“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Amanda Frances is the newest face on the beloved Bravo franchise, yet the massive Los Angeles mansion she resides in has long been featured on the series—having previously served as the marital home of original cast members Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky.

Frances, 40, bought the 6,250-square-foot Bel-Air abode from the estranged couple in December 2021, four years before she made her debut on Season 15 of the series alongside Richards and an ensemble of other wealthy women, including Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Bozoma Saint John, Sutton Stracke, and fellow newcomer Rachel Zoe.

The storied home also counts Stracke on its roster of “Real Housewives” residents. The reality TV star once rented the dwelling from Richards while her own house was undergoing a major remodel.

Frances’ real estate connection to her reality TV cast, she explains in the latest installment of Celebrity Sanctuary, was foretelling, but coincidental. She did not personally know Richards and became familiar with the series veteran only in passing at their local luxury shopping center after the house changed hands.

“We would run into each other at the Glen Centre. I’d be like, ‘Are you Kyle? I’m Amanda. I bought your house,’ and we’d be like, ‘Oh, yeah,’ and then we would look at pictures of the house. That was kind of how we knew each other,” recounts Frances.

“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Amanda Frances is new to the beloved Bravo franchise, yet her Bel-Air, CA, mansion is a familiar sight on the show, having previously served as the home of co-stars Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky.Phylicia J. L. Munn/BravoFrances completely gutted the 6,250-square-foot abode after buying it from Richards and Umansky in December 2021.Amanda FrancesThe crystals Frances purchased during a $10,000 shopping spree are now on display in her domain as sentimental physical manifestations of goals she’s achieved.Amanda Frances

Once the Sand Springs, OK, native officially became part of the Bravo universe, she was introduced as a self-made—and self-assured—entrepreneur and financial coach who unapologetically blends spirituality with business.

In one much-talked-about scene, the author of “Rich as F*ck: More Money Than You Know What To Do With” admits she once dropped $10,000 on crystals to decorate a past property. The self-proclaimed “Money Queen” says the expensive treasures are now on display in her current domain as sentimental physical manifestations of all the goals she’s achieved.

“They’ve all stayed with me,” she muses. “There’s this giant rose quartz in my closet, and there’s a big crystal in the family room that’s supposed to be symbolic of family. I remember buying that for my family when I didn’t have a family yet, so I would say the crystals that are placed around the house that I’ve had since before the house, every time I see them, I remember that.” 

Today, Frances shares the sprawling eight-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom space with the family she always wished for, having paid $6.1 million to purchase the dwelling from Richards and Umansky.

Though the new housewife just revealed that she married Eddie Tsivislavsky in September 2025 in a private civil ceremony at a courthouse in Laguna Hills, CA, the pair have been partners and co-parents for years, raising his two children from a previous relationship, Liam and Shoshana, and the two they share, Canaan and Delilah.

The family moved into their L.A. home base in July 2023 following a top-to-bottom transformation. While they continue to split their time between the City of Angels and Newport Beach, CA, it’s the vibes of the primary bedroom in the Bel-Air home that truly put the housewife at ease.

In this edition of Celebrity Sanctuary, Frances sheds light on the renovation journey that materialized her vision of a dream home and dream life.

The new housewife just announced she married Eddie Tsivislavsky in September 2025 in a private civil ceremony at a courthouse in Laguna Hills, CA.Instagram/Amanda FrancesFrances shares the sprawling eight-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom space with the family she had always wished for.Wendy Yalom The family moved into their L.A. home base in July 2023 following a top-to-bottom transformation.Amanda Frances

We were going around looking at, like, $10 million and $15 million homes, and one thing we were talking to each other about is that the homes we liked the most, people had really put their stamp on. They had customized it to themselves, and you could feel that.

Eddie was like, “Why are we going to spend all this money on a house when we can take one that needs work and give it our stamp?” And I was like, “As much as I don’t want to do another renovation, I think you’re right.”

So when we found Kyle’s house, I was looking around, going, “This needs a lot of work.” It [had] sat on the market for a long time because it needed a lot of work, and not everyone’s always up for that.

And so, him being in construction and me very much enjoying design and being very particular, we really had to decide if we were up for the challenge. At the end of the day, it was a really good opportunity. We bought it for less than $1,000 per square foot, which doesn’t happen in Bel-Air.

There’s five bedrooms upstairs and four [bathrooms] upstairs, and there’s three bedrooms downstairs and 4.5 bathrooms downstairs.

I purchased it in December of 2021, and I stayed there for the very first time in July of 2023. There’s a chunk of time that we weren’t living there yet.

If Eddie hadn’t been so like, “We can do this,” I would have said, “No, it’s too much work.” It is so much work. Unless you’ve lived through it, you can’t understand what it is to gut a house. 

We made it more modern, but it’s definitely not a modern home by any means.

I would summarize it by saying we did everything. Often, when people renovate, they don’t gut every single bathroom. They leave a couple and just go, “Oh, no one really cares if that bathroom in that guest room isn’t updated.” We didn’t do that. It didn’t even occur to me to do that.

Every room got a complete makeover, which I don’t think is normal. If I could go back, I maybe would have left a couple of things alone, but from the laundry room to every closet, there isn’t even shelving or hardware or poles to hang clothes on that are the same. We updated everything. 

I couldn’t have made Kyle’s house what I wanted it to be—or what it needed to be—without gutting some of the rooms, because it was built a long time ago and it was added on to two different times. So in some ways, the house felt a little hodge-podgy, and I felt like we needed to make it more streamlined without losing character, which was quite a task.

The remodel made the home more modern, though Frances counters that “it’s definitely not a modern home by any means.”Amanda FrancesFrances felt she couldn’t have made the home what she wanted it to be without gutting the place.Amanda FrancesFrances set out to make the home more “streamlined without losing character.”Amanda FrancesEvery room, including the guest bathroom, got a complete makeover.Amanda Frances

Like in the [primary] bathroom, which is one of the rooms we gutted, it was uneven. The skylight was uneven, and the heaters of the bathroom and the speakers and the lights were all—everything was unsymmetrical.

I’m a Virgo, and something really funny that “Housewives” people like is when I showed Sutton around the house, because Sutton rented it from Kyle. She used to live there.

When I showed Sutton the house, we went into the primary bedroom, and Sutton went, “Thank you for fixing those shelves. They drove me crazy every day” because the TV wasn’t centered in the shelving and the built-ins that are on the wall across from the bed. Sutton was like, “It bothered me every day.” 

One of the first things I did when me and Eddie worked on that room was, I drew it for him on my phone: TV in the middle and even shelves on each side. And that’s not a bad thing. I think that’s a result of it being renovated and added on to multiple times by multiple people, and so it got messy. But it needed a lot of messiness for my taste and standards, honestly. 

Kyle was so great about the house. Both Kyle and Sutton went on and on and on multiple times about what a beautiful job I did. I think the show kind of has me bragging about how we did this renovation without showing how much everyone loved it who had seen the house previously. I can tell you everyone loved it.

I think sanctuary can probably mean a lot of things, but talking about the primary bedroom, the sanctuary would be that everyone’s in there cuddling.

Right now I’m at our house in Newport, so I’m here half the time. The half of the time that I’m in L.A., if I’m at home, probably 90% of the time I’m in the primary bedroom. Even if I’m working—like this morning I was working, but Delilah’s head was physically lying on me while I was on the laptop.

I would say it’s cuddly and cozy and warm and an intimate space, and just where everyone’s comfortable. It is away from the world. Even if I have work to do, if I’m in my bedroom, I usually plug my phone in in my closet.

The primary bedroom, it feels good. It has good vibes. It is a place to relax and retreat, and it’s every single person in my family’s favorite room in the house. All my kids want to be there. Everyone says, “Let’s go to Mama’s room.” It’s just our space, which means I have, like, six people in my bed all the time.

Frances considers her primary bedroom to be her sanctuary.Amanda FrancesThe primary bedroom also happens to be the family’s favorite place to cuddle together.Amanda FrancesFrances points to the living room setup in front of the fireplace in her primary bedroom as a standout design feature.Amanda Frances

There’s an enclave right when you walk in, where the double doors are. So we took the wide-oak floors from the room and continued it up over the enclave. Then we wrapped the beams. There were already beams, but they had been painted white, so we wrapped them the same way as the floors, so they would look like probably how they originally looked.

I love that beaded chandelier that’s in the center of the room, that black beaded chandelier. Then, right in front of the TV, we have that little living room setup. I love those two white chairs. Those chairs are so good with that coffee table, and it’s right in front of the fireplace. I love that the bed, the way I have the pillows and the extra blankets and a blanket thrown across the bottom, the whole thing feels very inviting to me.

It’s an interesting process because I’m not a designer. I worked with designers, but probably not in a very traditional way.

We hired a designer to do renderings of the kitchen and to do a rendering of the family room when we were unsure how something would look. We hired someone for renderings, and then later, I hired someone when I was doing a lot of sourcing of tchotchkes and different things for shelves. She would make me a list, like, “Which of these things do you want me to order?” She definitely had a design role.

I guess how I’d have to describe it is I put on the hat of the lead designer.

I was driving the vision, but I could not necessarily do it on my own. For my office downstairs, I proper hired a designer who’s in charge, because I just felt like if I did the whole house for my family, I’m going to let someone else be in charge of this room for me. 

The office is coming along. We got rid of the super hot pink and went to a lime-washy pink, and the office is almost done. I’m so close to that room being done, and then after that, the only thing that’s left is the theater. I cannot believe we’re going to be done with this whole thing.

People who come into my home, especially people who are a little bit more intuitive or sensitive to energy, they’re always like, “It feels so good in here,” because it does feel so good in there. But why does it feel good in there? Because your home is a reflection of you.

While Frances hired design professionals to help with renderings and some small decor decisions, it was her vision that drove the project.Amanda FrancesNow that the interior of the home is nearly complete, Frances plans to redo the exterior siding, doors, and windows.Amanda FrancesFrances believes her home has good vibes because “being a calm and happy and regulated person is reflected” in her environment.Wendy Yalom

As I said on the show many times, being a calm and happy and regulated person is reflected in all my spaces. I journal a lot. I meditate. It takes a lot of intention to be someone who doesn’t fly off the handle at every little thing, who is able to stay regulated at tense dinner table situations, or when all four of their kids are being wild.

I like to remind myself—and I was just saying this to some clients on a Zoom—the things they’re saying on the internet only exist when you’re on the internet. I find it interesting to put the phone away and look at my life and go, “This is real.” Projection on the internet, it isn’t real life. It feels like it is until you have really good habits and boundaries around it. 

I started saying, [I’m a] “repetitive unrealistic goal achiever,” because I kept doing things that shouldn’t be possible. Like, “You’re going to start a life coaching business when people barely know what life coaching was, instead of going ahead and pursuing the therapy world that I was a part of because I got my master’s in counseling and it made sense to stay in that world, and I didn’t want to.”

I did it. And it worked. And it kept working. And as I kept expanding things and hitting goals and hitting financial goals, I just started calling myself and thinking [of] myself as an unrealistic goal achiever.

Home renovation is the same way. To take on that undertaking, you have to believe you can do something that is literally very challenging. This is not an easy thing.

The next thing we have to do is the outside of the house. We haven’t even touched the outside. We did the landscaping, the gardening, but all the windows, all the doors, the siding—I think I’m going to go real crazy and do, like, a Nantucket, shake-style house—and it’s going to transform. It’s going to be the last thing that it really needs.

That’s a huge endeavor as far as what it’s going to put my family through and the time and energy, and, “Are we going to move out and be in Newport that entire time, or are we going to travel?”

Thankfully, these are all options, but it’s not easy on anyone to let people be in construction on their house every day, all day, until a project is done. So there’s that. 

And then we rent this house in Newport, so I need to buy here. That’s one of my other unrealistic goal achiever things. The reason that’s hard is because the part of Newport we live in, there aren’t houses big enough for the number of children I have. We want a very specific home, and it currently doesn’t exist, but [I’m] believing that it’s going to have to exist.

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