After I featured Amanda’s house and Iris’s English Cottage from The Holiday, you clamored to see Mill House, the home of Jude Law’s character Graham, too. We only got a glimpse of its exterior, when Amanda is walking up to it at night (above).
It’s a warm family home, decorated for Christmas. Take a look!
Jude Law’s House in “The Holiday”
The Entry Hall and Staircase
The Living Room
The set designers did a beautiful job of making Mill House feel like a home where children live.
We finally understand who Graham is when Amanda steps into his home.
The Kitchen
Graham’s Library
The Fairytale Tent in the Girls’ Room
Production Designer Jon Hutman says the girls’ bedroom with the tent was his favorite set in the movie.
We got another look at the exterior during the credits:
The real Mill House is in Wonersh, Surrey. You can see photos of it on Flickr.
Visit my Houses Onscreen page to see the others I’ve featured, listed from A-Z.
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Hollywood rocks! That is so cool they just built that cottage. I’m glad you have photos of the girl’s tent. I saved it for an idea for my little girl’s big girl room. What little girl wouldn’t like that over their bed?
That was fun seeing the cottage come to life!
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My first thought when I saw the shots was what a fantastic job the set designers did at Graham’s. I love that there are paper snowflakes on the wall and rolls of wrapping paper leaned against it.
I think the decorations are a bit much (and professional)for a single dad to have done, but he could have had friends come in to do it for him to make the holidays nice for the girls.
The building of the cottage is awesome. Where did you find the production shots?
Recently we watched Over Her Dead Body (because our choices are limited over here) and Ashley’s apartment is to die for. I’m not sure how she affords it, but then I never know how people in movies afford where they live. The architectural detail is amazing. The movie is actually pretty funny, but it’s worth a watch just for the apartment.
Mom in High Heels–
The production shots come from the “special features” sections on the DVD in which they talk about making the movie. I found it interesting and thought you guys would, too! -Julia
Great job! I’m glad to have discovered your blog, which combines two of my favorite pastimes – movies and interior design. How about “Once Around” with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus? Renata’s home and then Sam and Renata’s apartment in Boston are both amazing. Would love to see more detail if you can dig it up! Thanks again.
How funny! I actually owned a small house not that far from Shere a couple of years ago. 🙂 (We live in the outskirts of the big capital city now) I love your Movie Houses.
I wonder if the cottage they built is still standing, and if so, are people living in it? Love Movie Monday’s!
What fabulous pics! I love how that can just throw up a set in a few days!
Oh! such a lovely home! Hillarious to see them building that *centuries old* stone house!
Thanks Julia!
I loved that movie too, Julia! Great set design. It’s amazing how they do that. I just watched Somethings Gotta Give again this weekend & now that I know they just built the set for that beach house, it’s even more amazing. I have to say, that is my FAVE house ever in the movies.
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I love the house, and I agree with the other commenter; he did a really good job of Christmas decorating for a guy! I also wondered if there are any beds in the girls’ room, or maybe they sleep in the tent?
Did the crew just build the shell of Iris’s cottage, or was it a full-fledged house? If they used this for both interior and exterior shots, the speed at which they constructed it would be phenomenal! I always assumed that they did exterior shots of a real, centuries-old cabin…I had no idea that it was an on-the-spot construction specifically for the movie!
Bungalow Bliss–It’s just the shell and landscaping that they did in 2 weeks. Like Amanda’s house (the contemporary one in California), the interiors were just sets. -Julia
Hi Julia! I have a request for Age of Innocence–I LOVE the Victorian interiors!!
Well, it should not surprise you that I did not see this movie, either 😉
I just love that tent in the girl’s room and the stars hanging, too…oh what fun I would have had decorating a little girl’s room…oh well, maybe for a friend or niece or granddaughter one day!
Can you do The Walton’s House one day? haha
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Hi Julia – great pics! I just linked over to this post from my series of Holiday posts!
I love the look of the little cottage at the end! Beautiful! Thanks for the wonderful post…I enjoyed reading it!
I love all the houses in this movie and always wished they had shown more of the village…
Love it! I’m addicted to this blog!!
Oh wow – I cannot believe they built all of Iris’ stuff in 2 weeks! I would’ve never known that – how interesting! I love the new Monday movie idea, too. Happy New Year! :0)
Wow, so interesting to see all the work it takes to create a cottage that I truly believed was so old and charming. Love this post Julia!!! One of your best for sure:)
love your site! and of course i love all these houses too!
what about Under the Tuscan Sun!!!
Forget the houses…more JUDE LAW! Just kidding. I loved all the houses in this, and I am so sad to hear the house is just a shell, what a wonderful home it would have made! One of my all time fave interiors is Meg Ryan’s apartment in PRELUDE TO A KISS. The finishes on the walls rock!
I love that movie. I’d love to switch houses with someone someday. They can come spend winter in our snowy town & we can go to their warm house. A girl can dream.
Man, that is cool. I am hooked now!
Iris’s cottage is so charming.
I absolutely loved this movie the first, second and third time I watched it!
Great post, as always.
xo
Brooke
Love Jude’s house!
AMAZING the cottage construction! Sooooo cute!
Love your blog…
I have a request for a TV house – I love the show Brothers and Sisters and the Mothers house on that show looks amazing…
Keep up the good work!
How about the movie WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING….that was a cool movie with Chicago homes…?
I would love to see the house from “The Family Stone.”
What a FANTASTIC and fun feature!
May I suggest {if you haven’t already covered} the Napa estate and London townhouse from the Parent Trap with Lindsay Lohan? Director is the same as The Holiday and I LOVE the interiors and exteriors in the movie.
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It is so nice to know that I am not the only one who is crazy enough to watch movies for the featured homes! Love all that you have shown. Suggestions: The cabin from On Golden Pond and Michael Jordan’s home in Space Jam…Oh and all the sets from You’ve Got Mail.
Just found this – I am decor mad. Watched this film over and over to look and dream at the cottsge. Guess we are all cave dwellers at heart.
What a fantastic site and good to know I am not alone !
Chrissie in deepest darkest and very rural West Devon.
The Holiday is a movie I can watch over and over again. I absolutely love that movie! Thank you so much for those pics. I didn’t know that house was built in 2 weeks. That was really cool to see how they did that. I have you on my faves 😉
Thanks Julia, extraordinary your images,I have a question if the Millers house really exists’? or if it is only Hollywood interiors.
Congratulations, I am addicted to Hooked on houses
Please Julia I love the interiors in Brothers & Sisters, and the house of Huff, with Hank Azaria
Can you help us with some pictures?
Great blog
Diana
Hi, Mercedes! As far as I could tell from the research I did on “The Holiday,” all of the interiors were sets on soundstages, and the exteriors were real places (except for Iris’s cottage, which they built the shell of).
You guys are giving me lots of great ideas for future posts. I’m writing all of them down! Thanks!!
LOVE this movie!! And as an adult I want a Fairy Tale Tent!!!!! 🙂
Thank you Julia for sharing this with us! This is my favorite movie, I love everything about it. That tent is so gorgeous…I’d love to hang out in it! =)
Julia: I just wanted to thank you for posting Jude’s “house” from The Holiday. You and I chatted about it via e-mail about a month ago and I was delighted to see Sophie and Olivia’s magical tent. I hope to build one like it for my daughter soon. Even though she’s off to university next year, she still believes a bit in magic. And the tent seems like a good place for snuggling. A college kids who come home for a visit probably need a hug — and their laundry done! Thanks again for a wonderful blog. And I’d just like to add that I enjoy reading everyone’s comments. Your blog seems to attract some very clever and classy people. Their comments are a joy to read.
I literally JUST WATCHED this movie on demand…so funny! I’m new to your site and LOVE it!
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Love this site, and love looking at the houses. I loved The Holiday (have watched it over a dozen times)and could not beleive that Iris’ house was not real – it looked like it had been there for decades. Just want to correct some earlier posts about the girls fairy tent – it was in their playroom not their bedroom. It’s a gorgeous tent – I want one myself, would be great to snuggle in there (especially if Jude came onlong with it!)
Sue–
It was? I assumed that since it had their names on the door it was a bedroom. What a great playroom for two little girls to have! -Julia
What a wonderful website – one I will frequent often. Many of the movies I own are because I like to watch them over and over for the houses!!! Mr & Mrs Smith – Something’s Gotta Give – The Holiday. I am going to rent Grey Gardens – never saw it before.
Thank you for sharing this!
I am so glad that I am not the only one who loves this movie not for only just the tale of the 2 intertwining love stories , but for the decor of the cottage and the quaint lil english town and country side.I have watched this over and over again any time it is on t.v. esp late at night i find myself up watching this movie and wondering and dreaming what life would be like there in that cottage at the english country side.I can imagine myself sitting there fireside with a fire in the fireplace while watching snow gently fall on the countryside… with the cozy cottage decor and all sure wish someone could come build me a cottage that adorable in 2 weeks! thank you so much for the information this site is sure to be on my faves list already!
KimmyLynn
LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog. It is a very good thing that calories are not attached to it, because I would be gaining pounds by the minute! I did have a suggestion for a review. I love the movie “MOTHER WAS A FRESHMAN” with Loretta Young. Her house is fabulous, but the dorm room at college that she shares with her daughter is so sweet. I would love to see what you could do with that.
Your blog is a wonderful gift!
Im watching The Holiday, perhaps you have some information about the restraunt Graham took Amanda to.
That scene with the “fairy-tale tent” totally reminded me of the tent scene in the nursery from “Hook”! i love just about every scene and set in that movie. The Darling house, the Lost Boys’ treehouses, Tink’s clock apartment, Hook’s ship… oh, they’re all so good!! Please, please, please do a cover of it!
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I have seen this movie so, so many times and the tent scene still makes me cry – Love!
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I loved Graham’s house in this film the most and was glad to see this post as I perused your site! Thanks for posting the lovely pictures! I loved Sophie and Olivia’s tent in the movie!
~Nadia
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I see that Iris’ house was not real and they had to build it, but does it still stand today or did they destroy it??
Lindsey–
They didn’t say, but I imagine it was torn down. They usually are after filming because they aren’t built to code or anything and could be dangerous if left standing empty like that. -Julia
I totally want that poster in his study!
Thanks, Rachel! I didn’t know that. Great photos! -Julia
Watched this again yesterday… I have to make that tent for my daughter. I was thrilled to see you posted it here! Thanks so much!!!
Hi I like some movies mainly because the decoration and the houses, some of my favorites are on this site. I would also love to see the house of the movie “After the sunset”…
Thanks!