From Bachelorette to Baby: Trista Sutter�s Nursery

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on MAY 1, 2008




Okay, tell me I�m not the only one who watches �The Bachelor� on ABC. I can�t believe I�m admitting this, but I tune in every week to see host Chris Harrison announce, �Coming up: our most shocking. Rose ceremony. Ever.�

I�ve been watching since the first season, with Alex as the first (smarmy) bachelor. He tossed Trista Rehn aside at the last minute and broke her heart, so producers brought her back as the first Bachelorette. Right up until the end, I was sure she was going to pick the other guy. But I always guess them wrong. At the final rose ceremony, Trista chose Ryan Sutter, the sweet and handsome Colorado firefighter who wrote poetry for her.

Trista and Ryan are one of the only happy endings that have lasted long beyond the final credits of the show. I was one of the 20 million viewers who tuned in to watch their pink wedding on TV in 2003. The couple now lives in Vail, Colorado. Last July they had their first baby, a son named Maxwell Alston. Here�s his nursery:





Have you ever seen black and white stripes in a nursery before? It was a first for me. What do you think? Does it work or not?

I found the photos at The Stylish Child, but the nursery was originally featured in Us Magazine. Trista has her own line of diaper bags now at www.TristaBaby.com, and you can read more about her there.


Visit my Celebrity Houses page for links to all the others I�ve featured, likeJennifer Lopez�s Nursery for Her Twins.

A �Bewitched� House: 1164 Morning Glory Circle

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on OCTOBER 4, 2009

Welcome to Movie Monday, when I feature the houses from our favorite films and TV shows. So many of you requested a post about the �Bewitched� house on 1164 Morning Glory Circle that I finally gave in and started researching it. I hesitated, though, because I had never seen the show and knew nothing about it. I may be the only person in America over the age of 25 who can say this! My parents were strict about what we were allowed to watch, and �Bewitched� reruns were banned when I was growing up.

One of the fun things about the first season is that we get to see Darrin (Dick York) and Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) go house hunting. When Samantha and her mother Endora (Agnes Moorehead) first visit the house at the beginning of Season One, it has just been  built. It�s empty and bare, and there isn�t a blade of grass in the yard:

Samantha fixes the place up with a quick twitch of her nose:

Oh, if only home improvement could be that easy! That scene was fun because Samantha and Endora take turns trying different looks for the house and argue about which is the best version.

When they step into the house for the first time, this is what it looks like:

The interiors were all created on soundstages at Sunset Gower Studios.

The pilot for �Bewitched� was supposed to begin filming on November 22, 1963, but was postponed because of Kennedy�s assassination. The first episode aired in 1964.

You can see the backyard in this shot through the glass doors:

Samantha decides to try a few different looks for the dining room. Here�s how it looks before she puts any furniture in it:

They fall in love with the place and buy it. Here�s how it looks after they move in:

What�s that penguin doing in there? I suspect some magic was involved:

These episodes were originally in black and white but were later colorized. The tell-tale sign of colorization is when a character opens their mouth and their teeth look gray. Their skin tones also tend to be a little orange at time, like a sunless tan gone wrong.

The dining room:

According to 1164.com, a popular website for �Bewitched� fans:

The interior and backyard scenes, as well as some garage and front porch scenes, were all filmed in a soundstage.  The set consisted of a modular (but complete) first floor and back yard.  It also contained the hallway visible above the steps (though those doors at the top only led to tiny closets!).

All of the upstairs shots were filmed on another set, often just a few rooms that were frequently changed around.

Love the colorful coffee mugs she has lined up on a kitchen shelf:

The laundry area at the back of the kitchen (with the avocado appliances!) must have seemed very modern and convenient in 1964:

The bedroom:

Check out the massive lamps on either side of their bed and the cushion that goes across the head of it. I wonder where they stashed their sleeping pillows during the day?

�Bewitched� was on the air for 8 years. In Season 2, Samantha and Darrin had a baby girl, named Tabitha (whose name was spelled Tabatha for the first few seasons and then changed later on). Here are some photos of the nursery:

The den set on the first floor doubled as the nursery set for Tabitha. According to 1164.com:

For nursery scenes, they just put a fake wall up outside the door to hide the view into the kitchen. For den scenes, they put brown paneling up over the pink walls, covering the nursery window area with the plain wall near the den�s fireplace.

Samantha paints a pink pony on the crib:

When Darrin gets home from work, we get a look at the garage and driveway:

The exterior in Season 2:

The house was built on the back lot of the Warner Bros. Ranch (on West Oak Street in Burbank, California). It sits alongside other famous facades used for classic shows like �The Partridge Family,� �Gidget,� and �I Dream of Jeannie.�

Here�s how the �Bewitched� house looks today:

�The Bachelor� & �Bachelorette� Pad in California

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on JUNE 14, 2010

Last year Big-Time Listings reported that the rustic Italian-style mansion in Agoura Hills, California, where the popular �Bachelor� and �Bachelorette� reality shows (and now �Bachelor Pad�) are filmed, was on the market for $6.75 million.

The listing has since been removed, and I�m not sure if it sold or not. But the house, known asVilla De La Vina, has an official website with photos that show what it looks like when it�s not all dolled up for TV. You can apparently rent it out for your own special event.

They redecorate the mansion for every season, so it always looks a little different. Here�s a photo of the living room from Ali�s season of �The Bachelorette.�

The only thing that looks the same in the shot of the room on the Villa De La Vina website is the floor (wood surrounded by tile, and a tile border that runs around the baseboard):

Another shot of the living room, from another angle:

On the other hand, I�d recognize that (in)famous pool anywhere:

Here�s the cabana, where many a romantic scene has taken place:

Looking inside the house, we see the staircase that many a girl has run up, crying:

The kitchen:

The family room off the kitchen:

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The dining room:

Remember Jesse Csincsak, the man Deanna Pappas chose during the 2008 season of �The Bachelorette,��only to dump him a few months later?

Jesse describes the mansion to RADAR magazine:

�The Mansion is more of a compound than a mansion. It only has 4 bedrooms upstairs. Downstairs are the rose ceremony room, her room with all the guys� photos in it and the kitchen and the living room. The rest of the house that you never see is filled with production equipment.

�The Compound has 7 ft concrete walls all around it with security guards walking the perimeter so there is no way in or out. The Mansion has microphones throughout so they can always hear what�s going on and when something good happens they send one of their 24 hr a day camera crews to investigate��

In this aerial shot you can see those walls surrounding the perimeter that he mentions:

More photos of the house at Villa De La Vina. (Thanks to Kim for the link!)