"Baywatch" queen Pamela Anderson -- and for the record, we're Borat-size Pamela fans -- is either giving the website Vacation Rentals By Owner (VRBO) a major publicity boost or the businesswoman in her (the only Malibu mom we've ever seen reading The Wall Street Journal at Little League games) sees a way to put her empty ... Continue Reading »

There are some architectural styles that just dictate my behavior. For instance, whenever I see a French Norman estate, I feel like I should lower my voice to a whisper and put paper slippers over my shoes before I traipse on in. This is one of those places. Located in Bel-Air, a Los Angeles community of expensive ... Continue Reading »

There comes a time in every real estate writer's life when she simply can no longer see the forest for the trees. She complains aloud that there should be a lifetime ceiling on just how many Mediterraneans one can reasonably be asked to describe and prays that the one she just wrote about will be her last. And then ... Continue Reading »

Will Bruder, who designed the Nevada Museum of Art, worked his magic on this Reno house as well. Let's end the head-scratching and just call it Desert Industrial Chic. It's one of those homes that's a piece of art in which people just happen to sleep. And it's now on the market for $2.15 million. The ... Continue Reading »

I'd like to propose that there be an architectural style called "Malibu" and we use this 10,000-square-foot oceanfront home listed at $27 million as the textbook example. The five-bedroom main house, designed by architect Douglas W. Burdge took what was once a 1970s seaside estate on the bluffs above Point Dume and, ... Continue Reading »

They don't make Hollywood pairings very often that outlast that of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening's, so we're sending some good karma their way in their plans to lease out a Beverly Hills home they own for $27,500 a month. What do you get for that much? Six bedrooms and eight bathrooms in a 10,500-square-foot ... Continue Reading »

While most of our Houses of the Day have price tags with lots of commas and zeroes, today we departing from the norm to feature this 154-year-old gem in Normal, Ill., Listed at $400,000, the property is a step back in time to a period where rooms were smaller because they were easier to heat that way, and the closest ... Continue Reading »

There are man caves and then there are man caves. This oceanfront La Jolla home has the mother of all man caves: a 27-seat home theater with 10 screens so that you can watch simultaneous sporting events without switching channels. The home theater cost $1 million, according to the listing and has a state-of-the-art ... Continue Reading »

A new building is proposed for the heart of Mexico City: a 65-story edifice, packed with retail, offices, apartments and a museum. But unlike its skyscraping peers, this giant structure won't reach for the stars: It'll plunge toward earth's core. Architects have designed an "earth-scraper," a giant building that ... Continue Reading »

What mannequins are to store windows, furniture is to the staging industry. It helps the less visionary among us to envision how things should look. But staging a home for sale is an expensive proposition and often not in the cards for today's home sellers. Voila! Enter inFormed Space and its new line of fake ... Continue Reading »

Ask any designer and they'll tell you: A home's soul is where the soles go -- its floors. And as a sucker for beautiful floors, these distressed, wide-plank Brazilian cherry surfaces would have us removing our shoes for sure. ... Continue Reading »

By Paul Bianchina It's something we'd all just as soon avoid, but there's no getting around it: We're all getting older. And that's something worth keeping in mind as you plan and remodel your home. The concept of "aging in place" -- making changes to your home to make it more comfortable and more adapted to your needs ... Continue Reading »

I'm all for use of color in a house, but years of watching "Miami Vice" trained my eye to expect pastels in that city, not strokes of bold color. Heck, even the lawn flamingos are pink. So, you might want to bring either your paintbrush or sunglasses to this Miami Beach home listed at $3.7 million. The ... Continue Reading »

Let's play celebrity "Six Degrees of Housing Separation." It's a game where in a tight housing market, agents throw in every celebrity name in the refrigerator vegetable bin and hope it results in a soup that buyers can't resist. ... Continue Reading »

There is just a certain cache to Malibu Colony. In the world's mind, it's where the A-List celebrities frolic in the surf and play. Let's throw a bucket of ice water over that one right now. Most of Malibu Colony is owned by the guys who sign those A-Listers' paychecks. There are probably more business guys there than ... Continue Reading »