All hail Nancy Meyers, the queen of romantic comedies like The Holiday that never fail to deliver memorable sets. When she teams up with Production Designer Jon Hutman for a movie like this, you know they're going to be good! After all, ... Keep Reading
“The Holiday:” The California House from the Movie
Twelve years after the romantic comedy The Holiday hit theaters, and nearly a decade since I first wrote about it, the houses from that movie continue to be one of the most popular searches on my blog. Cameron Diaz played Amanda, a woman ... Keep Reading
A Stone Cottage in Texas Inspired by “The Holiday”
When these homeowners decided to build a small guest house on their property in Fredericksburg, they were inspired by Kate Winslet's stone cottage in the movie The Holiday. That's where the ideas started, but the result is a house that ... Keep Reading
The Beach House from Joan Crawford’s “Mildred Pierce”
With all the attention that the new HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce" has been getting, I thought it would be fun to revisit the original from 1945. I hadn't seen it since I was a teenager and all I really remembered about it was Joan ... Keep Reading
Barton Cottage from the 1995 Movie “Sense and Sensibility”
When Emma Thompson's Oscar-winning version of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1995) opens, we meet sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who have grown up in a grand estate called Norland Park. After their father dies and their ... Keep Reading