8411 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069

Anyone who's shopped the Hills for a view knows the trade you're usually asked to make. The dramatic vista comes attached to a house on stilts, down a street you hold your breath on, on a lot so steep there's nowhere to actually stand outside and take it in. You get the view or you get the ground under your feet, almost never both. The Nest is the exception. It sits on a rare flat promontory, a real piece of land pushed out over the hills, where the view isn't something you catch through a window but something you live inside of, skyline to ocean, the whole sweep of it. Mornings are coffee above the clouds with the city still asleep below. Evenings are long dinners outside as downtown flickers on, one light at a time. And because the lot is flat and wrapped in its own privacy, there's real room to breathe out here, a resort-style pool, open terraces, and vantage points that make the rest of Los Angeles feel very far away. Inside, the home holds onto its mid-century soul, walls of...