Bob Barkers LA home of 50 years lists for $8.19M following extensive renovations and the results are dazzling

Come on down — again.The longtime Los Angeles home of the late legendary game show host Bob Barker is making a stylish return to the market with an $8.19 million asking price, following a comprehensive restoration by its new owner, British interior designer Julia Dempster.Mansion Global first reported news of the listing.Dempster purchased the Spanish Colonial Revival estate in April 2024 for $3.78 million — about $800,000 over the asking price — outbidding 15 other interested buyers. But for her, it wasn’t the celebrity pedigree that sealed the deal. “I’m British, so I didn’t even know who Bob Barker was — that was an added bonus,” she told the outlet. Instead, she was drawn to what she described as the “beautiful original architecture and the arches, the arched doorways, the original ironwork and clay tile roof.

I just love Spanish architecture from the 1920s—this is my dream home.”Built in 1929 and located in Hollywood’s historic Outpost Estates, the roughly 5,900-square-foot property had been owned by Barker for over half a century. He passed away in August 2023 at the age of 99.He made no major changes to the home during that time, leaving Dempster with both a well-preserved canvas and a host of restoration challenges.She undertook the renovation with a reverence for the home’s original character. “Every intervention was made with respect to the original architecture,” she said.In some cases, however, preservation wasn’t possible.She had hoped to keep the original wood floors, but water damage forced her to replace most of them — except in the main living room, where the original coffered ceiling, stained-glass window and wood fireplace mantel remain intact.The home’s doors were salvaged and painstakingly restored, and even the iron balustrade was reused — though not without modification. “I used the original ironwork balustrade, but it didn’t meet code.

So, I removed it and we increased the height using the e...