Well, she doesn’t live in a library.
Ashley Tisdale admitted to Architectural Digest that days before the magazine arrived at her Los Angeles home for a tour, her bookshelves were completely empty.
“Those bookshelves, to be honest, weren’t actually full of books a few days ago,” she shared in a video from her living room. “I let my husband go to the bookstore and I thought, ‘You have to buy 400 books.'”
The ‘High School Musical’ star’s husband, Christopher French, wanted to buy books ‘over time’ instead, but Tisdale needed the shelves camera-ready.
“Apparently my husband was like, ‘We should collect books over time and put them on the shelves.’ And I said, ‘No, no, no, no,'” she recalls, laughing.
Tisdale, 36, decorated the Los Angeles home where she, her husband, 39, and their 1-year-old daughter Jupiter live all alone.
“I pretty much designed this whole house over Instagram,” explained Tisdale, who moved into the house during the COVID-19 pandemic when she was seven months pregnant. “We didn’t really go to stores and stuff, and we didn’t go out. I was pregnant so I was super safe.”
Tisdale and husband Christopher French moved into the home when she was seven months pregnant. Getty Images
When a fan commented that she was “speechless” about the recording, Tisdale said defended the move, writes: “Let’s clear this up. There are some of my books there from the past few years, but yes, 36 shelves of 22 books that I didn’t have and any interior designer would have done the same. They do it all the time, I was just being honest.”
The actress started her own interior design company after working with professionals on her previous homes.
“To be honest, there weren’t any books on those bookshelves a few days ago,” she told Architectural Digest/YouTube magazine.
“What I realized while working with designers is that I’m going to have a vision and they have a vision,” she explained. “But they’re so good at what they do. It is wonderful. You’re like, ‘Well, I love it.’”
The “He Said She Said” singer – who now runs her own company – had to trust her instincts.
“I absolutely love this house,” she told the magazine. “I love every bit of everything I’ve done here and I’m really proud of myself.”