No, I’m just trying to drive away the competition.
I’d take a job handing out the pudding to live in Hogwarts. I’d mop the floors (with a magic mop, no doubt).
There is a Chinese girl reporter in the Mickey Rourke movie Year of the Dragon who lives in a loft apartment. The most awesome living space I have ever seen in real life, other than Donald Trump’s apartment. I don’t know how many floors up it is, but the vast windows look out directly onto the Golden Gate (?) bridge.
In real life, there was a cover story in New York Magazine about a family living on the top floor of a skyscraper in an all-white apartment, with skylights and big windows, literally in the clouds. They were so high up, small-airplane pilots could wave to them. They had a little boy and a weiner dog, and they had to go down 100 floors or something like that to walk the dog, take the kid to pre-K. It was like a science fiction novel come to life (the rich people of sci-fi, living in the sky, not the mutant drudges living on the blasted planet earth).
I know it’s a real place, but I just HAD to mention it, because it could have been an imaginary apartment from a movie.
That’s on my list.
The Chemosphere? Also in my top 5. I remember it from Body Double.
The Nautilus from 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Disney version)
The house from Zabriskie Point (sans explosions)
The Zeppelin from Up
The apartment in Green Card [the Gerard Depardieu movie] [only if there is an elevator in the building]
The loft in Forever Knight
Gull Cottage from The Ghost & Mrs Muir [but I would have to figure out where to stick a single person elevator]
the beach house in Manhunter [or similar one from almost any california beach movie- or the little 1 bedroom beach house in witch hunt
Belcourt Castle, Newport RI. Not in a movie, it was on Ghost Hunters …
- Charlie Harper’s house in Malibu.
- Ben Cartwrights Ponderosa
- South Fork Ranch in Dallas
- Big Ed Deline’s house in Las Vegas (wasn’t shown much, but it was impressive)
- Al Bundy’s house (it had to be a self cleaning house)
Heh, I was browsing the thread, reading all the great ideas, and this was the only place that entered my mind.
When I used to play a lot of Unreal Tournament 2004, we’d download cool-looking levels to kill each other in, and in the midst of playing, I’d often say, “I want to live here, except, you know, without so much gunfire.” There were a lot of cool-looking levels.
Thank you, this was also my first thought when I saw the thread title. I could remember the plot line, characters, house…everything but the name of the movie. Was going to drive me crazy the rest of the evening.
Now I can sleep tonight.
I’d like to have Lord Darlington’s manor, from*** Remains of the Day***. I like the idea of servants ironing my newspaper before I Read it!
All five of mine are Shirley Jackson’s Hill House.
chocolate factory, the wonka one. not rkelly’s.
Am I a freak because my first thought was Rose Red? 
Would you believe, Gull Cottage, in real life the Neal House, is for sale? If only I had a spare $4 million or so …
I like the house the Eppses lived in in Numb3rs.
And I’ll have to think about the last 3. The Addams Family house has a lot to recommend it, but I’m not sure I could deal with Cleopatra.
If you are, then so am I! That place was beautiful.
Hmm, let’s see, some more…
- Laura’s loft in Remington Steele.
- Duncan MacLeod’s loft in *Highlander *(the TV series)
- Either of the Crane boys’ apartments from Frasier.
- The apartment from the *Taxi *episode where they rented the expensive one.
- The house in *Joan of Arcadia *(which I think is the same house they use in Lie to Me).
- Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory (either one).
- Tony Stark’s house.
- It wouldn’t have occurred to me to put this on the list until I saw **Fried Dough Ho’**s list, but yeah–Gail Wynand’s house would rock.
- Hogwarts.
- The house from Flowers in the Attic. (I like creepy houses.)
I know it says five, but I can’t settle on five. 
The Venture Compound, Tony Stark’s house, and Charlie’s house on 2.5 Men were on my list, but I decided to come up with five that haven’t been mentioned yet.
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The penthouse Big bought for himself and Carrie in the first Sex and the City film.
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The penthouse shared by the 3 men in 3 Men and a Baby.
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Vince Chase’s current place on Entourage.
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There was a 2001 film called The Glass House. The movie was forgettable, but the titular dwelling was beautiful. This photo doesn’t do it justice.
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Felix Farmer’s (Richard Mulligan) house in S.O.B. This is the best photo I could find, but it was an awesome house. Right on the beach, big party deck, full bar… Exactly the kind of place I’d want to live if I were rich!
I slagged off the film Help! the other day, but one thing I liked about it as a kid was those four terraced houses that were actually all one house behind four doors, with those sunken reading dens. Very cool.
My first choice was the Mt. Rushmore house in North by Northwest, but I see that is already taken.
Lois Lane’s penthouse at 240 Central Park South for one.
Have to think on the others.
Sorry, perhaps I should have mentioned movie not tv show … it is an entirely different property.
Damn, it’s not the movie one?
…and I was wondering if they’d go for a [really] lowball offer. 