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These were the 10 Most Popular Celebrity Houses on my blog in 2010. Click the links to see any you missed. Did your favorite make the list?

#10. Gwyneth Paltrow’s Tribeca Penthouse:

#9. Alan Jackson’s “Sweetbriar:”

#8. Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson’s “Newlyweds” Love Nest:

#7. Sheryl Crow’s Cross Creek Farm in Tennessee:

#6. Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood House:

#5. Elizabeth Edwards’ Home in Chapel Hill:

#4. Larry Hagman’s “Heaven:”

#3. Meg Ryan’s Spanish-Style Home in Bel Air:

#2. Halle Berry’s Beverly Hills Hideaway:

#1. Sandra Bullock’s New Orleans Victorian:

You can see all of the Celebrity Houses HERE. Do you have a favorite? I loved this celeb’s vacation cottage, even though it didn’t make the list!

P.S. Check out the Top 10 Celebrity Houses of 2009!

American designer Paul McClelland has created a Love Seat.

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Description from Paul McClelland:

This love seat is made from hot rolled steel round bar. It’s been hand forged and welded. The fittings are machined steel and stainless steel with rubber bushings.

It’s one of those items that really should be used in order to understand how it feels.
The cold molded plywood seat and back change position as you move around the chair because of the rubber bushings.

Two people fit on it easily and comfortably.

The steel has a clear gloss lacquer finish and the plywood has clear satin lacquer finish.

Visit Paul McClelland’s website – here.

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One of the first movies I featured on my blog, back in 2008, was The Holiday, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, and several really great houses. But that was before I had learned how to lighten photos from movies that were too dark, or get the ones I really wanted by taking screenshots.

So I’m calling a do-over. I’m featuring the movie sets again but with more–and better!–photos for you this time.

Today I’m featuring Iris’s cottage. Next Monday I’ll feature Amanda’s contemporary home in California. Oh, and I already updated my post about Graham’s house, which you can see here (I replaced all the dark and fuzzy photos with clearer, lighter ones–makes it easier to ooh and ahh over the fairytale tent in the girls’ room now!).

This is the ad that Cameron Diaz’s character Amanda sees online for the cottage. It’s part of a “house swapping” program, where you stay free at someone else’s place while they’re at yours.

The Entry:

Living Room:

In this photo, the mantel seems to be decorated for summer:

And here you can see it decorated for Christmas:

The Kitchen:

Lovely stills of the sets courtesy Columbia Pictures. They’re wonderful because they show us details in the rooms that weren’t shown in the movie itself, like the raised beamed ceilings in the bedroom.

Looking from the Kitchen into the Book-Lined Library:

This may be my favorite room in the entire cottage, but we see very little of it in the movie:

Iris’s Bedroom:

From this angle, we can see that the stairs lead straight up to the bedroom and are open to it:

It was written and directed by Nancy Meyers, who always delivers sets that we can drool over. Thanks to her movies, we also have the memorable houses from Baby Boom, It’s Complicated, and Something’s Gotta Give (click those links to see photos of them).

The Bathroom:

It looks charming, but it isn’t very practical–at least not for someone as tall as Cameron Diaz!

Producers chose the picturesque streets of Shere (in Surrey) for the village scenes:

They wanted snow so it would look more like Christmas time, so they added it:

Sadly, Iris’s cottage isn’t real. A fake exterior was built within 2 weeks in the middle of an empty field (photos via the DVD’s Special Features):

They did extensive landscaping around the cottage, even though little of it is shown in the film, and most of what you do see is covered in (fake) snow:

The film crew created everything that you see in the movie, down to the stone wall that seems to have been there forever:

Here’s how it looked in the movie:

Cottages don’t get much cozier than this!

Come back next week to see photos of Amanda’s beautiful contemporary house in L.A. You can see photos of Graham’s Mill House now, though–no waiting!

Visit TV/Movie Houses to see more, like the ones from A Christmas Story and The Family Stone.

Sheryl Crow Hasn’t Been Able to Sell Her Cross Creek Farm in Tennessee, so She’s Putting It Up for Auction: House Pics.

Former Home for Unwed Mothers Gets Elegant Remodel: Lookiloos.

How to Set a Pretty Table for Thanksgiving: The Design Tree.

Gorgeous New Book About Houses in New Orleans: Stealing Magnolias.

Got a Decorating 911? Get Help: My Design Guide.

Ideas to Steal from the November Anthropologie Catalog: CasaSugar.

Top Celebrity-House Search of the Week: Charlie Sheen & Brooke Mueller.

Top TV Show Search of the Week: “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

Thanks for all the great advice you guys gave me on yesterday’s post. I appreciate your help and will keep you posted on what I decide. Have a great weekend, everybody!

Fousse, a new Dutch design brand, has created the ZzZen Chair.

Description from the designers:

Fousse is an archaic word for the state of childlike wonder upon experiencing something remarkable. And that’s what Fousse aims for in its designs. The first piece of furniture in Fousse’s collection is the ZzZen, a loungechair without a single straight edge, enabling it to rock back and forth, but also sideways. This fun chair provides optimal comfort while remaining small and nimble. The ZzZen is constructed out of hightech plastics, making it light and suitable for outdoor use. It can be stacked and has a handle for easy storage and transport.

Visit the Fousse website – here.

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