Now’s Your Chance to Grab This Cozy-Chic California Desert Escape for Under a Million
Suddenly come into some extra cash and itching to buy a vacation home? Don’t settle for something that’s just run-of-the-mill—live it up like an A-list influencer in a one-of-a-kind SoCal abode that’s been featured in numerous design publications from Domino to Goop, just to name a couple.
Sitting smack dab in the middle of the Mojave Desert—on almost 3 remote acres of land within the famed Old West community of Pioneertown, about 25 minutes from the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park—the so-called “Casa Mami” is billed as an eco-friendly overnight retreat that doubles as a design showroom, with most of the furnishings available for purchase online; and it’s now up for grabs, asking a speck under $675,000.
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Primarily used for the past five years as a rental property bringing in around $190 per night, the striking white stucco and black-trimmed structure was purchased by Carlos Naude and his wife Whitney Brown of the L.A.-based creative studio Working Holiday for $230,000 in summer 2018. The couple subsequently remodeled the place into a retreat/showroom, before selling it to the current owners for $363,500 in 2020.
Featured are a duo of spacious bedrooms and a full bathroom in roughly 880 square feet of retro-minimalist living space. Sustainability also is at the forefront of the home’s design, complete with eco-friendly features such as 100-percent solar power and its own water tank.
Among the highlights: an open-plan kitchen outfitted with a sink, 20-inch range, black Smeg refrigerator and dining area, along with a spacious living room boasting a Malm wood-burning fireplace, Moooi Cloud Sofa by Marcel Wanders and La Cantina French doors swinging open to a gravel-bordered patio providing sweeping mountain vistas.
An added bonus: The sale includes all of the furnishings, plus an Airbnb account and Instagram site with 12,000 followers.
Rachel Weitzbuch of Compass holds the listing.
Click here for more photos of Casa Mami.
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