A quick overview of the recent home-buying and home-selling activities of Ellen DeGeneres includes more than one heavyweight property in the Santa Barbara County idyll of Montecito.

Until this winter, the sprawling estate the comedian took off the hands of Dennis Miller and then resold for a quick $5 million profit might’ve taken the prize for sheer proportionality. However, the ruling was contested in late February when she purchased Villa Tragara, a heavily stylized and very atmospheric estate with 12,000 sq. ft. of interior space for $21 million.

That property somewhat overshadowed DeGeneres’ most recent listing in Montecito, but caught the eye of a buyer with $13.5 million to spend. While Villa Tragara employs Moorish design elements, this 4,780 sq. ft. three-bedroom packs Asian and Modern inspiration into a Spanish framework.

The home’s interiors are as contemporary, a diverse series of approaches that reach their apex in the kitchen. Black is not generally a tone used for kitchen design, but in this case works admirably by way of contrasting red-beige natural stone and a liberating bank of glass over the sink. The same flat black is used for the master’s vaulted ceiling.

Other elements at work here: barn doors, plank hardwood, recessed fixtures, concrete, pivoting and retracting glass, LED backlighting and — over the master bath’s freestanding soaking tub — a rectangular roof bay inset with windows.