He’s Back! Touches of Harry Potter for the Home
As everyone’s favorite wizard returns as an adult, we can’t resist these Potteresque details for home and garden
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book in the wildly popular Harry Potter series, was first published in June 1997. Nearly 20 years later, many Potter fans reread the books to prepare for the newest installment, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a script of the stage play that opened July 31 in London. If you also can’t get enough Potter, we found spaces on Houzz that offer a taste of Hogwarts, Hogsmead and places in between. Accio design!
For centuries, Hogwarts students have flown across, fought on and explored its grounds, which look much like the lawn of this old stone home in Scotland.
Gryffindor’s common room includes a massive stone fireplace where students gather to study or celebrate after a big quidditch win. This grand living space has much of the same appeal.
With natural stone and bright lights throughout, this dining space evokes the grand, candlelit space of Hogwarts’ dining hall, prepared for a feast (pumpkin juice and butter beer not included).
A chic upgrade from Harry’s cupboard at the Dursleys’, this nook under the stairs includes a powder room with a secret red interior.
Like Hogwarts’ dormitories, these dreamy bunks would be a great place for students to rest their heads.
While there are no gossiping witches or warlocks to observe you, this picture-lined staircase is the closest a muggle might get to the portrait-lined stairs of Hogwarts.
We imagine that this gold-accented pantry would keep shelves of rare and odd potion ingredients sorted for young witches and wizards.
Hogwarts students spend their herbology classes with Professor Sprout in a greenhouse somewhat like this, but with bubotubers, puffapods and leaping toadstools.
The library at Hogwarts is chock-full of old books and secret nooks. This library would fit right in, with its intricate spiral staircase and multilevel cherry bookshelves.
The Mirror of Erised in the series reveals your heart’s greatest desires. While its location has been unknown since the demise of Professor Quirrell, we love this bright dining room as a space for a similarly arched gold-framed mirror.
The Burrow, home of the welcoming Weasley family, has a warm, scattered interior with plenty of space for houseguests, similar to this eclectic farmhouse.
Moaning Myrtle, one of Hogwarts’ resident ghosts, would love this dark, moody bathroom.
Dumbledore’s office is filled with books, magical instruments, portraits of headmasters past and, of course, the Sorting Hat. This multilevel library seems like the kind of place Dumbledore would have liked to work in.
This outdoor lawn chess game evokes the deadly human-size game played by Harry, Ron and Hermione in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
The steps down to this wine cellar are hidden behind a swinging bookshelf. Could a basilisk, featured in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, be lurking here?
Beloved groundskeeper Hagrid lives in a similar stone hut at Hogwarts on the edge of the Forbidden Forest and keeps hippogriff Buckbeak nearby.
Hogwarts is full of tunnels and secret spaces, revealed by the Marauder’s Map. Here, built-in bookcases swing open to a hidden room adjacent to a dining space.
Harry uses the prefects’ grandiose bathroom, a doppelgänger of this indoor pool, to open a golden egg during the Triwizard Tournament.
These hedges evoke the Triwizard Tournament, which includes a larger-than-life maze on the quidditch pitch for the third task for competitors.
We’d like to think if Dolores Umbridge were a bit more glam, this would be her kind of pink office space (with the addition of cats, of course).
This brooding bedroom summons images of Sirius Black’s home at 12 Grimmauld Place in its prime. In the story, Black’s home became magically concealed among the homes of muggles in London, and serves as a hideout for Harry, Ron and Hermione in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Shell Cottage, the fictional home of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour, is a lonely seaside cottage in Cornwall — just like this bright ocean home. The cottage serves as a hideout for Harry, Ron and Hermione, and is the final resting place of the loyal house elf Dobby.
Tell us: How do you anticipate that the wizarding world and its beloved interiors have changed in the past two decades?
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Tell us: How do you anticipate that the wizarding world and its beloved interiors have changed in the past two decades?
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