In the 2005 movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which became famous for bringing Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt together, they played a couple of assassins hired to kill each other. As they each try to complete their assignment, they learn more about each other than they could’ve imagined.
Also, they live in this classic Colonial-style house with black shutters. Did anyone else cringe when it got destroyed at the end?
Let’s take a closer look at the Smith house from the movie, along with the interior sets that were built on a separate soundstage.
The House from the Movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”
When you step inside the Mr. & Mrs. Smith house, the interiors are a complete surprise, just like the characters who live in them.
The interiors were sets created on a soundstage. They were designed by Victor Zolfo, who also worked on films like The Case of Benjamin Button.
He says he gets fan mail from all over the world from people who love the rooms he created for this movie.
The house where exteriors were shot is located in Pasadena, California.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s Living Room
The Dining Room
The sets were a mix of traditional and modern design that was ahead of its time in 2005.
It’s interesting to see all the beige and brown tones used, though.
If the movie had been made a few years later, it would’ve most likely been shades of gray.
The Kitchen
Mrs. Smith has a double oven in the kitchen that’s more deadly than it looks.
The lower one opens to reveal her stash of weaponry:
Artist Shelley Brown painted the “Eggs” piece hanging in the kitchen:
Upstairs
The Bedroom
Nicole Kidman and Johnny Depp were originally cast as Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
The Master Bath
The scenes of the house being destroyed were hard to watch!
Jane Smith tells their marriage counselor, “We redid the house together.”
No houses were actually harmed during the filming, however.
I get asked a lot whether this is the same as the Father of the Bride house:
Nope! They do look similar, but they’re not the same.
But the “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” house was used in the 2005 remake of “Yours, Mine & Ours:“
Hollywood loves these kinds of Classic American houses.
In this movie it worked as an effective cover for paid assassins like John and Jane Smith because none of their neighbors could have imagined what was going on inside!
You can see how the house looks today on Google Streetview and learn more at Redfin.
Visit my Movie Houses page to see more, including the one from “Father of the Bride.”
Thanks Julia so much fun this morning to see. Are not the light fixtures in that house spectacular? What a fabulous home & a very entertaining movie.
Happy Monday!
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I *always* find home/building destruction hard to watch. The library on our local campus was demolished a year or so ago and I would literally get ill every time I drove my sister up there or drove past that end of the campus. Maybe I’m just a crazy person, but I think buildings have a spirit and a personality, so watching them be destroyed just doesn’t feel right.
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love love love the kitchen!
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The inside of this house definitely does not fit the outside! I have a mission for you–We saw “The Proposal” with Sandra Bullock yesterday—average movie; FABULOUS house. I can’t find a thing about details. It takes place in Sitka (sp?), Alaska. Many scenes take place in a drop dead gorgeous bedroom. I’m counting on you–the house sleuth!
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I didn’t see this movie but wow, that house is fantastic! That kitchen is just fabulous.
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What a fun post. I forgot how beautiful that house was, inside and out! Thanks for the pics!
I too had forgotten just how amazing this house was. I can’t believe they wrecked it – gulp! – but I guess they only blew up a set, not the real home.
And no offense to Ms Kidman, but I’m not sure this would have been the best role for her – that seems a weird casting decision to me.
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One of your best posts yet Julia. Loved it. I can’t believe that kitchen – how inventive. I love that type of tile (we have it in our guest bath) and I love how they used it at a 90 degree angle to how the rest of the world normally uses it – AND it covers the island and the sides of the island – how neat-o! BUT, I’m not a fan of them. I’m a Jenn girl, all the way. I hate that Angelina told some interviewer that they fell in love during the filming of that movie! Hello? Insensitive much? He was still married! ugh. But fabulous house, and post!
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I’ve always thought that house was DELICIOUS!
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I loooove the exterior of the Brangelina house, but the interior is a little too contemporary for me. Great photos!!!! I have to second the person above (Susan) who mentioned the home in The Proposal…cute movie, fabulous home!!! 🙂
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I just love your blog. Thank you from a girl in Sweden!
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I MUCH prefer the house in Father of the Bride, especially the kitchen, which is so warm and inviting. I think this house feels cool and cold, like the people who inhabit it.
I loooove the exterior of this house! All the bells and whistles are a little modern for my tastes, but it was still fun to see in the movie.
Ooh, can I second the request by Mandy for Noah’s house in the Notebook? 😉
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This just shows that contemporary can be soft and romantic. The house reflects the main characters, traditional to the world but inside is a whole different complex story. But the floors, what kind of wood are they?
I love the exterior of the house, but the interior doesn’t mesh for me. Inside a more contemporary house, I’d be okay with it, but not in THAT house. Funny you posted this because I just did a bit on one of my posts about how I am resolved to be angry at Brad as well as Angelina. I’ve linked the post at the bottom. It’s in one (or two) of my “Dear So and So” letters.
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Great post – great house. Could you do a post on the house used that Noah redid for Allie in The Notebook or Clara’s House in Lonesome Dove. I love those two houses! Thanks for the great blog!
Mandy
I’ve not seen the movie, either, but love those light fixtures! The kitchen would be fab for someone who had some cooking skills. 😉
I definately had a hard time watching the fight/destruction scenes! I didn’t even notice how pretty the house was because I found the violence part of the movie between them was a bit disturbing……but the house IS gorgeous 🙂
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I agree with those who said the exterior and interior don’t mesh (though I get that it was mirroring ‘life’ in the movie). You could put this in another post category, the ones were we all pick apart where the reno went wrong. Not that I don’t like the interior; in real life it just belongs in a more contemporary house.
I wonder how much it galled the actors to watch Fox news?
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Amazing house. It’s a surprise when you enter to see how modern it is… like a trendy hotel. That was a great eye candy site all around!! 🙂
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in love with that kitchen, brad pitt isn’t too bad to look at either! I really enjoyed that movie and as always your blog! Thanks Julie!
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Gosh… you can tell I’m into web sites a little too much. ha! I meant to say:
That was a great eye candy MOVIE all around! (ha!)
I love that house, that movie, AND your movie house posts! I was thinking of you recently when I watched “The Pacifier”. It’s a kids movie with Vin Diesel. They had a cool house too!
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Great post! I am always checking out houses too in movies and tv. I wonder what the going rate for renting a house for a movie is these days.
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Love the house.
Love the movie.
Love Brangelina!
Thanks for posting this!
I love love love your site, I am in love with the architechture of houses, the designs are what captivate me. I have been trying for some time to get a photo of the nursery in the movie hook. I know it was all made on a sound stage but do you think somehow you can find a picture of the childrens room in that movie was just amazing…how the beds were inset …everything. Thanks keep up the great work!!
Sarah
Hello Julia
I just found your website- fabulous
As a kid I always loved the house on ” Father Knows Best”
Do you think you can do an expose of that some day ?
Cheers
First must say this site is brill. Now must ask…is this also the same house in The War of the Roses?
I don’t think it’s the same house, but I haven’t seen “War of the Roses” in years, so my memory of it is fuzzy. Does anyone else know? -Julia
Wow, quick reply! See if you can rent it. I’m almost certain it’s the same.
I can see what people mean about their view that the exterior and interior don’t mesh well. I love it. Ultimately, the interior is classic with a modern twist. I love that there aren’t a lot of color schemes going on, but mostly earth tones. I am a stainless steel lover and love that about the kitchen. Perhaps people were expecting to see more color and sort of Americana in the interior, but I think its perfect. It is EXACTLY the kind of house I want. I love the classic exterior of the house from the white color to the windows and the landscaping. I also love a classic, yet modern and simple interior style with hardwoods, earth tones, stainless steel. Fabulous house.
I think that an example of what people are thinking of a house in which the interior and exterior mesh well is Diane Keaton’s Hamptons beach house in Somethings Gotta Give. That seemed to be a great example of a classic Hamptons style exterior beach house that had very sophisticated and traditional design on the interior. I too loved that house and if I could ever have a beach house like that, I would want my exterior and interior to resemble that.
Another house I adore is Meryl Streep’s house in Its Complicated. Again, great exterior with classic and contemporary mixture inside.
This rocked!
I love the house in the film,Mr.and Mrs.Smith. It was brought to my attention recently,that many people were looking for the artist who painted the painting of the carton of “EGGS” hanging in the kitchen. I am the artist.My name is Shelley Brown.Thank you so very much for your compliments!. Giclee’s are available. You can find me at: [email protected]. Thanks again!
Please add a shot or two of that gorgeous Bogota hotel room from the beginning of the film. I cannot get it out of my head! Thanks
Yes to “Di in LA” above! The Bogota hotel scene, I read (prob. on IMDb) was a set in LA, I think. Nothing was shot in Colombia, just Mexico and Colorado (the rock-climbing scene?). But, yes, that suite in “Bogota” was GORGEOUS! The lime-washed walls, showing their age, with tones of peacock blue and carnelian, were perfect. Loved the bed and the crewel-work sheets, too!
As for Mr. and Mrs. Smith’s home, it was too rote, too formulaic, though that is probably what the production designer et al. were going for: two young, busy assassins who would pick the “cover” house most UNlike the two of them, in a neighborhood full of cloying, phony yuppies (LOVE Jane’s look at the party as the wives coo over hubby’s promotions!).
The interiors are similar in intent: so perfect, so sleek yet classic, sporting that popular ’90’s-early millennium melange of “Leave it to Beaver” and Hollywood Hills, slapped together (yet deftly) by someone from “HGTV”, perhaps?
When I first saw the film, I too was dazzled at all the little touches–the pendant chandelier, the odd, earth-tone colors, sparkling kitchen tiles and the “red oak” floors (actually a substitute for a vulgar phrase, in answer to the neighbor’s inquiry, that they decided not to have Brad say, so they could put it elsewhere–watch the DVD commentary). But, like John, I also thought the curtains were “hideous” and in the end, you realize that the house is actually very “cold”, personality-wise, like their marriage.
In that sense, the design is a triumph, but I wouldn’t want to live there. What I WOULD like to have seen was their “redone” second house! Imagine the shared hoard of weapons! No more secrets.