Celebrity Real Estate: Designing Woman: Annie Potts Lists Compound for $6.5M

Hollywood actress Annie Potts, perhaps best known as the administrative assistant in the original Ghostbusters and the quirky record store owner in Pretty In Pink, is selling her five-bedroom, six-bathroom Spanish Hacienda-style home in Tarzana, CA.

If you’re up for it, the “Designing Women” star’s compound can be yours for about $6.5 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.

And it’s seriously awesome.

There is absolutely nothing meek or timid about this place. It’s ablaze with color and character and verve.

Tucked away on one-and-a-half acres in Tarzana—a section of Los Angeles set on the site of a ranch once owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the Tarzan novels—the home was built in 1934 and is chock full of period details, rustic accents, an absolute profusion of lush landscaping, and more style than you could shake a stick at.

(As we stared, mouths agape, at the photos, we kept expecting to see Frida Kahlo, or perhaps Salvador Dali, peeking around a corner at the camera—in a word: artsy!)

There are traditional plaster walls, scads of yummy hardwoods, gorgeous archways, ceilings with glorious imposing wooden beams, scads of custom light fixtures, at least three fireplaces, and some of the most extraordinary ceramic tile you’ll ever see.

There’s also a stained glass wall (not just a window), a separate guesthouse, and five bedrooms including the master—all with en suite bathrooms.

Outside, you’ll find fountains, a covered loggia, an outdoor kitchen, as well as a pool and spa incorporated so seamlessly into the landscape that—while they’re state-of-the-art—you’d swear they were there in 1934.

But the real showstopper in this home is the kitchen.

It is bold. It is showy. It is alive.

With every high-end appliance you could ever want, this kitchen calls out to any prospective buyer: there are bright, exuberant colors, with a ceramic tile range hood and countertops, both in crisp white and cobalt blue. The backsplash is a delighful sunlit yellow.

Overall, the property is—in short—a vibrant tour de force of living space. So we’d be remiss if we didn’t give a virtual standing ovation to REALTOR® Anne Burkin while we’re here.

Annie Potts, who’s been in front of the camera on TV’s “The Fosters” for the past year, also has just completed two new films: Paging Dr. Freed and As Good As You. She was nominated for an Emmy Award in the early 1990s for her role on “Love & War”.