When I talk about interior design, I try not to dumb everything down to "vintage styles good, modern styles bad." Believe me, there are a lot of retro interior design trends that did not age well past their cultural zeitgeist (cough cough, the 1970s, cough cough). Still, in 2024, when cookie-cutter tract houses are de rigueur and truly unique properties grow increasingly rarer, it's nice to find a home with a distinctive, nostalgic personality, even if it's ridiculously retro.
Case in point: this time-capsule kitchen, built in a 1926 Spanish-style home in the Hollywood Hills. Though the home is from the 1920s, its kitchen is serving up pure 1950s diner nostalgia- I can practically hear the Happy Days theme song in my head just looking at it!
Seriously, tell me that the Fonz wouldn't look right at home in here. Though this is just one room in a larger property, it was distinctive enough for realtor Rob Kallick from @takesunset to highlight it in its own video. The neon lighting, smooth curved lines, tiled walls, and pastel color palette come together to give this retro kitchen an air of concentrated mid-century diner chic. All it needs to complete the look is a jukebox and a couple chocolate malts on the counter!
I could ogle over this kitchen all day, but I don't want to ignore the amazing property that it's attached to. I looked up the Zillow listing for 6740 Milner Road and found a goldmine of Old Hollywood class, lovingly maintained by its owner, filmmaker Roman Coppola (son of Francis Ford Coppola).
The kitchen is the only room in the house that leans into "Atomic Age" aesthetics this hard, but the rest of the property is a vintage beauty in its own right. The Spanish-style home has a breathtakingly gorgeous exterior, with spacious, stylish patios hemmed in by lush, overgrown foliage- and that's not even including the 4,000 square foot yard that accompanies the property in an adjacent lot. There are three primary bedrooms and a secret loft in an office space, two main living areas, a huge dining room, and "The Laundry Bar," a laundry room turned secret speakeasy as an ode to the home's origins in the 1920s!
I haven't even described all of the features this property has- it's just that huge. With its sprawling grounds and gorgeous Mediterranean-inspired aesthetic, it really feels like the kind of home a movie star would have during the Golden Age of Hollywood . And while its $2,750,000 price tag is nothing to sneeze at, I would have expected a 4-bed, 4-bath home like this to go for a lot more, especially with its location in the historic Whitley Heights neighborhood of the Hollywood Hills!
This home is pure vintage chic in the best kind of way, and I hope whoever owns this home next does just as good of a job at preserving its aesthetic as Roman Coppola did. Style like this is hard to come by these days!
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