Your Favourite Sitcom House?

[launderess]

When all is said and done, the home from a televison show one most fancies is the Stephen's house on "Bewitched".

Close second would be Hyacinth Bouquet's then Edina's on "Ab Fab".

L.

 

[ronhic]

I'll take either....

The Brady Bunch house....love that staircase, den, kitchen and TV room

or

Bewitched....

 

[maytagbear]

Either Hyacinth's,

or Jean Pargitter Hardcastle's! (The one with Mrs Bale, not the one in Holland Park.)

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[autowasherfreak]

1st Choice The Stephen's House
2nd Choice Manjor Nelson's House
3rd Choice The Partridge Family House (including the bus)
4th Choice The Brady Bunch House

 

[xraytech]

Well, if I was up for the quaint cozy lived in old fashioned house it would have to be the home from Mama's Family

but, when I would want a home with all of the conviences and modern marvels you could have in a classy suburban home it would be the Cleavers home from Leave it to Beaver( their new home which was shown in the later episodes)

 

[frigilux]

The Munsters's house! But only if the dragon that lives under the cantilever staircase comes with it. Oh, and Thing, too.

 

[jasonl]

No brainer

The Brady House, orange Formica, avocado Whirlpools and all!

 

[perc-o-prince]

Frig...

You mean SPOT??? Cool pet! Don't know if I could deal w/ all the cobwebs though!

However, Thing was in the Addam's Family.

Chuck

 

[frigilux]

Whoops! You're right, Chuck; I'm getting my freak families mixed up, LOL.

 

[zipdang]

Well, I'm relieved that Lawrence and I won't be getting into a tiff over who gets what. I'll gladly take Jean Pargetter Hardcastle's city house in Holland Park!

My partner absolutely covets their sofa. He's convinced it's the comfiest sofa in the world. I've always wondered about the placement of the kitchen. I imagine it's downstairs although I think there was just one reference to it as such. When arriving in the main hallway from the kitchen no one ever appears winded as though they just climbed a flight of stairs, though. Hmmm.....

 

[twintubdexter]

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The Baxter's house on Hazel was very nice, especially the kitchen. There was a wonderful chrome top gas range (Gaffers & Sattler?), a very nice RCA Whirlpool refrigerator...and there was a canary in the kitchen too. I would have to give honorable mention to Samantha Steven's Flair and Thelma Harper's MobileMaid.

 

[launderess]

Holland Park/Shepard's Bush

Is actually a very posh area. Well Holland Park mostly always was, with great Victorian homes built out from the park, and since Jean Hardcastle lives just across from the park, you can imagine her house would be worth a bob or two.

Funny scene in "AbFab" when Patsy Stone is being interviewed by "Hello Magazine" at Ed's house and the reported says "where am I", "what is this area"? "Shepard's Bush?. Edina appears screaming "Holland Park, Holland Park"! She futher goes on to say it is the "rich heartland of Holland Park".

As for Jean HardCastle's townhouse kitchen, it is on the same floor as the livingroom and dining room, just down the hall. Indeed if one walks in the front door it is right down the way past the stairs.

If the house is old as the area, it could be at one time the kitchen was located down stairs, but moved up to the first floor as servantless housekeeping took over. Many people who purchase NYC townhouses (Brownstones), lament having the original kitchens in the basement as it means trudging up and down several flights of stairs all day long.

Wealthy familes with live in help of course rarely if ever went down into the kitchens, since that was the servants domain. When developers began to build middleclass suburb houses in and around London around 1900, the put the kitchen on the main floor (as in 1900 House), since it was a given that these homes wouldn't have the old arrangement of full time servants.

Holland Park - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[tlee618]

For me it would have to be the house from the TV show Family with Kate Lawrence and of course who could for get Willie! I loved that kitchen!!!!!

 

[blackstone]

I'd vote for the "Sanford Arms"

 

[polkanut]

I'd have to vote for the Brady's house also.

 

[jeffg]

1. The Clampett mansion (Beverly Hillbillies)
2. The Brady home
3. Bob & Emily Hartley's home (Bob Newhart Show)
4. Rob & Laura Petrie's home (Dick Van Dyke Show)
5. Patty Lane's home (Patty Duke Show)
6. Family Affair (Manhattan apartment if I remember right)
7. Leave it to Beaver (the new house)

Hon. mention for Will Truman's bedroom (Will & Grace).

 

[dblrinz]

Hard to decide...

Love the Stephen's house in Bewitched...
The Brady's house
The Jefferson's Manhattan apartment
AND have a very soft spot in my heart for Gothic Transitional homes like the Adams Family - Granted no cool appliances BUT I would want to retain Lurch and Thing...

 

[rpm]

It would depend where I was living. If it was in England I would go for Patsy Stone's apartment over the liquor store.
Just for the convience and low maintenance, besides you would always be over at Edwina's anyway.
For historical charm it would be Munsters/Addams family house.
If I was in the burbs, it would be the Brady's house, but would have to install a dishwasher, they never showed one did they?
If I was in the city on a budget,it would have to be Mary Richard's first apartment. If I was well off, then it would have to be George and Weezy's deluxe apartment in the sky complete with harvest gold side by side with icemaker and pot scrubber dishwasher.
One thing I always wondered about. If that apartment was so deluxe with 4 bathrooms and dishwasher, why did Florence have to go to the buildings laundryroom? Shouldn't there have been a washer hook up somewhere?

 

[launderess]

Not Really

Many NYC apartment buildings both upscale, low and in between did not have laundry connections and or laundry rooms in each apartment. Indeed most apartment leases then and now forbid the installation of any laundry appliance (washer or dryer). Some even ban automatic dishwashers as well.

Even co-ops on some of the most poshest avenues in Manhattan have laundry rooms and at one point forbade washing machines, though for the most part that ban has died off.

Dishwashers, washing machines, even garbage disposals are rare in older NYC buildings because often the pre-war plumbing simply was not designed for such things.

Though dishwashers have become more common in NYC apartments, washing machines and dryers connections really began to be offered during the last real estate boom. So many new condos and such coming on the market, each tried to out perform the other with amenities, and the number one thing from many was a washer and dryer. Kind of makes sense, with all these young familes moving into the city, who has the time and or inclination to use a common laundryroom?

Have been in the apartment building shown on "The Jeffersons". In the service basement, just across from the package room is a huge laundry area. IIRC, two or three long rows of top loading washing machines, with hordes of dryers against the walls.