A writer on 'The Simpsons' is selling his funky Venice Beach house for $5.8 million. He knows it's not for everyone — and that's part of its appeal.
By agoh@insider.com (Amanda Goh) of INSIDER |
From a distance, J. Stewart Burns' house in Venice, California, looks like it's upside down. A flat roof rises up from a triangular-looking base. One wall is a nearly unbroken slab of gray, and one side of the home appears to be supported by an all-glass room.
"I first saw the house a few weeks before buying it. I loved it," Burns told Insider via email. He initially lived there with his daughters, who moved away when they got older. Soon after, he got married to screenwriter Lillian Yu, and the couple had three children together in the house.
"The house is very flexible," Burns, who's a writer on "The Simpsons," said. "It wasn't set up for a family, but I saw how it could be, and that's what we did."
Now, after eight years of living in the home, Burns is putting it on the market for $5.8 million. This is the first time he's tried to sell the house since he bought it for $2.3 million in 2014, per property records.
