“Fire Country” star Diane Farr has put her longtime Los Angeles–area home on the market for $2.8 million now that she and her three teenage children have all flown the family nest to spread their wings at work, school, and a new home base in Washington state.
The actress recently made her migration to the Pacific Northwest permanent with the purchase of a home near the Canadian set of her hit CBS drama. That property will now serve as her primary residence, she reveals exclusively to Realtor.com®.
Explaining her decision to let go of her L.A. abode, Farr says that she simply doesn't need it, now that her kids spend the majority of their breaks from college and boarding school with her at her beachside dwelling in Washington.
Nevertheless, she maintains that the California dwelling, where she raised her children, will forever be her most beloved abode.
“This house let me be everything—let me be a worker and let me be an artist and let me be a mom and let me be a wife. I lived my fullest, hardest days in that house,” reflects Farr. “It'll always be my favorite place because I did the most growing as a human, and my kids did the most growing as people there.”
Farr, 56, purchased the four-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom property in 2011 when she and her then-husband, Seung Yong Chung, realized the Spanish bungalow they had been living in could no longer accommodate their rapidly expanding brood.
Having given birth to son Beckett, 19, and twin daughters, Sawyer and Coco, both 17, within 16 months of each other, Farr remembers her West Hollywood home “quickly got filled up,” so the family of five went searching for more space.
With Beckett about to enter kindergarten at the time, Farr focused her house hunt on neighborhoods with stellar schools, which led her to the Los Angeles suburb of La Cañada Flintridge.
“La Cañada is one of those five, maybe six towns in the Greater Los Angeles area with fantastic public schools,” explains Farr. “The running joke is everyone moves in kindergarten and everyone leaves after 12th grade.”
Though the affluent enclave that’s located less than 14 miles north of L.A. had the education factor Farr was looking for, the mother of three was fearful it wouldn’t be fulfilling enough in other ways.
“To move from the center of Los Angeles in the city to one of five suburbs that had great public schools, I was nervous,” recalls Farr.
“I was nervous if I was ever going to get sushi again, and I was just nervous if there would be other working women like me, and I was nervous about the suburban malaise and if it was going to drain me as an artist and if it was going to sort of take away my mojo as a mom.”
To combat her concerns, Farr channeled her father, who worked as a general contractor, and tapped into her previous paid experience as an interior designer, to transform the 1951-built, 2,824-square-foot single-family home situated on a 0.35-acre lot into a one-of-a-kind oasis where her kids—and her own creativity—could thrive.
“I built an artist's retreat full of color and texture and vibrancy in a place where I could still teach my kids how to ride a bike that wasn't in the parking lot of a deli,” says Farr of the home, which was positioned on the scenic San Gabriel Mountains.
“We left the wild running ravine in the back of the house and we built what I called the art deck,” she adds. “It has a little treehouse in it over the wild ravine, so it really felt fun.
"There's a wooded section. There's a dirt section. There's trees that they climbed ... and I let them spray-paint the fences. It was just a place for them to be wild and play and make art where I didn't have to destroy my house every day.”
Changes to the exterior over the years also included a number of fire safety upgrades. Following the “frightening” experience of being evacuated during the Eaton Fire in 2025, the “Fire Country” and “Rescue Me” actress applied the tactical knowledge she had acquired on set to safeguard the La Cañada dwelling.
“I never talk about this, but I am, like, deathly afraid of fire. It's sort of ridiculous, or maybe it's my karma that I've played a firefighter three times, but I don't do anything to tempt fire,” admits Farr.
“We took the water heater out and we put it outside [and] I built a copper sprinkler system with a generator so I could pull water out of the pool in the event of emergency,” she shares. “This is not to put out a fire. It's to prevent the fire. It just makes [the] house inhospitable to a fire because it's too wet.
“The sprinkler system on the roof in L.A. is probably the most important thing I got out of all of these jobs because I knew there was a way to do it from all the technicians that we work with, the actual firefighters. That felt like the pinnacle of all the work that I was doing, all the information I was gaining from the work that I was doing on set, and how to bring it home with me.”
Inside the 75-year-old home, Farr initially left several of the previous owner's design details untouched.
“The woman [Kelly Mack] that I bought the house from used to be a newscaster and then became an interior designer, so both of us had a really specific, colorful, textured idea of what a house should be. It was the only house I saw in La Cañada that had vibrant color from the second you walked in: There's reds and very, very deep, dark woods.
“She made the dining room, and I barely touched it. She has this fantastic wallpaper that she did up the walls, across the ceiling, and turned into drapes. Then she built two armchairs in that room that I bought from her in the same drapes. She was fantastic with fabrics, so I knew I could really play with it.”
Indeed, Farr had fun fine-tuning her family home. She revamped “about half” the house as soon as she moved in, drawing inspiration from the property's grove of deodar trees.
“I was going for a log cabin feel,” she states. “We started running natural wood through every room in the house.
“The colors change as you go through, so there [was] a muted gray in [the] beautiful dining room that had a lot of green and turquoise in it and then it turns into a very deep brown by the time you get to my bedroom because I was going for this log cabin feel. In the kids' rooms, it’s gray, and in one other room, it's white, so it sort of tracks through the whole thing.”
Putting her own stamp on the design foundation she inherited was also important for Farr.
“We started adding a little bit more of a traveled feel, a world view to the place, rather than just the pretty aesthetic,” she explains.
“I really have a liking for foreign doors,” she adds. “There are five sets of foreign doors in the house, some from Bali, some from Java. My dining room table is made out of Argentine barn doors. Outside, there's an Iranian door, and at the front door is another Balinese gate, and we put all of those in as soon as we got in."
Perhaps Farr's favorite space, and the room she'll miss most, is the living room she meticulously made over.
“We made original crown molding ourselves. I put a tin ceiling in the library living room," she says.
“The house also had two kinds of living rooms: one we call the library living room because I built the library in there out of oak wood," she adds. "It was a place with no TV, where we could sit and we could talk and we could read.
“It reminds me of the old Oak Room at The Plaza Hotel in New York,” adds Farr. “We took off the doors for the TV area, put shelves in, and we had it as a bar, and all along the sides of it where there were supposed to be TV components, we put in all of our old family [artifacts], like my great grandmother's Italian crystal.
“I built the library itself. It wraps around two walls, so all of the kids' artifacts—of course, I'm going to take them with me to our next place—but all the kids' artifacts, from artwork to ceramics to books to some of the more intricate Lego designs my son made and the girls' teddy bears, could all be displayed, like, this is their life; this is how they did things.”
Farr also incorporated some nods to her career in show business.
“There's two numbered art pieces that I had from when I lived in New York. They're from MGM's premieres of films in New York City in the 1920s, so they're big blowups of the outside of these premieres, and they are built into the library walls in the living room, and they're staying because I built them in,” she shares.
The juxtaposition of career- and kid-related decor was an intentional choice Farr made to reflect the phase of life she was in for much of the time she occupied the home.
“The other [living] room had that bonus-room kind of a feeling. It was fun, it had a lot of light, and it was really big, so that's where the TV was, and behind the couches, I put little end tables from Ikea and put plywood on top of them at varying heights so [Beckett] could build an entire Lego world behind the couches where we watch TV.”
As Farr’s children grew up and as life circumstances changed, the home’s design evolved.
“When I bought it, it was three bedrooms and 2.5 [bathrooms]. I added a fourth bedroom and a fourth bathroom [because] my mom was sick with cancer and she was staying with us,” shares Farr.
Farr’s divorce from Chung, finalized in 2020, also brought about changes to her living situation at the La Cañada estate.
“I did the nesting thing for six years,” she shares. “My kids never moved, so there was almost no footprint in the divorce. My ex-husband and I rented an apartment together that [my contractor] Frank also renovated for me, and he and I switched out of the house every three days for six years.”
Farr acknowledges that her children’s deep attachment to the family home has made it difficult to let go of the property.
“I tried to put it on [the market] last summer. I launched the whole thing up,” says Farr. “My son was leaving for college, the girls go to boarding school because I work in Canada, and we had it up for, I think, 10 days.
“There was so much complaint, and I said, ‘I will give you one more season. I will give you till spring break next year, but then we have to put it up. It's too big of a house for nobody to be in, and because there's a pool, I worry about it when I'm in Canada.”
Making good on her promise to her kids, Farr has now listed the house with Heather Scherbert of Coldwell Banker Realty–La Cañada Flintridge, and she plans to “get an apartment in Los Angeles near the airport” to keep everyone connected to the area.
To ready the La Cañada home for its next occupants, Farr and her children flocked to the family nest one last time to thank it for being the launchpad from which they’ve all taken flight.
“Our version of the [last] hurrah was a saging,” she shares. “I took a sage bundle and a bucket of water, and we went room by room by room to release the space for the next person who's going to live in there, and we'll take all the memories with us.”
