12/16/2019
I have to tell you Sunny Homes gained some national exposure this weekend with the airing of "A Christmas Winter Song" on the Lifetime channel. If you live in the Brighton, MI area then you might have known that they filmed almost this entire movie in and around the Brighton area. There are several shots of downtown Brighton and the shop that was used as a primary scene is in Brighton.
Here's where Sunny Homes fits in!
The interior scenes of the home that the young couple (Ashanti and her husband) live in was right across the street from a house that we were just finishing working on. Somehow the folks that own that home knew someone and that, along with the fact that the interior was beautiful, led to that home being used for those interior scenes.
Now both that home and the one we were working on are located in a lake community just minutes South of Brighton. They are on a peninsula so both homes are waterfront. The home we were working on was originally 2 single story cottages built in the 40's or 50's that had been cobbled together to make one. In 95' or so a second floor was added to part of it.
We added an additional 2nd floor to make it a full 2 story home and completely renovated the rest of the house.
When the production crew was filming, they though that the house had such charming appeal that they asked the owners, my clients, if it could be used in the movie! They, of course, said yes! There is a short scene around the 25 minute mark where Fred, the down and out homeless jazz singer, walks past his estranged daughters house and sees her and her 2 kids through the window. That blue and white house is the one we built! Pretty cool! Coincidentally, the family that lives there, a wonderful family I might add, have 5 children between the ages of 6 and 15 so Santa is very important! Last year, when we were starting the siding, my client took a picture so that he could show his kids that while they were at school, Santa (one of the siding installers) was working on their home! I attached that picture, keep and eye out for him! I also included a picture of the fake snow as they started to put it down and a few other pics. Funny how a little more than a year later that home is in a Christmas movie!
Who would've thunk???
https://www.mylifetime.com/movies/a-christmas-winter-song?newexp=true