Before And After Pictures Of The Home Alone House 26 Years Later Will Ruin Your Childhood

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Yes, it was pretty lucky that Kevin just so happened to live in a veritable palace. If the Wet Bandits had tried to invade my house, the whole fiasco would have been over pretty quickly. Located at 671 Lincoln Avenue in the village of Winnetka, Illinois, the three-story 1920's house has changed hands a few times since the filming wrapped, and to be honest, nowadays the interior looks pretty much unrecognisable as the house that Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern laid siege to. Luckily, we have some insider images of this iconic house, so you can check out how much has changed in the house we all fantasised about running wild in as kids. Scroll down to take a look:

#2 The dining room then

#3 The dining room now

#4 The bedroom then

#5 The bedroom now

Despite the resemblance between the actual rooms and the ones in the films, few of the interior scenes were shot inside the real house. In the DVD's director's commentary Chris Columbus discusses recreating the interiors on a sound stage in a high school gymnasium, and a source tells me that they used the nearby New Trier High School, which happened to be vacant at the time. But we have even more amazing pics of this classic movie abode for you over on page two, and you don't need to be a burglar to check them out.

#6 The office then

#7 The office now

#8 The staircase then

#9 The staircase now

In an interview with Chicago Magazine, Cynthia and John Abendshien, the owners of the house at the time of filming, stated that they were worried about the condition of the building during production. "We were told shooting would be four or five weeks," Cynthia said. "The location manager warned us that under the contract, if they needed to knock down a wall when we weren't home, they could do it." Luckily for them, the house remained intact! Check out even more revealing images of this beautiful dwelling over on next page..

#10 The kitchen then

#11 The kitchen now

#12 The floor plan

#13 Merry christmas ya filthy animals!

Home Alone grossed $285.8 million in the United States and Canada and $190.9 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $476.7 million, against a production budget of $18 million, and according to screenwriter William Goldman, the film's success prompted the creation of a Hollywood verb: "to be Home Aloned", which meant that a film's box office had been reduced by the impact of Home Alone.

Not bad for a movie that's over twenty-five years old! But this historic house isn't the only thing to have changed a lot in the interim.