Curling up on the sofa surrounded by the warm glow of twinkle lights and a holiday movie playing is the ultimate way to unwind during the holiday season’s fast pace. The houses showcased in the holiday classics exude warmth, coziness, and after decades of enjoying these movies, they can feel as familiar as your own house. Here’s a round-up of the most memorable holiday movie homes that will make you want to hop through the screen and go home to these houses for the holidays.
Elf
Buddy the Elf’s family lives in a prewar apartment in Central Park West—the exterior is shown as 55 Central Park West. An apartment in this building goes for approximately $3 million. With a kitchen large enough for an island, a breakfast table and room to prepare Buddy’s preferred spaghetti topped with candy, candy canes, candy corn and maple syrup, the spaciousness of this kitchen is a dream of many New Yorkers.
The Family Stone
A stately white house with a wrap-around porch, the idyllic home to the Stone family is in Greenwich, CT. The home’s welcoming massive kitchen has enough room for the family’s five grown children and partners. A lifetime of treasured family knick-knacks fills the house, and you can practically feel the vibes of welcoming warmth right through the screen.
Los Angeles House
Nancy Meyers’ interior design movie magic shines through in Amanda Woods’ LA house. The house is the epitome of California cool, with its neutral color palette, soaring ceilings, stunning pool and of course, the blackout shades in the bedroom. So if you want to spend your holidays surrounded by sunshine, Hollywood legends and a movie theatre-inspired media room, then this is the home in which to imagine yourself.
England House
The complete antithesis of the LA house, Iris’ English cottage is small and cluttered yet cozy and warm. If the hustle and bustle of the holidays makes you want to retreat to somewhere quiet, remote and adorable, then this is the house to transport yourself to mentally.
Home Alone
A holiday movie house list isn’t complete without the storied McAllister house, set on Chicago’s North Shore. The red-brick, Georgian-style Winnetka home was built in 1920 and has a timeless style that makes the home still feel relevant more than 30 years since the movie was released. During the four to five months of filming, the owners lived in the 4,200-square foot house—and the owners shared that the staircase is not, in fact, suitable for sledding down.
Miracle on 34th Street
John Hughes’ 1994 remake of the classic holiday film brings the picturesque house in the country to the forefront of the movie. More than anything, Susan Walker wanted a house for Christmas, and Hughes delivered. The richly traditional home is set in Lake Forest, on Chicago’s North Shore. It is estimated to be around $3 million. The five-bedroom, six-bathroom house has enough space to host everyone during the holidays. It is filled with bay windows, a wood-paneled library and a kitchen large enough for early morning coffee watching the snowfall in Christmas pajamas.
Whether you’re spending the holidays in your own home or your mentally transporting yourself to a classic holiday movie house, there is no place like home during the holidays.
