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From here, the home breaks into two distinct wings that house
the main living areas, which include a relaxing library and
a refined media room where the walls and ceilings feature
ornate, hand-carved mahogany. "It has a really good floor plan
for families, for entertaining and day to day living," remarks
Philo. "You can see your family from pretty much any part of
the house. We sell a lot of homes and we've been in a lot of
homes, and we don't see that often," she adds. "It's a plus in
today's style of living."
Stand in any room and it feels like its own, distinct environment,
yet one simultaneously feels merged with other parts of
the home. This is achieved by strategic placement of long
hallways and generous entranceways, along with using
features, such as coffered ceilings and stone columns, to
set apart living areas. Even on the uppermost level, which is
home to an elaborate, ocean-view master wing and four of the
five bedroom suites, one feels connected to the rest of the
home, and its great ocean views, via fresh-air balconies and
a sunny catwalk that allows one to peer down into the great
room below. (The home boasts three levels in total, with the
lower level host to luxurious staples of leisure: a spacious gym,
a wine room and a peaceful, wood-plank sauna.)
Surrounded on three sides by the sea and elevated high
above sea level, Palos Verdes Peninsula feels less like a
mainland and more like a gauzy island scene plucked from an
artist's watercolor collection. Nowhere is this more true than
the graceful, high-altitude curve of Lower Paseo La Cresta, an
ideal setting for Chhabria to position his personal Taj Mahal—a
bright and airy place, stately and filled with handcrafted,
classic details. A place where one can enjoy the fruits of one's
success, along with daily, color-splashed sunsets the owners
have been on-hand to witness for years. "There are incredible
sunsets here 365 days a year," says Philo, "and we've enjoyed
them, and this home, every day."
