Amanda Bynes has made a drastic turnaround from the bizarre behavior she displayed in 2013. However, now that the actress seems to have made tremendous progress, she may be looking to take another big step in her life by moving out of her parents' home.

Last year, the former child star exhibited a number of erratic tendencies, including wearing a messy blonde wig to court, allegedly throwing a marijuana bong out of a high-rise Manhattan apartment building and insulting tons of celebrities on Twitter, before she was finally committed to a mental institution.

On July 22, Bynes was placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold after she set a gas can on fire in a stranger's driveway around the corner from her parents' home in California. She was rumored to have been showing signs of schizophrenia, and her parents were granted temporary conservatorship over her fortune and medical care. Her mother later dropped a request for permanent conservatorship.

Bynes was being treated for mental illness at UCLA's medical center before she was transferred to a mental rehabilitation facility in Malibu called The Canyon. After five months of psychiatric care, the starlet was released into her parents' custody. She has been focusing on her mental health ever since. She even enrolled in classes at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Orange County campus.

However, now a source says the former Nickelodeon star is preparing to live on her own once again.

"Amanda's been looking for apartments in downtown LA for a couple of weeks," an insider exclusively told In Touch.

The source added that "Amanda seems to be in a really good place in her life right now."

According to In Touch, the 28-year-old needs to transfer to the fashion institute's Los Angeles campus to graduate, which is why she's on an apartment hunt.

"She is motivated to get her degree," the source added.

In February, Bynes pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving for hitting a Los Angeles County sheriff's patrol car in April 2012. As a result, she was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to attend three months of alcohol education classes.

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