We've got 4 generations living in our house in 3 apartments that each have their own private entrance plus a connecting interior stairway. There are also at least 3 separate views on just about everything. Not always easy but never dull. Somebody's bound to have whatever it is you're out of as well as unsolicited "life skills advice". Somehow we've learned to make it work (most of the time).

love it! love all the art, all the color, the chairs, the books and bookcases/shelves, that sweet puppy relaxing on top of the sofa ... but mostly i love the beautiful living arrangement. want that for (with) my wonderful family. am very happy for you!

thanks for the tour.

Those bathroom tiles are stunning, but why is there not a single thing above that fireplace? Is it a safety issue? Just my personal taste of course, but wanted to ask.

You know, I was ready to have my nose turned up/down at this tour because of the location (you know staring at a mansion tour while sitting in my crappy one bedroom). But I actually enjoyed seeing the inside of a 'regular' home in America's most famous zip code.

Design wise, i really liked: that gorgeous antique stove, the wooden desk chair (slide 42), the green paint in the dining room and the turquoise tile bathroom with the chandelier.

But I had to stop clicking after photo #49 of the I Love Lucy Barbies ( my attention span is shot.)

But I enjoyed the story that accompanied this tour. Thanks for sharing your home.

This is such a romantic house! I love, love, love it. And the pink curtains......! Wow.

I felt the same was as DC MANDYand so enjoyed being wrong! This is so unassuming and modest in its design and feeling. Don't you just love it that they shop in thrift stores and don't care who knows it ? And that it turns out like this? And that the story of their living arrangement is front and center? These are the most inspiring tours for me even if there isn't anything that I see in the pictures to covet, copy or adapt.

Oh, and as to the question of the blank space above the fireplace, I bet its simply a matter of waiting for that just right thing to present itself.

I just realized that I commented before even looking at the full tour. So an addendum to the above .......saw things to covet, copy and adapt. And I must have missed the statement about being "humbled to live in such a beautiful house". It's that attitude that has helped this family to elvate beyond beautiful house to beautiful home.

Love it, especially the turquoise tile in the bathroom. I agree with DC Mandy about enjoying seeing a "regular" home in Beverly Hills. I totally get it about the furniture being a challenge too. When we moved to our current house, which is much larger than our old house, it took us forever to furnish it (and we still aren't done). I also love the back story. I'd love to have my grandparents' family home (though it wasn't nearly as impressive as this one).

I do wish the pictures were labelled though. There was a lot of pictures, and sometimes it was hard to tell what was what.

If I had one minor gripe about this tour, I wish the pictures were labelled.

I love everything about this house -- but especially the fact that it's a generational family home. Who knew that still existed in 21st century America? And in Beverly Hills of all places. Fabulous, and true HOME. Thanks for the tour.

It's absolutely lovely to enjoy every aspect of a home and find nothing to gripe about!! Lovely, lived in, and obviously loved!!

Fabulous, even if not my style entirely. It reminds me of home in the South Bay and makes me wonder why i live in a cramped 700 sq foot apt in NYC.

This is so unbelievably inspiring and stylish at the same time. Money shouldn't be an issue--everything is lovely as is! I think with all the money in the world, I'd keep everything the same in your beautiful home! Plus, multiple generations under one roof? You're much braver than I. :)

Refreshingly real. Like real people live here.

what a joy, such a happy home and the fact that you can live with your family.
I love this house and the garden, could move in tomorrow if I was invited LOL.

This looks like an old Wallace Neff house, the architectural lines are amazing

Lovely home. But I'm a little confused.......... One person lives in that huge main house, and a family of at least three or four (you don't specify in the commentary) lives in the smaller guest house??? It didn't make sense to me.

I grew up in a huge 1920s Spanish houses very near this one -- and very similar to this one, flagstone courtyard, coffered ceilings, handmade tile roof, sweeping staircase, gorgeous woodwork, iron banister and all. It always pained me that the inlaid hardwood floors were covered by carpet, and the kitchen was an early (high tech for the time) 1960s reno. I wanted to do the thing up right. But I grew up and moved away and it was sold. That area is way beyond my financial reach now. I miss that house.

So when I looked at this home I felt nostalgia, a bit of envy, and that same irritation that the kitchen is not renovated in keeping with the house's character. I don't think you have to be a slave to a particular era, but I find it jarring when the kitchen has nothing to do with the rest of what the real estate shows call a character home.

I hope that horrid zebra rug is fake, but I fear it's not.

@creative license: Perhaps it has to do with who pays the majority of the bills. Maintenance on a home like that is high, but what might not come to mind immediately is how much property tax they pay. The assessment add-ons in BH are killer.

Isn't B.H. covered under Prop 13 tax rules? Hence the taxes on this house not so bad? Great house tour. Great style, whimsy and charm. Oh I didn't see any IKEA! Is it well hidden?

Oh, my God...that green bathroom gave me butterflies. LOVE.IT.

Wow, your home is beautiful!

Everything about this made me smile. :o)

@sunsetsandswimming pools: It's the add ons that get you in CA -- local assessments such as bonds can be very high in some municipalities and counties. Mine are. But on top of that, while the 1% of purchase or transfer value holds, a 2% rise in appraised value is allowable yearly -- has been allowed since 1978 (you can challenge this if it makes the appraisal exceed the market value, and good luck with that). My county has raised my assessed value every year, while the city I lived in previously did not. An inherited home is reassessed to current market value, unless the transfer is made through a trust. Any major improvements may trigger a new assessment, too. Depends on the community how aggressive these reassessments are. My county is extremely aggressive that way.

As I remember, the BH schools were supported by oil wells, so they don't float bonds endlessly. I guarantee you those folks have a fat tax bill. The baseline property values in BH are high, even going back to 1978 (Prop 13 took effect).

Please don't ever remodel that gorgeous green bathroom.

I loved the marble top table and the seating area around that in the kitchen. Was that a DIY seating/bench area?

Beautifully decorated - lovely and cozy. ...and I love the kitchen.

Ahhhhh. Gotcha. Thanks for the info. :)

The outside of the house is stunning. I love the green bathroom.

Wow just really loved this one, every room had something wonderful in it. Although I had the same thought about the space above the fireplace feeling a bit empty.

The home feels lived in & loved (by multiple generations no less!) Thank you for sharing it!

I absolutely adore this home. It's lovely. I have a soft spot for spanish/moorish california homes and this is just a gem. I love what you guys have done with it, keeping it modern but without making it "costumey" like some houses are. It looks like this evolved over time, not on one huge Etsy cliche shopping spree.

I hope your home continues to be enjoyed by future generations. You have a real prize here and your love and gratitude for it shine through. WELL. DONE.

Keeping the house in the family for years and cherishing it - the love & loveliness here shines in each of the rooms!

Tours like this make me happy. Ditto to all the positive comments above. :)

Love the home, but have to say I was disappointed when I saw the kitchen. It is fine but I was so looking forward to seeing an original vintage kitchen to match the homes character. Instead nice, functional cabinets that lack soul have replaced whatever was there. Maybe they were horrid, but looking at the rest of the home, I doubt it. Thanks for sharing the home with us.

Love the home, but have to say I was disappointed when I saw the kitchen. It is fine but I was so looking forward to seeing an original vintage kitchen to match the homes character. Instead nice, functional cabinets that lack soul have replaced whatever was there. Maybe they were horrid, but looking at the rest of the home, I doubt it. Thanks for sharing the home with us.

I am SO pleased to see this post.

Remember, apartment dwellers in NYC and beyond, a zip code is a zip code is a zip code. It's just geography!

I'm so stoked to see this, because I am a former apartment/tiny house dweller with an eye for modernist/minimalist design, just like many of you. I too, used to scoff at posts like this, until -

I fell hard for a fella, who is saddled with partial ownership of a similar family property in Beverly Hills. After a few years of long commutes to see each other (across town in L.A. is just that), I moved into his albatross, a sprawling 4 bedroom rambler in a very fancy part of BH. It's a crumbling beauty that needs TONS of work. There are lots of family homes like this here, that have sat neglected since their glory days, with dusty brocade drapes and tangled shag carpet.

Everything I owned, my entire modernist pod house, fits into a SINGLE BEDROOM here. I probably should have blogged this whole experience. It's been crazy.

Don't judge by zip code. I'm just like most readers here, but my circumstances are unusual. We are picking away at renovating and updating this heap, and I turn to AT often for inspiration, but live in FEAR of ever posting a house tour because of the harsh judgement by people who don't know the whole story. So Thanks, Molly and family. Your home is gorgeous and functional and I applaud your efforts to preserve it and show it off, zip code be damned!!! Maybe I'll have the same courage some day!

Lovely home but the kitchen(s) disappoint. Was looking forward to a vintage kitchen that was original to the home. Instead there is a nice but somehow soul-less kitchen. Perhaps it had been destroyed in a previous reno, and the original kitchen was gone already. I was looking forward to a kitchen matching the feel of that lovely tiled bath. Interestingly in a parallel post, the kitchen in Gaudi's apartment building, captures the character that this home's kitchen has lost. So often kitchens, windows and baths in homes are redone and the home loses something. Thanks for sharing the home

Wish I were living like a Beverly Hillbilly--unfortunately I feel like a Kurdish rebel fleeing from place to place and leaving things behind to rush and get to a new safe place!

My dream bathroom. ^^
Thank you for sharing, lovely home!!

i love it.

BEST house tour ever on Apartment Therapy!

Love the gorgeous red curtains, the colorful throws everywhere, the turquoise accent wall with the matching lamps, and the gorgeous bathroom. Wow. The marble top table is just beautiful. The tree house, the pool... It's just so comfortable.

What an AMAZING home. The tile in the bathroom is incredible!

I really enjoyed this tour! I love the creativity that sparks, the light backdrops, furniture, and colors - the spaces and arrangements, so nice. This home and the communal arrangements seem very "Bloomsbury" like. The outdoors spaces are really nice - love the rock formation that was molded into a bench/sitting area - spectacular!

Now guys, the kitchen is very nice and functional. A splash of contemporary, but layered with coolness and a spectacular stove. I want a stove like that. Vintage kitchens, like mine, are not always set-up to be so functional for today's busy families. God bless them for having the smarts to do that. When can I move in??? Ha! Thanks for inspiring this southern, east-coast girl and for sharing your lovely home!

@Sunsets and swimming pools, only thing IKEA I noticed was the coffee table- only because I have the same one. :) However, it's been painted or covered or what have you... so beautiful. I want to do something similar to mine. That was the only Ikea thing I noticed; if there are any others, it probably goes with the rooms so well that you don't even notice.
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This is a beautiful home. I love the little random things like the pink curtains (pink!!!! I'd never have considered it, but they look fabulous in the room with the other touches of pink). I also love that green door in the guest house! I'd live in that guest house, I love the whole look of it! I'm also partial to smaller homes :) Love that kitchen in the guest house too, it looks so warm and inviting.

I also like the new kitchen in the main home- it looks like it's perfect for when they need to do cooking or whatever for their gatherings, charity dinners, etc.... I know that my friend will never be able to do huge dinners in his 1950s kitchen, with his 1950s appliances!

Beautiful home, thanks for sharing!

I adore these white stucco walls - they offer such a dreamy soft surreal back drop for your eclectic collection of furniture -which I love. The mixed era pieces really make this feel like a home....and such beautiful grounds too! Thank you for sharing your fun home!

This is really nice, and a beautiful home, but I don't understand why such a big deal is being made of the fact that this family lives together. "Three generations living together..." basically translates to Molly, her husband and their kids sharing a house with her mother. That doesn't seem all that unusual. If Molly's grandparents (the original owners of the house) were still living there, too, or if they were sharing with additional siblings and their respective families, then it might warrant a focused mention. But as it is, it seems like a pretty common scenario. Am I missing something of this story?

Such a gorgeous home and I love the bright touches of pink everywhere. Nicely done!

This is fabulous! I love stories and tours like this :) I can relate as we live with four generations under one roof so making the home a "family" home can be challenging and fun at the same time. Thanks so much for sharing and love your home!

I love the color choices especially yellow and pink together. It's all so happy and comfortable!

This is one of the top tours - love it. Colour, light, texture, life, love, warmth = home. Great.

This is one of the best houses in LA! It's so full of life! I don't see the Ikea furniture everywhere - i see some beautiful pieces esp the mother of pearl inlaid coffee table and the dining table and chairs. Living with three generations is very European. And it looks wonderful. Thank you AT for featuring this artistic idiosyncratic and beautiful place.

What a satisfying home tour. I am so happy for this family, and their charming jewel box of a house. Moreover, I am delighted to learn of the multiple generations living together. What lucky, lucky grandchildren.

Oh those bathroom tile - sigh. I love the desk and the pool looks so refreshing as I sit here in humid central PA. Wonderful for your children to have their grandma so close! Thanks for sharing!

Seems weird the family is stuffed in the 1 bedroom guest house while mom has the 3 bedroom main house, but I guess it's probably a financial thing as someone mentioned above. I really like the house(s), but the fireplace wall is so naked to me.

I'll join the crowd and laud Molly & family for valuing the personal history -and- the architectural beauty of this home. It's lived-in, inviting, a home and not an address.

But... I don't understand why this site forces people to apologize for their square footage or their zip code. The story is charming, but would the home be any less lovely if the family had simply bought the house? No- but so many commenters would have tried to shame them.

And then, the comments knocking the remodeled kitchen... another baffling AT attitude. This community expects people to "maintain the original character" of fine old homes, but often ridicules them when they have the money to do so. If (God forbid) they modernize in an affordable way, someone tells them they've ruined the house.

I've been pleasantly surprised by the positive overall response that this tour has garnered- but I shouldn't have to be. This is a platform, not an inquest!

So much to love about this house tour! The wrought iron balustrade in the front hall, the terracotta floor tiling, the ceiling beams, the colour of the dining room walls, the incredible turquoise bathroom - with chandelier no less - and the great twisty lamp on the desk in the corner of the living room.

A superb home, not a house. Delightful.

I LOVE this story... the house, too, of course.

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This. Is beautiful.

On an unrelated note - Apartment Therapy, why must you allow ads for vibrators on the side of the house tour pages? Really awkward when I just wanna tour a nice Beverly Hills home during my lunch break at work.

This is a dayam fine house! I would take the guest house any day too : )

One post mentions the property tax assessments. Since Prop 13 passed in 1978, the property tax assessments have changed very little for houses that are kept in the family. It's great if you live in your great grandparents' house. Lousy if you are relocated for work and your property tax is based on the sale price. You can have identical houses next door to each other, one taxed on 3.5 million and one taxed on 80 thousand.

Certain people here need to get over the kitchen issue. If the kitchen is all they see fit to comment about (being disappointed about, wah waaah) then I feel sorry that they missed the overall amazing beauty of this home and this post. Seriously, I came back here for more inspiration and the "awful kitchen disappointment" comments are kind of pathetic.