The 'Beetlejuice' House.

It made me want a country house to renovate. But not necessarily to be a designer.

When a brand reached out about collaborating to promote their beautiful rug, I had to scramble to get rid of the ugly blue carpet that filled this room before.

The new ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel has me thinking back to the original (I haven’t seen the new one yet). There were so many things to love in that movie:

• Catherine O’Hara being unhinged while wearing crazy hair accessories made out of gloves.

• Winona Ryder’s bangs.

• The magical miniature model of the town Alec Baldwin’s character made.

• Otho acting gay (but not being gay?)

• That cute covered bridge.

• The yellow Volvo 245 the couple drove.

The production design of 1988 film, done by Bo Welch (who also designed ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and Tim Burton’s ‘Batman’ films) is beautifully done. The movie has so many wonderful visual moments and so many entrancing worlds contrasting one another. The atmosphere of the Connecticut countryside is the perfect bucolic contrast to the dark, quirky weirdness of The Netherworld makes the design of each more effective.

The little model Alec Baldwin’s character makes in the attic was probably my favorite prop in the movie. I loved miniatures growing up and my parents bought me a train set for Christmas one year with a bunch of miniature houses and people to make a village. We’d go to the toy store to get more mini things every time we went to town. Sadly, I could never make my train village look like the one in ‘Beetlejuice’ because our house didn’t have a gigantic finished attic I could build an alternate world in. But I do have really happy memories of going to the toy store and buying mini people, accessories, and magazines about train model culture.

But, I digress. Today I’m here to chat about how the home makeover storyline in ‘Beetlejuice’ enthralled me and was maybe a small reason I became an interior designer.