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R.E.M.’s Mike Mills seeks $6.5 million for home overlooking the Hollywood Bowl
R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills’ home comes with limitless live performance tickets — type of. The scenic property, which Mills simply listed for $6.5 million, provides a uncommon perk: It’s considered one of solely two houses that straight overlooks the Hollywood Bowl.
It’s a becoming residence for Mills, a multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer who co-founded the Georgia-based rock band within the Eighties.
The musical setting isn’t the property’s solely distinctive ingredient. Different highlights embrace a 400-gallon aquarium in the lounge, built-in pizza oven and beautiful tile toilet constructed over the course of two years that resembles Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night time” portray.
Perched on a half-acre hillside lot, the home spans three tales with 4 bedrooms and three.5 bogs throughout practically 4,000 sq. toes. Image home windows and pocketing partitions of glass benefit from views, capturing not solely the Hollywood Bowl but in addition the Hollywood signal, Griffith Observatory and downtown L.A.
There are additionally a breakfast nook, media room and recreation room, in addition to a pair of bogs with colourful, customized tile of their very own.
Exterior, three viewing decks overlook the neighboring live performance venue. An statement deck, swimming pool and spa full the small compound. In response to the itemizing, the property comes with an adjoining lot lined with photo voltaic panels.
Born in Orange County, Mills co-founded R.E.M within the Eighties. Since then, the prolific group has develop into one of many bestselling bands of all time with 15 studio albums, six EPs and 4 reside albums.
Steven Bruns and Diana Armstrong-Bruns of Engel & Volkers Calabasas maintain the itemizing.