13 Details About Celebrity Homes That Really Mark Them As The Homes Of The Rich And Famous

Imagine having a built in spa or having four separate rooms in your closet.

Liezel

• Published in Film & TV
• May 7, 2022

When we were young, we all dreamed of building our own houses when we grew up, right? We even did drawings of the rooms, the general structure of the house, what we'd fill it up with, and what things we'd do with it.

It was one of those things you simply did as a child because although you loved your home back then and loved staying with your parents, a part of you always wanted the independence of having your own home. Celebrities had that too.

Aside from having their dreams of being in the spotlight, they also had dreams of what kinds of cars they'd have, and what kind of house they would build once they get the juice of their hard work. And, of course, when they finally got their big break, a lot of them set loose into building their dream home.

With the kind of money celebs earn though, we know that their homes aren't just going to be plain and simple. With enough cash to cater to their every taste and whim, why need to keep it all low-key, right?

There will be certain details that will make you think, "Yep, this is definitely the home of someone who's definitely famous and rich." Here are some of those details in some of the most famous celebrities' homes out there.

1. Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz has a farm on his property in Brazil and by farm, we don't just mean your usual farm. No, his farm is absolutely massive and he has filled it with animals like horses and cattle.

Whenever he gets visits, he would even serve them farm-to-table meals.

And being the true musician he is, Kravitz also owns an amazing Kawai plexiglass piano that once belonged to Old Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman. Then, when he listens to music, he typically sits on a red lounge chair that once belonged to late artist Andy Warhol.

Watch his entire home tour here:

2. Jay-Z

Jay-Z has been a huge longtime admirer of the late artist Jean-Michael Basquiat and he has at least one Basquiat painting hanging in his home. In 2013, he bought Basquiat's painting "Mecca" from 1982 for $4.2 million.

3. Ashley Tisdale

Before she opened her doors to Architectural Digest, Ashley Tisdale's bookshelves were completely empty. So, what did she do?

She sent out her husband to the bookstore to buy books to fill them up. On that trip, he bought four hundred books just for the home tour.

Watch her complete home tour here:

4. Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey's Tribeca apartment doesn't have your typical closet. Not only does she have a gigantic walk-in but she has various rooms in her closet dedicated to different luxurious items.

One room is for gowns and dresses, one is for shoes, and another is strictly for lingerie.

Oh, and one other thing that nobody else has that she has? Marilyn Monroe's white piano from her childhood.

This is what her closet situation looked like in the same apartment 20 years ago on MTV cribs for comparison

Watch her closet tour here:

5. Barbra Streisand

On Barbra Streisand's California property, she doesn't just have one house or two. She has four buildings.

Just outside one of the buildings, a barn where she records music, there's a tranquil, color-coordinated pond. "Since the houses are barn red [and] trimmed with black and white, the fish [in the pond], of course, have to be black and white — right?" she wrote in her book My Passion For Design.

6. Kim Kardashian

Like Streisand, Kim Kardashian also has a thing for color-coordinating. Since the interior and exterior of her house in Calabasas strictly contain neutral colors like gray, cream, and black, she decided to make her basketball court and luxurious cars cream, gray, and black as well to match the overall aesthetic of the home.

Watch her complete home tour here:

7. Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell has four pools in her beautiful Kenyan villa but more than that, she also has a built-in spa. Inspired by the late Henri Chenot, a pioneer in the health and wellness community, her spa has a huge waiting area and a room where she and her guests practice hydrotherapy.

There, they first bathe regularly for 30 minutes and then they step into a second tub for a mud bath.

Watch her home tour here:

8. Cate Blanchett

Before she went into acting, Blanchett was very interested in becoming an art collector and it seems that she's fulfilling that dream on her property in East Sussex where she plans to build an art gallery. In the museum, she plans to display her personal art collection featuring pieces by Paula Rego, Zhang Huan, Rosalie Gascoigne, and Bill Hammond.

9. Serena Williams

While Blanchett wants a separate museum for her property, Serena Williams incorporated one into her living room in her Miami property. As soon as you walk into her formal living room, you're greeting with pieces by artists like Kaws and Radcliffe Bailey.

Her piece by Bailey titled Astro Black actually features a legitimate rock from the moon.

Watch her home tour here:

10. Big Sean

Big Sean's home used to be owned by Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash and it has its own custom nightclub in the basement. It was already there when Big Sean moved in, however, he made some slight changes to the original setup.

Big Sean only kept the black interior, the skull-shaped lights, and the stripper pole and changed everything else. He also replaced the couches because he "didn't know what the f*ck [Slash] was doing down here."

Watch his complete home tour here:

11. John Stamos

Stamos is quite the collector of Disney memorabilia and over the years, he has collected enough to be able to display them all in an office/ studio on his Beverly Hills property.

He owns items from Disneyland and Disney World rides like It's a Small World, The Haunted Mansion, and Snow White's Enchanted Wish. He even managed to snag a gigantic Disney sign from eBay back when the site was just starting.

Watch his home tour here:

12. Adele

This one is a pretty weird one but Adele has a piece of gum chewed by Celine Dion framed in her home in California. When Dion did Carpool Karaoke with James Corden in 2019, Corden asked her to spit her gum into a piece of paper and had it sent to Adele which the singer apparently cherished.

Watch Adele's home tour here:

13. Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher has pretty eccentric taste when it comes to her home decor. For her home in California, she has collected tons of eccentric items and placed them around every nook, room, and cranny of the house.

She has things like a player piano in the bathroom, a traffic light hanging from a tree in front of her house, and funny Pozac art in the kitchen. And she pulled it off.

As it seems, she's the only person who could actually pull it off.

When you have all the money in the world and all the freedom to build the home of your dreams, why wouldn't you, right? What was all your hard work for?

That's why we completely get these celebs no matter how weird or how over the top their homes might be. For us though, it's enough to just see them in other people's homes.

Which one was your favorite home?

Liezel