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

Brandon Shahniani is obsessed with the 1980s sitcom “The Golden Girls,” truthful overmuch truthful that helium decorated his breezy chamber successful pastel tones that would marque Blanche Devereaux, the show’s famously flirtatious character, greenish with envy.

“I privation 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 resistance persona known arsenic ’Naynay.

“When I inquire myself, ‘Where would I privation to aftermath up?,’ the reply is close here,” helium says. “And I slumber truly good here.”

His bedroom, which helium calls ’Naynay’s Expo Beach Resort, looks and feels similar a hotel, with a soothing scent reminiscent of Coppertone sunscreen coming from a specialized scent-delivery machine, a edifice enactment docket connected the dresser and an exigency evacuation representation connected the backmost of the door.

“At ’Naynay’s Expo Beach Resort, determination is simply a airy sunscreen scent that, on with the euphony and the ocular queues, makes you really consciousness similar you’re connected abrogation successful Miami Beach successful 1987,” says Shahniani.

A edifice country 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 with the pop-culture sights, sounds and smells of his younker that marque him “feel safe, expressed, playful and happy.”

“Whimsy is precise important to my generation,” the zillennial says arsenic helium offers a tour. “The aboriginal is bleak for us,” helium adds, adjacent though his upbeat cognition and lukewarm vigor marque you consciousness similar you’ve known him for years.

To propulsion backmost against generational anxiety, Shahniani has covered each partition successful his location with sentimental items — hundreds successful full — galore of them from periods helium is excessively young to person experienced. There’s a vintage Disneyland summons book, a Rubik’s Cube and an aged aluminum talker 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 partition successful his 1950s-style diner and serving TV dinners.

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

When you archetypal locomotion successful the beforehand door, you’ll spot ’Naynay’s Drag-In Dine-In Theater centered astir 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,” helium says astir his movie nights, wherever helium screens films and serves TV dinners. But don’t expect him to beryllium inactive for long. “I’m not a large movie person,” helium says. “I play movies for ambience.”

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

“It’s wide that he, similar me, was educated astatine taxable parks,” says person Charles Phoenix, a midcentury pop-culture and plan expert. His location “feels similar we are successful immoderate benignant of exquisite divine plan reality. It touches a nervus successful maine that everybody has their ain mentation 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 portion inactive managing to acceptable up each my room timers and fetch recipes for me,” helium 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 helium picked up during his clip arsenic a storyteller astatine Disneyland, Shahniani, who grew up successful South Pasadena, has filled his municipality location with dependable effects from hidden speakers helium controls with his iPhone. In the diner, for example, the speakers play outdoor sounds including crickets to make a existent drive-in movie atmosphere. Upstairs successful his bedroom, tropical sounds and steelpan euphony adhd to the feeling 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 volition adhd the Expoterrace, a relaxing patio with a fountain, waterfalls and lush plants inspired by Living with 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 helium built from an iPad and a integrative foam cooler.

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

Says Phoenix: “He’s truthful original. I’ve ne'er known anyone who self-presents similar 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 tin lather up with 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 idiosyncratic who has visited each Disney taxable parkland successful the satellite — Tokyo is his favourite — and was precocious featured successful AJ Wolfe’s publication “Disney Adults: Exploring (And Falling successful Love With) A Magical Subculture.”

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

The impermanent chamber is Disney-themed.

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

Shahniani says his location feels peculiar due to the fact that truthful galore friends helped with the design, the creation connected the walls and adjacent his clothing.

His friend, taxable parkland writer Carlye Wisel, noticed these details too. “Visiting Brandon is glee-inducing not conscionable due to the fact that of the decor, but besides the company,” she says successful an email. “At our yearly vacation party, helium sets up gingerbread houses for america to decorate, puts presents connected the steps, and adjacent bakes capable of his signature cookies that we tin 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 amusive to beryllium here. There’s thing truthful youthful astir it.”

The feeling of being transported by youthful vigor motivates Shahniani each greeting erstwhile helium starts his time by playing Pinar Toprak’s uplifting Epcot taxable connected the speakers downstairs.

As helium puts it, “I judge that my default mode of thinking, feeling and seeing the satellite is being dictated by the mode I was programmed arsenic a young child. When the youngest, astir guiltless mentation of you is healed and well, past it’s casual to spell retired and bash astonishing things. And erstwhile small Brandon feels large inside, past large Brandon tin spell retired and alteration the satellite for the better.”

Now helium hopes to assistance others physique the imagination beingness they’ve ever imagined. “I’m presently moving connected an accessible life-coaching assets successful the benignant of an ‘80s TV show, utilizing YouTube videos, to amusement others they tin defy the societal norm of being miserable,” helium says. “It’ll beryllium funny, effective, kitschy, nostalgic and alteration the mode we usage self-help for the better.”

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

The B movie-themed bathroom.