Fantastic location, truly incredible house. Minutes on foot (!) to all the great things you associate with Silverlake, like great coffee shops, fantastic eateries, and unique shopping, all with an absolutely incredible, one of a kind garden in the back. Plenty of street parking, but carport will also fit a compact SUV.
It’s an older house that hasn’t been gut renovated and isn’t professionally cleaned, so don’t expect that level of spic and span and matching Ikea silverware in brand new kitchen drawers, but it’s a house with real character — the pictures are from a couple years back, so the big perennial vine out front hasn’t grown all over the front yet and reduced the amount of natural light, but they also don’t show the hundreds of beautiful purple flowers that cover the outside of the house from that vine (maybe American vetch?), the hip high clouds of blooming lavender and fragrant pelargornium, night-flowering cactuses older than you are, and a spectacular, one of a kind treehouse. Sam even generously stocked the house with necessities, including bottled water we used instead of the tap water, which was a little cloudy.
When we met friends for things in the neighborhood, they couldn’t believe the location. When they saw pictures of the house and garden, their jaws were on the floor. One of them told us that this was straight out of an LA that doesn’t really exist anymore and asked for the link to send to everyone who comes to visit her, so they could book here. Thanks for sharing this wonderful place with us, Sam!