Inside Riverdale Camila Mendes’ new $2m L.A. home featuring a big balcony, cactus garden and view of the Hollywood sign
RIVERDALE star Camila Mendes has got herself a stunning new crib to hunker down in.
The 25-year-old actress splashed out almost $2 million on a lavish new home in the hipster neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Camila, who plays Veronica Lodge on The CW teen drama television, has bought a three bedroom and four bathroom home in Silver Lake - and easy trek to the bright lights of Hollywood.
The centrally-located yet secluded retreat isn’t especially big, at .17 acre, but comes with exceptional privacy.
The house is all but invisible from the road, screened behind locked gates and a tall thicket of ficus plants.
Originally built in 1924, the nearly century-old abode has clearly been renovated many times over the past decades, to the point where its modest bungalow beginnings are all but totally erased.
The 2,000 sq ft structure is described as a 'custom modern home' in marketing materials and offers an open-concept floor plan with hardwood floors and trendy amenities throughout.
From the lot’s one-car carport, a concrete pathway leads to the home, which is hunkered below street level for maximum privacy and seclusion.
The main floor offers a sprawling living/family room combination and a fireplace; the adjoining kitchen is on the compact side but outfitted with quartz countertops, new stainless appliances and a black tile backsplash that contrasts with the pure white countertops.
The kitchen services an informal dining area that opens via glass sliders to a spacious balcony with hilltop views to the Century City skyline and the Hollywood sign.
The balcony is also accessed via her master suite, which is kitted out with a newly renovated bathroom, walk-in closet and petite office area.
The home’s other two bedrooms are located on the lower level and both sport en suite baths and direct access to a ground-level patio.
One bedroom is spacious enough to offer a private sitting area with out-the-window views of the LA basin.
Outdoors, the sloped hillside lot is mostly landscaped with drought-tolerant plantings; the backyard includes a cactus garden overlooked by a metal swing that’s attached to the underside of the balcony.
The grassy lot below rolls down to a shed at the very back of the property, perfect for miscellaneous storage or the overflow from Mendes' Riverdale character Veronica Lodge’s designer wardrobe.
Meanwhile, her cast mates Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart have made on Twitter.
On Sunday, Cole tweeted: "Earlier today myself and three other cast mates were falsely accused of sexual offense by anonymous accounts on twitter."I take these accusations very seriously, and will be working with the right teams to get to the root of it."
He went on in a series of tweets: ";False accusations do tremendous damage to victims of actual assault.
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"Furthermore, I would never seek to silence anybody.
"I encourage that people look into the accusations themselves, as the events detailed were factually untrue.
"This seems to be the latest claim in a series of incidents seeking to baselessly cancel my cast mates and me.
Vanessa Morgan and Lili Reinhardt retweeted Cole's remarks.