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Film sets that I would like to live in !

(59 Posts)
tiredoldwoman Tue 06-Feb-18 18:29:16

I loved the houses in Phantom Threads , The Minaturist and Wallace and Gromit ! I would live happily in any one of them .

annsixty Tue 06-Feb-18 18:51:20

I don't go to the cinema but there are some from tv programmes that have my envy vibe going.
Perhaps the one I really would love to live in is the house that the teacher daughter lived in in Last Tango In Halifax.
it is my ideal house.

Greyduster Tue 06-Feb-18 19:12:00

Manderley, preferably without Mrs Danvers, but definitely with Laurence Olivier!

lemongrove Tue 06-Feb-18 19:39:35

Downton Abbey! In reality Highclere, Berkshire( or just in Hampshire.)

lemongrove Tue 06-Feb-18 19:41:07

However, thinking of the electricity bill, maybe one of the many lovely cottages in Midsomer Murders.

Menopaws Tue 06-Feb-18 19:41:08

Neighbours!

mcem Tue 06-Feb-18 19:42:32

Hercule Poirot's art deco mansion flat.

Jane10 Tue 06-Feb-18 19:51:26

Greendale! Postman Pat could deliver my mail. Could I be Mrs Goggins?

Smithy Tue 06-Feb-18 19:52:33

Yes Annsixty, I loved that house too. Also like Karen's in Cold Feet, especially the kitchen.

hildajenniJ Tue 06-Feb-18 19:56:56

Inspector Mooney's beach side shack bungalow on St. Marie. If not that, then Inspector Montalbano's house on Sicily.
Oh I do love to be beside the seaside!!!

Menopaws Tue 06-Feb-18 20:20:39

Oh yes St Marie for me too or Mcgarretts house on Hawaii five o

Marydoll Tue 06-Feb-18 20:26:49

The same as you, hildajenniJ, Inspector Montalbano's Sicilian house overlooking the beach.
I believe you can actually rent it as a holiday home.

Smithy Tue 06-Feb-18 20:43:09

Ah, forgot about that one, HildaJ! I'd like to move in there permanently! Marydoll, I bet it costs a fortune to rent, if that's true.

Orange123 Tue 06-Feb-18 21:02:20

I'd like to live in the cottage in England that Kate Winslet trades to Cameron Diaz for her mansion in L.A. I'm pretty sure that cottage doesn't really exist but I can dream, right?

Orange123 Tue 06-Feb-18 21:03:16

Oh the name of the movie is The Holiday.

travelsafar Wed 07-Feb-18 09:07:03

I would love to live in the house the Larkins live in as i love The Darling Buds of May.I would only want to live there if Ma and Pa Larkins where there too, they both are such fun and always have adventures!!!

Marydoll Wed 07-Feb-18 09:18:56

Hilda and Smithy
www.bed-and-breakfast.it/mobile/en/sicily/bb-la-casa-di-montalbano-la-dimora-del-commissario-punta-secca/628?gclid=CjwKCAiA5OrTBRBlEiwAXXhT6C-Zl9zbUNo_8I6L_xDIbtkulgRS1AMxfgUIvq1PRTTvJeFP5n1vlhoCcA8QAvD_BwE

jordana Wed 07-Feb-18 09:34:19

Unfortunately the cottage in the "holiday" was a mock up and specially built for the film

Auntieflo Wed 07-Feb-18 12:03:12

Montalbano's Sicilian house by the sea will suit me fine thanks. But I also fancy Nigel Slater's kitchen and garden.

KatyK Wed 07-Feb-18 12:26:43

That house in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - all that happiness (eventually), gingham and sewing.

Orange123 Wed 07-Feb-18 14:28:37

Jordan... aww...I kind of figured that. In America we like to think that outside London everyone lives in a tiny thatched cottage like that. ? Don't burst my bubble by saying it's not so.

lemongrove Wed 07-Feb-18 16:25:05

Plenty of real thatched cottages here Orange ?

Musicelf Thu 08-Feb-18 10:08:44

I read all these and every time thought, "Ooh, yes!" So many lovely places, I couldn't choose.

GabriellaG Thu 08-Feb-18 10:21:33

Mary Berry's, Ina Garten's (Barefoot Contessa) or the house of a book publisher I worked for in Islington, part of which was used for a film...although I can't remember the name.

sarahellenwhitney Thu 08-Feb-18 10:30:39

Downton complete with butlers, housemaids etc.
I do tend to suffer grin delusions of grandeur.