This Striking $2 Million SoCal Retreat Is Embedded Into a Rocky Mountainside Landscape
Almost three decades ago, during a weekend getaway in the Southern California mountain community of Idyllwild, Candide Petrol and Ray Webb stumbled across an abandoned house while out on a hike. The couple, both medical professionals based in the nearby town of Temecula, immediately fell in love with its organic characteristics and went on to acquire the place and create the vacation home of their dreams in collaboration with local architect Dennis McGuire. Now the striking boulder-strewn property has come to the market for a speck under $1.95 million, with the listing held by Daniel Miracle of Compass.
“In its previous form, it was basically left boarded up in a framed kind of a stage with little or no roof,” Petrol said in a 2002 episode of HGTV’s Homes Across America. “We snuck in and just fell in love with the design of the house, the shape of the house, the architecture of the house.”
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Resting amid a 30-acre parcel laced with towering oaks and pines, in the exclusive gated enclave of Tahquitz Shadow Estates, the stucco and steel-roof structure was completed in the late 1990s and offers four bedrooms and an equal number of baths. A little more than 3,300 square feet of open-plan living space on several different levels is connected via random-patterned slate floors, while vast walls of glass frame views of the San Jacinto Mountains and lush forest from every vantage point.
A bridged walkway slices right through two huge granite boulders on its way to the front door, which opens into a soaring foyer that has stairs leading up to the main living area. From there, an office/guest room has an integrated desk and a boulder that protrudes through a wall of glass specifically cut to fit its shape and the great room sports a modern-style fireplace, a wet bar, and built-in seating.
A step-up dining room connects to the kitchen, which has a door opening out onto a redwood deck that’s ideal for alfresco entertaining. And on a lower level just off the main entry is the secluded primary suite, which has a bath spotlighted by yet another boulder jutting into the combined tub and shower. Elsewhere is a game room and a climate-controlled wine cellar with room for 1,100 bottles, as well as an outdoor hot tub.
Click here for more photos of the secluded retreat in Southern California.
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