I think you can see in photo #7 the dining area, just beyond the living area. And in photo #8, there is the dining table. There’s a smaller round table just off the kitchen. It is odd that the dining area is just sitting there, and I don’t like that white carpet under it all. Everything else is just beautiful! They even got some plants to grow on the leeward side of the house.
My H and I have walked past this La Jolla house many times over the years. I always love their garden. We have a couple friends in La Jolla Shores on the water and the upkeep to these homes is tremendous.
So many cool little details in that house. Check out the fancy boxes they built around the garage door openers. Never seen anything like that before.
I found that garage photo very confusing. As far as I can tell, the only explanation for what we see is mirrored surfaces? Is the garage floor really wood and stone?
I spent a lot of time analyzing that garage photo also. Fancy floor? Mirrors everywhere? I think they turned the garage into an exercise studio or something? Which doesn’t make sense because the house is located where street parking is a big issue
Maybe they occasionally brought some prized babies in there! 
(Probably stored them offsite to prevent corrosion).
It looks like they can park 2 cars in the driveway… so maybe that’s all they need?
The bottom of the back wall is mirrored, underneath of the cabinets that drop from the ceiling. There’s a mirrored closet or something on the right, too.
The workout room sounds logical, otherwise is a very fancy place for your cars. Although, in SD you don’t have to worry about snow and salt and what-not dripping on to the finished floors. If I had a $14 million dollar house I would probably have a Bentley or two, and would want to baby them.
I studied those garage pictures, too, trying to figure them out. I have to say, I’ve lived in coastal LA for a long time and have viewed many homes both online and in person but this is the first time I’ve ever seen the descriptor “Ocean View Garage” used…but then again, for $13.8 million…
@notrichenough - I’ve seen boxes like those in the picture used to hide the garage door opener. Some guys around here do that when they want their garage to double as a man cave. They finish the floors, mount a flat screen TV, add workout equipment and of course, never park their cars in there.
PROGRESS UPDATE
A lot of work is getting done, but it is not anything really very visible. This week we:
Installed all the windows on the main floor
Finished the beams and headers out on the balcony and deck areas on top floor
Finished complex roof and rafters and tie in to the existing house in the staircase area
Drywall complete in garage/workshop area and existing part of the house
Painted out garage/basement area and a lot of exterior doors
Finished all the dark trim on exterior
Built garage door area to get ready for garage door installation
Installed the dumbwaiter!!! (but it is not totally done yet)
Nailed on a zillion shear panels for shear wall areas and attached a trillion metal brackets, metal straps and structural stuff
Blocked main floor for drywall
Installed a communications panel in laundry room and wired up the whole house with electrical, cable and Cat5 wiring
Installed recessed cans in ceiling on main floor and set boxes for lighting
Finished all of the plumbing on all floors!! this was an ordeal trying to figure out all the drains and all the venting of everything
Installed bath and laundry fans and ran vents to exterior
Heating ducts run for main floor (wall and ceiling registers) and top floor (floor registers)
Today (Saturday) a roofing crew is repairing all the broken tiles on the existing roof. Cancelling old vents coming up through roof and installing the big stove vent and putting on plywood, flashing and paper in the section that will tie to the new addition. Working on that concrete tile roof is really a mess because, in order to install any new vent or cancel a vent, the tiles have to be unscrewed from the top ridge all the way down. So, to put in the stove vent they have to go up to the top of the ridge, remove the ridge pieces and unscrew all the tiles from ridge down to edge in order to cut a hole and then reinstall everything all over again. A real mess to work on that roof.
I loaded some photos
According to google, San Diego (all of California, actually) has only been hit by one hurricane ever, in 1858. One tropical storm in 1939.
So it seems like big storms aren’t really an issue in San Diego.
If I had a spare hundred million or two, I’d seriously consider that house. 
The house is very valuable because there are very few properties (most are in La Jolla) that are absolutely ocean front in San Diego. Tons of condo type properties along the boardwalk in Pacific Beach (with a million tourists and partiers 5 ft from your front window) but most of the other areas are on cliffs above the ocean until you get up to Oceanside or down to Imperial Beach at the south end near Mexican border.
I love how they have a set of beach chairs and umbrella set up on the little bit of sand next to the house. Not sure if that was just luck when they took the photos or staged.
Del Mar has a stretch of houses right on the beach; we used to walk past them when we were staying at the VRBO a few years ago. But I’m pretty sure many of them are rentals.
Here’s a couple: http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-150020369-2016_Ocean_Front_Del_Mar_CA_92014
http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-160043912-1802_Ocean_Front_Del_Mar_CA_92014
You did a lot this week!
We could have a tsunami from an earthquake out at sea or overseas, and I would think there would be concerns about sea levels rising and beach front erosion. What type of ground would the $13.8M house be anchored in for the big one?
One Step Backward
Today my carpenter took the time to fill all the drain lines with water for a final test. And… he finds out that some numnut shot nails into two of the drain lines while they were nailing in the plywood shear panels on the outside of the house. Could you imagine if those started filling up with poop? Ugghhh… poor guy had to dismantle two areas up tight in a corner between ceiling joists and redo the pipes. He ended up having to cut a hole in the outside of the house to get access to the pipes.
So stucco patching needed?
No stucco patching required because the hole was through the shear panel plywood on the new addition. We haven’t started the stucco on addition yet
I have called for the framing, electrical and plumbing inspection for the main floor addition tomorrow. We are madly flashing up the main windows, installing bath and laundry venting to exterior and buttoning up some blocking.
We installed a fancy communication panel in the laundry room with Cat5 and cable wiring to all the rooms. And finishing up smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors.
My main issue is I cannot remember if bathtub is supposed to be installed for rough inspection
Today we start painting up the interior of the existing house, which is very exciting to me. I have chosen Espresso Beans for the windows and door trim (Behr Marquee) in satin (thank you for the suggestion!!). We will see how it turns out. Had to spend 2 hours yesterday clearing out the living room and dining room to get it ready for painting. This morning the paint guys are not allowed to put one brush of paint on anything until they have vacuumed up all the dust and debris out of the rooms. I am pretty insistent that the paint job has to be the highest quality
It is going to be a real chore to get the painting done because they have to paint up the hallway, living room, dining room and powder room and then stop and move all of the 45 boxes of cabinets out of the kitchen into dining room and start painting the kitchen
We did not pass inspection on the new addition for a crazy reason. Evidently there is a new code that every bathroom has to have a humidity sensor switch that automatically turns the bath fan on when it senses humidity. That was news to me and my electrician. So off to Home Depot to get a bunch of the expensive switches