"The Brady Bunch" House is for Sale

[launderess]

Another case in point

Would be the "Golden Girls" house.

There were four of them (Blanche, Rose, Dorothy and Sophia) each supposedly having their own bedroom. If you look at shots of the exterior of house there is *NO* way there were that many bedrooms down that corridor.

Cannot recall if they all shared one bathroom, or if at least Blanche had her own.

For a house with four bedrooms (supposedly) just one bathroom would seem an odd design for a fairly modern home. If the thing was built back in the 1800's or early 1900's could see it happening. [this post was last edited: 8/8/2018-15:58]

 

[iowabear]

Fun links, thanks for posting.

 

If you click the second link and scroll to the bottom there are some good pictures of the Brady house set remodeled for the 1980s.  I don't think I had ever seen these.  Horrible, back to the 70s for sure!

 

[vacerator]

Golden girls house

is on Saltaire avenue north of Sunset Blvd. in Bel Aire, not far from Betty Whites home.

 

[sudsmaster]

Sorry, I must be one of the few people here who never watched the Brady Bunch.

Perhaps in part because from '69 until '74 I watched little if any TV. I was too busy with other interesting things to do with my time in college. When I finally got a set around '74, sitcoms were not my thing.

Thanks to the internet however I'm aware of the "Marsha Marsha Marsha" meme and the housekeeper Alice. But I didn't know anybody in the '60's who had a housekeeper, aside from one high school classmate who lived in a relatively wealthy enclave of SF (Seacliff).

 

[launderess]

You were'nt missing much

Never "got" the BB either, nor any of the other "west coast" shows like Flipper.

Watched the occasional odd episodes or kept it on TV when it came on instead of channel surfing, but BB was never must see television in our house.

 

[iowabear]

It was a syndicated after-school staple

from 1975 at least through the 80s, maybe longer.  Millions of us watched it every day. 

 

Sherwood Schwartz always claimed was a purposely simple show, made for kids.

 

I wouldn't expect anyone who missed the childhood indoctrination to watch it as an adult with any enthusiasm.

 

[countryford]

<blockquote>
By an architect showing floor plans of famous sitcom homes as they appear on the set

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I have a book that shows the floorplans for tv show houses. While it is fun to look at, the sets weren't designed to fit inside of a real building/house. Usually the sets were more like a "V" so that the side walls were more spread out the closer toward the camera they were. 

 

[countryford]

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Cannot recall if they all shared one bathroom, or if at least Blanche had her own. 


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I think it changed depending on the episode. Blanche did have her own. They had at least two others shown. One episode where Dorthy was in the shower with Sophia's new husband, Max. Then another episode where Dorthy and Rose installed  a new toilet in a bathroom. 

 

[circlew]

TV and movie sets are usually designed to be practical for the filming crew. Cameras and lighting take up a lot of space, especially back then.

And to set Launderess straight, "Flipper" was set and filmed in the Miami, FL area.

 

[sfh074]

Well this should be interesting .......

Anything to stay relevant!

HGTV's 'A Very Brady Renovation' revealed: Sneak peek at former 'Brady' stars working on iconic sitcom home

The renovation of the "Brady Bunch" home is underway!

www.foxnews.com

 

[iowabear]

It's too bad the original sound stage set wasn't preserved and placed in a museum.  To me that would have been far more interesting than what they are doing now.  But in 1974 they had no way of knowing it wasn't going to be just another forgotten sitcom.

 

Here's a website with some interesting behind-the-scenes photos of the set.

 

http://verybradyblog.blogspot.com/2018/09/on-set-of-going-going-steady.html

 

Another fun fact is that the Brady set was reworked after the show was cancelled (staircase taken out and kitchen repainted) and used for the 1975 horror movie Bug.

 



 

 

 

 

[rp2813]

Looks like I nailed it with my post from 8/7. 

 

The Property Brothers are HGTV's counterparts to Food Network's Guy Fieri, and have become equally overexposed.

 

[askolover]

I've always noticed what Launderess was saying about the interiors not matching up to the exterior shots.  Here's the Designing Women house.  Many people don't know that it is located in Arkansas!

https://www.southernliving.com/travel/arkansas/tour-real-designing-women-house-video