lamps, outdoor seating....This is Southern Cal at it's finest, in my opinion. I am sure you already have, but by all means laugh off the pitiful comments of "too dark, too stark" and the disparaging and confused comments about your lack of pool and why that would bring you chagrin. I am, right now, imagining what an incredible moment it will be for you once you install your pool and look out onto those golden hills. After spending 6 years in your area, where I fell completely in love with all things mid-century, I completely understand this house. And, while living in So Cal, we spent time every single day in the pool. I get it. Although some of your choices would not be mine, it has been a pleasure to see your home and without a doubt know that it gives you extraordinary pleasure every single day. Something for me to strive for....I'm getting there in my own 1950s ranch, little by little. Beautiful digs.

It is very interesting to see how the other 3/4 live, especially here in Cali. where you are supposed to have a pool. Some of the "eclectic" apartments I've seen on this site look like thrift shops. Don't want to see them all the time. Not everyone can put lots of disparate pieces together and make it look good. This home is exceptionally beautiful, but it doesn't look lived in, and I'm no fan of so much grey,black and white. I do love the wallpaper in the niche/room. Saw it here on AT in gold and it didn't look nearly as good. Love metallics! Also don't like all the sharp square corners on everything! I don't think I'm a clutz, but I do tend to bump into things. Ouch!

@mreiss
Paying an interior decorator to do it for you? Very old-fashioned idea that I thought AT was trying to be the answer to. I guess not.

Lol, no. Maxwell is an interior decorator (or designer, or whatever), after all. Think on that before making your assumptions on what AT is "really" about.

Hmm, it's a bit too show-homey for me, but I do SO WANT those bathroom cabinets.

Thank you AT for posting gorgeous homes. I don't get ideas from homes that look like dorm rooms, I get inspiration from homes like this.

The last thing I want to see is a home that I can go next door in my apt bldg and see anytime.

Though not exactly my style, I have plenty of ideas to gleen from this gorgeous home!

I absolutely adore this home - love the mix of modern, but not cliche or boring. All the pieces look very unique. Love the usage of accent colors too. Love love!!!

A little stark, but I love it. The green bathroom...sigh...Love it! It's your home and you love it...and quite a few of us love it too...the pool thing.. to not have a pool and live in CA...I heard is a no no...better get on that..

Okay...had to look again..sigh...I love your house!!!!

enjoyed the tour. love the dark floors and pretty area rugs. Love the textures and wall papers used. contrast and warmth in the kitchen is well done. Soooo jjealous of your luxury bathroom. The architectural beauty of yourhouse is amazing. You sure are lucky.Well earned i am sure. Great job!!