This ’80s Mansion for Sale Has Everything: 2 Pink Kitchens, Neon Lighting, and a Hidden Ice Cream Parlor
It turns out Barbie’s Dream House is real—and it’s on the market for $5.999 million.
This sprawling ’80s mansion started blowing up on Twitter yesterday, and there’s good reason why. The seven-bed, 14-bath mansion, which measures 12,369 square feet, is located in the desert homes section of The Vintage Club, an ultra-exclusive country club in Indian Wells—part of California’s luxe Coachella Valley. Built in 1989 (and kind of looking like it never left that year), the desert home is set on a 1.5-acre lot, filled with landscape waterfalls (designed by Disney!), sprawling lakes, and even a lagoon. Just imagine if “Saved by the Bell” and all your favorite ’80s flicks had a baby, because this would be it.
“It is a really wild house, a custom home with original owners,” the listing agent, Ed Borquez with Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty, told realtor.com. “The owners of the home were casino owners in Vegas, so that’s why all the neon. It’s a masterpiece frozen in time.”
Step inside the main entrance through a giant pink canopy, really driving home that pastel 80s vibe. There’s also rock walls and sculptures lining the way. A 6,200-square-foot entertainment pavilion is ideal for entertaining guests, and is equipped with an indoor hot tub, dry sauna, beauty parlor, massage room, bar, and separate casitas. The game room will also fulfill your ’80s fantasies, thanks to a neon-lit mirrored ceiling overlooking the pastel pink pool table. (Not to mention all the amazing geometric art and accessories come with the home.) The kitchen is filled with pink cabinetry, and a master suite (which isn’t pictured, sadly) is said to be as delightfully excessive. (Let’s imagine it’s filled with a bunch of characters from ’80s movies and TV shows, sitting around being super rich together.)
Outside, the home looks pulled straight from a resort, complete with waterfalls, outdoor kitchens, swim-up bars, and pink sunshades with neon lighting underneath, realtor.com reports. You’ll even find a bar and ice cream parlor area hidden under one of the water features. A two-bed, two-bath guest house is perfect for visitors, or a fleet of staff. And with 20+ car garage, there’s certainly no lack of parking.
“They built it to have that ‘Rat Pack’ type of Palm Springs lifestyle,” Bourquez says. “The pictures don’t do it justice. You have to see it in person to really appreciate it. The things that were done were really ahead of [their] time.”
While Bourquez mentions that the new owner might choose to “leave 10% of it and pretty much demo the rest,” it would break our hearts if Barbie’s dream house was treated like a teardown. But hey, all’s fair in love and real estate.