Following a family addition back in the spring of 2019, married actors Kate Mara and Jamie Bell settled on a quiet spot in Los Feliz for a better crack at parenting.

The couple closed on the home and, during their ownership tenure, carried out a few revisions to taste; nothing drastic aside from kitchen and baths, however, and the 1936-built four-bedroom, three-bath traditional is generally as subtly period as it was when they paid $2.6 million for it three years ago.

The home’s bedrooms are its standout spaces. Bright by virtue of plentiful glass and bright white walls and ceilings, and outfitted with French doors opening to the outdoor living area and double doors opening grandly to the rest of the home, the rooms are ebullient spaces that could put a spring of optimism into the morning routine of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Other notable spots in and around this home: the reading nook, a red brick-floored galley room of built-ins that culminates in a cozy window seat, and the enclosed porch, also floored in red brick. Covered and uncovered living areas, a lawn and red brick-bordered pool and sun deck, and a frame of leafy green sketch the exterior of this unmitigated charmer in the hinterlands of L.A.

Mara’s upcoming projects include comedy-drama Call Jane, with Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Chris Messina.

Bell’s recent projects include action thriller Without Remorse, with Michael B. Jordan.