The Home Alone house sits on Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois and was recently on the market:Įric worked out some floor plans after visiting it: He didn’t get any photos of the real kitchen, but you can see it and more rooms here.ĭirector Christopher Columbus talks in the DVD commentary about recreating the second-floor interiors on a sound stage in a high school gymnasium, and a source tells me that they used the nearby New Trier High School, which was vacant at the time. Macaulay Culkin points out in the DVD commentary that in real life he would have crashed into the wall if he really attempted to sled down the stairs and out the front door.Ī photo taken in the real house looking down the stairs: I wanted the house to feel like a warm place.”Ī photo Eric took of the real room in the house in 2004: “We intended the film to feel like Christmas, so we filled the house with greens and reds. The family gathered in this room in Home Alone 2:ĭirector Christopher Columbus says he was striving to make a film that looked timeless. Here’s a photo of the same rooms taken in the actual house: Here’s how the living room with the piano looked in the movie:
Notice the changes they made, like how there are fewer family photos on the wall going up the stairs? The above photo is how it looked in Home Alone 2.īelow is a snapshot I took in the original movie. He says the owners were kind enough to allow him to take these in 2004. The Home Alone movie house has always been one of my favorites, so I was excited when a reader named Eric shared photos he took inside the real home in Winnetka, Illinois, with me.
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