A Gorgeous Oceanfront Home in Santa Barbara Designed by Renowned Architect Wallace Neff

There are luxury homes and then there are Ocean Front luxury homes is Santa Barbara. Already blessed with astounding natural beauty; when luxury real estate like these combine with outstanding talents like architect like Wallace Neff, the result is nothing short of mesmerizing. The picturesque Pacific neighbourhood filled with celebrities galore; Santa Barbara, California is definitely used to massive and well-designed luxury homes. However this one designed by the legendary Wallace Neff is currently the topic of discussion among all the luxury real estate buyers and luxury real estate brokers in Santa Barbara.

The deal for this outstanding piece of luxury real estate gets sweeter with the addition of the legendary Straus House, designed more than half a century ago by Neff. Straus House was created as a second home for Robert K. Straus (the heir of the ultra-famous Macy’s department store) and is part of the exclusive Hope Ranch community a tad north of this glamorous city.

Luxury Oceanfront Residences in Santa Barbara CA do not come any better than this particular one. The asking price of this brilliant luxury estate in Santa Barbara is still a secret and the idea must obviously to attract only genuine luxury home buyers and investors in a super luxury home in Santa Barbara.

This high profile luxury listing has been done by agents Weston Littlefield and Dalton Gomez of Aaron Kirman Group at Compass. They have confirmed that qualified purchasers would get the price revealed to them.

The home itself is a classic Neff hacienda design that makes the most of the jaw-dropping location high on a bluff overlooking the Pacific, with distant, hazy views of the Channel Islands.

In 1970 the architect was at the height of his career, having already designed homes for Hollywood A-listers like Charlie Chaplin, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Daryl Zanuck and Louis B. Mayer.

He’d also masterminded the high-profile redesign of Pickfair, a vast Tudor-style mansion, for screen stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.

For the Straus House, Neff went with a classic “H” design for the unpretentious, 14,000-square-foot, single-level home, with the bedrooms on either side flanking a huge central living space.

The gated entrance off Hope Ranch’s Marina Drive prepares you for the architectural masterpiece ahead with its walls of bleached-white scallop seashells and black driveway tile.

From the oversized circular motorcourt, intricate wrought-iron gates open into a classic Mission-style courtyard with dramatic black tile flooring contrasting with the stark, whitewashed brick walls.

Open the imposing wooden front doors and you’re greeted by a spectacular, unrestricted view of the ocean through towering floor-to-ceiling opening glass windows.

Perhaps the home’s most iconic feature is its vast great room, with that trademark Neff oversized fireplace, soaring ceilings and huge, longitudinal beams that take the eye out to the ocean.

After originally purchasing the home in 2007 for $7.5 million, the owners reportedly spent almost a decade and a small fortune completely renovating and modernizing the property. And it shows.

Inside are five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a screening room, dining room with ocean views, wine cellar and fireplaced den. The makeover also included the kitchen which is now all sleek granite countertops, tile floors and professional-grade appliances.

But it is the outdoor space that can almost justify an assumed high asking price—whatever it might be. On the oceanside, there’s a vast patio that’s perfect for alfresco dining, along with a large firepit for evening entertaining. Steps lead down to grassy lawns and an infinity-edged pool with a multitude of decks for sun loungers.

One of the best kept secrets of this luxury property in California definitely the self-contained, well hidden guest suite below the pool deck created in a way that is a super pleasant surprise.