Your Favourite Sitcom House?

[zipdang]

Laundress,

Jean's kitchen can't be on the same floor as the living and dining rooms. The back wall of the dining room has a large window, thus we know that no rooms are behind it. And the wall along the left side of the stairs separates Jean's townhouse from the townhouse next door, so no rooms could exist at the end of the hall and to the left. So that leaves the downstairs, I think. Still, I find it odd that for the entire run of the show the kitchen's exact location was never specifically mentioned.

 

[mixergal]

I would have to go with the Brady house as my #1. And of course they showed the dishwasher - her name was Alice

 

[beadsobleach]

Frasier

I liked his tasteful condo, they had to go to a laundry room too...Also, early Perry Masons showed his Chinese-Modern bachelor pad sometimes. Danny Thomas's apt. was cool too, with the stairway in front of the window...

 

[launderess]

ZipDang

There are only two rooms on the main floor, separated by the large arch and, IIRC, pocket doors. The front room (behind the sofa), is what faces the street and one assumes is, or was the dining area.

In episodes where persons come in the front door, it can be heard by those in the kitchen and Jean even calls out to Lionel once that she is "in here", and he walks in with a shopping bag of sausages.

Beyond the kitchen door at the end of the hall is a stand of some sort, where the shopping basket is kept.

In one episode, Jean went out of the kitchen and was rooting about the airing cupboard under the stairs (this is also where she and Lionel hid for a bit during their wedding reception).

Speaking of the wedding reception, Jean is shown clearly trying to estimate how many persons could fit in the two rooms, something she wouldn't have to worry about if there was another dining room on the main floor.

It does seem that the kitchen table is rather large, and that most if not all meals are taken there, even when company is over.

Also in the episode where Penny, Jean and Lionel are having lunch in the back garden, one can see the kitchen window, and in some shots the steps that lead up to the kitchen.

It did strike one as odd, when finally seeing shots of the outside of the house, that the kitchen seemed to have been moved upstairs. However again, this is not all that uncommon with older London townhouses. Either an addition is added onto the back, or what was once a den or someother room at the back of the house is converted to a kitchen. Again, modern living without servants would be very tiresome with a kitchen in the basement. Especially if one has wee children at home.

Finally consider how much sunlight Jean's kitchen receives. That would hardly be possible if the area were located below stairs, and facing the back.

 

[spankomatic]

The Brady's house...

The version of what it would "really" look like is cool too!

I also liked Mary Tyler Moore's bi-level apartment.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Brady+Bunch+house

 

[spankomatic]

Another link on the Brady house...

http://www.davidbrady.com/times/latbrady.html

 

[rp2813]

Yeah, Lucy's Connecticut place comes to mind first. As a kid I was really into the TV version of "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" house. Beaver's later house was also a nice one. Major Nelson's bachelor pad was very cool. Rob & Laura's kitchen seemed a little small to me.

 

[launderess]

Jean's House

Took awhile, but found it.

Scroll down the page in the following link until you find a snap of Jean speaking with Sandy and Harry. Behind Jean's head one can clearly see a picture hanging on the wall at the end of the hall. This same picture can be seen in many shots of the kitchen that show the kitchen door and the end of the hall beyond.

These pictures also show the door to where the airing cupboard is (beneath the stairs). In most Brownstones, that would be where the stairs continue to go downstairs.

We know from exterior shorts there is a basement, and it is hardly likely persons living in that house go out of doors to reach the basement, there must be a way from inside.

Of course perhaps different interior shots are done on a set or something and that the house looks differently inside.

http://atgbcentral.com/rightreunion.html

 

[autowasherfreak]

I also like Andy Taylor's house, it seems very warm and inviting. As Patsy Cline would say, Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home.

 

[spankomatic]

This was not a sitcom but the house on Tracy Island from the Thunderbirds was a really cool pad. The swimming pool is retractable....

 

[toggleswitch2]

La vie est dur avec beaucoup d'argent.

Loved the Stephens' home.

To my complete surprise my parents' friends bought a house in the mid 70s very much like it in a posh CT location. (A part considered a suburb of NYC).

In the actual house I saw, the living room and dining room and entry are separated and tradtional in style (rather than the open-plan style shown on TV). The kitchen and den, too were larger.

The laundry room (HUGE!) on the main level was combined with a "gardner's bathroom" (toilet and slop-sink) that had easy access to the rear garden.

No Frigidaire Flairs in the kitchen; all appliances were harvest gold GEs. Double electric self-cleaning (pyrolytic) wall-oven and an electric coil GE cooktop (ss?) with fixed push-button heat controls. Just like Samantha's place, there was a gas grill in the kitchen under a huge vent-hood.

I LMAO in that it was nearly a quarter of a million bucks then, which was considered outrageously high. Today, with that (little) amount of money (in and around my city) you can't even wipe your @$$.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Anyone have a link to Lucy's house in Connecticut?

I only really remember the living /dining areas and the old-fashioned intercoms that Lucy and Ethel (sp?) used. I'd love to see what was supposed to be the kitchen.

I seem to remember two episodes only-- afte the move to CT.
The flower garden club competition and what she re-built when she lost her wedding ring.

Strange to me that they'd move to CT when Lucy (in real life) was actually from upstate NY. A move there (NY) would have made just as much sense to me as Ricky in the show, I think, still commuted down to Manhattan to his beloved club.

 

[rpm]

Almost Forgot

If I lived in Miami you know it would have to be The Golden Girl's house. They made a couple of references to using a dishwasher, but you never saw one.Maybe it had a matching front to the cabinets.
Poor Alice washing dishes for 9 people 3 times a day plus all the pots and pans.
Its a wonder she had time to do all that laundry. 112 knee socks per week and 63 pairs of underwear, assuming Marcia wore underwear.
At least she had only one bathroom to clean and it didn't have a toilet.

 

[bradross]

Samantha and Darren Stevens' house

My all-time favorite would be 1164 Morning Glory Circle - Darren and Samantha Stevens' house in "Bewitched". I've attached a pic of the washer and dryer featured - don't know the brand...any help?

Brad

http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html

 

[panthera]

Vintage:

Definitely the Stephen's house.
Especially if it comes with Derwood II.
Current:
The Hub at Roald Dahl Plas, as long as it comes with GDL and JB.

 

[~sudsshane]

my picks...

1- Samantha and Darren Stephens' house
2- Lucy and Ricky Ricardo's NYC apartment
3- Andy and Aunt Bee's house
4- The Cleaver house

 

[~sudsshane]

Brad~

That Washer and Dryer is GM Frigidaire.

 

[panthera]

In other words,

The "real" Frigidaire. As in Thumper.
Not the (deleted) piece of (deleted) White put out under their name.

Hey, now here's a horrid thought. GM goes under and gets bought by some off-brand company which relabels their Tatras or worse as Cadillacs.

Wow.

 

[iheartmaytag]

TV Favorites

Mary Tyler Moore's house, the one she lived in with Rhoda and Phyllis.

Doris Day's house and appartment. Loved the old farm house with half door. Then the spiral staricase in her apartment in the later shows. (Never did figure out what happened to her two kids on the show)

The house in the "Ghost and Mrs. Muir". The house in "Don't eat the Daisys"

OK--I like old rattle traps with character.

 

[iheartmaytag]

OK--I like old rattle traps with character.

I lied, have to take back some of that statement. I lived in a house like "Green Acres". I didn't have to climb the pole to use the phone, but I did have to go to the back yard to take a crap.