Retro 124 — A Malibu Mid-Century House Filming Location Above the Pacific

Retro 124 is the kind of Malibu filming location where the approach, the room and the ocean feel connected before the camera even rolls. For film, photo and production work, the strongest move is simple: come through the stone-paved entrance court, pass into the vaulted living space, and land on full-height glass framing the Pacific. The house has real mid-century warmth, with wood finishes, striped retro seating, a dramatic ocean-facing gable and a broad pool deck that feels weathered rather than over-polished.

A Vaulted Room Built Around the View

The heart of the house is a long living and dining room under a steep white vaulted ceiling. At the ocean end, triangular clerestory glazing fills the gable, and the wide sliding doors below keep pulling the eye out to the deck and water. It is not a blank contemporary box. The wood flooring, large carpeted seating area, fireplace, glass-front display cabinetry and striped lounge chairs give it the comfortable retro character productions often spend time trying to create. From the dining end, you can shoot back across the furniture toward the fireplace, then turn around and carry the scene straight through the glass to the Pacific horizon. That depth makes the room especially useful for commercial, editorial and narrative work that needs a Malibu house interior with clear period personality.

Pool Deck With Real Coastal Scale

The rear deck gives the property its wide, open coastal scale. A large painted timber terrace runs across the back of the house with room to work around the traditional rectangular pool, whether production wants a filled-pool look or an empty-pool look. The red brick coping, patterned tile and raised tiled spa keep it grounded in the same late-20th-century world as the interiors, while the white metal railings leave the ocean backdrop clean. There is space here for wider poolside frames, gear placement and reverse angles back toward the gabled facade. The slatted pergolas add graphic bands of shadow across the boards, and the freestanding basketball hoop lets the terrace shift into a casual recreation-court feeling without changing locations. Farther along the hillside, the covered red-painted balcony is tighter and more weathered, sitting above trees and sloping ground.

Natural Light, Shade and Control

The pool terrace is the brightest working area, with strong open daylight from the ocean side and only the pergolas breaking it up. Inside, the gable glass pushes natural light deep into the living room, creating a clear contrast between the pale vaulted ceiling and the blue water beyond. When the direct light gets stronger, the slatted covers give crews broken shade without leaving the deck, and the sheltered entrance court offers a warmer reflected setup. The bedroom is the most controlled interior, with a lower flat ceiling and deep exterior cover cutting the intensity at the bed and television wall even though broad doors face the pool. The kitchen falls between the two, using a large skylight and a shaded window over the sink.

Arrival, Access and Malibu Shoot Planning

Arrival starts at the landscaped frontage, with a concrete drive, double-width wood garage door and a gated path beside an ivy-covered stone wall. For Malibu production planning, crews can coordinate permit details with FilmLA before locking the shoot day. Retro 124 is available for location work, and the exterior and interior settings connect directly enough to support simple movement between setups. Past the horizontal timber gate, the stone-tiled open-air court leads straight to the main doorway. Exposed overhead beams frame the sky, and the mountain ridge closes the reverse angle, so the entrance has its own use before the house opens up to the ocean. The kitchen sits just off the living area, with wood cabinetry, blue-gray counters, stainless appliances and a peninsula with stools. That straight entry-to-ocean axis is one of the cleanest production moves here: from sheltered court, into the vaulted room, and out to the Pacific horizon.