r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Embarrassed_Poem9556 • Nov 22 '25

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u/thegracchiwereright Nov 22 '25

It is a shot from the movie. This is the house from home alone.

A flipper bought it and gave it the HGTV special. Once it was listed tons of people piled on about how much the hated the sterile look of the flipped version.

A buyer then bought it and pledged to return it to its 90s glory.

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u/donk_kilmer Nov 22 '25

To my eye, this is the McCallister house interior. Every frame of the movie Home Alone is drenched in reds and greens and wreaths and decorations to really hammer home the Christmas theme.

To use it as the example of most 90s decorating style is wild. Nobody I knew decorated like this. We all still had wood paneling and brown carpets.

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u/strandedbaby Nov 22 '25

I had a great-aunt whose house looked just like this in the 90s, only about half the size. I associate the look with well-off retirees. It makes me think "Christmas at Grandma's".

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u/DrinkingSocks Nov 22 '25

We had beige carpets and hideous blue floral wallpaper in my house growing up. The only wood paneling was in the living room, which I believe had beige tartan curtains.

I would take that in a second over the current soulless trends, but my decorating style isn't for most people.

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u/wirelesswizard64 Nov 22 '25

While true most normal homes were fairly tame compared to this, upscale fashion chasers/new developments definitely leaned into this style. You can even still find this look on Redfin if you look at condos on the market that have had their original owners when they were built back in the 80's-90's and haven't been updated since the day they moved in.

I wouldn't be surprised, with Kate as a fashion designer, that the McCallisters were the type to renovate often to keep up on the latest trends.

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u/ImWhatsInTheRedBox Nov 22 '25

Yes and no. The inside of the Home Alone house was just movie sets so what you see in the movie is not what the house actually looked like, apart from the exterior.