For Sale: The Real “Stepmom” (and “Bounty Hunter”) House

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on JANUARY 2, 2011

One of my all-time favorite movie houses has to be the gorgeous 1850s Victorian with the wraparound porch in the Julia Roberts-Susan Sarandon tear-jerker Stepmom. It was one of the first movie houses I wrote about when I started my Movie Mondaysseries back in 2008, and it continues to be one of the most popular.

Imagine my excitement when I heard from the homeowner herself, saying she enjoyed reading my post and the comments about her house! Not only that, but she said she was putting the house on the market soon and would let me know as soon as it was listed.

Well, the house is now officially on the market, and she sent me the listing. It’s in Upper Nyack, New York, and the asking price is $3.375 million.

If the house looks familiar, but you never saw Stepmom, it may be because it was also used in the more recent movie The Bounty Hunter with Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston, posing as a Bed & Breakfast called “Cupid’s Cabin.”

The front door as shown in the listing:

Would I kill for this front porch? Don’t tempt me.

If the interior photos look familiar, it’s because the Stepmom sets were actually modeled on many of the real rooms in the house. Here’s the front door and staircase in the real house:

And in the movie:

The living room in the listing:

The living room as it looked in The Bounty Hunter:

And how it looked in Stepmom (which was a set based on the real thing):

The real kitchen:

I especially like this eat-in breakfast nook with the tall windows all around:

Jackie’s (Susan Sarandon’s) kitchen in Stepmom:

The house has 8 bedrooms, 4 baths, and 6 fireplaces. It was built in 1854 and has over 5,000 square feet.

Here’s how that upstairs landing looks in the movie–you can see they were inspired by the real thing:

The listing describes the house as the “Extraordinary French Second EmpireVictorian gem ‘Glenholme,’” which boasts “Sweeping Hudson River Views from every room.”

For more photos and information, check the listing by Tiffany Kogen of Keller Williams Realty. Many thanks to Patrice, the homeowner, for sharing it with us! She also set up a blog where she has posted additional photos of the house that you can see here.

P.S. If you missed my original post about Stepmom, click here.

TV/Movie Houses lists all of the others I’ve featured, including the sets from The Family Stone and Father of the Bride.

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For Sale: The Real “Stepmom” (and “Bounty Hunter”) House

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on JANUARY 2, 2011

One of my all-time favorite movie houses has to be the gorgeous 1850s Victorian with the wraparound porch in the Julia Roberts-Susan Sarandon tear-jerker Stepmom. It was one of the first movie houses I wrote about when I started my Movie Mondays series back in 2008, and it continues to be one of the most popular.

Imagine my excitement when I heard from the homeowner herself, saying she enjoyed reading my post and the comments about her house! Not only that, but she said she was putting the house on the market soon and would let me know as soon as it was listed.

Well, the house is now officially on the market, and she sent me the listing. It’s in Upper Nyack, New York, and the asking price is $3.375 million.

If the house looks familiar, but you never saw Stepmom, it may be because it was also used in the more recent movie The Bounty Hunter with Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston, posing as a Bed & Breakfast called “Cupid’s Cabin.”

The front door as shown in the listing:

Would I kill for this front porch? Don’t tempt me.

If the interior photos look familiar, it’s because the Stepmom sets were actually modeled on many of the real rooms in the house. Here’s the front door and staircase in the real house:

And in the movie:

The living room in the listing:

The living room as it looked in The Bounty Hunter:

And how it looked in Stepmom (which was a set based on the real thing):

The real kitchen:

I especially like this eat-in breakfast nook with the tall windows all around:

Jackie’s (Susan Sarandon’s) kitchen in Stepmom:

The house has 8 bedrooms, 4 baths, and 6 fireplaces. It was built in 1854 and has over 5,000 square feet.

Here’s how that upstairs landing looks in the movie–you can see they were inspired by the real thing:

The listing describes the house as the “Extraordinary French Second EmpireVictorian gem ‘Glenholme,’” which boasts “Sweeping Hudson River Views from every room.”

For more photos and information, check the listing by Tiffany Kogen of Keller Williams Realty. Many thanks to Patrice, the homeowner, for sharing it with us! She also set up a blog where she has posted additional photos of the house that you can seehere.

P.S. If you missed my original post about Stepmom, click here.

TV/Movie Houses lists all of the others I’ve featured, including the sets from The Family Stone and Father of the Bride.

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Julia Roberts’ House from “Sleeping with the Enemy” For Sale

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Billy Joel’s West Village Townhouse for Sale

by HOOKEDONHOUSES on JULY 6, 2010

One of the first celebrity houses I featured when I started this blog was Billy Joel’s beach house in the Hamptons. He was a newlywed at the time, having just married 23-year old Katie Lee, and insisted in interviews that he would have fallen for her even if she were 30 years older than he was. (Really? Because it’s hard to imagine he’d find her as attractive as an 85-year old…)

But I digress. Here’s a photo of the great room in their beach house that I showed you then:

He and Katie had just gone on Oprah to discuss their marriage and his trip to rehab (April 2008). On that show, Katie gave us a tour of their fab West Village townhouse in New York, decorated by Nate Berkus.

Now that the couple has split, the townhouse is on the market for $12.9 million.

Katie showed off her favorite meatloaf recipe for Oprah viewers in the dining room:

Here’s how the dining room looks in the listing today:

Because cooking is Katie’s thing (she wrote a cookbook and hosted the first season of “Top Chef” on Bravo), there is a “chef’s kitchen” that includes a 6-burner Wolf stove:

(Is that a cat sleeping in the corner?)

You can watch the video tour on Oprah.com. For more information, check out the listing. More photos and info on the rumors that LeBron James might be buying it on Huffington Post.

To see my original post about Billy Joel’s beach house in the Hamptons, click here.

Visit my Celebrity Houses page to see more, from Daryl Hall’s Revolutionary War-Era Colonial to Alan Jackson’s “Tara.”

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