After quietly marketing his estate in Brentwood last year, Jim Belushi has listed the property openly; asking $42 million by word-of-mouth about eighteen months ago, it is now available at $38.5 million.

Belushi and his wife, Jennifer, purchased the 1.5-acre parcel in 2007, for $8.3 million, and hired architect Oscar Shamamian to design the home; Michael Smith handled the interiors. The home was finished in 2010. It is called Villa Burlingame.

The exterior of Burlingame’s main house has a very well executed sense of timelessness. The home is designed with strong Northern Italian architectural elements, especially those borrowed from Veneto, but there are cues from the French countryside in there as well. The house is sizeable, extending to 11,821 square feet of interiors. It contains six bedrooms, and eleven full or partial baths.

The home’s interiors bear out the fact that the build was a labor of love. Ornamental ceilings in molded plaster provide a little dazzle, but the home isn’t particularly assuming otherwise. Light fixtures, toning and material choices are understated, and provide an atmosphere of substance rather than flash: hand-hewn hardwood floors, reclaimed roof tiles and fireplace mantles, custom ironwork. It’s all very carefully considered, and materials traveled from four continents to arrive in this corner of Brentwood.

The property includes a detached guest house and a pool house. Most charmingly, the gardens are designed very much in the Romantic style: meandering idyll, punctuated by the occasional surprise (including a cold plunge pool), and a lack of stultifying formalism. An additional lot was purchased by the Belushis specifically to expand the grounds to 1.3 acres.

James Belushi’s work this year includes Woody Allen’s new film ‘Wonder Wheel.’ The movie—which also stars Kate Winslet—will be in theaters this December.