Actress
Jessica Capshaw and her husband, Christopher Gavigan, sold their longtime Santa Monica home for $5.75 million in 2020.
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Capshaw → sell → 2020
The sale was completed through an off-market deal, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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sale → complete → Times
The couple had bought the house in 2007 through a limited liability company for $3.05 million, property records showed.
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records → buy → million
The buyer in the 2020 sale was a limited liability company tied to Texas billionaire
Dan Friedkin.
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buyer → tie → Friedkin
The property is a 1927-built Spanish Colonial-style home in Santa Monica's North of Montana neighbourhood.
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property → build → neighbourhood
The main house has four bedrooms and four bathrooms and sits on a tree-lined street.
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house → have → street
During Capshaw and Gavigan's ownership, the property underwent a major renovation.
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property → undergo → renovation
The couple restored the main house from the ground up and also changed the use of an old detached garage, turning it into a separate guesthouse.
The couple also redesigned parts of the outdoor space, adding a narrow swimming pool, decking, an outdoor banquette and a volcanic fire pit.
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couple → restore → pool
The backyard used eco-friendly synthetic grass, while the guesthouse was designed as an environmentally friendly addition to the property.
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guesthouse → use → property
The original detached two-car garage was demolished and replaced with a 950-square-foot guesthouse, according to Architectural Digest.
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garage → demolish → Digest
The one-bedroom, one-bathroom guesthouse was Greenguard-certified, Variety reported.
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Variety → certify → ?
The guesthouse included a high-ceilinged living room with skylights.
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guesthouse → include → skylights
It also had a ladder leading to a loft area and four French doors painted in a rustic grey-blue shade.
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It → have → shade
The outdoor area was also designed around the couple's approach to sustainability.
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area → design → sustainability
It included a synthetic grass lawn, succulents and other warm-weather plants.
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It → include → lawn
A rectangular saltwater pool sat at one end of the backyard, with a wooden deck around it.
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pool → sit → it
A wide built-in banquette was placed near the pool.
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banquette → build → pool
Between the main house and guesthouse, the couple had an outdoor dining area under several olive trees.
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couple → have → trees
The couple also redesigned parts of the outdoor space, adding a narrow swimming pool, decking, an outdoor banquette and a volcanic fire pit
Sustainability with style
The main house retained its four-bedroom, four-bathroom layout after the renovation.
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house → redesign → renovation
A 2011 profile in Cambria Style magazine also highlighted the use of sustainably harvested Brazilian wood from Washington State for the floors.
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profile → highlight → floors
Capshaw spoke about the balance between sustainability and appearance in that profile.
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Capshaw → speak → profile
“I embrace the idea that we have to live sustainably,” Capshaw told the publication.
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Capshaw → embrace → publication
“But I am also eternally about aesthetics and things looking beautiful.”
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things → look → aesthetics
The couple also used salvaged or recycled materials for most of the furnishings in the house.
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couple → use → house
Their restoration therefore changed the property while keeping sustainability as part of the design.
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restoration → change → design
The renovation had taken place several years before the couple eventually sold the house.
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couple → take → house
By 2020, the restored property had become a significantly different home from the one they bought in 2007.
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they → restore → 2007
Thirteen years later, they sold the property for $5.75 million.
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they → sell → million
The 2020 transaction was not publicly listed.
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transaction → list → ?
The Los Angeles Times reported that the sale was completed off-market, based on information from real estate sources who were not authorised to comment publicly on the deal.
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who → report → deal
The buyer was linked to Dan Friedkin, a billionaire from Houston.
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buyer → link → Houston
Architectural Digest also reported that the property was sold to Friedkin in the off-market transaction.
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property → report → transaction
Capshaw was 43 when the sale was reported.
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sale → report → ?
She is known for playing Dr Arizona Robbins on “Grey's Anatomy”.
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She → know → Anatomy
Her other acting credits include “The Practice” and “The L Word”.
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credits → include → Practice
Gavigan, who was 45 at the time, was a co-founder of the Honest Co., a health-oriented lifestyle brand.
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who → orient → Co.
He served as its chief product officer and had co-founded the company in 2012 with Jessica Alba, Brean Lee and Sean Kane.
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He → serve → Alba
By the time the Santa Monica house was sold, the couple had moved on to another property.
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couple → sell → property
Architectural Digest reported that they lived in a newly built 10,000-square-foot residence in Pacific Palisades, which they had bought for $10 million in 2015.
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they → report → 2015
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