Actor Vince Vaughn recently re-listed a bit of his investment portfolio on the open market, asking $2.495 million for a home in Hollywood Hills West he’s owned since 2014. Vaughn purchased the pad for $2.38 million, and has had it on and off the market for at least two years, offering it as a rental at $12.5K/month in 2016, and for sale a year later with an asking price of $2.7 million.

An exterior view gives the impression of a mid-century L.A.-area home that is not a modern; traditional/suburban dating to the middle of the 1950’s. The house has a quirky sense of style, though, with an extravagant attached pergola, a solarium-like series of windows, and a rambling layout that meanders pleasantly.

The interiors are open, bright, and disarmingly unpretentious. Kate Bosworth owned the home before Vince Vaughn, and the revisions are hers. The emphasis is on reflected light and wide-open space, and to that end the brick fireplace that serves as the centerpiece to the common spaces has been whitewashed. The blazing treatment is offset nicely by a judicious amount of dark wood. Exposed beams reinforce the singular period identity.

The kitchen gets a fresh makeover, avoiding the marble/granite syndrome and working in a little cottage-style influence that doesn’t stray into overt buttermilk. The charmer, though, has to be the master suite, with an added skylight and a set of French doors opening onto a private terrace.

Vaughn’s recent performances include the heavy in last year’s ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’; the shoestring-budget prison potboiler hit critics where they live.