Lemme get my checkbook…
Well sure. Who would pay $5 mil for a house that doesn’t even have a toilet in the kids bathroom?
How many shows have been recorded at an actual house rather than a purpose-built set?
I like this line: “Trahan, a collector of unusual homes…”
Yeah, I think that’s gonna be my next hobby. Collecting unusual homes. Uh-huh.
It was shot on a set. They took the house used for the exterior shots and remodeled the interior to look like the show.
The Brady house was actually a TARDIS. It was bigger on the inside than the outside.
At $3.2 mil, I wondered, is that even much more than the going price for homes in that neighborhood? According to this article, it’s not really:
At $3.2 million, the Brady house has sold at the high end of comps for the neighborhood. Homes on the block typically go for between $1 million and $3 million.
BTW, if you watch the video in the OP article link, they really did an amazing job taking a house that was only used for the outside establishing shot, and faithfully recreating the interior.
HGTV ran several shows in which they transformed the house to look like the TV show set. The shows included various HGTV personalities and the actors who played the kids on the show. (The part that amazed me the most was the trouble they had to go through to reproduce the wall paneling in the den. I remember when that sort of fake-wood wall paneling was everywhere, but they faked it with strips of wood separated by stripes painted black. I was surprised they couldn’t just buy wood paneling any longer.)
Puts checkbook away.
I think it’s because the Brady kids’ well staged “haunting” of the house to scare away any would-be buyer.
Don’t forget the house during filming was only a single story, with a fake second story window. How’d they make a real second floor in the real house?
Mike Brady was an architect, and apparently a very talented one.
As I remember, they built an addition on the back that contained the second story rooms. The idea was that the house would continue to look the same from the street.
They even obtained as many furniture and decor items as they could find to match ones from the show.
And I’m not crying if they lost money on the deal. Of course, I was the wrong age for the series, maybe if I had been 10 instead of 20 when it came out, it might have meant something to me. But if they had done the same thing with the Leave It To Beaver house or the Father Knows Best house, I would still think it was just as stupid.
The house itself may have been sold at a loss, but I’m not sure that HGTV as a company took a loss. They got a lot of publicity when they bought the house, and they created a series where the original Brady kids participated in the remodel. If the value of that other stuff was more than $2.3M, then HGTV made money on the deal.
Of course it sold for less than the asking price. Who pays retail?
Really? One bathroom for nine people?
And it worked, so that’s some sort of magic right there.
With a very powerful fan.
I’m pretty sure the parents’ bedroom had its own bathroom, so only the six kids shared the toiletless jack-and-jill bathroom. I assume Alice had her own bathroom but don’t remember if that was ever made clear.