Fleetwood Mac founding member John McVie has picked up a home in Brentwood. The bassist and songwriter invested $6.78 million on the property, a French country cottage-style in the gated Brentwood Circle enclave.

The house measures about 5,480 square feet, and dates to the early 2000’s. It contains four bedrooms and five baths.

The craftsmanship of the house is top-flight: exposed, hand-hewn beams, carved doors, limestone and carved wood fireplace mantels, floors lined with reclaimed, antique French oak pavers. It’s engineered to evoke the French countryside inside and out, with an open and occasionally modern flourish: incorporating an arcade or colonnade into the interior, for example, and capping it with a skylight.

The kitchen reflects the design aesthetic in the most pronounced way, with tile-inlaid hardwood floors, rustic cabinetry, and an intimate feel. It looks a little like Julia Child’s T.V. set.

The master bath, too, balances period and modern nicely: a harlequin tile floor, clawfoot tub, and polished oak doors are contrasted with recessed light fixtures and a skylight. Bedrooms feature French doors and windows.

The property exterior really shines, though. Engineered as a little European sanctuary, with artfully landscaped gardens, a brick patio and attached pergola, overgrown slate motor court and walkways, and water features galore, it pulls off its beguiling design very well. McVie’s primary home is in Hawaii, where exterior landscaping is often so well integrated with interior living spaces that the boundary blurs. The effect here is kith and kin.

John McVie played bass in Fleetwood Mac from its beginnings as a ferocious British blues band, through its later and tamer iterations as a hit-juggernaut pop act. The band will be second-night headlining acts for both the ‘Classic West’ and ‘Classic East’ concerts this July.