# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/21 "2010-09-19T13:01:19Z")
1. Dredson’s apartment from the Dredson files. It just sounds so cozy to me, right down to the tapestries and layered rugs. Don’t read if you haven’t read Changes yet.Well, before it got blown up at any rate. 1. The house from the first two Addams Family movies. All those secret passages, and that giant slide would make for fun living. 2. Wayne manor, for the same reason as #2. 3. Redwall Abbey, but only if I got to be a squirrel. 4. The Winchester Mystery House. I don’t care if it’s haunted or not, I just love how it was designed and built. ---
**Author:** ![DonLogan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@DonLogan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DonLogan)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/22 "2010-09-19T13:34:29Z")
Stately Wayne Manor, of course. Madness’s “Our House” Wouldn’t want to live in: Jamie Gumb’s house. ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/23 "2010-09-19T14:14:03Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > I like the little house that Robin Williams lived in at the end of Bicentennial Man. Presumably you’d want to add a kitchen and bathroom facilities. 🙂 > [@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. You say that like it’s a bad thing! I prefer: “Worship from afar.” My five, since most of the good ones have been taken: The Palace at the Emerald City. Doc Savage’s headquarters/apartment. (Lot’s of steampunk gadgets!) The Fortress of Solitude (surely he needs a caretaker) The Hotel from Key Largo Xanadu from Citizen Kane ---
**Author:** ![hanna\_the\_curious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/34f0e0/32.png) [@hanna\_the\_curious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hanna_the_curious)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/24 "2010-09-19T14:25:58Z")
the house of Elrond, Rivendell. (counts as all five picks) ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/25 "2010-09-19T14:34:24Z")
Woody Allen’s apartment (the nice one he moved out of) in\*\* Manhattan\*\*. Hannah’s parents’ apartment in **Hannah and her Sisters**. The loft is nice, too. I could stand a lot of Woody Allen movie apartments. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/26 "2010-09-19T15:05:54Z")
Henry Higgen’s house in _My Fair Lady_. Especially the library! ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/27 "2010-09-19T15:14:41Z")
[ol] [li]Mr. Burns Mansion[/li][li]The Friends apartment[/li][li]00100100 Robot Apartments[/li][li]Scaramanga’s island lair[/li][li]Tower Bridge (Peter Cushing lived there in Biggles)[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/28 "2010-09-19T15:20:02Z")
Give me either of the Crane’s apartments and I’ll be happy. mmm ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/29 "2010-09-19T15:23:07Z")
Woody Allen’s apartment (the nice one he moved out of) in\*\* Manhattan\*\*. Hannah’s parents’ apartment in **Hannah and her Sisters**. The loft is nice, too. I could stand a lot of Woody Allen movie apartments. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/30 "2010-09-19T15:46:32Z")
My memory isn’t good enough to list them - but they usually houses that sit over looking a cliff beside the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/31 "2010-09-19T16:04:15Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > 1. Wayne manor, for the same reason as #2. I want to change this one. Instead of Wayne Manor, I want the castle from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, just for the library. A magical library with books that can transform into any book that has been or will be written? Yea, I’d never leave that room. ---
**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, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/32 "2010-09-19T17:50:03Z")
Just thought of another one: The Villa Gaeta on Lake Como in Lombardia, Italy (Mr. White’s villa at the end of **Casino Royale** ). ---
**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, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/33 "2010-09-19T17:54:14Z")
And yet another: The Chateau Chantilly, a.k.a. Max Zorin’s estate in **A View to a Kill**. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/34 "2010-09-19T17:59:58Z")
If cartoons are to be included, then the Venture Compound would be my top choice. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/35 "2010-09-19T18:28:53Z")
[The house](http://www.google.com/images?q=something%27s+gotta+give+house&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=LlaWTMrLCoS8lQf2qfimCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDQQsAQwAw&biw=1360&bih=620) on Something’s Gotta Give was my first thought. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/36 "2010-09-19T20:45:40Z")
The order in which I covet: 1. [Gull Cottage](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qVUoD9EHNdY/TE77H9ukaSI/AAAAAAAARd8/H3nuSPbAV6c/Gull-Cottage.jpg) from _The Ghost and Mrs. Muir_ 2. William Peterson’s beach house in _Manhunter_ 3. Dr. & Dr. Floyd’s dolphin tank living room from _2010_ 4. Barton Cottage from _Sense and Sensibility_ 5. The _Sleepless in Seattle_ house boat ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/37 "2010-09-19T21:26:03Z")
1. The apartment in _Caché_ 2. The mansionette in _The Sopranos_ 3. The house (and setting) in _The Waltons_ 4. The cabin (and setting) in _Rascal_ 5. The house (fixed up) in _Dolores Claibornes_ ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/38 "2010-09-20T00:17:12Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > 1. The castle from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It is called Oakley Court. According to [imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073629/trivia), it was also used in _Vampyres: Daughters of Darkness_, and several Hammer horror films. > [@](#): > > Oakley Court, Dr. Frank N. Furter’s “castle”, was used in numerous Hammer horror films made at adjacent Bray Studios (where the lab and ballroom scenes were shot), including The House in Nightmare Park (1973), The Reptile (1966), The Brides of Dracula (1960) and Man in Black (1949). Built in 1859, it was refurbished in 1981 and made into a hotel, where rooms cost from 150 to 195 British pounds per night. My wish list: The royal palace of Ruritania, from _The Prisoner of Zenda_. Ming’s palace, from _Flash Gordon_. Wayne Manor, from the Batman movies (Preferably the Michael Keaton version.) Just about any of the James Bond villains’ lairs. (Preferably the ones with swimming pools surrounded by scantily-clad beauties.) ---
**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:** [September 20, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/39 "2010-09-20T00:28:09Z")
> [@digs](#): > > My initial, immediate thought: **Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse.** Mine too. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254/40 "2010-09-20T00:42:41Z")
The Addams Family house, either from the movies or the original TV show Holbrooke Grant’s place in _Date Night_. Hogwarts Gaius Baltar’s lakehouse on Caprica from _Battlestar Galactica_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-dwellings-from-movies-tv-literature-that-youd-most-like-to-reside-in/554254.md?page=3)