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Making this terrifying dream a reality didn’t come easy - the process was not without its obstacles and delays. The first challenges Kenny encountered was not having any blueprints for the original house, not owning any land, and not having any real idea how much a project like this would cost. While there was a potentially overwhelming amount of research and prep work necessary to build a custom house, he was determined to make his dream come true, and tackled each issue one by one - things like designing the layout and floor plan of the house himself on a sheet of paper, finding an architect to create the building plans (none exist for the original), hunting down a good piece of land, finding a local builder that was willing to take on such a crazy project, getting financing, picking out every single construction material …the list goes on and on. After nearly a year and a half of hard work and bloodshed, The Myers House NC was completed in March 2009 and can now be found looming eerily in the Hillsborough countryside.
As much as Kenny wanted to replicate the Myers House as accurately as possible, he quickly realized that the interior layout of the original house, which was built in 1888, was not practical for modern day living. The house lacked bathrooms and a kitchen - the kitchen you see in HALLOWEEN was added for the film. The upstairs of the original house has four small bedrooms (2 on each side), with each room including a tiny closet. The NC iteration of the Myers House was designed to look as close as possible to the original house from the exterior front and side views, but the interior and back of the house were intentionally altered to be livable by his vision and by modern standards. So the inside got a few bathrooms, slightly bigger bedrooms, a small laundry room, and a few other minor alterations, but the important elements from the movie - Judith’s bedroom, the hallways, staircase, and the basic locations of the kitchen, dining room, and living room are in the same places.
