Go Home Builders built this 3,882 sq ft custom home on Bakman Avenue in Studio City, Los Angeles, completed in 2024. Five bedrooms, six bathrooms, two storeys on a 6,492 sq ft lot, with a detached 600 sq ft guest house behind the pool. The lot is zoned LAR1 and sits inside the City of Los Angeles, so plan check ran through LADBS — the postal address reads North Hollywood, but the permit path is the same either way.
Five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and a balcony on almost every one
The primary sits under a beamed cathedral ceiling with its own fireplace, a walk-in closet, and sliding doors onto a private balcony. Each guest bedroom got the same treatment — its own balcony, its own walk-in. One bedroom and one full bathroom sit on the ground floor, which is the decision people wish they’d made ten years later. On a 6,492 sq ft lot where the pool, the spa and the guest house have already claimed the yard, the balconies are the outdoor space. One per room, upstairs.
Why 3,882 sq ft feels bigger than it is
The main floor is effectively one room. Formal dining runs into the family room with nothing between them, and there’s glass at both ends — sliding doors front and back — so light crosses the entire floor plate instead of dying halfway. A narrow lot pushes most builders toward a corridor plan. Here a stone fireplace wall and built-in cabinetry do the dividing that a partition would have done, without cutting the sightline or the light.
One wall, three jobs
The family room fireplace is electric, and that single decision unlocked the whole wall. No flue means no chase, so the stone slab runs unbroken floor to ceiling and the television sits directly above the firebox — something you can’t safely do over most gas or wood-burning units. White oak built-ins flank it on both sides and absorb the storage that would otherwise have needed a separate piece of furniture in the room. One wall doing the work of three, and no floor space spent on it.
An all-electric kitchen, and the solar to feed it
Electric range, electric oven, and a house heated by central, solar and two fireplaces — no gas cooking anywhere in it. The kitchen runs off the same roof array that heats the house. Stone counters, a central island, and soft-close on every door and drawer. It opens straight into the family room rather than sitting behind a wall, which on a lot this size is the difference between a kitchen you cook in alone and one you cook in while the room is full.
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This was 3,882 sq ft on a 50-foot lot in Studio City, permitted through LADBS. Yours will have a different lot, a different setback and a different set of constraints, which is why the useful first conversation is about the site rather than a number. If you'd rather see rough costs before you talk to anyone, start with our calculator.
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