What are you favorite houses from film and television?

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Grace & Frankie's beach house

Does anyone remember The New Normal? That house was nice.

A Single Man, Nicole Kidman’s house in Big Little Lies, Mame apartment (Russell version of course)

As a kid I wanted the house from Home Alone. My family wasn’t poor, but we were on a budget and I remember wondering what it must be like to have a house like that (or to be able to jet off to Paris, or pull a hundred bucks out of your wallet to drop on pizzas).

The modern (for 1992) Seattle mansion in "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle."

My favorite movie house of all time, from North By Northwest. It's not even actually real, but I love it and want to live in it. With Cary Grant from 1958.

Hepburn's house in Holiday.

Brian Keith’s California ranch house in The Parent Trap

Indiscreet (1958) with Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman. Set largely in a Mayfair flat in London all of the sets are superb: at once modern and traditional, intentionally like theatre sets but much better, and prime for Technicolor. The walls of Bergman's flat are hung with works by Picasso and Dufy and John Piper and others, on loan from Oliver Messel and others. It's a perfect place: a vast Georgian or Georgian Revival house with a grand entry hall and circulation spaces, and inside the flat on large pie-shaped room like a stage, and off it a bedroom and a micro-kitchen with a breakfast nook at which Bergman's two domestics sit polishing silver all day.

Falcon Crest, aka Spring Mountain Vineyard in St. Helena, CA. Idyllic home.

You have to ask?!?!

Tara.

The house in " Meet Me In St. Louis"

Sally Field's house from Mrs Doubtfire

Kim Cattrall's beach house from the first SATC film and her apartment from Bonfire of the Vanities.

Sally Field's house un Brothers & Sisters was better

The house in DePalma's Body Double.

She always seemed to be unpacking grocery shopping in the light-filled kitchen first scene of every episode. Then she would disappear for the whole episode and reappear in the final scene in the kitchen -- now at night -- to say: "This is why we need to talk!"

I mostly liked the way the drive was hidden to the side though.

I think the rear elevation of the Grace and Frankie beach house is ugly. The turret-like projection is too much and doesn’t integrate well with the porches next to it. I guess they figured the compromise was worth it to make the most of the views and shave covered outdoor space on both floors.

sharon stone's (catherine trammell) house or actually that deck in "basic instinct" there on the cliffs overlooking the ocean outside san fran!

R22! I forget that one! I wanted that in my OP.

R15 I like Tara, as well. Which actually looks like an actual plantation house. They made a mistake with Twelve Oaks, though. While it looked great, it is much to large and grand, it looked more like an European palace than a rural Georgia plantation house.

House of Corey. Hairspray, tin foil trophies, tar-dulled sequins and lurex, and mummy corspe in trunk.

Roman and Minnie’s apartment!

Can't go wrong with the Bates Motel

Adam and Kristina's house from Parenthood - in Pasadena

Robert De Niro's spare, cold beach house in Heat.

Good call, r10. That house was a favourite, and as Vicki's mother said, "so masculine!".

Hill; House from "The Haunting."

R13 I agree, while Falcon Crest wasn’t the largest or splashiest prime time soap mansion, it was my favorite. It screamed money and sophistication but in an understated aristocratic way.

The Mary Tyler Moore house

The Fockers' house in the Keys, particularly that yellow kitchen.

Laura's house after she escapes in Sleeping With The Enemy. It reminds me of Catonsville, MD. Love those big old houses.

R35, i remember seeing "sleeping with the enemy" in the theater when i lived in florida (orlando to be specific) and when it was made mention how much the rent on that house was 700 dollars a month, the entire audienced laughed because you could even get a itsy bitsy teenie weenie tiny 1 bed apartment in orlando around that time!... ..

all these years later, i suspect the size and price differential between orlando today and middle of nowhere "iowa" where this scene/movie took place are just as great!..

Diane Keaton's Hamptons house in Somethings Gotta Give.

Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies

The Munsters

This is no commentary on the show itself but I did like the house in Two and a Half Men.

Auntie Mame's home

"Books are awfully decorative."

The apartment in Family Affair was a favorite. I loved how clean and open it was. And always so quiet....no hoards of kids running around and fighting and a coffee table overflowing with clutter. I would dream of Uncle Bill coming to take me away.

Yes R6. The Home Alone house. So cozy and warm looking.

^^^^^^ Home is for sale. 2.4 million

Sheffield house on The Nanny. Diane Keaton's house in Something's Gotta Give. The London townhouse and vineyard house in Parent Trap remake with Lohan. Will's apartment on Will and Grace. House in Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil. New York Townhouse and beach house in The Thomas Crown Affair remake with Pierce Brosnan.

Sam and Molly's apartment in Ghost

Castle Howard in Brideshead Revisited

The house in Malibu Colony in The Long Goodbye. I wonder if it's still there.

I wanted the first house in Sleeping with the Enemy, the uber modern one. The only thing good about the second one was the hot neighbor.

“It was one of those California Spanish houses everyone was nuts about ten or fifteen years ago. This one must have cost somebody about thirty thousand bucks – that is if he ever finished paying for it.”

The house in " Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf"- not all the mess in it though

I loved the big Victorian houses in movies from the 1930s and 40s. The Man Who Came To Dinner, Harvey, Arsenic and Old Lace--they seemed so real and solid. Always great big fireplaces. That and a writing desk behind a long sofa are two elements I have in my house because of those movies.

Gregory. M.D.

Mother Hubbard's house in The March of the Wooden Soldiers

Willard Whyte’s desert retreat in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. As guarded by Bambi and Thumper! lol

The actual house is a spectacular John Lautner in Palm Springs.

Magnificent Ambersons

Gene Tierney’s enchanting seaside “cottage,” in “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.”

I love r10 s choice. That house is a dream.

Leave Her to Heaven

Rock Hudson's apartment in Pillow Talk, before Doris Day redesigned it.

Auntie Mame's Manhattan digs

The beach house in Mildred Pierce--it was lost in the storms of 1983, was real, owned by the film’s director, Michael Curtiz. It was built in 1929.

Family Ties House

Hot In Cleveland house

Every house exterior and interior in Woody Allen's "Sleeper" is magnificently highly stylized.

Frasier's apartment at the Elliott Bay Towers

Niles apartment at the Montana

Moonbase Alpha--Space 1999

172 South McCadden Place--Blanche & Baby Jane Hudson's place & it's right around the corner from El Coyote!

r61 Pre- or post-Yul Ulu?

I used to fantasize about that trolley being in my house all the time! How cool was it?!

The Lawrence house on the 70s TV show "Family." As an East Coast teen I wanted to live in that wonderful home, and I was enthralled with the idea of the guest house out back. Now that I'm a grownup living in Pasadena, yes, I have done a drive-by. It's still beautiful, in a lovely neighborhood.

Rhoda Morgentern's apartment. I used to like it. Now, I hate it.

The house from Practical Magic, which wasn't actually real.

The Cape Cod beach house in Sleeping With The Enemy had always struck me as amazing, then I found out it was fake, just a facade built for the movie. Ah, the magic of Hollywood.

The Capwell Mansion on Santa Barbara

I loved the apartment in "Hannah and Her Sisters" (Mia Farrow's real-life apartment).

The house in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

R77 I almost posted that one. It seemed so warm, lived-in and homey. Lot of drama in those rooms. If the walls could talk!

Original Collinwood

The house Charlie bought to be the Honolulu branch of The Townsend Agency... in beautiful Kahala!

“10086 Sunset Boulevard”

Armand and Albert's sunny and cheerful South Beach apartment above the nightclub in THE BIRDCAGE... before it was redecorated for the Keeley's!

The lake house in the Battlestar Galactica remake.

Yoda’s mudhut.

Boom! 1968--La Liz in incredible costumes, fabulous sets, nearly undecipherable script--but I wanted to live in that house!

The super-deluxe Sears Craftsman house in "The Fosters." Though I'm guessing it was based on a real house, I think it was "enhanced."

I loved the house Meryl lived in in It's Complicated. I barely remember the movie but I loved that house.

28 Barbary Lane. The courtyard with all the plants, the top floor unit with the view of the bay. It all seemed so insular and peaceful.

The Fortress of Solitude.

John and Helen Smith's apartment (Man in the High Castle) . So modern!

Hill House.

The Bates Mansion.

1428 Elm Street.

The Amityville House.

Chez Addams

The Brady Bunch house, even if it didn't have any toilets.

The Block of Flats from Number 96 - lots of sex going on all the time....

The farmhouse from Days of Heaven.

R71 I too, loved their home. To me, it represented the best of a comfortable American lifestyle in sunny California. I especially liked their 1940s stove, and their simple timeless kitchen. The back staircase was a nice touch as well. Beautiful drive as well, not too boastful, but private enough with a bit of extra length and space.

R68: The house was perfectly cast but the facade is disappointing: those fat, ugly casement windows on the ground floor and upstairs, the two small windows above the door -- the architectural signifier that right above the main entrance are two shitters, one for the bedroom to the left, the other for the bedroom to the right. It's rarely a good move to express secondary spaces externally through smaller windows at bathrooms and kitchens, etc.

Better landscaping in this photo helps, but only so much.

This is esoteric, but there was a nice beach house in one episode of Murder, She Wrote — Terminal Connection — that I remember asking if anyone knew where it was in an MSW thread here.

Brad and Angelina's house in Mr. & Mrs. Smith

The Kent farm house on Smallville would be my main house. So much real wood.

Helen's beach house from Bob's Burgers for a summer home.

Candice Bergen’s beach house from Rich and Famous.

I loved the view over from Neely’s house when she and Jennifer are by the pool in VOTD.

The apartment tower in 'Sliver'.

The main house in Lost Highway.

The main house in Lost Highway.

I want the garage (and the car) from Ferris Bueller's Day off. Agree with above on Home Alone and Something's Gotta Give - both inspired my decorating choices after seeing.

And almost any Nancy Meyer's set for that matter.

Harry Bosch’s house in “Bosch”

"Frank Lloyd Wright designed our house" - the parent's beach pad in "A Summer Place." Love the bar. It was supposed to be the East Coast but it's actually in Carmel, California, and once a year you can tour it. I plan to do this in the coming year.

Those ultra-modern 50's 60's and 70's ufo shaped homes seemed liked there was nothing but one big room...kind of like a kids clubhouse. I think that is what was so appealing when I was young. I love the idea of the home in Hello Down There.

The house in "Imitation Of Life"

R116 yes, that country view, had a church steeple I believe. And that big kitchen!

I preferred Jane Wyman’s house in All That Heaven Allows.

It’s almost Xmas too and at only ninety minutes we’re due for a rewatch.

[quote] Can't go wrong with the Bates Motel

That wasn't the Bates Motel. That was the Bates residence on the hill above the motel.

This was the motel.

Alexis Carrington Colby's apartment.

The heavily-warded Men of Letters bunker inherited by Sam and Dean that held all of the known knowledge of the supernatural world. The map room, the library, the kitchen, the barracks, the garage, the dungeon...it was endlessly fascinating. It's well past time to wrap this show up, but I love that bunker.

the on the water house of ashley judd and her husband characters in "double jeopardy"!..

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Villain Vandamm = North By Northwest

lonely lovely Lautner = A Single Man

Nancy Meyers Pacific = It’s Complicated

The house in Parasite

Nancy Meyers Atlantic = Something’s Gotta Give

The Crandell House from Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead.

Emma Stone's house in Easy A.

Ava Gardner's house in "The Aviator"

Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

Manderley

The house in The Father of the Bride

The Big Chill house in Beaufort SC

Rosehill Cottage from The Holiday

Il Palazzo Albergoni, la casa Perlman in Lombardia in Call Me by Your Name

Houmas House Plantation and Gardens--Darrow, Louisiana--Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte

I Love Lucy's Connecticut home. How advanced the set design was! (I know it had to be for filming - but still)

I was watching some obscure movie but it had an aparment complex somewhere in LA that was Spanish Mission style around a huge courtyard with fountains and the apartments were stucco walled with beatiful wood carving and tiled floors. If I had to live in an LA apartment that's what I'd want.

The beach house and/or the stunning apartment in "Interiors".

Interiors - exquisite.

I liked the house in The Miniaturist, both interiors and exteriors.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

R7 that is not the house in Hand That Rocks The Cradle. I love that house but the house you showed was not it.

^^^ the ultra-modern house was the doctors' house but They only showed one room of it. I thought it was ugly.

when a man loves a woman

Lost Highway house............

As a comparison, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive house................not sure if he still lives there........

That is ugly af.

R131 The Sowden House was designed by Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright's son, not FLW himself. It was recently used to great effect on TNT's [italic]I Am the Night[/italic].

For an actual FLW house, you can't beat the Ennis House in L.A. Used for the exterior shots of [italic]The House on Haunted Hill[/italic], Claude Estee's house in [italic]The Day of the Locust[/italic], Deckard's apartment in [italic]Blade Runner[/italic], and many more. It recently sold for a reported $18 million.

I was fortunate enough to tour it a few years ago, during its restoration. It is truly spectacular.

r133 While that house was used for the rear shots in Father of the Bride, that front facade was not. That house had a better rear and yard so they used that one for the backyard and the one below for the front.

The mansion in "Knives Out" (2019), complete with trick window.

The architect's house in "Christmas in Connecticut"

Interior of above

Rosemary's appartement at the Dakota.. Hands down,

If your film was "In a Lonely Place" R139, it’s not at all obscure. Bogart lives across the courtyard from Gloria Graham. The little apartment belonging to Bogie's detective friend is pretty great too.

It wasn't that one R156. It was a newer movie made in the 90's.

Father of the Bride II? R139

R150 I toured it too, at the same time. Impressive but - I thought - cold.

I always thought the home in the 1970's BBC series Butterflies seemed lovely.

The Stratford Inn on "Newhart" looked cozy.

Michael Douglas and Goop’s PH in A Perfect Murder.

I loved the Home Alone house when I was a kid too. I was surprised to learn that most of the interior scenes were actually filmed inside that place. Using real houses for interior shots is rare, because there's not enough space for cameras and other equipment, but that house is so huge that wasn't a problem at all.

Another place I really liked was Jean Marsh's cottage in The Eagle Has Landed. The only thing that bothers me is that bloody electrical wiring right in front of the house.

Gaius Baltar's house in the rebooted "Battlestar Galactica".

Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" released in 1954 is interesting to me for being a film set of just two rooms (with a glimpse into the stair hall and kitchen) that are a good depiction of luxury on a small scale in Mayfair London of the period. There's a real economy of design to the set which has to serve double-duty as a realistically cozy, close apartment and a stagey set with room for acting out scenes as if on a stage which of course they were (actors portraying characters portraying actors portraying characters). Besides the confusion of stage and screen and reality, the use of color is brilliant. The made for 3D aspect doesn't seem to add or detract, at least for me.

From youngest childhood, I loved Rob & Laura Petrie's low-slung house. I love the living room with the conversational groupings, the dining area, modern fireplace, brick wall, curved sectional sofa and triangular pillows...I loved how they sat in different areas at different times, had a tv on a rolling cart, and had space for their fabulous parties and auditions for the neighborhood theatrical production. The kitchen was great with a pass-through to the dining area, built in divider shelves and modern appliances and a sliding door. The twin beds in R&L's bedroom were dopey, and I only remember seeing Richie's room in one or two episodes. I could move into this house and live there happily.

Also love some choices above: In a Lonely Place apartments are so fabulous; Love LOVE LOVE the Double Indemnity Spanish style; Likewise Lana Turner's glamour house in Imitation of Life; Loved as a child the Uncle Bill apartment on Family Affair and thought those door knobs in the center of the door were the most unusual and sophisticated things ever.

Laura dances again, after everyone begs her!

Roseanne’s house on Roseanne.

Imagine all that space!

R96, just for a fun tidbit, I’m sure you know that not only does the real house no longer look anything like that, but the front door doesn’t (and never did) face the street. They’ve changed the aesthetics over the years to prevent looky-loos, but the “bones” are still there. They changed the address, too, as it’s no longer 112 Ocean Avenue.

Nice house, too.

Margo Channing’s apartment in All About Eve

1164 Morning Glory Circle

Buck would never have drowned if he'd just stayed home in Lake Forest that day instead of going out on that damned boat with his damned brother.

^ r172 Highland Park, Mom. Highland Park.

I found Brick and Maggie's room in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof so comfortable looking. Like a little private suite with exits to the house and the outside terrace. I would love to have a guest room like this.

174 posts and no on mentions the ONLY house worthy of a grand entrance...???

Nice one R175. Don't you love how her purple dress matches...everything?