TikTok Star Loren Gray Reveals the Most ‘Unconventional’ Things About Moving Into a ‘300-Year-Old Formerly Abandoned House’

TikTok star Loren Gray has opened up about the most “unconventional” things she has discovered since moving into a “300-year-old formerly abandoned farmhouse” in Pennsylvania.

The 22-year-old social media influencer and singer purchased her property in 2022, explaining in a TikTok video that the home was “abandoned for years” before a contractor purchased it, flipped it, and then sold it to her.

“A few years ago, this house was abandoned and falling apart, and then a contractor purchased it. He flipped it, and he sold it to me,” she says. “I find it so beautiful when people care about history and keeping the integrity of houses like this.”

Gray, who also owns a house in Los Angeles, has worked hard to transform the Pennsylvania property into her perfect home—but that process has not been without its difficulties, she revealed on social media.

Perhaps the most difficult to work around? The lack of storage.

According to Gray, the property has no built-in closets, leaving her to take drastic measures to find ample space to store her very impressive collection of shoes and clothing.

Besides adding plenty of dressers to her home, Gray converted the attic space into a personal walk-in closet, using clothing racks and wooden boxes to display her favorite fashion pieces.

However, even that has proven tricky, with the influencer noting that the ceilings in the room are so low, she has to stoop down to avoid banging her head.

“If your closet doesn’t give you concussion when you walk in, is it even a closet?” she jokes.

Her followers appreciated the hack, with one writing, “lol it’s a ‘walk-up’ closet.” Another suggested she add a “duck” sign to the entry.

Other funky elements of the home include incredibly low doorways, which force even the petite blonde to duck down as she moves from room to room.

“People were shorter in the 1800s, so [I have] tiny doorways,” she explains.

Her home also comes with what she calls a “summer kitchen,” which she has since transformed into a living space.

According to Gray, who showcased her home in a TikTok video with fellow creator Caleb Simpson, the room was used by the original tenants for cooking in the summer months when it was too hot to cook in the main kitchen.

Another downside to living in a historic home is spiders.

“Many a spider,” she says of the pest problem. “I got my house treated, but at this point, I’ve just kind of come to terms with the fact that me and the spiders are [connected].”

Gray has also shared a series of staggering before-and-after photos, which detail how the abandoned and run-down farmhouse was transformed into her dream property.

While the contractor she bought the house from made the majority of structural changes—she has been making some updates herself, she notes.

“It’s a work in progress, but it’s been renovated,” she explains of her bedroom, which was one of the rooms that was in the best shape before the home was overhauled. An image showed the original space looking dusty and bare, complete with peeling paint.

Perhaps one of the most dramatic changes to the property took place in the kitchen, which was originally two rooms. It is now a large, open space where she has plenty of room to entertain.

Some commenters were confused by why her house looked different from the one she usually posts from in Los Angeles.

“A lot of people seem to be confused about my living situation,” Gray explains.

“I own two houses: one in L.A., one in Pennsylvania,” she told followers in another TikTok video. “I bought the house in L.A. in 2020 when I was 18.”

In 2022, she purchased the Pennsylvania house, she said.  “I live in both places, I go back and forth. I primarily stay in L.A. but try to split time as much as I can.”

Gray, who also does brand deals in beauty and fashion, is originally from Pottstown, PA.

In August 2020, Forbes reported that she earned $2.4 million in 2019 from sponsorship and merchandising deals.