Santa Monica is one of the best-known suburbs of Los Angeles, home to many world-famous celebrities and wonderful homes. It’s a perfect place for celebrities to feel like they’ve gotten away, sitting on the shores of Santa Monica Bay, yet still close enough to get to work.

Santa Monica is home to famed designer Frank Gehry’s house, which is a fusion of house and warehouse. Basically, Gehry took an existing small house and built in and around it interesting and intriguing patterns that eventually make the house look more like a smartly designed warehouse than the traditional fancy house most consumers would live in. designers. Light wood, corrugated metal and chain link; It is definitely not traditional by any means and yet, even with such a harsh aesthetic, it is a popular home for visitors to stop and take a look.

Of course, when we want to get back to what we expect of the rich and famous, we don’t have to look any further than the house that actress Julianna Margulies is trying to sell. Currently rented by another major actress, Kyra Sedgwick, this house is on the market for $4.2 million. Built in 1927, it is 3,235 square feet, three bedrooms, two baths, and a living room with a beamed ceiling and wood-burning fireplace. It has an open chef’s kitchen, a study, an office-library, a swimming pool, and the separate guest house has a bedroom and a bathroom. It also has a garage for three cars.

Then we have Britney Spears’ house that is still for sale. At $7.9 million, it’s considered a steal because it’s a spacious 7,453 square feet. It is a wonderful six bedroom Italian Renaissance inspired home in a gated community. It also has six bathrooms, an enclosed motor court, a wet bar, utility room, a library and looks into the living room, a smoking room/study, a formal dining room, a grand entrance hall, spectacular high ceilings and carved woodwork. , the standard pool and a chef’s kitchen.

Of course, it’s not just celebrities who own luxurious homes in Santa Monica. A wonderfully large home right on the beach, a 5-bedroom European villa-style home located on a double lot, is for sale right now for $16 million. It is a 2 story courtyard style home with a retractable roof, a master bedroom suite with his and her baths, spacious living and dining rooms with a professional screening room and wet bar on the lower level. It’s a house that was originally built in 1927 (there seems to be a pattern here), but obviously lots of modern touches have been added to it.

But Santa Monica is known for the stars that live there and the houses they live in. Stars include Jamie Lee Curtis, Ted Danson, Jane Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Judge Reinhold, Jeff Bridges, Mel Brooks, and Tom Selleck. Even Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lived in Santa Monica at one point before he married Maria Shriver, and still owns proper business there.

Santa Monica is simply a spectacular community, and visitors gawk at the luxury and opulence of the area. Who wouldn’t want to live in this community; Is the price right for you?