# Blueprints for TV apartments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 7, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304 "2013-03-07T17:38:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/1 "2013-03-07T17:38:19Z")
[These are fascinating, and I don’t even watch much TV.](http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/inaki-aliste-lizarralde-tv-floorplans) ---
**Author:** ![FrankJBN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@FrankJBN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrankJBN)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/2 "2013-03-07T20:30:26Z")
How are you using “fascinating” in your post? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/3 "2013-03-08T15:40:46Z")
> [@FrankJBN](#): > > How are you using “fascinating” in your post? **FrankJBN** , if you don’t find a thread of interest, refrain from posting in it, don’t snark at the OP or other participants. **twickster** , Cafe Society moderator ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/4 "2013-03-08T15:44:35Z")
Where are the floorplans? All I get is a list of what should be links, but aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/5 "2013-03-08T16:09:42Z")
I thought the Simpsons house looked too big, but it makes more sense from [this view](http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/247/5/7/simpson__s_house_cutaway_first_floor_by_ajdelong-d5di5hs.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Noelq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noelq/32/16438_2.png) [@Noelq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noelq)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/6 "2013-03-08T17:27:44Z")
These are damn awesome. I’ve shared them with my Architect friends. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/7 "2013-03-08T19:01:00Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I thought the Simpsons house looked too big, but it makes more sense from [this view](http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/247/5/7/simpson__s_house_cutaway_first_floor_by_ajdelong-d5di5hs.jpg). I’m having trouble picturing any scenes in that weird tiny room with the TV behind the garage. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/8 "2013-03-08T19:09:05Z")
> [@Zjestika](#): > > I’m having trouble picturing any scenes in that weird tiny room with the TV behind the garage. You aren’t the only one. Looks like a bean bag chair too? Can only remember Lisa’s room have a bean bag. DCnDC’s cut-away view is interesting too, but the dining room is way too narrow. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/9 "2013-03-08T19:19:50Z")
These are great, but I can’t help wondering what the exterior surfaces of the buildings must look like to accomodate these floor-plans. They must all be some seriously weird post-modernist buildings. These plans remind me of old comic book issues that would show floor-plans for things like the Batcave or Avengers’ Mansion, which I always loved. As a little kid, I would use graph paper - the same type used to draw dungeon mazes for D&D - and draw my own maps of what I imagined things like the TARDIS or the inside of Snoopy’s doghouse would look like. I’ve seen another site ages ago that had floor-plans for the Brady Bunch house, the offices of WKRP radio station and some of the Starship Enterprise (Next Generation version.) If I can find it, I’ll post a link. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/10 "2013-03-08T19:27:15Z")
The **Frasier** one is kind of odd having the bathrooms using exterior walls in a highrise. That’s prime floorspace with a view to waste on bathrooms. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/11 "2013-03-08T19:29:33Z")
Here’s a reasonable Brady Bunch floor plan: [link](http://jaced.com/2012/07/10/brady-bunch-house-floor-plans/) It even includes Greg’s attic bedroom, complete with beads. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/12 "2013-03-08T19:35:34Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Here’s a reasonable Brady Bunch floor plan: > > [link](http://jaced.com/2012/07/10/brady-bunch-house-floor-plans/) > > It even includes Greg’s attic bedroom, complete with beads. > mmm It seems to be missing the walk-in linen closet. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/13 "2013-03-08T19:44:29Z")
> [@Zjestika](#): > > I’m having trouble picturing any scenes in that weird tiny room with the TV behind the garage. Me too. When I saw the floorplan I thought “when the the Simpsons get a rumpus room?” ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/14 "2013-03-08T21:03:28Z")
> [@Zjestika](#): > > I’m having trouble picturing any scenes in that weird tiny room with the TV behind the garage. Me too, is it actually something was appeared on the show, or just a room added to make the rest of the floorplan work. :dubious: I don’t remember ever seeing the downstairs powder room either (though it would make sense for the house to have). ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/15 "2013-03-09T13:08:44Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Me too. When I saw the floorplan I thought “when the the Simpsons get a rumpus room?” I’d heard mention of The Simpsons rumpus room years ago. Apparently [it has only appeared in \*\*\*one \*\*\*episode,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hPcgZOPFLI) season five’s ‘Lady Bouvier’s Lover’. And ten years or so ago Fox build a [full scale replica of The Simpsons house](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Simpsons_house#Real-life_version) and gave it away as the grand prize for a contest (the winner took a $75,000 cash substitute instead). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/16 "2013-03-09T13:27:12Z")
I wonder if he’s ever done Mary Tyler Moore’s original apartment, i.e., the one in Phyllis’s house? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/17 "2013-03-09T13:42:37Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Here’s a reasonable Brady Bunch floor plan: > > [link](http://jaced.com/2012/07/10/brady-bunch-house-floor-plans/) I love that none of the bathrooms have toilets. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/18 "2013-03-09T13:53:07Z")
I draw your attention to: TV Sets: Fantasy Blueprints of Classic TV Homes > [@](#): > > Author and artist Mark Bennett compiles his entertaining collection of blueprints extrapolated from the storylines and sets of the 1950s to 1980s television sitcom homes millions of Americans grew up with. An extraordinary work of imagination, these blueprints of TV homes that are as familiar to us as our neighbor’s den and backyard give us a fascinating “real life” view that the camera angles never offered. > > From Ward and June Cleaver’s house to Rob and Laura Petrie’s apartment to Mary Richards’s Minneapolis bachelorette apartment to the Jetson’s “house” in the clouds, each home is lovingly recreated with painstaking precision in the fine blue lines of architectural blueprints. BTW–I own a copy. It’s great! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/19 "2013-03-09T16:50:09Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > [These are fascinating, and I don’t even watch much TV.](http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/inaki-aliste-lizarralde-tv-floorplans) Very, very cool! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304/20 "2013-03-09T19:30:17Z")
The blueprint for the **Golden Girls** house is a really tortured attempt to make sense of TV sets that showed an impossible house & weren’t even consistant from episode to episode. Most episodes had all the girls’ bedrooms stage right (I assume that’s supposed to be Blanche’s bedroom on the other side of the house), the door in the bank of the kitchen led outside, the garage wasn’t connected to the house, & the driveway could be seen from the kitchen window. And what’s up with that strange little room off the lanai, and why do those 2 bedrooms have a connecting door? 😕 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueprints-for-tv-apartments/652304.md?page=2)