Celebrity Homes: Ashley Tisdale Designs Her Own LA Home

Ashley Tisdale is no stranger to the world of entertainment and media. But when it came to her own home, the avid design enthusiast had never actually designed an entire residence by herself. Pregnant at the time, she felt up to the challenge and aimed to create a blissful home for her family of three.

When Ashley Tisdale first revealed her baby’s nursery on Instagram, the room was decidedly minimalist with its white walls, white rug, and streamlined wood crib from Kalon Studios. The singular piece of art by Stella Maria Baer perfectly echoed her daughter’s celestial name, Jupiter. But now that Jupiter has been exploring the world around her, her surroundings look very different, thanks to dark green paint and a patterned pink rug.

“I started to get to know her, and I was like, okay, this is a little bit too vanilla-y for her. We need to pump up the funkiness because she just has a cool, fun personality,” Tisdale says. “I think she has a design eye to be honest.” Without diving too far into the science of talking to your baby in utero, this makes total sense. After all, Tisdale and her composer husband Christopher French moved into their current home when she was around seven months pregnant, at which point the High School Musical alum dove headfirst into decorating. The talented Tisdale was well prepared for the undertaking, considering she launched her design passion project, Frenshe Interiors, last year.

Aside from the fact that her new home was move-in ready, its lush foliage was what drew Tisdale in. “I was pregnant, and I feel like Jupiter was a part of picking this house because [now] she loves looking at the trees. She loves nature,” says the singer and actor. The interiors, especially the kitchen, lean a bit more streamlined and modern than Tisdale’s past dwellings (AD toured her former Hollywood Hills Spanish colonial home in 2018).

However, they provided the perfect canvas, especially considering that Tisdale’s design philosophy is to always look to the home itself for inspiration. “I have a style, but I don’t stay so close to that style that it doesn’t work in a house,” she explains.

As with so much else these days, the pandemic also factored into Tisdale’s process. “I pretty much designed this whole house through Instagram,” she says. “We weren’t really going to stores and stuff, and we weren’t going out. I was pregnant, so I was being super safe.” It is no huge surprise, then, that there’s an Ettore Sottsass Ultrafragola mirror, a model that received positive attention on social media in recent years. But it’s clear that if Instagram’s algorithm influenced Tisdale at all, it curated an explore page for her that is full of the kind of popular pieces that are also savvy investments.

“I went with the mentality of falling in love with every piece,” she says. “With how much I have moved [in the past], for this home I specifically decided to get real designer furniture and vintage pieces.”