Full House

Keke Palmer's family-friendly haven in Los Angeles is ready for the spotlight

- TEXT BY ALESSANDRA CODINHA PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIEL DORSA STYLED BY PAIGE WASSEL

WHEN KEKE PALMER first found the traditional California ranch house that she now calls home, she was immediately drawn to its straight-from-a-sitcom appeal: the gently sloping tile roof topping big, light-drenched windows; the easy rambling layout; the sunny, open kitchen; and plenty of bedrooms ready for her two sisters and their broods, as well as for her three-year-old son, Leodis, to grow up in. “My house is kind of like Full House,” Palmer says during a visit in early April, “except instead of three uncles, we’ve got three aunts.” So that makes her Danny Tanner? (Bob Saget’s straight-man paterfamilias part, for the uninitiated.)

“Danny Tanner, girl! Leo is Michelle: ‘You got it, dude!’” She cocks a finger in the manner made famous by the early ’90s Olsen twins. “I wanted it to have that kind of vibe, but to be luxury, too,” she says, getting serious again: “The value supports the people in it.” It should probably come as no surprise that Keke Palmer, who has built a rocket ship of a career out of the sheer force of her own indelible charm, prefers a house with a soul.