Last month when I told you about the real-life “Up” house that Bangerter builders created in Utah, the interiors weren’t finished yet. I asked if there were any readers in the area who might be able snap photos of them for us during the Salt Lake City Parade of Homes tour and guess what–a couple of them did! I was so excited to get a look inside, and we have Emilyand Kristen to thank.
You know you’re at Carl & Ellie’s house as soon as you walk through the front gate and see the mailbox:
Kristen reports: “We were greeted by a very nice Carl on the front steps and my daughter was able to get her picture with him.”
“The house has a really darling floor plan, smaller hallways and rooms, but lots of charm,” Kristen says. “It feels like an authentic 50′s style home.”
Disney allowed them to create the house on the provision that it could only be built once.
I love the photos that go up the stairs.
Everything that could possibly be replicated from the movie was, down to the objects on the mantel and the painting that Ellie did over the fireplace:
Carl and Ellie’s chairs had to be custom made to look like the ones in the movie:
Only a few of the rooms were actually shown in the movie, so the builder had to get creative and imagine what they’d look like. Here’s the kitchen they created for Carl and Ellie:
Gotta love those baby blue Big Chill appliances!
The house was so crowded with visitors that it was a challenge for Emily and Kristen to get photos of the rooms, but they did a great job.
Let’s check out the second floor now, shall we?
Here’s the nursery that Ellie is seen painting in the movie:
There’s a second-floor laundry with green cabinets:
Carl and Ellie’s bedroom:
Carl’s ties:
It’s for sale for $399,900, but the builder will build the 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath house (not in “Up” style but with the same floorplan) for $299,000.
Some of you asked for a floor plan of the house after my last post and Emily tracked it down for me here. Here’s the main floor:
The second floor:
This house has a basement, unlike the one in the movie, and it’s finished:
The builder says it only took them 4 months to build the house.
There’s a detached 2-car garage:
After I wrote about this house in July, readers from Herriman told me that the neighborhood was insisting that the house be painted beige or something “normal” after the home show. Boo!
But a reader named Natalie who attended the show tells me, “I asked one of the Bangerter brothers who was there if the house is being repainted and he said no! The city loved it so much they said everything could stay!”
You can see more of the house and learn more about it in this video produced by Cimaron Neugebauer for the Salt Lake Tribune:
Ireally liked the animated Disney/Pixar movie Up and the colorful little house that Carl and Ellie spent their lives together in. I still get sniffly just thinking about that opening montage that tells their love story.
So I was intrigued when I heard that some enterprising homebuilders were recreating the house from the movie in Herriman, Utah. What a fun idea! Here’s how it turned out:
Love it! Local station KSL.com reports that Bangerter Homes first got Disney’s permission to build it and then went to work.
It’ll be open for the Salt Lake Parade of Homes July 29-August 14 (man, I wish I could go!) and then it’ll be sold for around $400,000–just enough to cover the building costs.
They paid attention to every small detail, from the weather vane on top of the house:
To Carl and Ellie’s mailbox:
Remember the murals Ellie painted in the nursery and above the fireplace? Those were recreated, too:
The interiors aren’t finished yet, but they’ll have furniture designed to look like what was in the movie.
I would love to see it when it’s finished. Any readers in the Salt Lake area who could go to the Parade of Homes and snap some pics for us? Pretty please?
There were a lot of colors in the animated version of the house for the builder to replicate:
This makes me wish we used more colors on all of our houses. It’s so cheery!
“The movie kind of captured the idea that a house is a place where you live and you grow up and you live your life,” builder Blair Bangerter says. “We’ve tried to take this movie and bring it to life in a real home.”
They added a little extra space to the house and included a basement that the one in the movie (obviously) didn’t have. Their version has 2,800 square feet and a 2-car detached garage.
With the exterior finished, lookiloos are already stopping by to snap photos of the Uphouse. The builder adds balloons to the roof on the weekends for fun. “But not too many,” he laughs.
I’m sure there are some Disney/Pixar fans out there who would love to live in a house like this. Would you?
You can read more about it and watch the video on KSL.com. There’s more information and photos of the house being built on the builder’s website. Parade of Homes info here. Thanks to Sherrie for telling me about it!
