I can only recall one time when the façade exterior appeared on the series (though I am sure there are other instances). As you can see, the bottom portion of the façade is painted to match the original coloring of the Vancouver home.
He did not end up having time to show me the locales during the tour, so after it ended he took me and my friends on a private tour of the studio (it was amazing!), during which he pointed out the house below and informed us that it was used for exterior shots of Aria’s residence. Interestingly, during one of my most recent visits to the WB back in June, I asked our tour guide for help in tracking down a couple of PLL locations that I knew were on the backlot, but that I couldn’t seem to find. The vast majority of those scenes took place inside of the Montgomery home. Why were those segments shot at the WB lot and not on location in Vancouver like the rest of the pilot, you ask? Well, I looked into it and learned that the roles of both Byron and Aria’s brother, Mike (Cody Allen Christian), were recast after the pilot had been filmed, so any scenes involving them had to be re-shot.
Once I figured out the location of the green-doored façade, I was able to discern that the Montgomery house interior scenes from the pilot were shot inside of the home pictured below, which is also located on the southern edge of Midwest Street. You can see some faraway photographs I took of the structure while on a tour of the WB a few years back below. The house once stood at the southern end of Midwest Street, but was dismantled in 2014 – along with the façade of Toby Cavanaugh’s (Keegan Allen) house – to make way for the studio’s newly-unveiled Stage 48: Script to Screen exhibit. I knew that doorway belonged to a studio house immediately upon seeing it, did some further research, and discovered it was part of a façade that is, sadly, no longer standing.
In the scene in which Aria talked to her father, Byron (Chad Lowe), while standing in the family’s entry, the green doorway of a residence across the street was visible in the background. I did not realize that factoid until making screen captures for this post. The segments that took place inside of Aria’s home in the pilot were not shot in Canada at all, actually, but at a practical house set on Midwest Street at Warner Bros. That was not the case with this particular location. Then if the series is picked up, that interior will be re-created on a soundstage for all future filming. Typically when shooting a pilot, the interior of a house will be utilized. Sadly, Aria’s awesome front porch swing is nowhere to be found. In real life, the residence boasts 6 bedrooms, 4 baths, and 5,000 square feet of living space. Oh, how I wish I had gotten to see it before the alterations were made. You can see some of the work being done in old Google Street View images from May 2015.īut if you toggle Street View back to May 2014, the home appears exactly as it did onscreen.
#Aria pretty little liars windows
As you can see below, besides a color change from yellow and red to gray and white, most of the windows have been swapped out for new ones, and the roofline of the second story above the porch has been altered. Sadly, Aria’s house looks a bit different today than it did when the pilot was shot back in December 2009. And sure enough, when I looked across the street using Google Street View, there was Aria’s pad! Because I don’t have any trips to Vancouver planned in the coming year, my good friend/fellow stalker Kerry, who lives in the Pacific Northwest, was nice enough to stalk the place for me during a recent (rainy) visit to Canada. Germain (Bianca Lawson) home from school.Īs I mentioned in Wednesday’s post, thanks to a visible address number, I was able to track down the DiLaurentis/St. Germain residence in the scene in which Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell) walked Maya St. While scanning through the pilot during my search, I almost fell out of my chair when I noticed that Aria’s house was actually visible in the background across the street from the DiLaurentis/St. As fate would have it, finding it led me right to Aria’s house! So I put that hunt on the back burner and instead set my sights on tracking down the DiLaurentis/St. There was virtually nothing to go on, though – no address number, no street signs, no clues visible in the background. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – stalking begets stalking! One of the Vancouver locations I was most interested in finding from the Pretty Little Liars pilot was the gorgeous Craftsman-style house where doe-eyed beauty Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale) lived.
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