# Top five dwellings from movies/TV/literature that you'd most like to reside in? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254 "2010-09-19T03:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/1 "2010-09-19T03:30:11Z")
Here are my five: [ol] [li]The Lake Tahoe compound from **The Godfather Part II** [/li][li]Tony Stark’s manse from **Iron Man** / **Iron Man 2** [/li][li]The McMansion from **The Sopranos** [/li][li]The family home featured in **The Brady Bunch** [/li][li]Bag End[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/2 "2010-09-19T04:10:48Z")
I like the little house that Robin Williams lived in at the end of Bicentennial Man. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/3 "2010-09-19T04:17:31Z")
Wayne Manor. Michael Keaton’s, not the one that burned down. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/4 "2010-09-19T04:34:54Z")
1. The Millenium Falcon. Hey, Han and Chewie live on board, don’t they? Okay, maybe not. 1. Philip Marlowe’s LA apartment in the Robert Altman version of _The Long Goodbye_ 2. Jay Gatsby’s place in West Egg 3. Vandamm’s cantilevered, modernist joint on Mt. Rushmore in _North by Northwest_ 4. Dr. Quest’s compound on Palm Key 5. Spencer and Carly Shea’s Seattle loft (I’d do some redecorating, though) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/5 "2010-09-19T04:44:42Z")
1. Wayne Mannor 2. Hogwarts 3. The Lake Tahoe complex of course 4. The Munsters house - come on - that was freakin’ cool 5. Camelot - got a thing for castles ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/6 "2010-09-19T04:56:13Z")
[ol] [li]Doc Emmett L Brown’s house[/li][li]Captain Hook’s ship from _Hook_[/li][li]Wayne and Garth’s loft[/li][li]Bag End[/li][li]Starship Enterprise 1701-D[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/7 "2010-09-19T04:59:33Z")
1. The sod house that the Ingalls family lived in in _By the Banks of Plum Creek_. 2. Bag End. 3. Um…okay, this is going to sound crazy, but when I was small, I had a Spanish/English bilingual book called _Los Catorce Osos_, which was largely about how these bears hibernated and it was filled with illustrations of the elaborate underground houses. Like, they had houses with beds with curtains and stuff like that. I was really fascinated with their decorating. I was like five, okay? This has permanently entered my brain as the ultimate in cozy housing. I want to live in one of the houses of Los Catorce Osos. 4. The aliens’ houses in _Babar Visits Another Planet_. They had what appeared to be swimming pools filled with pillows. This is what I need in my life. 5. The Burrow, aka the Weasley house. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/8 "2010-09-19T04:59:41Z")
My initial, immediate thought: **Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse.** ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/9 "2010-09-19T05:00:50Z")
Steve Martin’s mansion in The Jerk Forrest Gump’s antebellum house The Silver Spoons mansion The Big Brother House (without all the douchebags) I’m trying to think of a good fifth choice… ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/10 "2010-09-19T05:24:30Z")
1. the TARDIS. 2. the Addams Family House. 3. That UFO house in LA that’s been in close to 100 movies. 4. the family mansion in the film “the Royal Tennenbaums.” 5. Avengers’ Mansion. **Great places to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there:** Snoopy’s dog-house. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/11 "2010-09-19T05:31:02Z")
Tony Starks house, for the view and the gadgets. Wayne manor, for the awesome that is the entire thing. Cave and all. There’s a house on Royal Pains, really any house on royal pains, but one that has an amazing view of the ocean, and a fantastic set up. I don’t know what it is, but the huge windows and the way its laid out are amazing. Serenity. I don’t care what you say, Serenity was a home, not a just “a ship.” That shipped seemed more lived in, and home-like than a lot of real homes I’ve been in. Atlantis, from Stargate. It was a city, so there have to be apartments and condos there, even if I can’t play with the technology the view is pretty sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/12 "2010-09-19T05:35:10Z")
> [@Todderbob](#): > > Serenity. I don’t care what you say, Serenity was a home, not a just “a ship.” That shipped seemed more lived in, and home-like than a lot of real homes I’ve been in. > > Atlantis, from Stargate. It was a city, so there have to be apartments and condos there, even if I can’t play with the technology the view is pretty sweet. In other words, you’re stalking Jewel Staite. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/13 "2010-09-19T05:37:58Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Todderbob](#): > > > > Serenity. I don’t care what you say, Serenity was a home, not a just “a ship.” That shipped seemed more lived in, and home-like than a lot of real homes I’ve been in. > > > > Atlantis, from Stargate. It was a city, so there have to be apartments and condos there, even if I can’t play with the technology the view is pretty sweet. > > In other words, you’re stalking Jewel Staite. I was all about Atlantis before her (very attractive) ass set foot there. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/14 "2010-09-19T05:38:54Z")
Does the Starship Enterprise count as a dwelling? If it does, then my choices are: 1. NCC-1701 2. NCC-1701-A 3. NCC-1701-D 4. Stately Wayne Manor 5. Richie Rich’s place ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/15 "2010-09-19T06:05:15Z")
> [@](#): > > … > > **Great places to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there:** Snoopy’s dog-house. But the basement is awesome… Don’t you remember the comic where dozens of kids are crawling into Snoopy’s house, to the bewilderment of Lucy? Someone (Schroeder?) sticks his head back out and says “_The house isn’t much, but you should see the rec room_.” ---
**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/16 "2010-09-19T06:51:26Z")
1. Niles Crane’s apartment with the library and secret passages. 2. Peter Fonda’s house in _The Limey_. 3. The house near Mt. Rushmore in Hitchcock’s _North By Northwest_. 4. The sculptured house in\* Sleeper\*. 5. The seaside village (in Wales) in the original _The Prisoner_. 6. Nemo’s Nautilus submarine in \*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea \*(who doesn’t want a full organ in their living quarters?) 7. The Elrod House in _Diamonds Are Forever_. 8. Whatever house Howard Roark designed for Gail Wynand in _The Fountainhead_ (we never see it, but I imagine it to be fabulous.) 9. All of the hotel room suites pictured in glorious Art Deco in _Victor/Victoria_. 10. Shangri-La - _Lost Horizon_ ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/17 "2010-09-19T07:09:58Z")
1. The mansion from The Nanny 2. Forrest Gump’s house 3. The castle from The Rocky Horror Picture Show 4. That nice house at the end of Walk The Line And for number five I’m turning the Titanic into a houseboat. ---
**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:** [September 19, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/18 "2010-09-19T08:51:53Z")
1. I always loved Vicki Vale’s apartment from Batman. 2. The Satellite of Love. Even if trapped in orbit, possibly without robot friends. 3. My dad’s always said the house from [North by Northwest](http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/229853255/) reminded him of someplace I’d live. I’m inclined to agree. …I’m sure there are more, but I’m tired. Are there any nice caves anyone can recommend? I’d really like a nice cave. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/19 "2010-09-19T08:54:51Z")
Hogwarts Castle. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/20 "2010-09-19T12:18:34Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Hogwarts Castle. My daughter goes to school [there](http://youalee.efoliomn.com/ed). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254.md?page=2)