9031 Wonderland Park Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, 90046
$2,795,000
MLS: 26870735
Beds
3
Baths
3
Sq Ft
2,844
Lot
0.27 ac
Year Built
1960
MLS #
26870735
Days on Market
0
Listed
Sep 10, 2026
Description
There is a particular kind of quiet that only comes from Laurel Canyon the kind you feel before you see it. Set back from the road on a flag lot, this post-and-beam announces itself slowly, the way the best mid-century houses always do: not with a facade, but with an approach. In a neighborhood built on visibility, this one does the opposite the setback strips away the noise before you've reached the door. Los Angeles architect and landscape designer Leonardo Chalupowicz led the restoration, peeling back decades of well-intentioned updates to recover the home's original lines the clean structural logic and honest materials that defined the era. It's the difference between a house that looks mid-century and one that simply is.Inside, a vintage Malm fireplace anchors the main living space the sculptural, freestanding kind mid-century architects treated as furniture rather than infrastructure. Alongside it, Bouquet Canyon stone brings texture no contemporary material can replicate. These are artifacts of the period itself, not references to it. The primary bath tells a quieter story. Interior designer David Netto worked the space in Carrara marble with Waterworks chrome fixtures a palette that reads as restraint until you notice how precisely every decision was made.The walls carry their own history. Long before this restoration, the house operated as a recording studio sessions here included the Beastie Boys, Fiona Apple, and Cheech & Chong. More recently, the living room has served as a stage in its own right, hosting house concerts by Amyl & the Sniffers and Ninajirachi, and Kim Petras lived here while making her breakout album, Detour. It's the kind of layered, unbilled provenance that only turns up on a handful of streets in Laurel Canyon.Context here is closer to the thesis than the footnote. The home sits just below the Mulholland Tennis Club, inside the Wonderland Avenue Elementary boundary one of the city's most sought-after school communities. Directly across the street: Pierre Koenig's Bailey House, Case Study House #21. To live here is to wake up across from the canon, a daily reminder of the lineage this street represents. Beyond the property line, some of the city's best hiking trails begin minutes away. What makes this house notable is the accumulation a flag lot's rare privacy, an architecturally faithful restoration, design pedigree in the bath, original mid-century materials, a recording and performance history few homes can claim, a coveted school district, and a location where history itself is the view.Mid-century modernism has spent two decades being referenced and diluted. This house is a reminder of what the style meant the first time: clarity of structure, honesty of material, and a relationship to landscape that never needed embellishment. On a street defined by one of the great houses in American architecture, this restoration doesn't compete with that legacy it simply continues it.
Location
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA 90046
Open on Google Maps ↗Listed by: Peter Lorimer · PLG Estates
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Payment estimate
$20,592
/ month (est.)
Principal, interest, taxes, and insurance + PMI. Down payment: $279,500 · Loan: $2,515,500
Average 30-yr fixed rate 6.76% as of Sep 10, 2026 (Freddie Mac PMMS). Adjust to your quote.
- Principal & Interest
- $16,332
- Property tax (1.25%)
- $2,911
- Homeowners insurance
- $300
- Mortgage insurance
- $1,048
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Today's Rates
As of Sep 10, 2026
- 30-year fixed
- 6.76%
- 15-year fixed
- 6.09%
Source: Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS). Updated weekly.
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Financing Options
FHA Financing — 3.5% Down＋
First-time and repeat buyers can purchase this Los Angeles home with as little as 3.5% down using an FHA loan — roughly $97,825 down. FHA loans feature flexible credit guidelines and government-backed rates, making homeownership accessible for buyers who haven't saved a large down payment. Seller concessions up to 6% of the purchase price are also allowed.
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