Melody Land Ranch, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
May 24th 2006 at 1:02PM

I've truly never seen an estate like Melody Land Ranch. The house was built in 1990 and is a gilded monument to Elvis. The 10,000-square-foot Northridge, California home is filed all sorts of unbelievable details from golden beds and tables to a statue of a Roman soldier guarding the tub in the master bathroom. The owner is retiring and selling the home with all the furnishings and art right down to the $100,000 crystal chandeliers, the $200,000 custom sofa in the ballroom and the Elvis memorabilia including a guitar which once belong to the King of Rock and Roll. There's no price listed so let us know how much you would pay in the comments but first, take a look at a few pictures after the jump.

Your own guarded bathtub

The gilded dining room table

The owner is willing to throw in this Rolls with purchase.

Could you get any work done in this office?

The $200,000 sofa in the ballroom.

Even the kitchen has a touch of Elvis.

Elvis guards the foyer.

A $10,000 marble toliet.

Tags: california real estate, elvis, estate of the day, luxury real estate, melody land ranch

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Rich May 24th 2006 1:23PM

Oh.

My.

God.

Proof again that money does not buy taste.

PXP May 24th 2006 1:28PM

hahaha, that is awesomely tacky.

I'd like to bid $1 Bob.

Tam May 24th 2006 1:38PM

I would like to take a dump on your $10,000 marble toilet please Danny. What a joy.

jmchez May 24th 2006 2:04PM

I second the first comment. It all looks like a hillbilly all of a sudden came into a lot of money. Oh, wait, that's like the real Elvis too!

Lena May 24th 2006 2:05PM

Even the Rolls is gross!

Attilahun May 24th 2006 2:19PM

Looks like something an oil sheik would build in Saudi Arabia....horrendous. He's full of it; $250,000 for cheesy lions out front? You can order those from horchow or frontgate. This place makes tony soprano look like gary cooper....

CK Dexter-Haven May 24th 2006 2:51PM

Remove the musical theme and it could be any tacky house in Greenwich, Beverly Hills, Potomac, or any other place that the newly rich lacking taste build and fill such abodes. The white RR is the icing on the cake...I wonder if "Danny U's" last name is UN-Taste.

If any film companies are shooting nearby and need a building to demolish, this place should be chosen.

CK Dexter-Haven May 24th 2006 2:54PM

PS...That is NOT to imply that ALL houses in the aforementioned locales are tacky...only many of them.

Henry May 24th 2006 8:59PM

Dang those Clampetts sure got themselves some nice digs

George May 24th 2006 10:31PM

I would bid $35 million.

Eric Cannon May 24th 2006 10:45PM

WTF

Rob May 25th 2006 12:20AM

You guys are all full of it. If any of you could afford to live there, you'd jump at the chance. I respect someone who does what he likes instead of acting like sheep and making his house acceptable to everybody else.

Cargo May 26th 2006 3:56PM

It's not the Elvis theme, it's that the house seems to consist of normal white walls and beige carpet as would be found in any suburban home or apartment, but there's tacky yet expensive rococo gilt furniture stuck into it. The dining room shot is a classic example. Take the furniture and drapes out of there and it is completely a normal room as found in any McMansion. The fixtures/cabinetry in that kitchen come from Home Depot. The floors and walls and permanent fixtures are suburbia but the furniture is donald trump. The sum is atrocious.

Utterly no sense of thought or design in this. The owner had too much money and utterly no taste. Now if it was an over-the-top Elvis-fest with some professional design help, it could be gloriously kitschy, as it is it's just rather sad.