When Lana Condor first saw her Encino home, it wasn’t during some polished in-person showing. It was through a FaceTime call — from her then-fiancé, Anthony De La Torre, while Lana was deep in the jungle in Vietnam on a conservation trip. “I think I found the perfect home,” he told her, walking her through the property screen by screen. She fell in love before she even touched down in LA — especially with the backyard. She could already picture their dogs tearing across it. By the time she toured the nearly 5,000-square-foot property in person, the decision was made.
What followed was a two-year, full-scale renovation led by designer Joseph Monsour. The result? A deeply personal sanctuary on almost half an acre that Lana and Anthony — now husband and wife, having celebrated their wedding right here — paid $2.9 million to call home. Featured in Architectural Digest, it’s a single-story residence that quietly rewrites the rules of what a celebrity home can feel like.
So, what’s it actually like inside?
Let’s wander through the Venetian plaster archways, step into the color-drenched pink glam room, and find out how one of Hollywood’s most recognizable young actors turned a solid-but-unremarkable Encino property into a space that feels like a warm embrace.
A Late-’90s Home with an Italian Soul
The house, built in the late 1990s, isn’t a crumbling relic or a developer’s blank slate. It’s something arguably harder to design around: a well-proportioned property that had solid bones but zero personality. Think good structure, no story. Lana and Monsour decided to give it one — and the direction they chose wasn’t what you might expect.
The design language here draws heavily on Italian aesthetics. Not the cold, museum-piece kind, but a warmer, softer interpretation that blends comfort with craftsmanship. Venetian plaster wraps the hallway arches with a luminous, hand-applied texture that catches and shifts with the light throughout the day. Custom trim details run through the home, giving each passage and doorway a sense of quiet intention. These aren’t decorative afterthoughts — they’re the connective tissue of the entire design.
The single-story layout, unusual for a home at this scale, was part of what drew Lana in. Everything lives on one level, flowing naturally from room to room. A distinctive cupola rises above the front door, nodding to the Mediterranean influence before you even step inside. There’s no grand staircase, no double-height foyer drama. Instead, the home draws you in gently — room by room, texture by texture — until you realize you’ve completely lost track of time.
The Kitchen: Where Everyone Ends Up
Lana genuinely loves to cook, so the kitchen needed to be more than photogenic. It needed to work. And it does — this room functions as the undisputed central hub of the home.
A generous island anchors the space, handling everything from weeknight meal prep to weekend entertaining. It doubles as a breakfast bar and, inevitably, the spot where every guest gravitates during parties. If you’ve ever attended a dinner gathering anywhere in Los Angeles, you already know: the kitchen island is the real VIP section.
The open shelving displays a curated rotation of pottery and glassware, and a window above the sink frames a view of the courtyard — making even dish duty feel less like a chore. Two practical details reveal how seriously Lana takes this room: a custom pot filler installed right above the stove (because hauling water across the kitchen gets old fast when you cook daily) and a five-burner stovetop paired with not one but two double-drawer dishwashers. It’s the kind of setup that quietly says, “We use this room constantly, and we have people over often.”
The overall feel is warm, sunlit, and unforced. This isn’t a show kitchen built for content. It’s a working kitchen built for real life — which, ironically, makes it far more compelling to look at.
The Sitting Room: Wrapped in Fabric
This might be the most unexpectedly striking room in the entire house. Tucked off the primary bedroom, the sitting room is a genuine cocoon — and the reason is immediately visible the moment you step inside. Both the walls and the ceiling are covered in fabric.
The effect is both acoustic and visual. Sound softens. Light diffuses. The entire space feels like it’s gently holding you. A fireplace anchors one wall — one of the home’s multiple fireside living spaces — and a sage green couch draws you in for long conversations or quiet afternoons with a book. It’s the kind of room you enter and instinctively lower your voice, not because it’s formal, but because it feels that intimate.
It’s a bold choice, fabric on a ceiling, and it could easily have tipped into gimmick territory. But it works here because everything else in the room stays restrained. No competing statement pieces. No visual noise. Just texture, warmth, and the quiet crackle of a fireplace.
The Pink Glam Room: Lana’s Unapologetic Signature
Every home that’s been designed with real care needs at least one room that belongs entirely, unapologetically to its owner. For Lana, that’s the pink glam room.
Color-drenched from floor to ceiling, this space is where Lana’s personality dials up to full volume. It’s a deliberate counterpoint to the soft neutrals and Italian-inflected warmth that define the rest of the home. The turquoise accents that thread through the property — appearing in textiles, decorative details, and small design moments across multiple rooms — find their boldest expression here, layered against those saturated pinks.
This isn’t a room trying to be timeless or safe or universally appealing. It’s a room that says: this one’s mine. And honestly, in a home where every other space whispers, it’s refreshing to have one that sings.
The Office and Library: Craft Meets Function
The office-library is where the renovation’s obsessive attention to craftsmanship becomes impossible to ignore. Custom-built cabinetry lines the walls — not flat-pack, assembly-line shelving, but proper built-ins with real architectural presence. Books, objects, and personal pieces fill the shelves in a way that looks genuinely collected over time rather than styled for a photoshoot.
The centerpiece is a sculptural desk that commands the room with quiet authority. It’s not decorative. It’s a working surface built for actual work — scripts, meetings, planning, the unglamorous backbone of an acting career. This room is beautiful, but it’s built for business first.
The Primary Bedroom (Calm Over Spectacle)
The primary bedroom continues the home’s overarching philosophy: comfort before drama. Layers of soft textiles, warm neutral tones on the walls that seem to shift subtly depending on the light — cooler in morning sun, warmer by golden hour — and generous windows that let the Southern California light do most of the heavy lifting.
The sitting room connects directly to this space, creating a private retreat-within-a-retreat that feels almost resort-like in its separation from the rest of the home. The formal dining room and the home’s two fireside living rooms sit on the other side of the floor plan, so there’s a genuine sense of withdrawal when you cross into this wing. After a long day, that separation matters.
The Outdoor Spaces (Southern California Flex)
This is where the house fully earns its Encino zip code. The outdoor areas aren’t an afterthought squeezed between walls — they’re woven into the home’s architecture so seamlessly that the shift from inside to outside barely registers.
The courtyard serves as the property’s quiet anchor. A sophisticated fountain sets the tone — you hear water before you see the garden. Terra cotta pavers and lush greenery create a private pocket that feels removed from the city entirely. The loggia — a covered outdoor room, open on one or more sides — extends the living space with a dining table and the kind of lazy, breezy atmosphere that turns every evening into an excuse to eat outside.
Then there’s the pool, complete with its own spa. Nearby, a covered dining patio with a built-in grill transforms warm nights into full-blown outdoor dinner parties. French doors swing open from the interior living areas, and suddenly, your entertaining space has doubled. On a cool Los Angeles evening, with the fire pit going and music drifting from inside, it’s the kind of setting that makes you forget LA has traffic at all.
The indoor-outdoor flow isn’t a real estate brochure phrase here. It’s the actual, lived experience of the home.
A Life Inside a Dream Home
What makes Lana and Anthony’s home resonate beyond its design credentials is how thoroughly normal daily life sounds within it. Lana cooks — genuinely, not performatively. Anthony plays guitar in the living room. Their dogs claim furniture that’s probably too nice for dog hair, though nobody seems to enforce any rules about it.
The couple had moved to Seattle a few years earlier to be closer to Lana’s family, so the return to California and this particular purchase in Encino represented a deliberate new chapter. They host friends for dinners that run long, fill rooms with music and conversation, and have built a space that functions as a real gathering place — not a showroom frozen in a photoshoot moment.
The wedding celebration they hosted here might be the ultimate proof that they got the design right. When a home becomes the backdrop for one of the most important days of your life, it stops being a property. It becomes part of the story.
Why This Home Matters (Even If You’re Not House-Hunting)
Celebrity home tours can feel like aspirational window-shopping — all square footage and price tags and rooms you’ll never sit in. But Lana and Anthony’s Encino home tells a different kind of story. It’s not about scale or extravagance, though it has both. It’s about intention.
The turquoise accents thread quietly through the rooms. The Venetian plaster catches light in the hallway. The fabric-wrapped sitting room that makes you want to whisper. The pink glam room that makes you want to laugh out loud. The office that says I actually work here. Every choice reflects the people who live in this space — not a trend cycle or a designer’s ego project.
The takeaway isn’t “go buy a half-acre estate in Encino.” It’s that personality that will always beat perfection. Keep the details that make a space feel like yours. Paint a room a color that makes you exhale. Let the dogs on the couch. Build a home that wraps around the people inside it — not one that performs for the people outside it.
Conclusion
Lana and Anthony’s home is proof that renovation doesn’t have to mean erasure. Sometimes the best thing you can do with a house is understand what it already wants to be — and then fill it with music, good food, turquoise accents, and enough dog hair to make it truly alive.
Now tell me — what’s the one room in your home you’d completely reimagine if you had Lana’s designer on speed dial?
Drop your thoughts in the comments below, and if you want more celebrity home tours that go beyond the surface, check out our look inside Emma Chamberlain’s artsy LA space next.
