Anna Berg’s Santa Barbara modern property commands attention. The chiseled bold achromatic exterior contrasted by achromatic framed windows and reddish tile extortion is, to accidental the least, striking.
“You tin spot it erstwhile you’re driving,” Berg said. “It’s similar a beacon. It’s not thing you spot a batch of successful Vegas.”
Rising supra the premiere Southern Highlands Golf Club community, down the exclusive treble gates of Augusta Canyon, 16 Oakmont Hills Lane is listed for $11 cardinal done Ben and Natalia Harris of Las Vegas Sotheby’s International Realty.
“This is simply a 1 of a kind,” Natalia Harris said. “It’s the highest elevated customized batch successful Southern Highlands Golf Club.”
The compelling facet of this blase customized spot is the communicative down the home’s plan and Berg, its creator.
Berg, arsenic the homeowner, conceptualized and designed the full 10,462-square-foot two-story home, down to the detail.
“It’s a contractor’s worst nightmare,” Berg said, laughing. “I’ve ever had a passionateness for this, truthful it was thing I knew I wanted to bash connected my own.”
She contracted with John McDonough of Canyon Creek Custom Homes and broke crushed successful December 2018. The task took astir 18 months to finish.
Upon completion, McDonough encouraged Berg to get a concern licence truthful helium could notation her to clients. Today, Berg owns a increasing interior plan business, Anna Berg Designs, wherever she works with high-end clients.
“He loved my plan aesthetic,” Berg said. “That is wherever I shine, large-scale customized homes. I emotion doing that.”
Architect Steven S. Taylor crafted the home’s layout based connected Berg’s specifications. Together, they created a cohesive travel from the salient elevation to the modern interior.
“I wanted the 2 connected,” Berg said. “A batch of times the exterior is 1 mode and the interior different and they don’t person a connection.”
Upon completion, Berg focused connected selecting the interior materials and finishes, cautiously selecting classical textures, luxurious finishes and glamorous furnishings.
“The full plan process was going and buying astatine antithetic stores,” Berg said. “I emotion glam yet elemental aesthetic truthful I wanted to make a blank slate, wherever I could adhd my idiosyncratic touches.”
Within her design, she integrated geometrical shapes arsenic a means of infusing subtle ocular involvement throughout.
“Patterns springiness you cleanable lines and symmetry,” Berg said. “It’s a theme. Little hidden touches passim the full location that necktie it each together.”
The property’s melodramatic introduction unfolds done a stately customized glass-and-black metallic doorway flanked by customized 6-foot sconces. Berg commissioned the sizeable 12-foot-by-8-foot doorway to regenerate a smaller doorway planned for the space.
“I wanted to marque the full abstraction a door,” Berg said. “It took an immense magnitude of operation readying and plan work. It was worthy it to make an unforgettable acquisition arsenic you transverse the threshold.”
The foyer boasts of a sky-high, 25-foot ceiling on with a striking asymmetrical chandelier and beauteous imported Italian marble floors, mounting the code for the home.
One of Berg’s favourite features is the sweeping maple staircase with a customized achromatic metallic handrail. The stairwell’s melodramatic curved partition finished with metallic Phillip Jeffries wallpaper visually draws the oculus upward.
At the basal of the staircase is simply a freestanding popular creation piece, by creator Becky Rosa, Berg had shipped from Miami. The portion exhibits a ample fuchsia Birkin Bag connected apical of an crystal pick cone.
“It’s called Birkream,” Berg said. “I emotion the play connected the Birkin container and crystal pick cone.”
Right disconnected the foyer, a dual-sided solid fireplace with Wow tile and Porcelanosa aerial slate situation abstracted the ceremonial surviving from the ceremonial dining.
The expansive introduction with ceremonial surviving draws you into a spacious layout flowing easy from the large room, kitchen, casual eating and premier indoor/outdoor living.
The two-story large country features customized built-ins with ambient lighting bordering a cardinal fireplace with a 2nd eye-catching Porcelanosa aerial slate surround.
“Any worldly connected a 25-foot fireplace has to beryllium understated but beautiful,” Berg said of the surround. “This 1 has a sheen to it, truthful it gives a spot of glitter.”
Expansive pouch doors unfastened the full main level seamlessly to the implicit three-quarter-acre exterior featuring a pool, spa, swim-up bar, sunken firepit, outdoor room and bedewed bar.
“I emotion the thought of opening the doors and expanding your surviving space,” Berg said. “We walk a batch of clip extracurricular with our kids.”
Adjacent to the large room, the chef’s room is graced with premium finishes specified arsenic customized grey oak cabinetry, professional-grade appliances and modern pendants enhancing a blase aesthetic.
“I wanted it to beryllium unfastened and clean,” Berg said. “A abstraction wherever you could entertain but inactive beryllium relatable for your household to bask it.”
The kitchen’s treble waterfall islands with timeless marble countertops make a spectacular space. The expansive beforehand land with an interior marble waterfall serves arsenic a barroom featuring an amusement sink, Nugget crystal shaper and beverage refrigerator.
“It’s a spot you could enactment crystal and stack your champagne bottles,” Berg said. “Or foodstuff boxes if having a kids party.”
Berg integrated peculiar touches specified arsenic a built-in weapon drawer, cookware filler, warming drawer, sizeable walk-in pantry and a butler’s pantry with a built-in Miele java machine, descend and beverage refrigerator.
Off the room is what Berg calls the home’s sportsbook theater. Six 80-inch televisions enactment the outer partition arsenic an progressive sports ticker broadcasts the latest diversion news.
“My hubby is truly into sports,” Berg said. “We had to alteration the plan of the location by removing a barroom to acceptable those TVs.”
The theater’s expansive pouch doors unfastened to an exterior firepit speech area.
The precocious backstage maestro is an intimate retreat showcasing a fireplace with customized tile surround, backstage platform and greeting barroom with marble counter. Striking Phillip Jeffries wallpaper offers a beardown focal down the bed.
“I wanted to bash thing that wasn’t huge,” Berg said. “If you get a country that’s excessively big, you suffer the intimacy of the space.”
The elegant bath features a walk-in marble ablution with a 19-inch rainfall head, dual vanities and a free-standing soaking tub.
The tub is accented by a melodramatic hexagon-shaped tile wall. Berg’s favourite abstraction successful the location is her walk-in closet tucked wrong the maestro bedroom. The voluminous abstraction paints a idiosyncratic representation of Berg’s plan style.
Mosaic Artist Allison Eden Smile Lips wallpaper stretches crossed the ceiling contrasting the 36- inch crystal airy fixture floating implicit a marble island.
The intimate abstraction features a built-in constitution station, television, washer/dryer, floor-to-ceiling retention and hardwood flooring. The country is guarded by fingerprint fastener entry.
“My closet was a large happening for me,” Berg said. “I tin spell successful determination and walk hours.”
Additional highlights see 5 en suite bedrooms, fittingness room/beauty salon, ceremonial eating with temperature-controlled vino cellar, office, playroom, canine country with exterior canine tally and elevator.
Augusta Canyon successful the premier Southern Highland Golf Club offers double-gated security. Besides Augusta Canyon, determination are 5 guard-gated backstage enclaves successful the community.
“It is location to galore celebrities and athletes successful town,” President and Corporate Broker for Las Vegas Sotheby’s International Realty Randy Char said. “Some of the enclaves person Strip and upland views. Others are surrounded by the beauteous play course.”