Big on Family Entertainment

After 15 years of expanding their house to include such unusual features as an Art Deco lobby modeled after the original Pantages Theatre in Hollywood and a room for model trains, the owners find themselves alone in a house designed for a family.

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About this house: Ample in size, the house takes up much of its lot. Its features are geared to providing family entertainment.

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Asking price: $1,495,000, including many furnishings and such toys as model trains.

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Size: Three bedrooms and five baths in 6,785 square feet.

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Features: An Art Deco movie house includes a 17-foot theater marquis and an 18-seat theater with THX Sound. In the 1,000-square-foot model train room, entered through the rear of a caboose, a train journeys from a turn-of-the-20th-century mining town through New York City’s Grand Central Station of the ‘20s and the 1939 World’s Fair to the Rocky Mountains. There is a study modeled after William Randolph Hearst’s at San Simeon, an art gallery and a ‘50s-style game room with a soda fountain. A hand-painted swimming pool set in a fairy tale-like castle has fiber optic lighting and figures from “The Little Mermaid.”

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Where: Sherman Oaks

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Listing agent: Matt Epstein, Re/Max on the Boulevard, Team 2000, Sherman Oaks, (818) 789-7408