Diane Keaton’s most cherished Los Angeles home has been listed for $26.9 million, nearly two months after her sudden death at the age of 79.
The Oscar-winning Annie Hall star, who died in October from pneumonia, originally purchased the five-bed, eight-bath property in 2011 for $4.7 million, according to public records.
In the months leading up to Keaton’s death, she had put the estate on the market for $29 million. By May, it had undergone a price cut, before it was removed from the market in September.
It’s now been relisted by Andrew Gulyas of Destination Home, Inc.
Built in 2015 and situated in the heart of Sullivan Canyon, the gorgeous, 9,206-square-foot brick home is a unique blend of industrial steel and ranch-style elements, featuring white walls and exposed wood beams in several rooms. With five bedrooms, six full and two half bathrooms, it also features some standout amenities, including a library, a separate guest house, and an in-ground, backyard pool and hot tub.
The First Wives Club actor was a seasoned house flipper who spent eight years personally renovating the property into her “dream home.”
It became the subject of her bestselling 2017 book, The House that Pinterest Built. In the book, she explained her inspiration for the home’s decor came from the popular children’s fable The Three Little Pigs. Because the third pig’s home, made of bricks, was indestructible, “I knew I was going to live in a brick house when I grew up,” Keaton wrote.
Speaking to Wine Spectator at the time about creating her “dream house,” the Hollywood icon declared: “My favorite room in my home is that damn kitchen.”
The chef-style kitchen is adorned with a number of skylights and a string of large, metal accent light fixtures hanging from the ceiling above a sprawling island. On one side of the room is a farmhouse sink beneath a row of display cabinets, while two large commercial-sized fridges are situated in the opposite corner. All other cabinet drawers on the island and below the sink are painted dark gray.
One of the rooms is semi-circle shaped with a single white and black armchair positioned in the middle. The back wall is plastered with words from a 1977 poem, “Lucky Life,” by Gerald Stern.
Keaton worked on the eclectic abode with architect David Takacs and designers Stephen Shadley, Cynthia Carlson and Toben Windahl, per Wine Spectator.
While she owned several different homes across California, the Sullivan Canyon property was her pride and joy and the final one she renovated before her death.
In her interview with Wine Spectator, the Father of the Bride actor revealed that, up until that point, she had always had difficulty finding a permanent home to “land and stay,” sharing that she had always found “something wrong” with the property.
“But something’s right, because I love it,” Keaton said of the Los Angeles home, which she moved into in 2015 with her two children, daughter Dexter, now 29, and son Duke, now 25, three and a half years after extensive design and construction.
Keaton was known for her prolific film and television career that spanned more than five decades. She rose to fame in Francis Ford Coppola’s mafia epic The Godfather (1972), and returned for the second and third sequels.
She was also a frequent collaborator and one-time girlfriend of director and actor Woody Allen, starring in eight of his movies, including Play It Again, Sam (1972), Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979).
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