Topher Grace Buys a Traditional Home in L.A.'s La Cañada Flintridge
Topher Grace is going traditional. The That ’70s Show actor and his wife, actress Ashley Hinshaw, recently purchased a classic 1940s traditional home in La Cañada Flintridge for $2.975 million, just one month after listing their Studio City home of two years for $2.695 million. (The Studio City residence, located in the Fryman Canyon area, was a midcentury home). Their new abode spans nearly 4,000 square feet and includes four bedrooms and five bathrooms, all bearing quaint details like exposed brick, molded ceilings, and hardwood floors throughout.
The house's exterior sets the tone with a horseshoe-shaped driveway leading up to a covered front porch, and picture windows with black shutters greeting guests. The home opens onto a front foyer and an adjacent living room with a brick fireplace and ample natural light. A formal dining room and a family room with a high vaulted ceiling are located elsewhere on the ground floor, with a set of French doors leading out from both the kitchen and the family room out onto the backyard. A mudroom just off the family room is lined with floor-to-ceiling French windows and plenty of cabinet space on the opposite wall.
The master suite, located on the second floor, has its own classic brick fireplace and lots of built-in shelves for displaying books, mementos, and photos; a set of French doors opens onto a spacious private balcony overlooking the grassy yard below. A second-floor wraparound deck accessible from other bedrooms also gives the home plenty of outdoor lounging space, with mature trees providing shade. One level down is a game room/den and a sauna; out back, in addition to a brick-framed swimming pool and spa, there is a firepit, plenty of lawn, and even a swing hanging from one of the larger mature trees.
Grace’s previous home was a single-story with four bedrooms and three bathrooms, with a similarly simple backyard setup of a pool and a well-manicured lawn, with one enviable exception: an outdoor shower. The actor previously owned a secluded bungalow above Sunset Strip that he bought from actor-musician Jesse Metcalfe for $1.6 million in 2006 and sold for $1.7 million in 2015. Grace also sold his two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo for $860,000 in 2017 right around the same time that he sold a West Village apartment for $4.2 million, nearly double the price that he paid for it in 2004, which was $2.2 million.
Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest
