Exclusive | Suicide Squad director asks $2.99M for lovingly decorated LA home with stained glass windows sourced from European churches

Hollywood director David Ayer has curated his 99-year-old Silver Lake home like a film set — and it’s now on the market for $2.99 million, Gimme Shelter can reveal. From the driveway laid with bricks salvaged from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, to the exquisite courtyard, and hand-carved front doors from an ancient Afghan temple — with wood thought to be 800 years old — the gated Spanish villa is a curator’s cinematographic dream.“The house was a creative outlet,” Ayer told Gimme.“It became a beloved project — a slow curation of time and wood, and brick and metal,” he added.Known for directing gritty LA films and more, including “Fury,” “End of Watch,” “Suicide Squad,” “The Beekeeper,” and “A Working Man,” Ayer also wrote screenplays including “Training Day,” which won Denzel Washington an Oscar. The gated Spanish villa at 1615 Redcliff St.

is in the heart of an enclave known for its boho-chic residents and creative community. Ayer bought the three-bedroom, two-bath home, which comes with a detached studio, for $1.15 million in 2014 — and, he said, it has been an inspiration ever since.House details that inspire include “rainbows of light in the morning from the stained glass,” and from the teracotta lions “guarding” the garden.“May it inspire more art,” Ayer said. “David approached this home the way he approaches a film — with an obsessive attention to provenance and detail,” said Juliette Hohnen of Douglas Elliman, who shares the listing with Erica DeBear, of the Rise Group at Real Brokerage.“The level of intention is incredibly rare.

You feel it the moment you walk through the gate.Silver Lake has always attracted buyers who would rather own something one-of-a-kind than something that looks like everything else on the market,” Hohnen added.Ayer said he worked with talented artisans to create his vision, which includes stained-glass windows from Poland, a German cathedral and other...