Five-time Emmy-nominated sitcom writer/producer Bill Prady needs another house in L.A.’s subtle but high-cost Toluca Lake about as much as an octopus needs a helicopter, however tax records indicate he’s none-the-less splashed out $5 million for a 4th luxury residential or commercial property in the upscale star-approved community.
Prady cut his showbiz teeth writing and producing “Caroline in the City,” “Dharma & Greg” and “Gilmore Girls” before he struck primetime gold (and a syndication goldmine) with the marvelously popular comedy “The Big Bang Theory,” which he developed with Chuck Lorre. Interestingly enough, Prady isn’t credited with developing or writing any episodes of his mega-hit show’s popular spin-off prequel “Young Sheldon,” but he is listed as a consulting manufacturer on a couple of lots episodes. Anyhoo …
The late 1920 s Tudor home sits on almost half-an-acre along the calm, stunning shore of the itty-bitty personal lake that offers the neighborhood its name. Listings held by Craig Strong of Compass show the nearly 4,400- square-foot house, a good-looking, stone and shingled affair with brick and faux-timber accents, has 5 bedrooms and five bathrooms that include a separate guest or staff suite with personal entryway.
Diamond-paned leaded glass windows lend aristocratic magnificence and architectural credibility to the spacious living room that features gleaming wood floors, a soaring wood-beamed cathedral ceiling and an enormous brick fireplace. The living room streams easily into a similarly large step-down den that showcases a vintage brick flooring and a second fireplace, this one set into a paneled wall flanked by built-in bookshelves. A damp bar helps with boozy entertaining and floor-to-ceiling glass sliders allow for an easy shift to the lushly landscaped backyard. Wonderfully preserved and clean-as-a-whistle, the house is nevertheless considerably dated when it comes to its design and finishes: The light from a sparkly, old-fangled antique crystal chandelier is reflected in a mirror-paneled wall in the dining room, where the exact same Chinoiserie-style toile wallpaper pattern is repeated on the material of the drapes, while the bedroom’s teal wall-to-wall to wall carpeting is straight out of a Red Lion Hotel in 1983 and the shimmery pastel flower wallpaper in the dressing room and the regrettably wall-to-wall-carpeted restroom, with its pale pink stone work, appear like they reek of baby powder.
Resting on a flat rise above the lake, the back of the L-shaped residence welcomes a sprawling, partly vine-enshrouded and pergola-covered brick terrace for relaxed outside living. Brick stepping-stones cover a koi pond, and a wide, velvety expanse of yard slopes down to the water’s edge where the heavy limbs of a big tree shade a small dock with scenic views that sweep over the placid lake.
The budding land baron’s other Toluca Lake holdings include: a three-bedroom cottage acquired in 2014 for a mite more than $1.2 million; an almost 8,500- square-foot estate picked up in 2013 for near $4 million from now-divorced stars Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli; and an almost 8,000- square-foot nine-bedroom standard on one of the area’s couple of personal streets that was scooped up in early 2016 for nearly $ 5.1 million
Its close proximity to all the Burbank studios, along with simple access to West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, have long made Toluca Lake a preferred and hassle-free community for showbiz movers and shakers. Steve Carell custom-made built his traditional mansion on the site of Jonathan Winters’ longtime house, astronomically popular YourTube kids’s entertainer Blippi just recently moved to the area and a handful of years ago Sia dropped $3.6 million for a 1.
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