All sorts of rumours sprang to life after Katy perry's first home together hit the market recently. The folks who said their marriage would never last felt smugly vindicated by the listing.
There was, however, no impending media-circus divorce. The couple were just upgrading from their cramped four-bedroom mansion to a roomier seven-bed pad.
The Los Feliz home they bought before they were married is currently listed at $3,203,680.
They paid $US3.25 million for that house in 2009, so shouldn't be too out of pocket after their change of heart. The LA Times said that the couple only lived there sporadically for two years.
Realestalker was prompted to pondered the mysteries of why "rich and famous folks can't seem to sit still in a house long enough for even a pot of water to boil".
The couple's new mansion was originally listed for more than $7,500,000; since they paid only $6,133,700, they got a discount the size of a rather nice home here in Australia.
The new Perry/Brand home is at 8159 Hollywood Blvd, West Hollywood, California.
Don't expect to do much celebrity spotting from the street though. Apparently one of the motivating factors of the search for new digs was the lack of privacy at their previous home. The couple added trees to screen out unwanted stares, but they must not have done the trick.
Their new Hollywood Hills mansion is far more secluded.
The gated Mediterranean-style home looks quite unassuming from the grand "motor court". It has a rather dull facade and predictable terracotta roof tiles.
Step inside the three-story home, though, and that first impression will become little more than a distant memory.
The modest front door opens into a double-height "baronial" stone foyer, with marble floors and a towering stained-glass window.
A sweeping staircase curves around what look the like the stone walls of an English castle, replete with tapestries.
The whole house is a rather unsettling Mediterranean-medaieval melange. No doubt the Brands will stamp their own unique style on the house.
The 820 square metre mansion has seven bedrooms, including a four-room master suite and nine bathrooms.
The enormous living room evokes a mediaeval great hall, complete with a double-height, timber-beamed (although heavily decorated) ceiling, a massive fireplace, more tapestries and a minstrels' gallery.
It is very difficult to picture the couple in these surroundings without hilarious visions of mad, bad Brand, darkly holding court in the great hall, with a bejewelled Perry gleefully swinging from a chandelier above.
A more intimate lounge room has an elegantly curved and incredibly ornate, carved stone fireplace. There is also a beautifully decorated ceiling, probably of pressed metal.
In all, there are five fireplaces that grace the den, family room, library, living room and even one of the bathrooms.
The large dining room has an even more intricately decorated ceiling than the lounge and looks to have room to comfortably accommodate at least 10 diners. Won't they will be nights to remember!
Although there don't seem to be any pictures of it, the house apparently comes with its own "pub". A perfectly reasonable (and homely) touch for someone with a reputation such as Brand's, even if he has closed that chapter of his life.
No doubt the heavy, dark furniture and relentlessly beige walls and floors will be banished post-haste once the couple have the house keys.
According to The LA Times, they will be bringing some unique flourishes with them from their last home, including Perry's pink retro refrigerator and the couple's seven-and-a-half-metre-tall "love teepee" for the garden.
The view from their "love teepee" will include a secluded rustic grotto, draped with greenery and topped with what looks like a lovely arched bridge in timber.
Beside the grotto lies a giant pool surrounded by a huge terrace, perfect for entertaining. There is also the obligatory guest house.
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