The Montecito home of Legally Blonde author Amanda Brown and her husband, real estate investor Justin Chang, hit the market recently for $18.5 million.

The home, which cost the couple $16.8 million in 2012, was designed and built in 1931 by Yale-schooled architect Ambrose C. Cramer, perhaps best known for his design of author Arthur Meeker’s Chicago home. Brown and Chang’s house in Los Angeles, meanwhile, has a pedigree that includes Baxter Healthcare vice-president Jack McGinley and Cincinnati advertising executive William LaWarre.

The house sits on more than three acres of property—with views of the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Ynez Mountains—past a large reflecting pool and a long drive and behind a walled property boundary. The façade is distinguished by its white, curlicue gables and a symmetrical front that stretches into a full compound on the back lawn.

With over 9,700 square feet, it’s a whale of a home, with formal living and dining rooms, six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a media room, and a kitchen marked by a soaring vaulted roof with dormers and exposed ceiling beams. Dark beams, in fact, are splashed throughout the house, bouncing nicely off the dark hardwood floors and helping to keep the molded white walls from feeling too New England beach-y.

A subway-tiled bathroom with a marble soaking tub sits off the main bedroom, which includes French doors opening to the lavish, formally landscaped grounds. Checkered tile and Doric columns adorn the back rocking porch, and for the well-vehicled buyer, there’s also a five-car garage.