Which Christmas-Movie House do you wish you could spend the holidays in? Vote for your favorite below! (Click the pics to see interiors.)
#10: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Which house would you love to spend Christmas in? For me, it has to be the stone farmhouse from “Christmas in Connecticut.” Click the links if you want to see the interior pics before making your decision!
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Any house that has Ralphie and a leg lamp is the house for me!
I think it would fun to stay in the inn of that old movie Holiday Inn.
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The exterior used for Bing Crosby’s Inn in the film Holiday Inn is actually a B&B in Monte Rio CA (just north of San Francisco) on the Russian River called Highland Dell Lodge. I was there several years ago and the owners gave me a tour. So you actually can make your dream come true and stay there!
Here’s the website: http://www.highlanddell.com/pages/main.html
Thanks, George!
I think my all time favorite is It’s A Wonderful Life…I love that old house.
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Glad you put Funny Farm in there because most don’t recognize that house as a Christmas House. I like the house in Remember the Night with Fred McMurray and Barbara Stanwyk, where he takes her to his mom’s Indiana home to stay over the Christmas holiday because he’s a DA and she’s a woman charged with shoplifting. It is a very heart-warming story, and the house in it is very warm and welcoming to that woman. I just adore the movie. It’s little known. I did see it play on Turner Classics or AMC last year.
I checked Netflix for it but they don’t have it. Bummer! I’d like to see that one. -Julia
I voted for The Holiday. It might be fun spending Christmas in Surrey, England
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I know this isn’t a house but I love the apartment in “You’ve Got Mail”. Besides wouldn’t it be a trip to spend part of Christmas in New York City.
Love your blog.
Merry Christmas
That’s funny… I made my selection before I read yours and would pick the Stone family home, as well. Maybe with just a little less clutter, though.
10 Downing Street, Westminster, UK from “Love Actually” Really it would be Liam Neesom’s place from the movie, but I just had a bout of pretentiousness.
Out of the list, I would go with “Home Alone” and “Meet Me in St. Louis”. A Christmas home that’s my favorite all together though, is the “It’s a Wonderful Life” victorian home. It’s gorgeous!
Hi! Of course it must be the holiday! I love both houses!!! Wishing you some wonderful days before Christmas!
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That Holiday house was actually how I found your blog
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You left out 320 Sycamore
Talk about a transformation! Hope you and yours have a blessed and Merry Christmas. Saw Tangled yesterday. The tower is post worthy 
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Julia, that was a hard pick!! I chose The Family Stone for looks, but I’d have to pick Home Alone for nostalgia. Just watched it last night b/c it wouldn’t be Christmas without watching Kevin put aftershave on his face and screaming.
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…the holiday…the holiday…the holiday…perfect…perfect…perfect…
I, too, chose The Family Stone because, well-it’s perfect. I like the Home Alone house, but I would be worried about that basement the whole time just like Kevin does
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Home Alone for me! I grew up laughing with that movie!
It’s a classic! 
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The Funny Farm for me!! I liked it when I watched the movie (at least 7 times)…and like it still. It’s so quaint and I love the Dutch door.
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I love the house from The Women (which you’ve featured before in your website) and I love the boyfriend’s house in The Holiday. I wish you could dig up some more pictures of his house. The movie doesn’t show a lot of it, but from what I can see, it looks perfect!
Sarah
Funny farm…gorgeous!
I didn’t see the movie, but the chipmunk’s house has a LOT of charm. Those arched french doors…to die for!
Holiday !!! Its one of my top ten favorite Movies ! The house is so Romantic yes I have to say for sure Holiday !!! so happy it was on your list !!
Merry Christmas, Julia!
In my wildest dreams, I would be saying to my family, “Come on, let’s start packing for our Christmas trip to our Connecticut house!” Maybe in my next life.
I voted for Home Alone. I have always loved that house, since the movie first came out. I would also consider the house in Stepmom (?). I think that’s the right name for that movie with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Sarandon’s house in that movie is amazing.
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Hi Julia!
I love this round-up! I enjoyed having a peek inside every post. I remember reading them when you first posted them. My favorite movie is A Christmas Story and their house is very nostalgic for me (their Christmas tree is my favourite) but the prettiest of all the houses in the one from The Holiday. I love her blue kitchen ; ) and it is so charming and cozy.
Your blog is such a gift to so many…I hope you and your family have a wonderful, happy Christmas. You work so hard to bring us the most amazing houses and I really appreciate it.
Much love,
Linda
xo
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Thank you for your comment, Julia. You already know that I honestly appreciate what you did for me before. In the beginning it was pretty hard, as it is for every person that starts a new blog, but you showed support and still do. So, I’m very grateful for that.
May God bless you and your family this Christmas and in 2011!
xo
Luciane at HomeBunch.com
The Home Alone house is just down the street from my family’s house.
I love the Vermont lodge in White Christmas!!!
Me, too! I’m working on a post about White Christmas for next Monday.
The place in The Family Stone – reminds me of a beautiful waterfront home I saw in Mystic, CT.
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Well that’s a no brainer…since the Holiday is my favorite movie:) Have a great week Julia.
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It’s too hard, I love the Funny Farm and The Holiday cottage too much to pick between the two! If I can also have Jude Law to go with The Holiday cottage, I’d pick that one.
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That is one of the hardest decisions of the day so far!!! I live in a Victorian and the Meet Me is St Louis house is one of my favorite houses of all time, but I don’t particularly love it for its Christmas-ness. Christmas in Connecticut is one of my all time favorite Christmas movies mostly because of that house and arriving by sleigh, so I had to vote for that house this time!
Great collection of Christmas houses!
Jackie’s house in Stepmom.
Oh my gosh, what a decision! I had to chose The Family Stone because of that awesome wrap around porch! But I’d love the Home Alone House too, and The Holiday Cottage even though it wouldn’t work with 2 kids tearing through it! Those 2 kids influenced my decision! And I just saw Mary put down the house in Stepmom, yep, that would be my favorite too!
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Have to go with Christmas in Connecticut it’s such a wonderful, wintery, christmas house.
I love the films of the 40′s which showed such an idyllic version of the holiday season.
The Family Stone!
This year I would pick the first one. It is so Victorian, and since I love to run wild with a theme I would plan an extravagantly Victorian Christmas.
I knew I was forgetting some good ones when I was writing this last night. You guys reminded me that “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Stepmom” should have been on this list, as well as “Holiday Inn” and “White Christmas”–love them all! -Julia
It was a tough choice between St. Louis & Connecticut…but St. Louis one out! Such a pretty house!
xo J~
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I picked The Holiday cottage in England because I do love it but I just thought of another favorite of mine that I don’t think you have ever done, Julia, and that is the home (Orchard House) of the March family in the 1994 version of Little Women with Winona Ryder. By the way, Merry Christmas to you, Julia, and your family and thank you for all the happiness you’ve brought me this year with Hooked on Houses!
The St Louis home is great, but I want to go to Bedford Falls & have Christmas with George Bailey’s family (& Clarence too!)
No contest – the English house from The Holiday. And not just for Christmas – I want it all year round! Now… when do I get to move in?!
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OOOh – that’s a toughie but I think I have to go with Christmas in Connecticut. I just love that 30′s – 40′s country chic.
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Julia, I’m kind of offended! 320 Sycamore in It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t on the list??
Merry Christmas!
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Kate Winslet’s cottage from The Holiday is so charming.
I choose the Home Alone house, simply because I’ve got so many memories of that house. I used t0 love the movie and the house and the people and just everything about it. Well, that was when I was a little kid lol, but still the house reminds me of family, love and coziness. It makes me smile just thinking about it
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The house in Home Alone 1 and 2 will probably always be my favourite house. I love it.
My favorite Christmas movie is, unfortunately not listed, All I want for Christmas, with (a very young) Thora Birch, Ethan Embry, and Leslie Nielsen. I love that movie!!
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I love your polls and all your posts. Thanks for doing such a wonderful job Julia. And Merry Christmas.
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Stone homes always take first place for me.
But I do LOVE the “Family Stone” home, too!
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What an adorable Christmas post! And what an amazing amount of work you did going behind-the-scenes of these movie locales. The Holiday house is my favorite, hands down. Beth Rubino is a set design genius–she makes the space feel real but still have that wonderful touch of movie magic.
Being a Clevelander, I felt obligated to vote for the Christmas Story house! The Meet Me in St. Louis house ran a close second, though!
Meet Me in St. Louis! I love how it reminds me of a big, fancy old-fashioned pink cake, the kind with the swirly frosting. Of course, I don’t know if I’d want to live there year-round (too girly) but it’s perfect for Christmas.
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Oh, and I thought my vote for The Holiday would be in the way back! Guess I’m not the only romantic out there
My second choice was #8.
Merry Christmas!!!
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Haha! I choose Alvin and the Chipmunks! Loved that house!! hehe
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It’s too hard to pick just one!!!
It’s kind of a tie between “Meet Me in St. Louis”, “The Holiday” and “Christmas in Connecticut”. How do you choose????
Loribeth
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aaaack, too hard to pick!!! Love the Family Stone House, Home Alone, A Christmas Story, and the Holiday.
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It’s such a hard decision for me b/c I love all of them! I think Home Alone still is one of my faves! I use to work at Bombay Company years ago part time. We became a popular store because they furnished the house with lots of the decor pieces. Like the angel candlesticks, nutcrackers and the ever famous and very popular selling marble top plant stand. Pretty much anything that was shown in that movie became a must have in the store.
Choices. Choices. So many beautiful homes. I think I choose the Funny Farm house for Christmas, but oh how I’d love to live in the Chipmunk house. The Pasadena, CA area has a lot of those old bungalow courts, and I used to yearn to live in one.
It took quite some time to go through all the pictures and commentary, so it must have taken you LOTS of time to put this post together…thank you, and thank you for such an enjoyable blog all year long. Merry Christmas!
I Love your blog and i love the Home Alone House, my english iss not so good, sorry
Greets from Thuringia in Germany
I have loved “Meet Me in St. Louis” since I was a girl scout and saw it, at a special showing, in a restored movie theatre. The copy I have, has Lizzie Minnelli giving an introduction about her mom and dad and how they fell in love during this movie. Thanks for including this in your line-up!
Based on the house alone, not the movie, I have to go with The Holiday. I don’t like the movie much, but I watch it just to see that house! I’ve never seen Meet Me in St. Louis, but I’m gonna have to rent it now to see the rest of that gorgeous house. I do love the Christmas in Connecticut house too.
Maybe these count more as Inns (but people do live in them), but what about the beautiful homes/inns in White Christmas and Holiday Inn? Gorgeous!!!
The Inn in White Christmas is definatly the best Christmas house of all time.
Every year at Christmas time I watch “Fanny and Alexander” by Ingmar Bergman. A big Swedish family Christmas with every frame of the movie like a postcard.
SUCH a difficult decision as all of them are so lovely and wonderful and would make for a picture perfect holiday. However, I had to go with the house from the Family Stone! I want to live in it 24/7/365!
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Hi Julia,
i picked Christmas in Conn. but I can’t really decide which is my fav. There is something in all of them that I love. I think Holiday Inn has the same set as White Christmas. I watched both the other night and they both seem to have the same bar/lounge area. I saw that Holiday Inn was made about 10 years prior to White Christmas. I would love to go to that Inn for holidays, would’t you. Merry Christmas, Julia.
CareyAnn
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I picked Home Alone. Not surpisingly, that’s currently the top vote. I have loved that house for the moment I saw the movie. That and the house from Miracle on 34th street (1994 remake)
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A Christmas Story and Meet Me in St Louis are my favorite Christmas movies. I am so glad you included posts about them! I feel very loyal to the Christmas Story house because I live about 10 min away and have been lucky enough to visit, but I have to say, if you are asking which house I would rather spend the holidays in, it would have to be the beautiful victorian.
Happy Holidays!
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One of my favorite Christmas movies is The Bishop’s Wife. The interior of the Bishop’s house is beautiful. I love all the fancy woodwork. From the outside it looks like an ordinary brownstone like the homes on Commonwealth Ave in Boston. The interior of the widow’s home is also amazing.
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