Description
William's Flat, better known as The Blue Door, is the front door at 280 Westbourne Park Road in Notting Hill where Hugh Grant's bookseller lived in the 1999 romantic comedy "Notting Hill": a favorite stop on film walks through the neighborhood.
It is a private home, so there is nothing to visit inside: the sight is the door itself, for a photo from the sidewalk. In the film, the paparazzi besiege it the morning after Julia Roberts' film star spends the night, and Rhys Ifans' Spike opens it half-dressed.
The house belonged to Richard Curtis, the film's writer, who lived in the area. Behind the door there is a grand house, not the modest flat of the film, which was built in the studios.
The original door was auctioned for charity, and its replacement was not blue at first. Today it is blue again. Will's bookshop, the other pilgrimage spot, was on Portobello Road.
It is a private home, so there is nothing to visit inside: the sight is the door itself, for a photo from the sidewalk. In the film, the paparazzi besiege it the morning after Julia Roberts' film star spends the night, and Rhys Ifans' Spike opens it half-dressed.
The house belonged to Richard Curtis, the film's writer, who lived in the area. Behind the door there is a grand house, not the modest flat of the film, which was built in the studios.
The original door was auctioned for charity, and its replacement was not blue at first. Today it is blue again. Will's bookshop, the other pilgrimage spot, was on Portobello Road.