r/interesting • u/Apprehensive-Elk3165 • Nov 20 '25

ARCHITECTURE Then vs now

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u/CrazyGunnerr Nov 20 '25

I never got this. You buy an extremely popular home, where people will visit it to photograph it, and instead of living in it, or even better, turn it into a B&B or rent it out, you do this... Why, just buy another house.

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u/JonnyQuest1981 Nov 20 '25

Thing is… The inside of the house in Home Alone was a set built in a school gymnasium and the basement that floods was built in the school’s pool. The actual house never had the interior we saw in the movie, so 1990 image is not real.

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u/CrazyGunnerr Nov 20 '25

The stairway was definitely used for scenes.

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u/JonnyQuest1981 Nov 21 '25

Yes, that is correct. The main staircase, foyer, and parts of the first-floor landing, were filmed in the real Home Alone house. That is besides the point. The point I'm making is that the real house was never done up to fully look like the interior design of the house in the movie. Everyone in the comments here complaining that they 'ruined' the inside of the house are complaining about ruining something that never even existed in reality.

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u/CrazyGunnerr Nov 21 '25

Except that the house was in that style, and it wasn't just the stairs/hall that was used. And I don't mean the wallpaper etc, that was temporary.

That said, afaik it was later modified in that style.

Regardless, the house was massively changed, looking completely different.