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POLL: Which silver screen home would you want to live in?

12 years ago
We often dream about living somewhere else, whether that's in your neighbourhood, in a different city or abroad.

If you had the chance to change your pad for a fictional movie home, which one would you go for? Let me know your choice in the comments section!
The cottage in The Holiday
Gatsby's mansion
The house in A Single Man
The Tuscan villa in Under the Tuscan Sun
The flat in American Psycho
Carrie Bradshaw's flat in Sex and the City

Comments (122)

  • 12 years ago
    Sky Tower from "Oblivion".
  • 12 years ago
    Love the house in Ferris Buller's Day Off!
  • PRO
    12 years ago
    Yes, I liked that one too with the car off course !!!
  • 12 years ago
    I voted for the Tuscan villa although my fav place from TV is Mary Tyler Moore's apartment in the Mary Tyler Moore show. That sunken living room, huge balcony & window... gorgeous!
  • 12 years ago
    I can't say I remember the rest of the house, but I might just be willing to kill for Kathleen Turner's lighted shoe closet in "The War of the Roses." And yes, Kate, Meryl Streep's house in "It's Complicated" gave me major house envy.
  • PRO
    12 years ago
    We can't forget "Tara" from Gone With the Wind!

    Christi, on behalf of Thos. Baker
  • 12 years ago
    last modified: 12 years ago
    : )))) I was trying to forget it, and until now almost suceeded
  • 12 years ago
    How about the beach house from "Sleeping with the Enemy" crappy movie terrific house.
  • 12 years ago
    I actually prefer Julia Robert's quaint rental house much better than the stark and uninviting beach house mansion she escaped! But I do agree that the large house was impressive!
  • 12 years ago
    And I suspect if we had been shown more of them, I would have definitely loved Niles' house and then apartment in "Frasier." What I saw of them I loved.
  • 12 years ago
    Niles' apartment. Love!
  • 12 years ago
    Both Niles' and Frasier's apartments on "Frasier" were wonderful--even if Frasier's kitchen was too small. Somewhere out there on the internet I once saw a floorplan for Frasier's place--wonderful!
  • 12 years ago
    Linda 907, I think I found it!
  • 12 years ago
    Weatherwife, Yes, that's it! Too bad the view from the balcony isn't real!

    And for those of you that care, notice that there's hardly any furniture against the walls.
  • 12 years ago
    I can't think of a single British film with an envy-inspiring domestic interior that isn't a stately home or palace. Most of our cinema and even TV seems to go for the gritty rather than the glamorous.
  • 12 years ago
    I still like the Bewitched House-not too big but not too small either & found one of those kitchen stoves on craigslist one time-alas it was like 1000 miles away but still just knowing that there are a few of them out there -haha
  • 12 years ago
    And also silly-but I've always loved the Flintstones one-the cartoon of course!!
  • 12 years ago
    I'm torn between the beach house in Something's Gotta Give or the house from The Big Chill (okay, I'm dating myself). Can I have them both?????
  • 12 years ago
    The "Home Alone" house. Especially at Christmas. :)
  • 12 years ago
    Carrie and Big's apartment in SATC2 ... not into clothes, but I LOVE that closet (knocks her other closet into a cocked hat!!).
  • 12 years ago
    Excuse me, chatco... Scrolling up at the above comments I realize you had already suggested the "Home Alone" house, and I had not only seen it, but "liked it." Must be getting senile! At any rate, great minds think alike!
  • 12 years ago
    so glad someone else mentioned Practical Magic, the kitchen was pure house porn as I remember it.... but it's been a long time since I've seen it.
  • 12 years ago
    The country home in Christmas in Connecticut. The original, not the remake.
  • 12 years ago
    I can't believe nobody has mentioned Karen Blixen's house in "Out of Africa". It is a real place and still there. It was too small to film in so the film company built a replica that could accommodate the cameras. They are both there and are museums. I have always been so obsessed I even corresponded with the museum director about the house. Very lovely people.
  • 12 years ago
    Thanks, crpps
  • 12 years ago
    Thank you @Trillums Landscaping & Horticulture.

    There are loads of web sites since I first fell in love with this house in the 1980's. One of the best is Hooked on Houses, film houses. Fortunately I live in an area that this particular house would look completely at home. I dream of building it. It is nice that others appreciate this house.
  • 12 years ago
    The house in a single man ;)
  • 11 years ago
    The house in Something's Gotta Give
  • 11 years ago
    The house in What lies beneath is also stunning.
  • PRO
    11 years ago
    I still like the Cullen's house in Breaking Dawn ! The light from the glass walls and the Art pieces are impressive !!
  • 11 years ago
    I agree with bschr, the house in What Lies Beneath is my fav, even if it wasn't a real house.
  • 11 years ago
    I could tell what a mediocre movie "What Lies Beneath" was by how much time I spent looking at the house as opposed to following the story!
  • 11 years ago
    lol, me too!
  • 11 years ago
    There was a story?
  • 11 years ago
    I'd take the house from "Casper"... or maybe Disney's "Haunted Mansion" (movie). Just no ghosts, please.
  • 11 years ago
    I Love the house from the movie Clueless
    Loved the staircase! The computerized closet
    I can dream........
  • 11 years ago
    Bill Compton's house in True Blood.. the double porch, molding details and high ceilings make me drool!
  • 11 years ago
    I was told that IT'S COMPLICATED is a film set! true?? As well interior shots of, GOOD AS IT GETS iare a film set??
  • 11 years ago
    I love the cottage image, it has a homely feel to it.
  • 11 years ago
    Carrie Bradshaw's flat! A home in Manhattan would be a dream!
  • PRO
    11 years ago
    I would definitely choose Carrie's flat if it also includes her closet and shoe collection! #BeSeenBeSafe
  • 10 years ago

    If I could take the house from The Holiday and transplant it to Tuscany, I'd be happy.

  • 10 years ago

    Nancy Meyers always has great interiors in her films, especially the kitchens (It's Complicated, Something's Gotta Give, The Intern ...)

  • 10 years ago

    Mr Blandings builds his dream house, 1948, yr I was born, He paid, (Cary Grant) , $30,000 for it, same year my father paid $4,500 for a triple decker in Boston ma. The movie house was in Conn. Nuf said!

  • PRO
    9 years ago

    No contest!

  • 9 years ago

    Out of those I like the first one best. The cottage. I'd get scared living in the Gatsby house.

  • PRO
    9 years ago

    The Tuscan Villa is a clear winner for me!

  • PRO
    8 years ago

    Can I have the shoes too?

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    Can't believe you included the cottage from The Holiday! It's my all-time fave movie home but I thought I was the only one who preferred that over the mansion!

  • 8 years ago

    Please God, anything other than the standard 3bd 2ba ranch. But if I could, a real Cotswold cottage, stone with a thatched roof, on 3 wooded acres. "Honey, did ya remember to buy a Lottery ticket"?