We just saw it Auntjen, and I found myself loving the house also. Great movie, and afterward we booked a beachhouse for a long weekend and invited all our grown kids!

Sarah Knowles was the Production Designer for Dan in Real Life. She also did The Notebook. Production Designers were referred to as Art Director until Gone With the Wind.

If you NEVER want to watch ANY movie purely for the enjoyment of watching EVER again, take a class on production design! lol The production design of a movie follows the main characters psychological journey through the movie. Everything is there because of the main character. Not just because it looks good! lol

I like the cabin too.

One of my relatives is an actor in "Dan in Real Life"! I loved the movie, the house, and the whole package!

Another fantastic house in a movie is "Death at a Funeral" (although a totally different type -- it's very traditional decor and is in England). I could hardly take my eyes off of the house and the rooms -- loved it!

I loved the NY apartment kitchen in "No Reservations." The movie was terrible, and if I hadn't been hoping for more glimpses of the very cool kitchen, I would have turned it off, but instead I sat through the whole thing. :-)

hoosiergirl, I just ordered "Death at a Funeral" so it will be fun to check out the interior design while I watch it.

I might have to rent "Dan in Real Life" now, because the cottage sounds lovely. Remember Kevin Costner's cottage in "Message in a Bottle?" Loved it.

You can rent the house in "Dan in Real Life". It's called Riven Rock.

Here is a link that might be useful: article about location house

I'm taking notes on movies to rent so I can check out the houses! HA!

Here are photos of the place; you can actually rent it during the summer.

Here is a link that might be useful: Riven Rock

A few years back we rented the house where they filmed On Golden Pond. We brought the dvd with us to watch and it was funny to see the same furniture and curtains 20+ years on...

The boat tours came by several times a day and the kids would run to the beach or gazebo and wave wildly at the tourists.

The lake is one of my favorite places in NH and if I could afford it, I'd buy a place on the lake, even though we already have a small place about 30 min away.

I was really disappointed with No Reservations-- not even the kitchen could save it for me. There was just no chemistry between the characters and no charm. I LOVED the original, german version though-- if you don't mind subtitles, pick up a copy of "Mostly Martha". The characters, apartment, kitchen and restaurant are all much more charming than the american version.

This is too funny. I thought I was the only weirdo who looked at the sets instead of paying attention to the storyline.

I adored the kitchen in "The Family Stone".
Jo

so what are some of your other favorite movie homes? I know I've had many.. but the two that come immediately to mind are Patricia Clarkson's house in Station Agent and the grand family home in Crimes of the Heart. For a dream place.. I'll take the italian villa in Enchanted April.

oohhh...Enchanted April is one of my favorites....everytime I see it, I want to cut my hair into a bob like Polly Walkers.

One of my favorite movie homes is the cottage that Kate Winslet lives in in The Holiday.

Yes! All of the homes shown in "The Holiday" are gorgeous! Loved that film!

Another fun film with great homes -- Coldwater Creek -- a British comedy ......

Jan

Just recently saw the movie, "Sex and the City". I love the apartment that Mr. Big and Carrie bought. When Carry first see's the Manhattan apartment she says, " Oh my gosh I have died and gone to real estate Heaven". lol

It is a gorgeous apartment with such old original detail and style not to mention the view. Loved the place! But the movie was not for me.

A couple of other house's I loved was of course, Somethings gotta give and Father of the Bride.

.....Jane

Stepmom with Susan Sarandon. I watch it JUST FOR THE HOUSE.

Um, I look at my children's books and shows for decorating ideas! (I admit it!) There are just so many gorgeous homes!

I wish I could move into Angelina Ballerina's house. Yes, I'd turn my whole family into mice if we could live in a cozy little cottage like that with such a charming village! Of course, I'd also request a MUCH longer life span than mice usually have for everyone to accompany this idea!

I have four "movie houses" that I LOVE. Teacats already named two of them! (Something's Gotta Give and What Lies Beneath). My other two are Spanglish and The Door in the Floor. I highly recommend checking them out if you haven't seen them!

Oh, I forgot to mention this and actually forgot about it.
But a couple of years before I moved here. Hollywood came to my town and made a movie, in the house at the end of my block. My girlfriend said, there were night's that they lite the whole house up when filming.

It is a pretty house built in 1890 with double porches.
The movie was about football and it never even made it to the video store. lol

I guess you actually have to have a good story to make the movie interesting. he! he!

....Jane

I love the house from the movie w/ Julia Roberts, "Sleeping with the enemy" Not the modern one, but the one she moves into when she gets away. The kitchen is so neat and the front porch with the swing is so homey. I know there are more, just can't think right now!

How about Bruce Willis' house in "sixth sense" Wallpaper never looked so good!

My forever favorite movie house (and perhaps favorite movie too) - It's a Wonderful Life.

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We were sitting in the movie theatre on Saturday watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and I leaned over to my hubby during a scene in Indy's living room and told him that I LOVED the house. Told him again after the movie and he just looked at me funny :P.

Seriously though, it's that classic "cabinet of curiosities" colonial look, with artifacts from around the world mixed with English furnishings. There were some simply framed black and white photos on the wall with heavy mattes, old maps and globes, old books, heavy drapes - swoon! I was sitting in the movie theatre wishing they would just pause the movie for a second so I could take it all in. Guess I'm going to have to rent it on DVD... (at which point hubby will once again think I'm nuts for pausing it and taking pictures of the screen!)

Love how in "Sleeping with the Enemy" the Cape Cod house is lovely but so cold and "blue/gray" while the house in Iowa is so warm and yellow!

My favorite movie house- from Disney's "The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit". I wonderful stone and siding Dutch colonial. I went to great lengths to try and track it down before we built ours but was unable to locate it.

PD

I loved the house in the HBO series Six Feet Under.

Ponydoc I love a Dutch Colonial too, my favorite house!

The Virginia Wolfe ( title?) movie with Nicole Kidman and Meryl Streep. Loved the atmospheric homes in England and NYC, especially the charmingly real Manhattan kitchen.

I feel like I happened upon a secret cult - I too have "favorite" movies just b/c of the decor. My fav decor flick is "You, Me and Dupree" - horrible movie, but a great craftsman bungalow! I also like the condo in The Breakup - which I have actually paused to check out the accessories more closely. I loved the house in the tv series Once and Again (with Sela Ward) and Thirtysomething - nothing really fancy - just warm, welcoming homes.

Speaking of Sex and the City - I like Carrie's original apartment. I don't really care for her redecoration in the end of the flick. The original apartment was just perfect.

That movie was The Hours. I loved those houses, too!

This is silly...I too admire a good movie...house
I really loved the house in Mrs. Doubtfire and Father of the Bride, of course.
The house in Dan In Real Life was great too. I actually just bought the soundtrack to the movie...it is really good, too

Anybody remember the kitchen in A Perfect Murder?

Besides the ones already mentioned: I liked the kitchen that Eddie Murphy's character lived in in "Daddy Day Care" and also Steve Martin's kitchen in "Bringing Down the House". I always make sure I see those scenes and then I can turn the channel. Although, I liked the movies anyway.

Oh Kitchendetective, I thought I was the only one that noticed the kitchen in A Perfect Murder. I love that kitchen. I was going to mention that, but couldn't recall the name of the movie. Knew it wasn't Dial M for Murder.
Glad you menioned it!

My favorite (all time) is the house from Home Alone. I still have tender feelings about that movie, I think b/c my kids were young when we saw it.

For a smaller house, I still think about Charlie's cottage (Kelly McGillis) on the beach from Top Gun. We've been there (it's in Oceanside) it looks a bit run down now, but when that movie came out...well you know, we all fell in love with Tom Cruise! :)

Susan

Yes, I remember the house in Home Alone. It had a lot of red and green in it, didn't it? It was released around Christmas, that would explain the colors. Great house it was!

I second Lord of the Rings! Bilbo's house is homey and charming, and I was thrilled to find that people actually construct hobbit houses. I keep telling my DH that we need to build one for ourselves. (When I first read the trilogy, I admired everything elvish, including the soaring palaces. At a significantly older age, I have become a hobbit, sans the hairy feet.) What a fun thread this is, luring a long-time lurker out!

The Perfect Murder kitchen!!! OH MY GOD. I LOVE IT. Actually, I love the whole apartment! Cindyloowoo, I 100% agree about Carrie's SATC apartment...wayyyyyyy better before it was "decorated." I LOVE Charlotte's apartment too (who wouldn't?).

Here's an article on a real life Hobbit House ......

Here is a link that might be useful: Hobbit House

Wonderful article, teacats! Here's another:

http://www.tenchford.com/hobbit%20house.html

The BBC's "The Way We Live Now" -- set in London and the English countryside....gorgeous!