Inside RuPaul’s Fabulous Beverly Hills Mansion | Open Door | Architectural Digest

Hello A.D. I'm RuPaul and welcome to our crib. Now this is our disco room. We love music. We love to dance. You know, when I was about to arrive, there was always a place where they said they don't dance cocktails anymore. We decided we needed a disco in our house and this is it, there are 26 disco balls up there and at the bottom there is a Hollywood Regency Dorothy Draper inspired fireplace which is one of my favorite things and of course on the walls we have many of My favorite disco artists, some that are not so disco but all of them are beautiful and inspire us to dance and move around this table here, it can be moved at any time, it is on wheels, so the idea is to invite people to eat a little and then move the table to the side and then enjoy a daytime disco right in this very room.

I love, love, love this room. It may be my favorite, but don't stop me. Now this is our kitchen again. It's very daring. This is a stove. That's made by a French company called Lucky You and orange is my favorite color. You'll see a lot of orange in this house. I love these lighting fixtures because they remind me of those underwater diving equipment from '19. I don't know about the '30s and '40s, but they are just beautiful. I love, love, love the finish of these cabinets and the black and white. You'll see a lot of that around the house, too.

The floors are painted and stained in black and white. It just makes me happy and if you can't be happy in your own home, how the hell are you going to be happy anywhere else? lucky you, this breakfast nook is so

fabulous

, so much light, so much life, and I tend to gravitate here even because it's right next to the kitchen, I love this wallpaper and these chairs, they are designed by another very important designer from the years 30, Francis Elkins, this lamp here actually belonged to Issa Laurent in the 1970s, this is a

fabulous

room, I mean there are so many places. eat in this house, but the whole house is designed around community, we love game nights, we love playing dirty charades, like normal charades, you just replace one of the words with a dirty word like poop, right, poop i did it again you get the picture this is what we now call our dining pavilion it was inspired by an elizabeth taylor movie called boom a lot of people may not have seen that movie but she used a room similar to this, since his game room was an adaptation of a Tennessee Williams. play I love stripes, you know we live in Hollywood, we live in showbiz, so we're not afraid of texture, color and bold statements, you know this may not be for everyone, but it's perfect for us, In fact, okay, I'll go.

For the record, this may be my favorite room, but don't force me into it because we're not done with the tour. Welcome to my office. It's like living in my own personal Burma box. There's a lot of orange. This is where all my Emmys are and reminds me of an office that Joan Collins would enjoy 34. 4 I realized that orange was my favorite color because of the way it makes me feel, so I implore everyone watching to find what their favorite color is in depending on how you feel it and live it and that is what I do in this office.

I love the foreign men's wardrobe. We took two bedrooms and turned them into my closet. I have everything here. It's like a historical artifact on every shopping trip. I've been there before, even Little John's is documented right here, in this very room. It is very emotional for me to be here. Oh, I remember wearing it in the episode where, oh right, I bought that little boutique in France. It's one of my favorite places because I love color and I love clothes, so having these two bedrooms converted into one closet is just perfectionism, so much storage space, so many textures and colors that makes me happy and listen, if you're going to be on this planet, why not? be happy why not live in a place that makes you happy and that is what this place does.

Now this particular piece is special because it's a sewing box and it was owned by the one and only Anne Margaret, which is pretty special now, this centerpiece. The island is covered in Black Agatha, which is a Brazilian stone and is a huge piece of black Agatha. It sounds familiar. I believe i know it. Now we wanted the back garden area to have space for people, parties, a pool and possibly even putting on shows. Know? If we put a little slab over the jacuzzi we could have chairs here and have a show there or project a movie there.

It's about being able to stay in one place and enjoy where we are also if you see it. At the top of this hill there is a structure where you can do yoga or meditate or simply receive the sun with a cup of coffee. Really comfortable, not demanding, easy, breezy, but it's also quite decadent. It's very lively. This is the office workspace. This is the heartbeat. of my operation I love the mix between wild energy and then the classics. I love that juxtaposition. What better place to be creative and inspired than a room full of foreign leopard prints.

This is our living room and we have given it to our decorator Martin Lawrence. Bellard full Reign now Martin was inspired by great designers of the 30s and 40s like Dorothy Draper and Elsie Dewolfe, jewel tones that I love. The light comes in here and of course you see all the Hollywood Regency style that amuses you so much. I know there are a lot of modern things in Los Angeles. We wanted to go more classic and that's why this room is so charming and beautiful. This house is a work house. You know, I work here in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is a business city, so. this house needed work for me with clothes entertaining office space George and I are very tall so we needed a place that had high ceilings and this fits perfectly this is the epicenter right here this is the mother lobe this is the file drag jewelry shoes dresses whatever it's all good here in fact some things I'm looking at these bracelets I've had since 1993. and obviously there's newer stuff I bought last week or that Zaldi that designs all my costumes together. Last week was pretty amazing, it's like a museum, but even better, like I said before, it's a working house, so last night I was in costume filming and you know, it makes it very easy to come here and find exactly what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for it couldn't be easier now, of course, right next

door

is the Glam room, where I can enter. Drag and mirrors, there, makeup, everything is there. Jules here, shoes, dresses, look at these chandeliers, look at these beautiful lamps. it makes you want to be as beautiful as them, so you know you come here and you want to get beautiful, you want to try everything, you actually want to lick everything, but I don't advise you that, it's okay, so listen, we have been all over the house . I'm going to say it, this is my favorite room, you know?

But the kid in me has always loved the colors, the sparkles, the outrageous textures and that's what makes drag so important, that's what makes drag so much fun for anyone. For those who have never done drag, I'm telling you now, put on a pair of high heels, a wig, some very colorful eye makeup and wait and see what emerges because there is a superhero in you that is dying to come out, it is like these jewels where you shine. shine a light on it in a different way and it becomes something completely different that's what we're doing here that's what this house is this house is the manifestation of my drag ideal where there is color and expansive and fun disco all the things that make life worth living you have to find joy you have to create joy honestly the hardest part is focusing on the joy in your life because we all know there are so many horrible things out there why not make your home a place beautiful and joyful to live?

Well, thanks for stopping by, you're welcome anytime. PsychForeign.