Designer Leah Ring Lists Colorful Yucca Valley Desert Retreat

The vibrant weekend retreat of Los Angeles designer Leah Ring and her artist husband Adam de Boer has hit the market. Located in Yucca Valley, not far from Joshua Tree National Park, the 1.81-acre desert compound known as Lavender Ranch started as a 1950s homestead with four flimsy structures on site. Under Ring’s exuberant care, it’s been transformed into a main house, a guest house, and two studios—all drenched in sunset-inspired exterior and interior colors.

Ring previously told Sunset that the 2021 purchase was partly motivated by a desire to experiment with an extreme version of her design styles. As such, each room is painted and designed with a different color scheme. There’s the lavender-hued main house, a cloud mural-wrapped office, a blue living room featuring a Ring-designed three shades of denim couch, the peach-hued guest house, a green and blue tiled bathroom, a lime green kitchen scheme, and more.  

Listed for $789,000, the home includes Bertazzoni, Bosch, and Summit appliances, as well as Cambria quartz counters. Ring also restored vintage lighting throughout the home, a vintage gas-burning Malm fireplace, and opted for custom pulls by Chen Chen & Kai Williams in the primary bath, which also features a unique Peter Shire element.

“This project unlocked a lot for me,” she previously told Palm Springs Life. “Most of all, confidence in my vision.”