--- title: Los Angels Gets a Happy Place in November description: A "Happy Place" pop-up experience is opening in L.A. with a confetti dome and a rainbow you can jump off of — into a "pot of happiness." canonical: https://time.com/4998841/happy-place-la/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-01T13:01:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T08:18:59.768Z og:title: L.A. Is Opening a "Happy Place" for Your Instagram Pleasure og:description: The new pop-up exhibition will feature installations like a giant confetti dome og:url: https://time.com/4998841/happy-place-la/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1deeed9a5681f98b/6988e414656a3f4048bd24d9/happy-place-exterior.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4500 og:image:height: 2531 og:image:alt: happy-place-exterior og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: L.A. 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Happy Place: Animation_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 1, 2017 1:01 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 1, 2017 1:01 PM UTC Need a mood boost? Residents of — and visitors to — downtown Los Angeles are about to be in luck. The City of Angels will play host to an aptly named [“Happy Place”](https://www.happyplace.me/) this fall and winter, a 20,000 square foot extravaganza of all things bright and bubbly, opening in November. “I want to live and raise my children in a world surrounded by what makes us happy. With the amount of [unfortunate events](http://time.com/4999555/donald-trump-disaster-relief-refill-bill/) happening recently, I believe that our world as a whole can use more happiness,” creator Jared Paul explained in a statement. “To make this dream come true, we set out on a journey to create a special place filled with smiles and laughter for all.” Painted a searingly vivid egg-yolk yellow outside, Happy Place consists of 13 rooms of whimsical design and Instagram-friendly experiences. Inside, visitors will be welcome to blow out candles on a “giant” birthday cake,” dance in the a large “Confetti Dome” with half a million pieces of confetti and jump off a “larger than life” rainbow into a pot filled with 25,000 smiley face coins; they’re not kidding around with this commitment to positive symbols. Other attractions: a “Candy Room” with 7-foot-tall high heels constructed of one million candies, a backyard lemonade stand and a food struck serving Rainbow Grilled Cheese for optimal foodie snaps. For the artistically inclined, a Paradise Room will be filled with work from artist [Steven Harrington](http://stevenharrington.com/), whose colorful Seussian style should fit right in with the Happy Place’s theme. Overall, it’s bound to be an photo-snapping feeding frenzy; just look at the success of the similarly made-for-social-media [Museum of Ice Cream](http://time.com/4401970/ice-cream-museum-sprinkles-pool/). Pre-sale tickets [will be available](http://www.happyplace.me/tickets) Nov. 3, with the installation opening Nov. 20 and serving happy — one can only assume — customers through early January. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4998841/happy-place-la/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4998841/happy-place-la/"},"headline":"A 'Happy Place' Is Popping Up in Los Angeles Because Even Californians Get Sad","datePublished":"2017-11-01T13:01:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-12T08:18:59.768Z","description":"Get your kicks in a giant Confetti Dome or at the end of a larger-than-life rainbow","url":"https://time.com/4998841/happy-place-la/","keywords":["Newsfeed","California","viral","Bizarre","Travel"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1deeed9a5681f98b/6988e414656a3f4048bd24d9/happy-place-exterior.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1deeed9a5681f98b/6988e414656a3f4048bd24d9/happy-place-exterior.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"happy-place-exterior","caption":"","creditText":"Happy Place","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4998841/happy-place-la/","name":"A 'Happy Place' Is Popping Up in Los Angeles Because Even Californians Get Sad"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Happy Place: Animation","description":"Happy Place: Animation","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mb8xU9BL/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-10-31T20:27:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mb8xU9BL.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4998841/happy-place-la/","duration":"PT35S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4998841/happy-place-la/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```