‘Full House’ Creator’s L.A. Mansion, Complete With a 35-Foot Waterslide, Relists for $50 Million
Screenwriter and TV producer Jeff Franklin built the lavish residence on the homesite where the 1969 Manson Family murders took place.
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A Beverly Hills megamansion, complete with a backyard grotto and a lazy river, that was built by “Full House” creator Jeff Franklin is returning to the market with a multimillion-dollar price cut.
The Southern California home will list on Wednesday for just shy of $50 million, a more than 40% price cut from its initial asking price of $85 million from 2022.
The home has also been occasionally available for rent, asking as much as nearly $250,000 a month.
It sits on the site where Sharon Tate and four others were murdered by the Manson Family in 1969.
That since-demolished home, which Tate and her husband, director Roman Polanski, were renting from music producer Terry Melcher, was torn down in the mid-1990s by a developer, from whom Franklin bought the property before it was completed, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Franklin took the developer’s partially built house and tore it down to the studs to build his own custom home, working with “King of the Megamansion” Richard Landry to do so. The mansion, which has been Franklin’s primary residence for nearly two decades, was completed in 2006.
Dubbed Villa Andalusia, the 21,000-square-foot megamansion combines Andalusian style with South-Asian influences, which was a “fun design challenge,” Landry said in a statement. Listing agent Adam Brawer of Compass likened the home’s design and scale to a palace.
“The interiors combine my love of European architecture and Asian culture, but curated to maximize the California lifestyle,” Franklin wrote in an email.
Amenities throughout the home range from a wood-paneled billiards and poker room to a large aquarium dividing the sitting room and dining room—fish included in the sale.
“It feels like a James Bond villain’s lair,” Brawer said. “Architecturally, it feels like a throwback to a much older time, except it has all the creature comforts of 2025—it’s fully smart.”
With 3.6 acres, the mansion sits on an unusually large lot for Beverly Hills Post Office. It also has wide-ranging views, overlooking the entirety of the city to the Pacific Ocean, and as far as Pasadena on a clear day, Brawer said. Both the property size and its views are what attracted Franklin to it.
“I loved the spectacular views, and the size of the lot allowed me to be creative in designing the unique backyard oasis,” Franklin said.
That backyard oasis is made up of two pools —a wading pool and an infinity pool—which are connected by a lazy river.
Each pool has its own hot tub, with the wading pool’s tucked into a grotto behind three waterfalls. A 35-foot waterslide flows into another waterfall—there are six in total, and there’s also a koi pond, a fire pit and a swim-up bar.
“This is one of the most exciting pools we have ever designed,” Landry said.
Franklin built the home—which has nine bedrooms and 18 bathrooms—with hosting large gatherings in mind, Brawer said.
In addition to the lavish backyard, there are also multiple bars, a game room and a home theater inside, and many of its living spaces lead directly out to the backyard. There’s also two garages, including one underground, and a large motor court, allowing the property to fit at least 20 cars.
Franklin, 70, created the sitcom “Full House” in 1987 and served as showrunner until 1992. He also created its sequel series, “Fuller House,” for Netflix in 2016. Franklin previously owned the San Francisco house that was used for the exterior of the Tanner family home in “Full House.” He remodeled it, also with Landry, and sold it in 2020.
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James and Ellen Patterson are hardly Luddites. But the couple, who both work in tech, made an unexpectedly old-timey decision during the renovation of their 1928 Washington, D.C., home last year.
The Pattersons had planned to use a spacious unfinished basement room to store James’s music equipment, but noticed that their children, all under age 21, kept disappearing down there to entertain themselves for hours without the aid of tablets or TVs.
Inspired, the duo brought a new directive to their design team.
The subterranean space would become an “analog room”: a studiously screen-free zone where the family could play board games together, practice instruments, listen to records or just lounge about lazily, undistracted by devices.
For decades, we’ve celebrated the rise of the “smart home”—knobless, switchless, effortless and entirely orchestrated via apps.
But evidence suggests that screen-free “dumb” spaces might be poised for a comeback.
Many smart-home features are losing their luster as they raise concerns about surveillance and, frankly, just don’t function.
New York designer Christine Gachot said she’d never have to work again “if I had a dollar for every time I had a client tell me ‘my smart music system keeps dropping off’ or ‘I can’t log in.’ ”
Google searches for “how to reduce screen time” reached an all-time high in 2025. In the past four years on TikTok, videos tagged #AnalogLife—cataloging users’ embrace of old technology, physical media and low-tech lifestyles—received over 76 million views.
And last month, Architectural Digest reported on nostalgia for old-school tech : “landline in hand, cord twirled around finger.”
Catherine Price, author of “ How to Break Up With Your Phone,” calls the trend heartening.
“People are waking up to the idea that screens are getting in the way of real life interactions and taking steps through design choices to create an alternative, places where people can be fully present,” said Price, whose new book “ The Amazing Generation ,” co-written with Jonathan Haidt, counsels tweens and kids on fun ways to escape screens.
From both a user and design perspective, the Pattersons consider their analog room a success.
Freed from the need to accommodate an oversize television or stuff walls with miles of wiring, their design team—BarnesVanze Architects and designer Colman Riddell—could get more creative, dividing the space into discrete music and game zones.
Ellen’s octogenarian parents, who live nearby, often swing by for a round or two of the Stock Market Game, an eBay-sourced relic from Ellen’s childhood that requires calculations with pen and paper.
In the music area, James’s collection of retro Fender and Gibson guitars adorn walls slicked with Farrow & Ball’s Card Room Green , while the ceiling is papered with a pattern that mimics the organic texture of vintage Fender tweed.
A trio of collectible amps cluster behind a standing mic—forming a de facto stage where family and friends perform on karaoke nights. Built-in cabinets display a Rega turntable and the couple’s vinyl record collection.
“Playing a game with family or doing your own little impromptu karaoke is just so much more joyful than getting on your phone and scrolling for 45 minutes,” said James.
Screen-Free ‘Escapes’
“Dumb” design will likely continue to gather steam, said Hans Lorei, a designer in Nashville, Tenn., as people increasingly treat their homes “less as spaces to optimise and more as spaces to retreat.”
Case in point: The top-floor nook that designer Jeanne Hayes of Camden Grace Interiors carved out in her Connecticut home as an “offline-office” space.
Her desk? A periwinkle beanbag chair paired with an ottoman by Jaxx. “I hunker down here when I need to escape distractions from the outside world,” she explained.
“Sometimes I’m scheming designs for a project while listening to vinyl, other times I’m reading the newspaper in solitude. When I’m in here without screens, I feel more peaceful and more productive at the same time—two things that rarely go hand in hand.”
A subtle archway marks the transition into designer Zoë Feldman’s Washington, D.C., rosy sunroom—a serene space she conceived as a respite from the digital demands of everyday life.
Used for reading and quiet conversation, it “reinforces how restorative it can be to be physically present in a room without constant input,” the designer said.
Laura Lubin, owner of Nashville-based Ellerslie Interiors, transformed a tiny guest bedroom in her family’s cottage into her own “wellness room,” where she retreats for sound baths, massages and reflection.
“Without screens, the room immediately shifts your nervous system. You’re not multitasking or consuming, you’re just present,” said Lubin.
As a designer, she’s fielding requests from clients for similar spaces that support mental health and rest, she said.
“People are overstimulated and overscheduled,” she explained. “Homes are no longer just places to live—they’re expected to actively support well-being.”
Designer Molly Torres Portnof of New York’s DATE Interiors adopted the same brief when she designed a music room for her husband, owner of the labels Greenway Records and Levitation, in their Lido Beach, N.Y. home. He goes there nightly to listen to records or play his guitar.
The game closet from the townhouse in “The Royal Tenenbaums”? That idea is back too, says Gachot. Last year she designed an epic game room backed by a rock climbing wall for a young family in Montana.
When you’re watching a show or on your phone, “it’s a solo experience for the most part,” the designer said. “The family really wanted to encourage everybody to do things together.”
Analog Accessories
Don’t have the space—or the budget—to kit out an entire retro rec room?
“There are a lot of small tweaks you can make even if you don’t have the time, energy or budget to design a fully analog room from scratch,” said Price.
Gachot says “the small things in people’s lives are cues of what the bigger trends are.”
More of her clients, she’s noticed, have been requesting retrograde staples, such as analog clocks and magazine racks.
For her Los Angeles living room, chef Sara Kramer sourced a vintage piano from Craigslist to be the room’s centerpiece, rather than sacrifice its design to the dominant black box of a smart TV. Alabama designer Lauren Conner recently worked with a client who bought a home with a rotary phone.
Rather than rip it out, she decided to keep it up and running, adding a silver receiver cover embellished with her grandmother’s initials.
Some throwback accessories aren’t so subtle. Melia Marden was browsing listings from the Public Sale Auction House in Hudson, N.Y. when she spotted a phone booth from Bell Systems circa the late 1950s and successfully bid on it for a few hundred dollars.
“It was a pandemic impulse buy,” said Marden.
In 2023, she and her husband, Frank Sisti Jr., began working with designer Elliot Meier and contractor ReidBuild to integrate the booth into what had been a hallway linen closet in their Brooklyn townhouse.
Canadian supplier Old Phone Works refurbished the phone and sold them the pulse-to-tone converter that translates the rotary dial to a modern phone line.
The couple had collected a vintage whimsical animal-adorned wallpaper (featured in a different colourway in “Pee-wee’s Playhouse”) and had just enough to cover the phone booth’s interior.
Their children, ages 9 and 11, don’t have their own phones, so use the booth to communicate with family. It’s also become a favorite spot for hiding away with a stack of Archie comic books.
The booth has brought back memories of meandering calls from Marden’s own youth—along with some of that era’s simple joy. As Meier puts it: “It’s got this magical wardrobe kind of feeling.”
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