There aren’t many properties as scenic as this property in Santa Barbara County, which Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi just listed on the open market for $7.95 million. This elder farmhouse on a large lot with ocean views might be one of the ideal retreats currently for sale in the U.S., in fact.

The main home’s three bedrooms and 3.5 baths leave much of the roughly 6,000 square feet to common living areas; it is a house for guests and long summer evenings. The interiors have been modernized, but retain the essential spirit of the 1917 vintage of the original.

Plentiful glass offers a different perspective on the property and the larger setting from different areas of the home. The stunner is the lengthy combination solarium and screened porch, which presents a decidedly easygoing variation on the high dollar living style, and finds expression in a series of planters that comprise artful interior landscaping.

The home’s interiors are generally dressed in reflective white, keeping the photons bouncing during daylight hours for a sense of ebullience and optimism. Contrast abounds, though, and is represented most forcibly in a kitchen finished in matte black and black marble, and the dark hardwood plank that runs throughout.

The property grounds extend to over 10 acres, with a lagoon-inspired pool with a waterfall and a raised spa, lawns, old forest, gardens, and a barn that’s been repurposed as a creative studio and recreation space completing the picture-postcard living style.