Celebrity Real Estate

Lena Dunham Lists Century-Old L.A. Bungalow for $2.8 Million

The Girls creator regularly redecorated the home with designer turned roommate Paul Monroe during her time there
a pool in a back yard
Notable previous owners of Lena Dunham’s property include Breakfast at Tiffany’s star George Peppard and interior designer Brenda Antin.Photo: Daniel Dahler / Courtesy of  Ali Jack, Boni Bryant, & Joe Reichling of Compass

Lena Dunham’s cozy Los Angeles home could now be yours—stolen Girls memorabilia not included. The Craftsman-style West Hollywood bungalow was recently listed for $2.795 million, the L.A. Times reports, just a bit over the $2.725 million Dunham paid for it in 2015.

The main home, which dates back to 1919, contains two bedrooms and three bathrooms, while a detached guesthouse behind it adds another lofted bedroom, a living room, and a kitchenette. The two structures are separated by a compact backyard walled in by tall hedges, with a rectangular swimming pool and a covered back porch along the main house.

The detached guest house.

Photo: CHRISTOPHER LEE / Courtesy of Ali Jack, Boni Bryant, & Joe Reichling of Compass

Though the property now appears to be filled with crisp white interiors and muted decor, for much of Dunham’s time there it definitely fell into the “more is more” camp. In a 2018 interview with New York magazine, she described the home’s “purple snakeskin poufs, leopard-print rugs, and bright green walls,” and her penchant for “fucking-nutty wallpaper,” all of which was regularly changed up thanks to interior designer Paul Monroe, who had been living in Dunham’s guesthouse at the time.

In a bathroom, some of Dunham’s colorful aesthetic remains in the form of orange printed wallpaper.

Photo: CHRISTOPHER LEE / Courtesy of Ali Jack, Boni Bryant, & Joe Reichling of Compass
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Dunham also offered extensive tour of the home during a 2017 installment of Vogue’s “73 Questions.” Throughout the interview, she showed off her “closet-office” (complete with a cameo from Monroe), the many kitschy collector’s items and vintage pieces scattered throughout the home, and the “Lady Room,” a magenta-hued space off the front entryway that was filled with symbols of femininity and paid homage to “queer and feminist resistance and our important foremothers and forefathers,” according to Dunham.

The main house features an open-plan living space. 

Photo: CHRISTOPHER LEE / Courtesy of Ali Jack, Boni Bryant, & Joe Reichling of Compass

And, for the record, her ideal guesthouse occupants? Ariana Grande and Dorothy Parker, of course.