what’s your favorite movie home decor?
In honor of the biggest TV-event of the year, the Academy Awards on Sunday night, we want to take a moment to ponder the merging of our two favorite subjects: decor and the movies! Sometimes our love of interior design can even get in the way of enjoying a film (remember those pillows in the Lake House?) but more often than not, we’re just inspired. Take for example, the house where Curtis (Jamie Fox) and Deena (Beyonce) live in near the end of the Dreamgirls. Who could be angry when you’re dining at a gorgeous Lucite table? We’d probably feel more comfy at the wood-paneled home seen in Little Miss Sunshine. So what about you? What’s your favorite movie home? You know, the house you’ve seen on the big screen that you wish was yours, or that at least could be yours for a night or two?
Angela M. says:
Where do I begin?! I remember that Apartment Therapy Los Angeles did a list of their top ten decor inspiration films a while ago, and a few on their list (Contempt, Clockwork Orange, Far From Heaven) are indisputably influential. But my all time favorite has to be the amazing Dakota classic six that Mia Farrow decorates in Rosemary’s Baby. This year, I loved all the homes in Friends with Money (especially the one that Frances McDormand’s character Jane lived in with her “gay” husband). I always love the LA homes in movies, like Laurel Canyon (more Frances McDormand!) and The Anniversary Party. There’s too many. I may have to weigh in again on this one.
Allison R. says:
No holds bar. Tony’s house in Santa Monica in Scarface. Say no to drugs!
Click through to read more of our favorites and tell us about yours!
Beth J. says:
The crazy-modern house where James Bond fights it out in Diamonds are Forever. It’s in California and there’s a tremendous write-up on it that I found when Googling the designer, John Lautner. I don’t know that I’d want to live there, but a weekend might be nice….
And as a child, of course I loved the crazy inventions for furniture and appliances using twigs and other nature-based gizmos the Swiss Family Robinson came up with.
Arianne C. says:
I really liked the loft in Closer, where Julia Roberts and Clive Owen lived (and she cheated on him). It was just gorgeous, with an open upstairs balcony-style bedroom overlooking the lower level. The whole place was just open. Memorably gorgeous.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:34 am
I’ve always liked the house in Practical Magic (Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman). The kitchen and then the room where the herbs and plants are growing? So gorgeous.
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:55 am
If somebody asked me to move into Bill’s house in Kill Bill 2, I would be very happy. Particularly with my circular sofa.
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 am
There was a movie last year called “Stranger Than Fiction” (which was not really ‘good’ overall, but exceeded my expectations when I was taken to see it at a friend’s request).
Anyway, the best thing about the movie is the sets. The spaces are each very visually representative of the characters.
In particular, there is an apartment in Chicago’s Marina City where the main character stays with a friend. The ‘resident’ is a geeky, nebish guy who wants to go to Space Camp, but instead of going over the top with it, they do this super cool Mid-Century Modern space-age type look. I would move in to it even if it was not in the iconic ‘corn cob’!
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:52 am
I love the home (inside and out) from “Something’s Gotta Give.” I do feel like it is too close to some of the fantastic desiger, Victoria Hagan’s work. But, I love the details–especially the painting of the swimmer over the mantle.
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:19 am
I know this is off topic to say the least.
I wanted to way in on a post that was months ago.
Angela, I bought a dyson and it’s been a failure because the attachments are too hard to use and it does clog.
Are you still happy with your mele?
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:25 am
really my favorite is the house in Mr and Mrs Smith…. i think its absolutely amazing on how they used dark lux colors and fabrics, very masculine and stylish. too bad they blew it up in the flim or id move in right away
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:26 am
Hi Laura… yes, I still love my Miele. In fact, just last weekend I changed its bag for only the second time, and was marveling at its design. It doesn’t clog, is very quiet and when you change the bag there is no dust flying around to make you sneeze.
http://www.shelterrific.com/2006/05/09/totally-worth-it-miele-vacuums/
February 22nd, 2007 at 11:59 am
Tony’s house in Scarface is suppose to be in Miami but the reall house shown is actually in Santa Barbara..I know I could do alot with it!
I always wanted to live in Pittsburgh if I could live in Jennifer Beal’s industrial warehouse apt….in Flashdance. That always left me stunned.
And the one Pirata mentions is sweet.
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:49 pm
The apartment in Auntie Mame with Rosalind Russel is SUPERB!
And Mr. Blandings Builds Hid Dreamhouse is quite good for those into decorating.
Down with Love has some great apartments as well. (and Ewan MacGregor!)
Several years ago, the New York times had an article deconstructing the kitchen in Father of the Bride (II?) which said that to make a kitchen like that, you’d have to spend $100,000.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I kinda always loved the Brady house…especially Mikes office when it was Greggs room…
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Michael Caines’s house in ‘Children of Men.” I will buy the DVD just to plan my retirement home.
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I too loved the apartments in Down with Love. I also loved the Petries’ house on the Dick van Dyke Show (yes, I know that’s the small screen).
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Oh my, I loved Michael Caine’s house in Children of Men, too. He was an aging gen-xer. Just what I’ll be in 20 years or so!
February 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
The last couple movies I’ve seen have had great houses and decor. The Break Up, with the huge hall entry and kitchen, and great art and furniture.
I know that the house in You, Me and Dupree would have more than one bedroom, he didn’t have to sleep on the couch! Arts and Crafts style.
The Incredibles had a pretty cute mid century modern thing going on, too.
On TV, Six Feet Under had great interiors.
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:11 am
The house that belongs to Michael Vartan’s character in the Robin Williams movie “One Hour Photo”. Minimal Earthy Gorgeousness!!!
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:27 am
Angela, I blogged about set decoration today and someone told me you’d blogged something similiar over here. How funny!
I loved the home in Mr and Mrs Smith, and really liked the set of Marie Antoniette. I was just watching that over the weekend, it’s dreamy. Domino did a great job on that film.
I have to link my post now to this one, it’s a great tie-in - I love the question you’ve asked!
Holly
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:31 am
Oh, and how could I forget - I actually loved Will’s apartment in About A Boy. I would live in that apartment, in that location, in a HEARTBEAT.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:36 am
I loved Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia’s house in WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN and Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy’s home in NOTES ON A SCANDAL.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:43 am
Set design wise…it has to be the house in the Royal Tennenbaums. David Wasco floors me every time. Personally though, I love the apartments in Stranger Than Fiction….too cool. I want the lamp’s in Will Farrell’s aprtment.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 am
the production design in the Stuart Little movie is really wonderful. The colors are great.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm
the house in the great flick, Sexy Beast with Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley. Not only a fabulous movie, but the bungalow in Spain is what has persuaded me to retire to that country, even though I have yet to visit there.
And I agree with the Anniversary Party - a beautiful Richard Neutra house.
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:28 pm
I was going to mention that Sexy Beast house. It really is a character in the movie. That pool is amazing!
February 23rd, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Loved the Upper West Side apartment in Hannah and Her Sisters. All the Woody movies have great interiors
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Any of the interiors in any of the Our Man Flint movies were superb examples of over the top mod…
February 23rd, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Without a doubt, it’s the gorgeous interiors in one of the most underrated great movies ever, Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, a perfect demonstration that although money can’t buy happiness, it certainly allows one to suffer in style.
Not that I’d actually have wanted to live in the 18th Century, since I would have probably ended up a peasant living in a vermin-infested hovel like everybody else, but for comfort, you still can’t beat a down-filled Louis XVI bergere in front of the fireplace.
But in real life, I’d settle for the gracious but unpretentious country house in Howard’s End. That I could maybe pull off.
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Alright - I don’t get to movies much. But I had such a hard time concentrating on the plot in Howards End because of the incredible English homes. apartments and gardens that I’m still not sure I know what the actual movie was about!
February 23rd, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the apartment building in Lucky # Slevin. It wasn’t in any way shape or form something I could live in, but I have to hand it to the designer for having the balls to use (and pull off) those crazy intense wallpapers.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
So many awesome spaces mentioned… (:
Ok so this is a little off the wall, but in a weird way I am entranced with Peter Jackson’s hobbit hole in Lord of the Rings.
Bilbo Baggin’s, Bag End, the cob home…
I can’t really rationalise it, but the cozy, warm feel of the space just captivates me… it’s so itty bitty, enchantingly eco-cool, and being built right into the hillside, so snug and warm. I guess I find solace in the “back to the land” movement…
“It was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
… Oh and I agree with Angela M’s pick on the Flashback industrial loft. That hip-beyond-its-years space made the movie way way cool!
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Allison R… sorry!
Where did I get Angela M?? Duh…
Oh, and I wanted to live in the Three’s Company condo complex. Just looked so cool.. especially the arched front door!
February 24th, 2007 at 2:08 am
I cannot say that the interior itself is my favourate, buit I like the furniture used in “Down with Love” and “Men in Black” - they both use furniture by my favourate modern classics designer - Saarinen. The Womb in the 1st movie and the Tulip series in the 2nd one.
February 24th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Practical Magic
Something’s Gotta Give (both homes, for Keaton’s character and Nicholson’s character)
You’ve Got Mail (either apartment is amazing)
For modern:
The Lake House
The Glass House
and Sleeping with the Enemy
I’ll admit, I sometimes watch films 2 or 3x just to glean the set decoration details, and in the case of Practical Magic there’s a website called amasveritas that has detailed photographs and drawings of the house (created just for the film, on an island in the San Juan Strait near Seattle, and completely dismantled afterward)
February 24th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I loved the set design in an older British film “Shooting Fish” The movie is kind of crap, except for the fun of watching Kate Winslet before she was a Hollywood Glamazon. They live in an abandoned water tower and outfit their home with things that they have scammed/received for free.
February 24th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
I’m with you! I always get caught up in the decor. I posted some of my film favorites a while back. I know I left out a ton - like AMELIE, The Royal Tennenbaums, even Sharon Stone’s Marin home in Basic Instinct. What a dream job!
February 24th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Royal Tennenbaums is my all-out fave too.
I was watching Fatal Attraction today (no idea why-a bit tough to watch when you are hungover) and Glenn Close’s loft is remarkable, esp. for the ’80s. There’s this gross dreary dirty staircase to get to it, but then you get inside and it’s all bright light and everything is white and there are neat window dividers throughout the space. And she always wears white in that movie.
Another favorite early loft - Jennifer Beals’ warehouse in Flashdance.
February 24th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
oops, forgot to put an “/i” in there after “Fatal Attraction!”
February 24th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Diane Keaton’s Hamptons home in Something’s Gotta Give,classic and elegant.I have a friend getting married who wants to decorate everything in Hamptons style so i’m lending her the dvd.
Liam Neeson’s London home in Love Actually,lots of natural light,classic and modern.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:21 am
“To Catch a Thief” Cary Grant’s French Rivera stone house is gorgeous.
February 25th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Oh, yeah. And “Two Girls and A Guy” Robert Downey Jr.’s loft; this obscure film (also starring Heather Graham) is shot entirely in the apartment. I love the different levels.
February 25th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
anyone remember nicole kidman and tom cruise’s apartment in Eyes Wide Shut? I loved the paintings (done by Katharina Kubrick).
February 26th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
The psuedo Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest!
February 26th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
i like something’s gotta give, you’ve got mail, and Meg Ryan’s home in Hanging Up. love the open cabinets in the kitchen and the huge hallways and the way the decorate for holidays! love it all!
February 26th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Did anyone see Closer (asian film)? I loved the home those two sisters shared. Also, that hotel in Casino Royale was gorgeous, and I loved the apartment that Jason Bourne lived in - the first Bourne (Identity) where he had that minimalist space in that GORGEOUS Paris apartment. It wasn’t decorated at all really, but the bones of those rooms - wow - amazing apartment.
Oh and I loved loved loved the house Elecktra lived in - WOW.
This is a really FUN post!
Holly
February 26th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Youve Got Mail for the now way-out-of-reach Upper West Side brownstone look I grew up with. Anyone read the House and Garden issue about movie interiors? I bought Auntie Mame because of it and it didn’t disappoint.
February 27th, 2007 at 5:13 am
Such fun comments! Thank you all… Yes that House & Garden from January was great. They had some wonderful stills from films. I still have my copy — maybe I’ll scan a few to do a follow up!
February 28th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I am way late here, but I saw this and coudn’t resist, what a great list! Without a doubt, I would pick the high design apartment that the assasin lived in Munich. Also the loft where Clive Owens & Julie Roberts lived in Closer. Plus that manor in the French country where Goldie Hawn almost gets married at the end of Private Benjamin.
March 5th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
I loved LOVED the interiors of “Melinda & Melinda” (woody allen). I think it’s his most recent film.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Something’s Gotta Give - ok, I just rented the movie and stop it frame by frame and wrote down every detail in the room. Then I found a pix of the living room online and downloaded it as my wallpaper. I absolutely love that living room, dining room and bedroom. BUT, am I alone in that I don’t love the art. I’ve read where people just loved all the artwork. Not me. I don’t really like contemporary art in the home all that much. Sorry!!! I can’t wait to rent Holiday because of the interiors. Does anyone like those sets (2)?
p.s. I am an interior designer and I had a client who called me after she saw Somethings GG and said she wanted her house to look exactly like that house.
March 8th, 2007 at 2:28 am
I kept forgetting to post on this when it was current, but I’ll add something a little late…
a lot of places I love were already mentioned: Amelie’s apartment, the apartments in Down With Love, the titular Lake House, Bilbo’s Hobbit Hole (the artiest, craftiest, ROUNDEST craftsman bungalow in existence), etc. That strange loft in Two Girls and A Guy.
Not mentioned, I think - did I miss it? - is the Italian estate that Ripley decorates with “more money than taste” in Ripley’s Game. It seems pretty tasteful to me. There’s a degree of elegant decay, and the weathering of years, but it’s still functional and even comfortable. It’s my ultimate Let’s Buy A Place In Italy fantasy.
But my ultimate Movie Digs are in the splendid Thai film Last Life in the Universe.
The sisters Nid and Noi live (well, until one of them dies early in the movie, and Kenji - a suicidal, ex-Yakuza librarian - latches onto the other) in an amazing house that’s supposed to be on the outskirts of Bangkok. It’s sort of a vaguely Asian or tropical take on mid-century modern, but not Chinese or Japanese in style. I can’t even really describe it, you just have to see it. It has warm wood and, IIRC, dark stone, a semi-open plan, wide hallways, and can be open to the elements to selected degrees. Supposedly the sisters are prostitutes, and that’s definitely true in the case of at least one of them, but the house is so gorgeous (albeit cluttered & neglected) and big that it’s hard to believe that they both need the money - it seems more like a rebellion issue on the part of the one sister. But it isn’t.
There’s even an extraordinary dreamy sequence where one of the characters walks through the house, which is a mess, and it “cleans itself” around her, to represent that another character has cleaned it behind her back. I love the film, but I have to admit that one major reason I keep watching it again and again is because it’s pure house porn for me, particularly that sequence. One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen in a movie.
Kenji’s apartment, obsessively clean, coldly modern, spacious, and full of carefully-stacked books, is also attractive, but it doesn’t have the warmth and ease of the house he basically gatecrashes.
March 8th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
What a great topic, my netflix queue just grew a bit. My list of movies with interior impact:
Gods and Monsters - oh the masculine hollywood
Bright Young Things - Lavish early 30s London set for Emily Mortimer’s pad.
and nods of agreement to the previously mentioned
Stranger than Fiction
Royal Tennenbaums
Shooting Fish - where the goal of 2 con men is to get a “stately home” their decoration of the inside of a water tower or something is amusing. Beckinsale not Winslet though.
March 8th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
AMELIE — I love the german painter Michael Sowa (who did the visual effects) and was thrilled to see lots of his paintings throughout her apartment. He also did the concept art for Wallace and Gromit in Curse of the Wererabbit.
March 8th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
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March 9th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Something’s Gotta Give…yes definately
The bungalow from Old School BEFORE the guys trashed it. I always cringe when I watch that film. “No, don’t write on the walls! Don’t…!!!”
Under the Tuscan Sun…dream villa
March 10th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Yes, Michael Sowa!
goreydetails.net sells his cards/postcards, etc - so if you would like to have some of the same pics as Amelie in your house, you can get the cards there very cheaply, and put them in little frames. They also have some of his books, calendars, posters, etc. What they don’t seem to have are proper, grown-up prints.
The house in Royal Tenenbaums is honestly a little cluttered for me, but I love the Javalina.
March 12th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
WOW! All these comments! Mine (without reading anyone else’s):
Gene Hackman’s apartment in The Conversation. Before the big finale of course–if you see the movie after you read this, you’ll understand.
The big-ass modern apartment/house/condo from Match Point with all the views.
And Clint Eastwood’s home in Play Misty for Me–gawd, I love that gold leaf wall!!!
Now see what you’ve started?
April 4th, 2007 at 10:10 am
The office in “Secretary” …the film is great but I think I like the decor just a little more.
April 24th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
No one mentioned the amazing Fahrenheit 451? Especially the apartment in the beginning with the Panton screens, and Montag’s house. His whole neighborhood, actually.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Hugh Grant’s London bachelor pad in About a Boy is hot!
May 11th, 2007 at 9:00 am
I really like Grady’s house in “Wonderboys”. But I also like the Greenhouse as well.
There are never cool houses in pittsburgh like the loft in flashdance (I live there).
May 16th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Diane Keaton’s beach house in Somethings Gotta Give. OMG.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
I love Rock Hudson’s bachelor pad in “Pillow Talk.” It’s my ultimate. I also love Bob and Helen Parr’s home in The Incredibles - especially the art. And my fav kitchen has to be the funeral home kitchen from Six Feet Under. Auntie Mame’s pad is pretty rad, too. Love all the comments on this one.
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:49 am
however absurd, i absolutely love the library in V for Vendetta, with the books piled from floor to ceiling (and beyond!), haphazardly. if i didn’t love my books so much, i would get out the super glue and try to recreate!
June 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Go to the Set decorators Society Website http://www.setdecorators.org
and see whole Set Decor magazines (download in pdf format) or articles on many of the movies mentioned above like “Something’s gotta give” in the “hot off the set” archives. Search the “member directory” for favorite shows, and you may find a photo from the set you like put up there by one of our members! Or the Message board for links to movie stories. Kinda cool! My favorite set decor this week is “Ocean’s 13″, and for a classic, “The Big Sleep” with Humphry Bogart-they had a buddha statue in a cottage bungalow back then in the 1930’s- long before it was hip and trendy today!
June 26th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Agree with the comments on “Somethings Gotta Give” but did anyone else like the homey feel of the house in “The Family Stone”? I loved it.
July 17th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Someone to Watch Over Me- Socialites NYC digs are to die for!
The Royal Tennenbaums
To many Woody Allen movies to list
Something’s Gotta Give
George Pepard’s bachelor pad in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
July 24th, 2007 at 7:50 am
always, always, the living room set of the “Dick Van Dyke Show”, with its perfect mid-century ottomans, piano, pass-through from the kitchen, curved sofa, and step-down from the hall to the living room.
Oh, movie, not tv? well, any set from any Pedro Almodovar movie is one I would love to live in. What colors!
August 9th, 2007 at 5:01 am
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August 9th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Any of the soft-porn comedies starring Laura Antonelli. Almost all are set in circa-1900 Italy (often Sicily), with more antimacassars and gleaming crystal than you can shake a stick at. Appallingly beautiful sets, hermetic, atmospheric, almost claustrophobically dense. Imagine Visconti doing erotica. The plots are entirely secondary to the decors.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
i guess i’m alone on this one, but the interior shots in Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow are amazing. great use of color in a mainly white background. in one scene she’s sitting outside in a little tent and the design of it is just perfect!
August 9th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I loved, loved, loved the Chicago condo in The Break-Up with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn…
August 11th, 2007 at 12:15 am
The old lady’s kitchen/sunroom is the thing I most remember about Titanic (does that make me hard-hearted?).
Also Tom Hanks’ houseboat in Sleepless in Seattle.
August 12th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
i don’t know if this has been mentioned, but running with scissors has the best decor~! check out my pics on flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/86999532@N00/449104194/
August 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
I liked the loft in Closer too, with the open bedroom tier but the thought popped into my head at the time “Hmmm, you could never have kids if you lived in a house like that… well, you could have kids, but you wouldn’t also be able to have a sex life anymore.”
August 26th, 2007 at 3:24 am
I love the mansion in The Jerk.
October 5th, 2007 at 6:19 am
I love the fact that I can recreate all these houses in my Sims2 game!!!! It’s so fun!!! I’m trying to locate a pic of the house from sleeping with the enemy…….I love that house!!!!
October 12th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Has to be All About My Mother by Almodovar. The wallpaper alone!
October 13th, 2007 at 4:37 pm
My favorites are:
Someone To Watch Over Me-fabulous NY apartment and for the late
80’s Mimi R’s clothes were great as well. Loved her hair.
Was it Houseguest? with Goldi Hawn and Steve Martin. His house in
Concord MA was fabulous.
Meg Ryan’s in You’ve Got Mail, Tom Hanks’ houseboat in Sleepless.
and naturally, Something’s GG, and the Father of the Bride movies–
including the originals!
November 5th, 2007 at 8:30 am
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET THE SUBWAY SIGN ART SEEN IN THE MOVIE “MONSTER-IN-LAW”?
November 6th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I am also looking for the subway art sign from Monster-In-Law! I’ve been looking everywhere, someone please help!!!!!
November 26th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
I love the mansion in “Rebecca”. I think it was called “Manderly” or something like that. Also, the house Cher lives in in “Clueless”. The beautiful marble floor and the pillars and black and white staircase. Amazing!
November 30th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Auntie Mame!
November 30th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Oooh- Also the apartment and roof greenhouse in Greencard.
January 1st, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Jimmy Stewart’s apt in Rear Window.
The country home in Christmas in Connecticut
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 am
Ok - so I’m getting to this quite late as I see the original post was almost a year ago, but here are my favorite movie sets that have really left an impression on me:
The Hampton beach house in Something’s Gotta Give.
Cameron Diaz’s and Kate Winslet’s houses in The Holiday.
Father of the Bride
The Italian villa in Under the Tuscan Sun.
Steve Martin’s newly-wed hideaway in Housesitter.
The holiday-decked house in Home Alone.
The Chicago condo in The Break-Up.
… and now I really want to see some of the others mentioned in the comments!
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I understand that its an animated movie, but the home of The Incredibles is one of my all time favorites. I’ll take the furnishings too.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I want Martha’s kitchen in Mostly Martha (the original German version from which No Reservations was adapted)
January 14th, 2008 at 8:52 am
What a fun thread! I always watch DVD featurettes hoping for something about the sets. I want…
Something’s Gotta Give for my beach house.
The Breakup for my city condo.
The Holiday for my English cottage.
Practical Magic for my sprawling victorian.
Father of the Bride to raise my family (oh, the nursery in Father of the Bride 2!!!!)
To put a few out there that haven’t been mention yet (perhaps with reason!): Michael Douglas’s upstate home in Fatal Attaction (always preferred it to Glen Close’s apartment), Drew Barrymore’s house in Scream, the craftsman-style house on Numb3rs, the craftsman-style house in Zathura, Hope and Michael’s house on Thirtysomething, and hello! Mary Tyler Moore’s apartment…with Rhoda right upstairs!
January 14th, 2008 at 9:32 am
[...] 3. Even though the Golden Globes were cancelled, you still have movies on your mind. The comments on our movie decor post continue to grow, with this latest one from Colleen. “I always watch DVD featurettes hoping for something about the sets. I want… Something’s Gotta Give for my beach house. The Breakup for my city condo. The Holiday for my English cottage. Practical Magic for my sprawling victorian. Father of the Bride to raise my family (oh, the nursery in Father of the Bride 2!!!!) To put a few out there that haven’t been mention yet (perhaps with reason!): Michael Douglas’s upstate home in Fatal Attaction (always preferred it to Glen Close’s apartment), Drew Barrymore’s house in Scream, the craftsman-style house on Numb3rs, the craftsman-style house in Zathura, Hope and Michael’s house on Thirtysomething, and hello! Mary Tyler Moore’s apartment…with Rhoda right upstairs!” Click here to join in and leave your own comment! [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 4:06 am
I’ve just seen Stardust and am obsessed (or should I say enchanted?) with the witch’s gypsy caravan. It’s painted bright yellow inside and out with floral accents and has crocheted blankets on the little bunk and a hanging bird cage, etc. So cute and not at all witchy. I’m wondering if I can recreate the look in my basement - I’d prefer a “cozy” feel down there rather than the current “oppressively low ceiling” vibe.
January 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
First of all,I have always loved the Neutra house in North By Northwest, but Auntie Mame’s Apt.is definitely my favorite. I also love love love Ingrid Bergman’s flat in Indescreet.And of course Midge’s flat in Vertigo- the perfect artist’s abode!
January 17th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
neutra-ISH
January 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
The Shropshire Mansion in “Atonement” with kiera knightly is spectacular!
http://chameleon-interiors.blogspot.com/2007/12/movie-set-decor-atonement.html
January 21st, 2008 at 7:49 am
[...] 5. Of the current Oscar hopefuls, one seems to be standing out for its decor. MrDalloway writes: The Shropshire Mansion in “Atonement” with kiera knightly is spectacular! Which of this year’s releases are your favorites? Leave a comment on our movie decor post. [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Lives of Others. I was taking notes on the apartment decor it was so good.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I absolutly loved “Lucky Number Slevin” - the interior design was so delicious, that I couldn’t concentrate on the story! I was just thinking “oh, the wallpaper! - oh! the lamp!”
February 26th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Martha’s Kitchen, I AGREE. Loved it, loved it. Wish I could find pics. on line somewhere.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Has anyone seen the movie Blue with Juliette Binoche? It has amazing interiors. The ancient country mansion that she moves out of is incredible, and her friend/lover’s Paris apartment is perfect.
March 12th, 2008 at 9:24 am
I love the apartment Mandy Moore’s character lives in in Because I Said So…
March 12th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
[...] yard (and I mean FILLED) in the movie Because of Winn-Dixie.” That reminds us of the movie decor post! Read all about making your own beautiful bottle tree here. (Spring will be here soon, [...]
March 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
A second (or third or fourth!) for Auntie Mame (the old one)– I think she goes through like 4 re-decos… I’ve always loved the villain house in North by Northwest that sits atop Mount Rushmore… another awesome Hitchcock NY apartment is ‘Rope’…
Also the fab house/decor in ‘A Summer Place” the definitive Sandra Dee/Troy Donahue teen melodrama. It was filmed in a Frank Lloyd Wright house on the beach.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Some of my favorites - The apartment from the Hitchcock movie Rope. Mary Tyler Moore’s cute little bachelorette pad in the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Briony’s bedroom from Atonement. Such a charming suite for such a wicked little girl!
April 21st, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Christmas in Connecticut farmhouse is the best
Jack Lemons Boston townhouse in “how to Murder Your Wife” pure 60’s
Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer, both her house and his apartment
Ingrid Bergmans London flat in “Indiscreet”
The hotel Esther Williams stays at in “Thrill of a Romance”..so Dorothy Draper
That Girls apartment
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:27 am
Dario Argento’s interiors are amost always curious, esp. those in “Suspiria”, “Inferno”, and “Tenebrae”.
The period interiors in Visconti’s “The Leopard” have a beautiful palette.
The interiors in Jowdorosky’s “The Holy Mountain” are as arresting as the plot.
Any of the sets from any of “The Avengers” is a fantastic design source, but I love each incarnation of John Steed’s apartment.
Also the interiors in “The Prisoner” are remarkable.