Get a Look Inside Kandi Burruss' Incredible In-Home Salon

Kandi Burrusstakes haircare very seriously — so seriously, in fact, that a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-atlanta" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emThe Real Housewives of Atlanta/em/aalum installed a full hair salon inside her Georgia home./p pFans got a peek at the luxurious space in a recent Instagram post shared by a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/derek-j" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Derek J/a,Kandi'slongtime friend/hairstylist who made his Bravo debut in emRHOA /emSeason 1./p p“I was at Kandi’s house this week and she has an in-home salon that got a little bit out of control, so I came in to get it reorganized and get it back together,” Derek J said in a a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.instagram.com/p/C4eLZxVrLHJ/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!rvI-KDDpgua8_vwnKIsTY_pyVeNiip7fpJOXKAM5ynowYgJr5bnOuqxYvy2p8CEuUVCNKgEjt0FRAVh4qZLLXj-YQIpoMpp0vw$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"March 13 Instagram/a. “So this is me pulling it back together and getting it to a space where I can think clearly. Now y’all haven’t even seen her wig stuff yet; I’ll show y’all that next week."/p pstrongWhat everyone’s talking about on Bravo:/strong/p pstronga href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/riley-burruss-shares-photo-of-her-manhattan-apartment-views"Riley Burruss Shares a Photo of the “New Views” from Her Manhattan Apartment/a/strong/p pstronga href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/kandi-burruss-leaving-rhoa-andy-cohens-reaction-conversation-details"Kandi Burruss Reveals New Details About the "Heart-to-Heart" She Had with Andy Cohen About Her RHOA Departure/a/strong/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cynthia-bailey-comments-on-porsha-williams-divorce-peter-thomas-update" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongCynthia Bailey Spills Tea on Peter Thomas and Being "A Little Devastated" by Porsha and Simon's Split/strong/a/p h2Kandi Burruss' in-home salon gets a new look/h2 p/pdiv class="embed-code-other"blockquote class="instagram-media-lazyload" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4eLZxVrLHJ/?utm_source=ig_embedutm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; 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text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4eLZxVrLHJ/?utm_source=ig_embedutm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank"A post shared by Derek Jae (@derekjhair)/a/p/divscript async src="https://www.bravotv.com/themes/custom/lifestyle/js/instagram.min.js" class="optanon-category-13" type="text/plain"/script/blockquote /div pThe video showed the award-winning stylist hard at work sprucing up the mini salon, which featured beige tile flooring, black-and-white striped walls, floor-to-ceiling mirrors, a wash bowl, a hairdryer station, and royal purple styling chairs./p p"My girl [Kandi] is a busy lady between being a mother, businesswoman, actor and traveling all over the place some spaces may get over looked," Derek J captioned the post. "I came by the house to pull her salon together and get it organized..."/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="ccbccc00-2425-4968-a938-6c0ca4a86749" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:345px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_600/public/2024/03/kandi-salon_0.jpg?itok=Pv38q6Xh" width="345" height="600" alt="Kandi Salon" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Kandi Burruss shares a look at her in-home salon. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Kandi Burruss/Instagram /span /div /div /div /div pKandi hopped in the comments section to thank Derek J for his work and reshared the video on her Instagram Stories./p p“When your friend has to take things in their own hands,” she captioned the clip followed by the weary face and crying laughing emojis./p h2Kandi Burruss' Home Renovations and Updates/h2 div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="8a8a9891-3714-432b-8456-7a4f8f4080c6" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:577px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/legacy/photos/real-housewives-of-atlanta-season-5-kandi-house-tour-01_0.jpg" width="577" height="385" alt="The exterior of Kandi Burruss' home on the Real Housewives Of Atlanta Season 5" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" We can see why Cynthia and Peter were so impressed, it really is an estate. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pSince purchasing her home in 2012, the emRHOA/emalum has elevated the property with many envy-inducing upgrades and next-level additions. However, the process hasn't been easy./p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="d144d6c4-a99e-4702-94cb-fbb63740cd7d" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/take-a-new-look-inside-kandi-burruss-home-theater" Take a New Look Inside Kandi Burruss' Georgia Home (VIDEO) /a /h2 /div p“We didn’temrenovate./emWe areemstill renovating/em,”shetoldema href="https://www.bravotv.com/all/bravo-insider" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Bravo Insider/a/emin 2022.“We are in a terrible place of eternal renovation.”/p pKandi’s husband,a href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/todd-tucker" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Todd Tucker/a, echoed the sentiment, saying they had spent months “dealing with contractors and all that craziness."/p p“Starting conversations with people [who are] supposed to do certain things, they never do it,” Kandi added,“or we get so busy, we get caught up with something else, we get another project, we start putting all our efforts into that. You know, it’s just a million different things. It’s a mess.”/p pAlthough it hasn’t been a cakewalk, the home renovation hasclearly paid off. Kandi and Todd’s abode now has an a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-atlanta/style-living/kandi-burruss-todd-tuckers-indoor-pool-post-renovation" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"incredible indoor pool/a, a a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/take-a-new-look-inside-kandi-burruss-home-theater" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"cozy home theater/a, a a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-atlanta/style-living/kandi-burruss-provides-a-new-look-inside-her-atlanta" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"spacious kitchen/a, and even a piano room./p h2Kandi Burruss announces her emRHOA/em exit/h2 div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="ac1bfc2d-fc6a-4d3e-b4f4-d9af02191a85" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2023/09/kandi-burruss.jpg?itok=lz7mTjog" width="862" height="575" alt="Kandi Burruss smiling in front of a shelf filled with vinyls." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Kandi Burruss attends Ladies Of The A - Breaking Bread Ceilings Dinner on August 10, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Prince Williams/WireImage /span /div /div /div /div pKandi shared the salon footage more than a month after a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/kandi-burruss-leaving-the-real-housewives-of-atlanta-details-explanation" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"announcing her emRHOA /emexit/a. The mother of three, who joined the franchise in Season 2 (2009), shared the news during an interview on the 2024 Grammys red carpet./p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="dcbce3d1-5985-4498-b0ba-f8026eacde9b" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/kandi-burruss-leaving-rhoa-andy-cohen-bravolebs-react" Andy Cohen and Bravolebs React to Kandi Burruss' RHOA Departure: "One of the Greats" /a /h2 /div p“I decided I’m not coming back this year,” Kandi shared withema href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/variety.com/2024/tv/news/kandi-burruss-quits-real-housewives-of-atlanta-1235897205/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!rvI-KDDpgua8_vwnKIsTY_pyVeNiip7fpJOXKAM5ynowYgJr5bnOuqxYvy2p8CEuUVCNKgEjt0FRAVh4qZLLXj-YQIo5jeUpxQ$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Variety/a/emon February4. “I’m going to take a break, I’m going to take a moment… I’m not coming back this year.”/p pKandi expanded on her decision at the2024 People's Choice Awards, where she was nominated for The Reality Star of the Year. The singer-songwriter told red carpet host Laverne Cox she had "a lot of love for [her] Bravo family" and said she hasn't ruled out a possible emRHOA/emreturn./p p"I mean, I don't want to say never. Never say never, right?" she revealed, as reported by a data-entity-href="https://people.com/peoples-choice-awards-2024-kandi-burruss-does-not-see-rhoa-return-near-future-8584742" data-entity-title="https://people.com/peoples-choice-awards-2024-kandi-burruss-does-not-see-rhoa-return-near-future-8584742" href="https://people.com/peoples-choice-awards-2024-kandi-burruss-does-not-see-rhoa-return-near-future-8584742" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emPeople/em magazine/a. "But right now I just have a lot of things that I'm going after. I don't see it in my near future... This is kind of crazy but cool that my last year I said I was going to be a Real Housewife, I'm nominated as best reality star. So I guess that's a great way to go out."/p