The Real-Life �Up� Movie House: Interior Photos!

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on AUGUST 22, 2011

Last month when I told you about the real-life �Up� house that Bangerter builders created in Utah, the interiors weren�t finished yet. I asked if there were any readers in the area who might be able snap photos of them for us during the Salt Lake City Parade of Homes tour and guess what�a couple of them did! I was so excited to get a look inside, and we have Emilyand Kristen to thank.

You know you�re at Carl & Ellie�s house as soon as you walk through the front gate and see the mailbox:

Kristen reports: �We were greeted by a very nice Carl on the front steps and my daughter was able to get her picture with him.�

�The house has a really darling floor plan, smaller hallways and rooms, but lots of charm,� Kristen says. �It feels like an authentic 50's style home.�

Disney allowed them to create the house on the provision that it could only be built once.

I love the photos that go up the stairs.

Everything that could possibly be replicated from the movie was, down to the objects on the mantel and the painting that Ellie did over the fireplace:

Carl and Ellie�s chairs had to be custom made to look like the ones in the movie:

Only a few of the rooms were actually shown in the movie, so the builder had to get creative and imagine what they�d look like. Here�s the kitchen they created for Carl and Ellie:

Gotta love those baby blue Big Chill appliances!

The house was so crowded with visitors that it was a challenge for Emily and Kristen to get photos of the rooms, but they did a great job.

Let�s check out the second floor now, shall we?

Here�s the nursery that Ellie is seen painting in the movie:

There�s a second-floor laundry with green cabinets:

Carl and Ellie�s bedroom:

Carl�s ties:

It�s for sale for $399,900, but the builder will build the 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath house (not in �Up� style but with the same floorplan) for $299,000.

Some of you asked for a floor plan of the house after my last post and Emily tracked it down for me here. Here�s the main floor:

The second floor:

This house has a basement, unlike the one in the movie, and it�s finished:

The builder says it only took them 4 months to build the house.

There�s a detached 2-car garage:

After I wrote about this house in July, readers from Herriman told me that the neighborhood was insisting that the house be painted beige or something �normal� after the home show. Boo!

But a reader named Natalie who attended the show tells me, �I asked one of the Bangerter brothers who was there if the house is being repainted and he said no! The city loved it so much they said everything could stay!�

You can see more of the house and learn more about it in this video produced by Cimaron Neugebauer for the Salt Lake Tribune:

Many thanks to Kristen (who blogs at More Than the Mulberries) and Emily Miskin (who blogs at Emily Miskin Designs) for taking the photos and sharing them with us! Read more about the house in my first post about it and at Bangerter Homes.

For Sale: The Victorian Home from �A League of Their Own�

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on AUGUST 1, 2011

It had been years since I saw the 1992 movie A League of Their Own, about the first professional women�s baseball league in the U.S. But when a reader told me that the Victorian mansion that doubled as their boarding house was on the market for $799,000, I sat down and watched it again.

It was a great old house in Henderson, Kentucky, that they filmed in. Here�s how it looked in the movie, when stars like Geena Davis, Rosie O�Donnell, and Madonna were playing the members of a baseball team who were living in it:

And here�s the house as it�s pictured in the listing today:

The place is huge, with nearly 17,000 square feet. (*Update: one listing I saw said 16,800. Another says 8,400 square feet. That sounds much more likely to me, so I�m thinking the 16,800 must be the incorrect number. Thanks to Margot for pointing that out!)

It has 3 stories and a full basement that have all been restored and updated.

Here�s how it looked in the movie, when it was decorated to look like a 1940s boarding house:

Madonna reportedly was not happy to spend so much time filming in such a small town. Somehow that doesn�t surprise me. 

You can see how Madonna was used to living at the time�in her chic Manhattan apartment�here.

I love the double glass doors:

I tried to lighten these movie snapshots, but these scenes were all filmed at night and they still look dark. Sorry for making you squint!

Set decoration was done by George DeTitta Jr., who also worked on films like Sabrinaand�one of my favorites�Stepmom. (The real Stepmom house was for sale earlier this year�you can see the photos here.)

There aren�t a lot of listing photos, and the ones they have aren�t great. But we can see the staircase (sort of�it�s pretty dark):

It�s just enough to tell that they apparently filmed inside the mansion (or replicated the staircase, which is less probable).

Here�s a shot of it from the movie:

The home was built in 1894 and has 9 fireplaces. One of them is shown in the listing:

The kitchen and bathrooms have all been updated. Again, I wish the photos were better. I�ve been checking every day for the last two weeks to see if they�d add new ones. I guess these are the ones they�re sticking with!

On the third floor is a great big ballroom that looks like a rehearsal hall-slash-saloon:

The ceilings are enormous!

The house looked really charming in the movie, setting the mood for the story and time period perfectly.

Tom Hanks played their manager with a drinking problem.

I thought this balcony was in the back of the house, but a reader just pointed out that it�s the front, and that the railing has just been changed. I think that�s right�thanks, Arie.

It looks like there could be individual apartments in the back of the house, although that�s not mentioned in the listing.

I always tear up at the end of the movie when all the players get together again years later as old women for their induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (in real life they were honored with a permanent exhibit in the museum). And I love the �Old Timers� Game� played during the final credits.

The property is listed by Paula Johnston of F.C. Tucker, and there are a few additional photos onTrulia if you want to see them. (Thanks to Joan for telling me about it!)