This residence exemplifies the finest in architectural design, craftsmanship and materials. The house sits on nearly an acre in San Marino, California. The Production Designer was Jon Hutman , who famously designed the Something’s Gotta Give house we all love, too. The real house has 7 bedrooms and 6.5 baths. The artwork above the staircase is from Robert Longo’s “Men in the Cities” series.
The sets also mimicked the tiered half-walls going up one side, and the wrought-iron rail on the other: The staircase in the movie was designed with a rounded shape at the base like the real one has. Rufus Sewell played Jasper, the man who kept breaking Iris’s heart. The house they used for Arthur’s belonged to Phyllis Diller in real life. She made it feel like a home.Įven the lighting is warmer in the scenes when she’s living here. She brought food, music, and people into the house. The kitchen was never really used much before Iris (Kate Winslet) moved in. The real kitchen has patterned tile countertops and a large hood over the island that you can see here. If they did it today, I’m guessing it would be a lot more gray.Ģ) A wall of DVDs looks kind of outdated now that we stream everything.ģ) The scene that took place in a Blockbuster Video store wouldn’t even be possible! She says they always tried to provide a glimpse of the outdoors in these scenes to give you a sense of place.Īmanda had a media room filled with DVDs, which makes me think…Ī few things that have changed since The Holiday was made in 2006:ġ) A contemporary house would probably not be decorated with as much brown as Amanda’s. Nancy Meyers, the queen of “house movies,” wrote and directed The Holiday. The movie came out in 2006 and showcased some design trends that would were about to take off.įor example, Amanda’s house had white slipcovered furniture, seagrass rugs, and lantern-style light fixtures.Īmanda had a fairly modern - and masculine - living room: The sets for this house cost a cool million to construct - without exterior walls, plumbing, or electricity!
The interiors were much more contemporary onscreen: The entry hall in the listing has tile floors and wood paneled ceilings that you can see here. The front gates looked different in the movie. This is how the front of the house looks today (below): It has that distinctive, Mediterranean-influenced “California Style” that he became known for. The house was designed by noted architect Wallace Neff as his own residence in the late 1920s.
The Mediterranean Mansion from “The Holiday” For Sale Note: This post contains affiliate links that may earn me commission.
It’s on the market for $11.8 million, so I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the house and how it looked in the movie. The real rooms are much more traditional, with most of the original details intact. The interiors for this house in The Holiday were built on a separate soundstage. 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.Ĭameron Diaz played Amanda, a woman who lived in this fabulous Mediterranean mansion in L.A.
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