RuPaul lists LA home for $5M: Here’s what to know about the glam space
RuPaul — host of the long-running reality-TV competition “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — is jumping into the real estate race.
The three-time Emmy award winner has listed his show-stopping midcentury modern abode in Los Angeles for $5 million.
Purchased in 2011 for $2.5 million, the glam space, located in the celebrity-stuffed enclave above Sunset Strip, makes it work when it comes to interior decor.
Here are some of our key takeaways. So find your inner drag queen and let’s sashay our way through this fab pad.
Hello, Dolly!
With just 2,362 square feet, three bedrooms and 2.5 baths, every square inch of space is spoken for. The “elegance extravaganza” starts at the foyer, with a framed portrait of Dolly Parton greeting you at the door.
Enter through fire-engine red doors, and you’re seeing red, which covers the walls, along with coordinating wallpaper.
Pops of color
We love a pop of color. The purple seats around a large, glass dining room table don’t distract from the jetliner city views offered from the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Bursts of blue, in the form of matching chairs in the living room, are set off by two carnelian couches. Artwork in vibrant tones offsets the red walls, which continue into the living and dining room, and kitchen.
Bar seating for two is set up next to a shiny black, tiled fireplace.
Animal print
Take a walk on the wild side in the media room. Here, leopard-print pillows pile on the couch, while giraffe-print carpeting runs underfoot. Layers of animal prints would seem overkill anywhere else, but in RuPaul’s domicile, somehow, it works.
Perhaps it’s the darker-toned walls providing a neutral palette that give plenty of breathing room for the fierce patterns.
It may be gone forever
While RuPaul has decorated the chic space to the hilt, that may not stop a future buyer from tearing it all down and building something new. But it’s still got plenty of perks to tempt a buyer to move right in. After all, the listing description notes that the 1960s construction has been “immaculately maintained, with walls of glass, sliding glass doors, a pool, and a spa, all with views of downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific.”
But it could also be an ideal spot for new construction. Also billed as a “developers’ dream,” the place could wind up as a tear-down that’s “just waiting to command top dollar alongside its $20-plus-million-dollar neighbors in this star-studded celebrity enclave.”
RuPaul will be sticking around
He’s letting go of this gem, but not leaving LA.
He still has a two-bedroom condo in West Hollywood and a Manhattan pad. And his husband, Georges LeBar, owns a ranch in Wyoming. If RuPaul gets anywhere near ask, he’ll prove he’s on top of the real estate game, too.