Keke Palmer opens up the family home she shares with son Leo – and there’s a full Pilates reformer right next to her bed
Keke Palmer let Architectural Digest into the house she shares with her son Leo, then opened pretty much every cabinet in it. The comments are calling it the least staged AD tour ever. They're right.
The kitchen, cabinets and all
Keke lives here with Leo, who's three and turns out to be the real star of this video.
First stop: a cabinet that's only Stanley cups. She says they're a 'water drinking family'. I believe her.
She fell for the bones because it reminded her of I Love Lucy. Her whole look is lifted from old multi-camera sitcoms, Bewitched too.
Sitcom diner booth. Makes sense now.
And there's Leo. On the counter. She jokes that babyproofing is a full-time job, and one commenter wrote 'THAT NECK SNAPPED SO FAST WHEN SHE CAUGHT LEO ON THE COUNTER.'
Gold Smeg toaster. Fine, I want one.
She opens the drawers. Nobody on AD opens the drawers.
Labeled shelves, plus a real complaint about the family eating her gluten-free snacks.
A cabinet of bento boxes for Leo's lunches. She admits the online shopping got away from her.
Dining room drama
Where the family actually sits down together.
She picked this wallpaper because it reminds her of her grandmother's house.
Leo's hide-and-seek spot.
Her parents, in a yellow frame.
Her eldest niece, Allie, drew Leo on notebook paper. It gets a spot right next to the family photos.
A custom doll from her Just Keke days, the album she put out as a kid.
Here's where the comments lost it. Leo's dad's portrait had apparently been tucked away before filming, and Keke pulled it back out so Leo can see his father. 'They done put him away chile' became the line of the tour, and half the comments are sure her mom hid it.
Living room
She calls this a casual boardroom. It's where she and her mom, Sharon, sit down and talk.
Hair and makeup happens in these chairs. So does, her words, a lot of talking sh*t.
Curly fleece barstools in a house with a toddler. Brave.
Guests fall asleep here at her parties. I'd be one of them.
Heavy curtains, for when she wants to shut the world out.
Her designer found this vintage sofa and Keke's entire reasoning for buying it was 'YOLO'. Respect.
The trophies and the hallway
Her parents made her put the awards out. She calls it her 'shrine of accolades'.
NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year, February 2025. After watching her carry this tour, fair.
Emmys and a Black Music Action Coalition award, a few feet from the gin.
Hendrick's and Hennessy, for the record.
Sharon hung the hallway portraits. Commenters were very entertained that one is basically a framed selfie.
Akeelah and the Bee. She was 11, starring alongside Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett, and she was number one on the call sheet.
Taken right after Leo was born. Her line about it, 'when milk filled me up', got more reactions than any room in the house.
Her bedroom
A full Pilates reformer next to the bed so she can work out with Netflix on. Most of us just have a chair covered in laundry there.
Multiple pairs of glasses on the nightstand. She's legally blind without them, so a spare is always in reach.
She's a Virgo. This hangs over the rack where she plans the week's outfits, which is the most Virgo thing I've ever typed.
Flea-market muumuus. That's what she sleeps in. Honestly, goals.
Nightly bath, bubbles, TV going in the background.
She says this caddy once held an entire charcuterie board. In the tub.
Also, at one point she powders her armpits on camera. The comments never recovered.
Leo's jungle
Leo's room.
Some of these came from Jamie Lee Curtis, who sent a box of books she used to read with her own kids.
He graduated to the Lightning McQueen bed this year. Big move.
Movie night
Where the whole family piles in for movie marathons.
The green sectional was built big on purpose. It's a big family.
Her sister hooked an old VCR up to the new TV. It works.
The pulp horror paperbacks are her sister's collection too.
Keke grew up in Robbins, Illinois, watching tapes like these on a pull-out sofa with her siblings. Now the tapes get a room with a fireplace.
For the record, the design was Michele Booth of Rylston Road Interiors, with styling by Molly Dickson. Nobody in the comments noticed. They were too busy quoting 'Don't try to rob me, you'll get got.'
