# If you could live in a replicated famous house (real or fictional) which would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 19, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614 "2009-02-19T21:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/21 "2009-02-19T23:42:02Z")
The tree house from _Swiss Family Robinson_ That was cool. I actually lived with a girlfriend who had a tree house that we would stay in on nice evenings - not quite so elaborate as Swiss Family Robinson of course - and we found it pleasant during the summer although she complained about the bathroom facilities at times. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/22 "2009-02-19T23:43:00Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Manderley, maybe. > > Before the fire. Aww, you stole my idea. I’ll just have to say Manderly…after the fire. Haha! Wait…d’oh! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/23 "2009-02-19T23:49:25Z")
:smack: **Bus Guy** picked before me…oh well, I probably would’ve fired the prick halfway through, anyway. I wouldn’t mind hanging out at the cement pond with Elly Mae, either. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/24 "2009-02-19T23:50:20Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > Bag End would be first, but unless I could kick out 3acresandatruck You don’t have to kick me out. Since I’m going for the Gaudi version of Bag End, maybe you’d like the Hundertwasser version - or something on the tamer side. It would seem advantageous to have neighbors named **Cake**. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/25 "2009-02-20T00:07:47Z")
Why choose Bag End when Moria is furnished and empty. I think I’d like 221B Baker Street. Or the Playboy Mansion IF it comes ‘furnished’ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/26 "2009-02-20T02:05:13Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > I’d also take Charlie’s (of 2 and a Half Men) house in Malibu complete with a deck overlooking the Pacific Ocean. My first choice too. It’s not big but it’s well-designed and comfortable. My second choice would be the house from _The Others_ – all that woodwork and those big airy rooms – makes me swoon. I kinda like Norman Bates’ house too – the entry way and the stairs especially, and Mother’s big bedroom. Might want to redecorate though. ---
**Author:** ![imfloating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bc79bd/32.png) [@imfloating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imfloating)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/27 "2009-02-20T02:27:37Z")
Jenny Fields’ house in The World According to Garp. ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/28 "2009-02-20T02:44:33Z")
The Vandamm house from “North By Northwest”. This was absolutely the first thing that popped into my head, so it has to be what I really like. Although that Frank Lloyd Wright style has always appealed to me. You know, that’s the house up on the hill with the huge great room and the cantilevered porch? And all the stone? Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/29 "2009-02-20T02:57:16Z")
Hearst Castle, mostly for the pools. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/30 "2009-02-20T03:00:32Z")
Is it too late to change to [the house from _Body Double_](http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/la/041108lautner1.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/31 "2009-02-20T03:03:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > It can be real or fictional, but nothing _too_ outlandish- no Renaissance palaces, Versailles, **Biltmore** , or the Forbidden City or even the White House, but something more family scaled (though it can be a rich family). Oh, the inhu_man_ity! 😉 Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/32 "2009-02-20T03:42:30Z")
Taliesin, before all the horrible stuff happened. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/33 "2009-02-20T03:46:05Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I kinda like Norman Bates’ house too – the entry way and the stairs especially, and Mother’s big bedroom. Might want to redecorate though. I liked it, too. But that highway’s going to be built, and then what’s to be done with the motel? And when the swamp is drained…ah. I think most people would kill to get into Rosemary’s apartment in the Bramford, in Rosemary’s Baby. (Kill…carry the son of Satan…it’s all the same to me.) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/34 "2009-02-20T04:48:59Z")
Castle Grayskull. Fuck yeah. 😃 Anyway, failing that… The first house my grandparents lived in, after I was born…but here’s the catch: everything scaled _up_ (with concessions made to counters and at least some stairs) to the same size relative to me that it was when they moved, when I was about 8. Screw that “wow…everything’s so much _smaller_ now” feeling. I want happy nostalgia, not a reenactment of the aircraft graveyard scene from _The Best Years of Our Lives_. Other nominees: •The Mt. Rushmore house from _North by Northwest_ •Jack Skellington’s house •Frank Lloyd Wright’s Mile-High Illinois. (Never built) Eh, I could probably think up others…some of them not even fictional. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/35 "2009-02-20T04:55:12Z")
Hmm. My immediate response is Green Gables (from _Anne of Green Gables_), which is of course somewhere I’ve never actually been or seen. I have no idea what the floor plan is actually like, but it always seemed so very homey in the books that it must be a good place to live. Monticello is another good choice. Those octagonal rooms are awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/36 "2009-02-20T06:00:03Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Johnny Cash’s house overlooking Henderson Lake. A few scenes from the movie “I Walk the Line” were filmed in the house. It has a great history, isn’t pretentious at all, has a huge screened in porch, lots of light, a great treed lot, and a great lake view. Perfect. Perfect except for that asshole Barry Gibb bought it and burned it down. I was there. It _was_ a nice place. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/37 "2009-02-20T06:14:59Z")
[Collinwood, from _Dark Shadows_.](http://www.collinwood.net/location/seaview.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/38 "2009-02-20T07:00:45Z")
The Addams Family Mansion. ---
**Author:** ![Timchik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Timchik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timchik)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/39 "2009-02-20T07:17:13Z")
The [Incredibles](http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h295/jnnythndrs/Dreamhouse1.jpg)’ house. Even without superpowers. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614/40 "2009-02-20T07:17:30Z")
I’ll take the apartment Mr Big bought for himself and Carrie in the _Sex and the City_ movie. Of course, the walk-in closet would have to be done first. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-a-replicated-famous-house-real-or-fictional-which-would-it-be/486614.md?page=3)