HGTV Star Alison Victoria Unveils Las Vegas Villa Where She Is Planning ‘Forever’ Future With Her Boyfriend After Quitting Chicago for Good

It was love at first sight for HGTV star Alison Victoria when she was first introduced to her Las Vegas–area home, where she is now committing to a “forever” future for herself, her design career, and her boyfriend, Brandt Andersen.

The 44-year-old home design guru instantly knew the 1990s-built, four-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom, 2,675-square-foot house located in the Sin City suburb of Henderson, NV, was The One, she reveals in the latest installment of Celebrity Sanctuary, admitting that she fell for the dwelling as soon as she came across the property’s online profile.

“One of my best friends, [Camille Fagan], is my Realtor®. She sent me, like, 20 listings online, and the only one I connected to just from the photos was this one,” Victoria recounts to Realtor.com®.

“There was something magical about the trees in the front yard and the tree in the backyard,” she continues. “There was just something that was resonating. When I went and saw it in person, it was immediate. I'm like, ‘Put the offer on.’ I didn't look at any other houses.”

At the time Victoria bought and renovated the single-story, Spanish-style ranch home four years ago, she was professionally based out of her native Chicago, so the “Windy City Rehab” host documented part of the remodel process on her hit series with the intention of making the Vegas space a secondary residence.

But now, having spent more time out West to film Season 2 of “Sin City Rehab,” putting the Midwest mansion from “Windy City Rehab: Alison’s Dream Home” on the market, and selling off a condo she had kept in Atlanta, Victoria decided in fall 2025 to turn the desert dwelling into her primary address.

The Henderson home, which the design star has affectionately named “Villa Victoria,” is a perfect match for the full life Victoria is currently leading with her romantic partner, who maintains a home in Malibu, CA.

“It's me most of the time, and then he's with me whenever he can be,” shares Victoria about how the couple split their time between their respective desert and beach abodes, before detailing how Andersen also fell hard and fast for her Las Vegas home.

“When he first saw it, when we first started dating, it was such an important piece for him to come in,” explains Victoria. “And when he came, it was like that very first night, he’s like, ‘I just feel like I'm home.’ And everybody says the same thing: ‘I just feel like I'm home.’” 

While Victoria hasn’t directly commented on a photo she recently posted showing rings on her wedding finger, which has fans speculating she and Andersen are headed to the chapel, she did confirm to Realtor.com that she is planning to share her “forever” home in Las Vegas with Andersen by her side.

“I absolutely see this house forever, and Brandt and I have talked about how we will always keep this house,” says Victoria.

“He has a beautiful home in Malibu, and we're going to split our time between there until we probably build something spectacular in a special place that we love. So yes, it will be a forever home for me and for him and for us.” 

Further solidifying a long-term commitment to Las Vegas, Victoria reveals she just purchased another property near her home where she’ll set up shop for her design work and “Pap Smear Podcast” hosting duties.

“I just bought a new house 3 minutes down the road that is going to be my podcast studio, my design center, my guesthouse. I’m doing a pool. I am so happy,” she says, as she points out how the place will help her better protect the boundary between work and home life.

“I just gutted it, like, three days ago, and it's going to be on ‘Sin City Rehab’ Season 2, and that is how I'm going to separate it because it has just become too much,” she states. “It takes away from the sanctuary feel when work piles up literally and figuratively inside of my home.”

Though Victoria insists she still experiences sanctuary vibes in every nook of her main desert domain, it’s the backyard living space and garden where she feels most firmly rooted in peace. 

In this edition of Celebrity Sanctuary, Victoria opens up about the decades-long connection she has with Las Vegas, and she lifts the lid on all the intimate design details that adorn her private love nest.

I was brought here by my mom and my stepdad at the time. I was 19, and they were like, “We’re moving to Vegas. Who's coming with us?” So me and my little brother went, and I started going to college out here. I went to UNLV. 

I got my very first job out here working for a big homebuilder. I started my design firm, Alison Victoria Interiors, out here. I bought my first flip out here, and then I bought my first home out here, so a lot of life has happened for me here.

I had sold my very first home that I bought—I lived in that house for about 12 years. Then I was back in Chicago full time, and I was like, “What am I doing?” I love Las Vegas. I need to find another home. 

Time is going by so fast; the renovation happened four years ago.

My closest friend, her husband [who owns Architectural Design Concepts] is a landscape designer, and I've been coveting his yards for years, never thinking I could actually afford one of my own.

When it came to doing this house, I was, like, Joey [Pecoraro] has to do my front yard, my backyard, the whole thing, because indoor and outdoor living is all one in Las Vegas for the most part. In Chicago, I never got to do that. All my space was inside.

I'm on a corner lot. It just made perfect sense to make sure that the front yard was this moment. And so that landscape from the birds of paradise to the cactus, to the pea gravel and Saltillo tile, and really putting a lot of focus on the existing pine trees that are God knows how tall. They're just huge, so they have such a presence. 

I don't know how to explain it, but it has the best energy of any home I've ever done. It's warm. It gives you this hug when you walk in.

Walking in the front door, I wanted to continue that Saltillo tile in and on the front entryway. Prior to me getting in, there was this big catwalk runway when you walked in the front door. It was this elevated walkway into the kitchen with the sunken-down dining room and family room.

I hated it, so I leveled it, and everything became ground zero except for the front entry with the Saltillo tile running from the outside in. 

The front doors, I completely renovated and did arched antique doors from a church in Spain, so the doors are 200 years old. 

The shape of them, changing that, and adding the exterior lighting to the front of the home with the sconces and the landscape lighting—[I was] really making sure that this house felt like two of my favorite places: No. 1, the Amalfi Coast, and No. 2, Cabo. I was like, if this is going to be my second home, I want it to feel like a vacation every time I'm there.

Las Vegas is very hot. The temperature does not really [suit] solid wood flooring, so I did the most beautiful 9-inch [luxury vinyl] plank that looks like real wood all throughout the home.

I didn't remove any walls, which was really important to me. I wanted to keep this compartmentalized feel of the house, but in a different way. So maybe I arched the openings, maybe I niched out one of the walls to have my beautiful built-ins that was all drywall, and I used Portola Paints to do this Venetian plaster look.

Then I brought in a fireplace mantel that I found at the Paris Flea Market, and it's just stunning.

This whole house is a sanctuary. I'm home sick today, and I could change venues in this house every hour and never get sick of it. It just feels like I'm in a luxury hotel. 

The main bedroom is huge, and it has this retreat area that's like something you would have in a hotel with the sofa and the television, the two-sided fireplace. 

The bathroom is magic. You're showering, but you feel like you're in the jungle because I made it a huge wet room with a big window looking out to the backyard with full privacy and just clad in my tile, which is my absolute favorite tile from The Tile Shop. It's called the gem tile. So every wall in that bathroom, it’s all green marble, this deep, dark forest green.

I would definitely say my backyard is such a special spot for me. I have a full garden. I have citrus trees. I have this elevated garden with herbs, strawberries, tomatoes, and everything.

Sometimes in the morning, I just go walk out there and I have my coffee and I just stand there. I don't know how to explain it. It brings me such joy—probably from years of not ever having an outdoor space that could live all year long. And the tree in the backyard is pure magic.

A huge reason why I bought this house was when I went into the backyard when I toured it, there were hummingbirds everywhere.

My grandmother, who lived, like, 5 minutes down the road, she was my best friend. I just lost her about seven months ago. She loved hummingbirds, and this little porcelain statue from her house, it's actually sitting on my dresser in my bedroom, and it's a porcelain sculpture of a hummingbird. It's a constant reminder, so just a beautiful, beautiful piece that I love so much.