Moby's Castle

You may have come across this earlier this year but it still seems to come up in discussions around the table at our house. I am still a purist and argue that you can't shoehorn modernist design into a medieval exterior but friends beg to differ. They always win the argument when they remind me of Moby's Castle.

Moby, yes that Moby of electronic pop music fame, purchased a literal castle in the Hollywood Hills.

Built in 1927 the house was dubbed Wolfs Lair. The castle takes up about 3.3 acres of land overlooking Lake Hollywood and has a grand total of eight bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms in about 6,500 square feet of living space. Perched on three acres above the Hollywood Reservoir, the 1920′s castle was revamped with a mid-century modern aesthetic.

“Even though the house is from 1927, I didn’t want to fill it with big, heavy furniture from the 1920s, and I didn’t want to fill it with strange plastic 21st-century furniture,” he said.

One cool thing to note... the house had a secret tiki room that remained locked for some time. Check out the photos below. So what do you think? Does it work for you?