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Before + After, Onscreen Properties, Real Estate

Before + After | Surprising Gothic Victorian From Cheaper by the Dozen

February 21, 2022

I stumbled across the most elegant and dramatic Victorian house the other day while perusing a celebrity gossip site. The L.A. home belongs to famed tattoo and makeup artist Kat Von D and is currently listed for sale. I decided to do some digging after noticing the home was also the family home in Cheaper by the Dozen. Want to see what changed since the last time it sold? Here’s a look the jaw-dropping transformation… Located in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, the listing describes the three-story property as a historic home built in the 1890s by Isaac Newton Van Nuys. Van Nuys, surprisingly not the namesake of LA’s Van Nuys neighborhood, was a successful businessman and extensive land owner of the San Fernando Valley. Sanguine red paint transformed the storybook yellow…

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Featured, Onscreen Properties

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Marvel at These New York Abodes

October 16, 2021

Amazon’s award-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a visual feast! From the stunning wardrobe to the enchanting sets, this show takes viewers to a bygone era. The level of detail and layers of creativity the production designer and art director Bill Groom brought to the show are truly marvelous. Join us in taking a closer look at the various homes and sets we found particularly inspiring. Exterior NYC Apartment According to IMDb, Mrs. Maisel’s apartment is located in the real-life Strathmore at 404 Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The prewar building was built in 1909. The exterior, with its distinctive curved marquee, was used during filming. The building’s doorman opens ornate doors leading into the main lobby from the vestibule. Vestibules are commonplace in New York architecture as a…

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Architecture, Onscreen Properties, Real Estate

Onscreen: Weekend at Bernie’s The Opulent 1980’s Ocean Front Estate

July 8, 2021

Weekend at Bernie’s is the comical campy cult classic starring the Brat Pack’s Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman. What starts off as two low level employees thinking they stumbled upon a career defining discovery, turns into a weekend with their corrupt boss’s corpse at his magnificent beach house. To their shock no one catches onto the charade as they pass off Bernie Lomax as alive and well during their stay at the fictitious Hampton Island. Architecture fans hoping to catch a glimpse of the home will be saddened to learn Bernie’s house was constructed just for filming and demolished shortly thereafter. According to IMDb, the beach house was built on Fort Fisher Recreation Area in North Carolina, nowhere near The Hamptons in New York. The elevated home can be reached by a long wooden…

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