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Inside Chelsea Handler’s Lively Home With An Outdoor Pizza Oven

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Chelsea Handler opens the doors to her Bel Air compound, and the tour is less about square footage than about how she actually lives in the place.

For this installment of Architectural Digest’s Open Door series, released December 16, 2019, the comedian and former late-night host walks cameras through the 5,572-square-foot home she bought in late 2010 and has spent years reshaping into what she calls an indoor-outdoor entertaining machine. Her rescue dogs, Bert and Bernice, tag along for most of the walkthrough. Between the arcade cabinet in the game room and the wood-fired pizza oven out back, Handler treats the tour less like a real estate pitch and more like a rundown of a house she genuinely built for hosting people.

• Handler purchased the six-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bath Bel Air property in late 2010 for $5.942 million before undertaking extensive structural and design renovations.
• The primary suite swaps an original fireplace for expansive windows and a balcony, and pairs wood-beamed ceilings with twin grape-felt chaises.
• The backyard centers on a 50-foot pool, a wood-fired pizza oven, and a terraced hillside Handler describes as a “moving carpet” of greenery.

A House Built Around Light and Sightlines

Handler’s renovations lean hard on open-plan living, with rooms designed to keep sightlines running outward toward the landscaping rather than boxed in by walls. The living room, which she nicknames the “adult room,” uses glass slider doors that open onto patios on either side, blurring the line between the interior and the yard. Right next to it sits a dining area built around a table crafted from reclaimed Venetian piers — a detail that gives the room some actual history rather than a showroom feel.

Color and clutter, in the good sense, run through the rest of the interior. Handler’s art collection is loud and eclectic, and books show up everywhere — stacked by the bed, tucked into the dry sauna, scattered across side tables. It’s the kind of detail that separates a lived-in house from a staged one, and it fits the same sensibility that made her a fixture on late-night television. Readers who like poking around other high-end Los Angeles properties can find a similar deep dive in Inside a $65,000,000 Beverly Hills Ultra Modern MEGA MANSION.

The Game Room and the Personal Sanctuary

Handler’s game room is stocked with an arcade machine loaded with Ms. Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, a small but telling nod to the fact that this house is built for entertaining friends, not just impressing them. She treats her primary bedroom suite very differently — as her actual retreat rather than another party space. She pulled out the room’s original fireplace in favor of expansive windows and a balcony that looks down over the landscaped backyard, then finished the space with wood-beamed ceilings and twin grape-felt chaises.

The attached bath keeps the same private, unwind-here energy, with a soaking tub and a sauna tucked just off the bedroom. It’s the one part of the house Handler frames less as a showpiece and more as where she actually decompresses.

An Outdoor Setup Built for Hosting

The backyard is where the house’s whole design philosophy comes together. Handler filled the patio with custom Australian-designed furniture, added an outdoor fireplace, and built out a 50-foot swimming pool as the centerpiece. Next to it sits a full outdoor kitchen and barbecue setup anchored by a wood-fired pizza oven — the detail that gives this episode its title and the feature Handler clearly built the whole space around.

Handler terraced the entire exterior hillside into what she calls a “moving carpet” of greenery for guests enjoying the backyard.

That terracing work is easy to miss on a quick scroll through photos, but it’s the piece that ties the pool, the fireplace, and the pizza oven together into one continuous outdoor room instead of a scattered collection of features. For anyone comparing backyard builds across the luxury home-tour circuit, it’s worth stacking this one up against These Mansions Have Backyard Waterparks And Insane Pools.

Handler doesn’t frame any of it as a trophy house — the arcade machine, the reclaimed Venetian dining table, the books stuffed into the sauna, it all reads like a place designed for having people over rather than showing off. The pizza oven is just the detail that gives the episode its hook.