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Usher Puts Colorful West Hollywood Home on the Market for .2M

R&B megastar Usher is hoping to turn a tidy profit on a contemporary, Spanish-style home a block off West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip that he picked up less than two years ago for $3.3 million. The 4,261-square-foot home is now listed for $4.2 million.

Not that Usher needs the money. The eight-time Grammy winner has sold more than 43 million albums worldwide, and remains one of the most popular artists of the past two decades.

Built in 1926, the five-bedroom, six-bath home was recently renovated with top-of-the-line finishes. It’s located four doors down from the upscale Chateau Marmont hotel, a favorite with celebrities (and paparazzi).

The house appears as if it jumped out of the pages of an interior design magazine. In the foyer and master bedroom, Usher painted the walls black, a daring color that’s very much in vogue with designers at the moment. His formal dining room is similarly colorful, with deep purple, floral print wallpaper and matching curtains and valances.

The rest of the home is far more conventional. The living room has dark wood floors, stenciled wood beams, and a rebuilt tiled fireplace. The kitchen has a white marble backsplash, gray Shaker-style cabinets, and new Viking appliances.

Incidentally, the listing photo for the kitchen shows what appears to be, at least to our untrained eye, oversized bottles of Cristal and Dom Perignon Champagne on the countertop.

Elsewhere, there’s a home theater and guest room with private entrance, according to the listing. Outside, there’s a pool and newly built deck.

Usher, 39, stepped into the limelight in 1997 with the single “You Make Me Wanna,” a song whose music video perfectly captures the hip-hop/R&B aesthetic of the era, complete with a purple wall of lights and multiple, inexplicable shots of goldfish. He’s put out eight solo studio albums to date, most recently 2016’s “Hard II Love.”

He’s widely credited with discovering Justin Bieber, whom he signed to his record label in 2007.

Outside of music, Usher owns a minority stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers and a partial stake in the streaming music service Tidal.

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