‘Stranger Things’: Production Design Shines Light on Rainbow Room and the Byers Home in Season Four
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe last time audiences saw the Byers family on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” they were leaving town.
After a lengthy hiatus, the highly anticipated fourth season returns to Netflix on May 27.This time, the family has been relocated for their safety to Southern California, where they moved from fictional Hawkins, Ind. (actually filmed in Georgia).The family has expanded, with Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown) joining Joyce, played Winona Ryder, Noah Schnapp’s Will and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton).In finding the new home, production designer Chris Trujillo thought about building from the ground up, but there was something more special in finding a practical location.Albuquerque, N.M.
subbed for California. Trujillo and his team looked for a “time capsule” house that would show the family had taken a socioeconomic step up, thanks to Dr.
Sam Owens (Paul Reiser). An actual house, Trujillo says, meant they could move between inside and outside to make it feel like the family was really in a neighborhood.
