A $6.9 million buy in swanky Tuxedo Park, this brick and limestone home might better fit an English village than its Atlanta neighborhood. Three covered terraces, an outdoor fireplace and a pool with a cabana and wet bar are notable exterior highlights, while rich wood paneling, vaulted ceilings, granite countertops and detailed trim work mark the inside of the 6-bed/10-bath home. The home has a expansive kitchen and cozy billiards room, which Luxist noticed come adorned with plastic hanging vegetables and giant fake fish. Maybe that’s why the home has been on the market for more than a year? [via luxist]

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Built in 1818, this brick patio home in Boston’s iconic Beacon Hill neighborhood is historic and humongous. The 26-room home has 21,000 square feet sprawling throughout 11 bathrooms and 12 bathrooms. Hardwood, tile and carpeting are mixed with rich, lavish furnishings and finely tooled and milled trim and ornate molding. In New England tradition, the home has a basement and several fireplaces and corrals a covetable six-car private parking lot. Most notably, the $23.5 million home has a sweeping, open terrace and patio large enough for entertaining guests, but with plenty of intimacy for meals with the family. [via realtor]

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As a producer pair and up-and-coming Hollywood power couple, Noreen Halpern and Kevin Murphy are clearly on the move upward. Halpern, the executive producter of HBO’s “Hung” and Murphy, the Emmy-winning writer and producer of “Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical,” recently listed their English country-styled Hollywood Hills home for $1,195,000. The L.A. Times reports that the couple is moving “minutes away” into a 4,557-square-foot Spanish-style estate they purchased for $3.1 million in May from bestselling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli. The home the pair is selling was built in 1927 and has 2,736 square feet spread out through four bedrooms and three bathrooms. The four-level estate has a private reading cove and a top-floor master suite, which boasts the home’s best views. The home was picturesque gardens and courtyards and a hot tub, but tragically, no pool. [via luxist]

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Designed by iconic master architect Ray Kappe, this wood, glass and concrete home near Los Angeles recently hit the market after an extensive renovation. Rescued by Michael LaFetra, a sort-of saint and savior of mid-century modern masterpieces befallen by hard times, the 5-bed/3.5-bath home in Brentwood has been updated with a new kitchen, fixtures and an infinity-edge pool. The $4.5 million home kept all of Kappe’s glass-lined views and outdoor decking, which serves up stellar tree-lined views of the L.A. Valley. [via contemporist]

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When famed film and TV producer Aaron Spelling died in 2006, his 15,700 square-foot Holmby Hills estate went to his widow, Candy, who recently put the sprawling home on the market. Neighbored by the Los Angeles County Country Club and down the street from The Playboy Mansion, the Spelling Manor is the largest residence in L.A. County and with its $150 million price tag is the most expensive home for sale in the country.

Built in 1991, the gated, three-story French chateau-styled palace has a wine cellar and tasting room, bowling alley, gift-wrapping room, humidity-controlled silver storage room, china room, barber shop, a library and scads of other rooms, some which come with 27-foot ceilings. Some have estimated the room count at more than 100, but even Candy Spelling can’t keep count. Lady Spelling recently told The Associated Press that she let her dog help choose the best real estate agent for the sale. Apparently, would-be agents were paraded in front of Madison the soft-coated Wheaten Terrier, whose reaction determined which realtor was ultimately chosen. After the sale, Spelling plans to slum it in a $47 million condo atop a residential tower in L.A. [via thedailytelegraph, pic via Atwater Village Newbie]

With a home like this, you’d almost welcome Kramer for a neighbor. The former residence of Jerry Seinfeld, this $6.3 million Sierra Mar home boasts direct views of both downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean. Behind walls of glass lie three bedrooms and five bathrooms, a 4-car garage and a screening room. The home was built on a lot in Doheny Hills, which has room for expansion in case 5,900 square-feet isn’t enough space for Elaine, George or who ever you might want to entertain. [via realtor.com]

The design of Santiago’s Mestizo Restaurant is based in an architecture competition that asked would-be designers to create a space that incorporated imagery from elsewhere. The winning concept — with a child’s pool ring-inspired ceiling, large quarried granite boulders and industrial water piping-turned perimeter lattice — pleased the client, but didn’t quite cut it with city officials with a stake in the restaurant’s Las Américas Park locale. Smiljan Radic Clarke’s final design was tweaked, and the winning imagery was used more abstractly with black concrete ceiling beams and granite mountain boulders incorporated into structural support elements. The result is a contemporary twist the substantial, durable, functional monuments seen in parks everywhere — the pavilion [via archdaily]

In this year’s February issue, Dwell detailed a minimalist concrete Zurich prefab built for “Spartan-minded” clients Christof Meili and Farzaneh Moinian. The Swiss home was designed by Felix Oesch, who oriented the home south, away from the noise of a nearby road and towards emerald views a nearby river. The home’s entrance is framed with a heavy timber door, which opens into a large kitchen, dining and living space with panoramic views of the Rhine and woods. Down banisterless stairs, visitors descend into the first floor, which hosts a pair of bedrooms. Using a prefab design method popular for basement construction, the home was built in nine months from twin panels of 2.4-inch concrete. The panels sandwich a concrete and insulation filling and were cut and mitered for fixtures and fittings off-site. Two 300-foot-deep “boreholes” harness geothermal energy for under-floor heating and hot water. [via dwell and materialicious, photos by Hertha Hurnaus]