‘Californication’ Creator Tom Kapinos Sells Manhattan Beach Architectural (EXCLUSIVE)
Eagle-eyed real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak was the first to point us toward, and property records do indeed confirm, that a triple-story contemporary on a coveted walk street just two short blocks from the sand in prosperous Manhattan Beach was sold by “Californication” creator Tom Kapinos for its full asking price of $3.995 million. Although the sale price is significantly below the original $4.75 million asking price, Kapinos, who started out writing and producing for Dawson’s Creek and most recently created the TV series “Lucifer,” none-the-less just about doubled his money on the turn of the 21st century architectural he picked up per property records in the fall of 2002 for $2.16 million. Designed by noted architect Pat Killen along with design consultant Mark Egerstrom, the residence has four bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms in about 4,000-square-feet.
Airy, industrial-chic interiors include a double-height, atrium-like entry with open-tread steel and wood staircase that zigzags up to the top floor where the main living spaces were positioned to take optimal advantage of light and views. The living room end of the loft-like room opens to a faux-grassed ocean-view terrace, the central kitchen is efficiently compact but expensively outfitted with top-quality commercial-style stainless steel appliances, and the over-sized dining area has aluminum trimmed glass doors that lead to a cantilevered balcony with over-the-roof-tops ocean view. Sardine-packed Manhattan Beach is notoriously parking starved the closer one gets to the beach so the property’s most valuable if least sexy amenity is arguably the four-car garage and additional off-street parking for two more cars.
Property records suggest Kapinos traded his vertically oriented Manhattan Beach digs for a much lower-slung but no less modern two-story steel and glass stunner in Pacific Palisades purchased over the summer of 2014 for a tetch less than $5 million.
listing photos: The Agency
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