Jennifer Lynch is very active on Reddit and explained why it’s selling for anyone interested. [0] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhb6q9/comment...
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#52I like the contrast between the kitchen and the home theatre, I guess he was not much of a chef haha
You may be right but it’s worth noting that many mid century kitchens - including my own - were less focused on hospitality in the kitchen and more on efficiency. In some cases this was because homes had hired help.
My MCM kitchen is large enough to host but the cooking area is like this galley. I love to cook. Having lived in a home with with a huge open kitchen, I vastly prefer this galley style. It really does save time. When you’re doing a few things at once, a large kitchen with a lot of space between stations is a liability.
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#53Jennifer Lynch is very active on Reddit and explained why it’s selling for anyone interested. [0] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhb6q9/comment...
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Yes, I don't think she was saying he was destitute, just that he was effectively house poor for someone who supposedly had a net worth of millions.
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#54Jennifer Lynch is very active on Reddit and explained why it’s selling for anyone interested. [0] [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhb6q9/comment...
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He was not a poor man, he was not a wealthy man. This project did take 40 years. Which is a great deal of his career and income, there is another nice comment from Jen about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhcgej/comment...
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#55Take away ‘David Lynch’ and you’re left with a 1970s real estate listing nobody would click on …
To each their own I guess but I think this is a beautiful home. My home was built at the same time (1965) and seems to share a lot of characteristics to David’s home, although my house is much smaller.
You’d be surprised how hard it is find houses like this. Many of them have been gutted and rehabbed into “open” floor plans, with a lot of white paint and white barn doors.
This is unfortunate because house builders back then really knew how to create distinctive spaces.
This home has a lot of beautiful light, feels very airy and open, and yet feels very distinctive and characteristic.
Probably the biggest drawback and challenge will be, as other commenters have pointed out, that Lynch smoked packs a day and getting that out will be tough.
Otherwise there absolutely buyers who would love this home.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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He was not a poor man, he was not a wealthy man. This project did take 40 years. Which is a great deal of his career and income, there is another nice comment from Jen about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhcgej/comment...
By that definition, most people are poor. $15 million is much more than most people have. Even split among the four children, it's fine.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
He was not a poor man, he was not a wealthy man. This project did take 40 years. Which is a great deal of his career and income, there is another nice comment from Jen about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/davidlynch/comments/1nhcgej/comment...
By that definition, most people are poor. $15 million is much more than most people have. Even split among the four children, it's fine.
He apparently was cash poor and asset rich. Now the opposite is true for his children.
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#59Love this compound and all the hiking paths up around in the surrounding hills. Truly an peaceful property to immerse yourself in work and entertaining! Property taxes are gonna spike for the new buyer though due to prop 13 so make sure to factor that into your offer vs the $15k a year in the listing... Hopefully whoever buys this gem doesn't tear it down to build some modern boxy McMansion.
> Truly a peaceful property
What you don’t realize if you’ve never spent time around those ridiculous properties is the amount of upkeep everything takes if you don’t want the indoors to become gross and dusty and the outdoors a wild jungle.
When you have that kind of surface area, you’re not taking care of all the cleaning and maintenance yourself in a few hours once a week. There are countless gardeners/cleaners/repair workers/etc on the property. Nothing peaceful about it.
And you have to also be okay with the labor dynamics of employing such an army of personnel which in LA is… interesting.
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#60I wonder if the price would be significantly different if it wasn't David Lynch's house.
Looking at other houses in the neighborhood, it's probably about 10-15% because it's the Lynch residence, and the rest of it is the extent of the land, the number of houses, and, of course, the place where it is. By way of contrast, this is listed for 2.5x the money on the other side of the canyon: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1851-N-Stanley-Ave-Los-An...
Maybe that's also because it has a view, while the Lynch compound doesn't really have a view of the city. It has some views, all right.. beautiful trees and nature, and some valley. It's tucked away. Some people like that.