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the villain lairs from the original cartoon. With this in mind, I also had to face the fact that Vancouver does not have a plethora of googie or zany, retro, modern architectural shapes. When finding existing locations proved challenging for this vision of Kim's vast world, the production changed course and committed to building sets from the ground up. With a quick eight weeks of fast and furious preproduction, Kim's world was built. The reference for Kim Possible's family residence was the iconic midcentury home that audiences saw in the cartoon. I scoured the internet for Vancouver midcentury architecture, discovered the work of Canadian architect Arthur Erickson and immediately sent photographs of the perfect Possible home to the directors. The structure, named the Graham House, was glass and wood, sexy midcentury perfection and a ringer for the original cartoon home. When I arrived in Vancouver the following week, location manager Paul Russell informed me that the home had been recently torn down and that there was virtually nothing of midcentury vintage left in Vancouver. However, a few days later, Paul delighted the team by taking us to the Graham House's kid sister structure called the Baldwin House. It was a miniature lakefront midcentury gem, also designed by Erickson, with the same beautiful lines. Baldwin was perfect, but tiny, so the team got crafty. We combined techniques by using a digital plate for the exterior establishing shot and the lake house as the living room. Kim's bedroom was then built on stage. Because the Baldwin House was cared for by an architectural preservation organization, no modification was allowed. However, amazing scenic tricks were used to change the wallpaper and carpet to give the location a more colorful life that matched the original Possible cartoon house. Kim's bedroom was the most important set for both Disney and the show's directors because it anchored the character for the audience. With that in mind, the set's design went through many incarnations to find the right elements for the bedroom of a girl B A. POSSIBLE HOME. CONCEPT RENDERING BY GLEN SCHROEDER. PRE- VISUALIZATION OF HOUSE DECOR RENDERED OVER A SCOUT PHOTO. B. POSSIBLE HOME. SET PHOTO BY RACHEL MYERS. A