His wild, theme park-style home in L.A. is full of joy. It even has a Disneyland room - BERITAJA

Brandon Shahniani is obsessed pinch the 1980s sitcom “The Golden Girls,” truthful overmuch truthful that he dressed up his breezy chamber successful pastel tones that would make Blanche Devereaux, the show’s famously coquettish character, greenish pinch envy.

“I want to unrecorded successful 1980s Miami Beach,” says the 28-year-old who’s the co-owner of the Fair Oaks Pharmacy and Soda Fountain successful South Pasadena, a Disney adult, and occasionally, the drag persona known arsenic ’Naynay.

“When I inquire myself, ‘Where would I want to aftermath up?,’ the reply is correct here,” he says. “And I slumber really good here.”

His bedroom, which he calls ’Naynay’s Expo Beach Resort, looks and feels for illustration a hotel, pinch a soothing scent reminiscent of Coppertone sunscreen coming from a specialized scent-delivery machine, a edifice activity schedule connected the dresser and an emergency removal representation connected the backmost of the door.

“At ’Naynay’s Expo Beach Resort, location is simply a ray sunscreen scent that, on pinch the euphony and the ocular queues, makes you really consciousness for illustration you’re connected picnic successful Miami Beach successful 1987,” says Shahniani.

A edifice room motion welcomes you to the Expo Beach Resort.

Welcome to ’Naynay’s World Expo, Shahniani’s three-bedroom, three-bathroom 1982 townhome successful Montrose, composed of 11 cautiously curated immersive moments, each filled pinch the pop-culture sights, sounds and smells of his younker that make him “feel safe, expressed, playful and happy.”

“Whimsy is very important to my generation,” the zillennial says arsenic he offers a tour. “The early is bleak for us,” he adds, moreover though his upbeat cognition and lukewarm power make you consciousness for illustration you’ve known him for years.

To push backmost against generational anxiety, Shahniani has covered each wall successful his location pinch sentimental items — hundreds successful full — galore of them from periods he is excessively young to person experienced. There’s a vintage Disneyland summons book, a Rubik’s Cube and an aged aluminum speaker from a drive-in theater. Some things, including a signed day greeting from Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde, are framed. Others, including an Egg McMuffin carton, lunchboxes and food-themed Barbies, are simply mounted connected the wall.

Shahniani enjoys screening movies connected the wall successful his 1950s-style diner and serving TV dinners.

“The Route 66 Cookbook” is wrong scope of the sparkling vinyl dinette.

When you first locomotion successful the beforehand door, you’ll spot ’Naynay’s Drag-In Dine-In Theater centered about a custom-made shiny red-and-white vinyl booth. Across from the booth and supra the bar, a pink-and-white tv made from an iPad wrong a integrative foam cooler plays aged cereal commercials and clips from “I Love Lucy” and “Bewitched” connected repeat.

“I emotion a diner and a drive-in theater,” he says about his movie nights, wherever he screens films and serves TV dinners. But don’t expect him to beryllium still for long. “I’m not a large movie person,” he says. “I play movies for ambience.”

His location is visually overwhelming — arsenic colorful, whimsical and jam-packed arsenic Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room (which he prefers complete taxable parkland rides specified arsenic Space Mountain) — pinch licence plates and custom-made signs by artists Reimi Mosses and Dan Rocky arsenic large arsenic movie posters.

“It’s clear that he, for illustration me, was knowledgeable astatine taxable parks,” says friend Charles Phoenix, a midcentury pop-culture and creation expert. His location “feels for illustration we are successful immoderate benignant of exquisite divine creation reality. It touches a nervus successful maine that everybody has their ain type of nostalgia. And what Brandon has created is his ain nostalgia.”

“In ’Naynay’s Kitchen of Progress, my room show plays a loop of the Carousel of Progress attraction preshow while still managing to group up each my room timers and fetch recipes for me,” he says.

A Pizza Hut pendant illuminates McDonald’s collectibles successful the ’80s & ’90s Food Culture Hall of Fame eating room.

Using sensory taxable parkland tricks he picked up during his clip arsenic a storyteller astatine Disneyland, Shahniani, who grew up successful South Pasadena, has filled his municipality location pinch sound effects from hidden speakers he controls pinch his iPhone. In the diner, for example, the speakers play outdoor sounds including crickets to create a existent drive-in movie atmosphere. Upstairs successful his bedroom, tropical sounds and steelpan euphony adhd to the emotion of sleeping successful a seaside resort.

Other rooms downstairs see the B-Movie Bathroom, ’Naynay’s Kitchen of Progress and the ’80s & ’90s Food Culture Hall of Fame eating room, which is illuminated by a Pizza Hut pendant. In the ’80s Palm Common Room, a vintage keyboard, a machine rodent and touch-tone telephone bent connected the walls.

This spring, conscionable extracurricular the eating room, Shahniani will adhd the Expoterrace, a relaxing patio pinch a fountain, waterfalls and lush plants inspired by Living pinch the Land astatine Epcot successful Florida.

Upstairs, successful the bubble gum-pink Powder Room, Shahniani keeps his resistance costumes, made by his favourite dressmaker, Kelsey Swarthout, who uses upcycled Disney sheets successful her designs. He stores his makeup, wigs, earrings, eyelashes and purses successful sleek cabinets and organizes them successful a integer closet he built from an iPad and a integrative foam cooler.

When he’s not getting fresh arsenic ’Naynay, he likes to watch “chick flicks” specified arsenic “Clueless,” “Earth Girls are Easy” and “Pretty successful Pink.” Shahniani doesn’t execute arsenic a resistance queen, but he enjoys dressing up arsenic ’Naynay for different events and taxable parkland visits. “I dainty resistance the measurement different group dainty cosplay,” he says.

Says Phoenix: “He’s truthful original. I’ve ne'er known anyone who self-presents for illustration him.”

Shahniani’s resistance change ego ’Naynay is celebrated successful illustrations by creator Brittney Sides, hanging successful his hallway.

Past the 1970s-themed mint cocoa spot bathroom, wherever you could lather up pinch Native Girl Scouts Cookies Thin Mint Body Wash, and done the Hall of ’Naynay, which displays 7 retro portraits of Shahniani successful his favourite resistance outfits by illustrator Brittney Sides, you’ll find the Disneyland-themed Archive Room. Shahniani calls it a “teenage boy’s dream.” Which tracks for personification who has visited each Disney taxable parkland successful the world — Tokyo is his favourite — and was precocious featured successful AJ Wolfe’s book “Disney Adults: Exploring (And Falling successful Love With) A Magical Subculture.”

The Archive Room is painted bluish and filled pinch Disney parks memorabilia he’s collected complete the years including his summons stubs, which are safely stored successful a fillable solid lamp. “From scouring done ancient malls and online auctions to individual items from my puerility astatine the parks aliases things talented by erstwhile formed members and Imagineers, it’s a beatified grail postulation of each of my individual hyperfixations from the park,” he says.

The impermanent chamber is Disney-themed.

A bedside lamp is filled pinch Disney summons stubs adjacent to a Mickey Mouse telephone.

Shahniani says his location feels typical because truthful galore friends helped pinch the design, the creation connected the walls and moreover his clothing.

His friend, taxable parkland journalist Carlye Wisel, noticed these specifications too. “Visiting Brandon is glee-inducing not conscionable because of the decor, but besides the company,” she says successful an email. “At our yearly vacation party, he sets up gingerbread houses for america to decorate, puts presents connected the steps, and moreover bakes capable of his signature cookies that we could bring a container location to our families. Spending clip astatine Brandon’s location during the holidays is the closest I’ll ever consciousness to being wrong a Christmas movie.”

Shahniani agrees: “It’s truthful nosy to beryllium here. There’s thing truthful youthful about it.”

The emotion of being transported by youthful power motivates Shahniani each greeting erstwhile he starts his time by playing Pinar Toprak’s uplifting Epcot theme connected the speakers downstairs.

As he puts it, “I judge that my default measurement of thinking, emotion and seeing the world is being dictated by the measurement I was programmed arsenic a young child. When the youngest, about guiltless type of you is healed and well, past it’s easy to spell retired and do astonishing things. And erstwhile small Brandon feels awesome inside, past large Brandon could spell retired and alteration the world for the better.”

Now he hopes to thief others build the dream life they’ve ever imagined. “I’m presently moving connected an accessible life-coaching assets successful the style of an ‘80s TV show, utilizing YouTube videos, to show others they could defy the societal norm of being miserable,” he says. “It’ll beryllium funny, effective, kitschy, nostalgic and alteration the measurement we usage self-help for the better.”

Some group whitethorn spot it arsenic whimsy, he says, adding: “Others telephone it prioritizing your intelligence health.”

The B movie-themed bathroom.