The entire interior of the Woodhouse residence was a set construction built at Pinewood Studios in England. Star Michael Fassbender said it was incredibly realistic and felt like a true home. He added: "We had a full house to walk around in. You go up the stairs into the bedroom and our wardrobe-bathroom area, it was all built. And various people on the crew were like, 'Oh, I want to take that oven and table and chairs.' It was so beautifully designed."
The production at times took out the middle of the dining table so as to get inside the hole with the camera to film the dinner party but still had camera coverage from the walls and behind the cast.
Set Decorator Anna Lynch-Robinson decorated the dinner party dining table with bright white lighted glass globes by Michael Ruh Glassmakers, table-ware from Karaka Porcelana, glass-ware by Tom Dixon and cutlery from David Mellor.
Production Designer Philip Messina built an add-on portico to the facade of the Woodhouse home exterior so as to make the entrance more intimate. This was then replicated on a sound-stage at Pinewood Studios where every home interior on the picture was also a set-construction there. In fact, the entire street outside the Woodhouse home exterior was replicated on an enormous sound stage at the famed studio. Location Manager Emily Wright told 'Time Out' : "The exterior is this beautiful street in Islington and the interior is on a stage. To get the views out of the windows in the house, we recreated the street on a soundstage. We brought a couple of residents down to Pinewood to see their houses recreated and they had a beautiful reaction."
The dinner party dining room table notably featured distinctive large bright light globes. Production Designer Philip Messina said: "Very early on, [the director] Steven (Soderbergh) said, 'I want to have a dining table that has light emanating from it'. And I've done all the Ocean's movies with him. I've done the sort of slick version of that, and I didn't want to do the slick lit table." The set design of the dining table light globes was inspired by a photograph Soderbergh showed Messina of a coffee table with glass pendant balls on it at the director's New York home. Messina devised and designed a version of them with hand-blown glass to create a light source that felt almost like an upside down lamp. Messina added: "The dining table is actually kind of like a Rubik's cube. It came apart in all different pieces, and the whole centerpiece [with a brass band around it] pulls up." That meant the camera could actually film from inside the table, and the light source could be removed for other scenes.