Thought I’d add a few things. No, the Friends apartment does not have an elevator. The stairs are behind an outcrop, past a step up, at the end of the hall. Joey and Chandler face the back, but are across the street from Monica and Rachel’s (no second A) apartment, meaning that Joey and Chandler have corner digs. Problem being, the hallway continues on for a few feet and there is no visible outcropping beside Mon & Rach’s balcony. Fix: Their apartment is deeper than Joey and Chandlers’. Problem: No it’s not. The living room is bigger, and there’s a short hallway back to a bathroom, but in Joey and Chandler’s, there is also a smaller room behind the kitchen, and a bathroom to the left of that smaller room. Smaller room has never been seen. Mon & Rach’s bathroom faces down the hall into the kitchen at times, and faces the wall of the hallway at other times, so it’s hard to judge how far back it really is. So, both apartments are approximately the same depth, yet there are stairs behind J & C’s, but no outcropping beside M & R’s. Not to mention there should be an outcropping for the bathroom. Looks like we have another 788 Evergreen Terrace on our hands. (Simpsons’ house, has architecture not possible with only 3 dimensions.) Another possible problem: No apartments are as big as this, unless it’s a penthouse, or a warehouse loft or something. I estimate that the living room is ~40 feet across and about 20 feet deep. The bedrooms are probably only 15x15 or so, judging from the picture of Monica’s room, but her is apparently the larger of the two (as shown when Joey and Chandler swap apartments). Still, that makes an apartment that is 55x30, counting the balcony (which I shouldn’t) and the bathroom/hallway. My brother and his roommates pay ~700 a month for their 3br, 2bath apartment in the KU med area. Their living room is about 15 long by 30 deep, counting the dining room and kitchen area. The hallway to the rooms is about another 15 feet long, with 2 rooms off the side and one off the end, with a bathroom off the other side (second bath in side bedroom). This is an EXTREMELY nice apartment, it’s amazing they got it so cheap. Its a walkup, no doorman. Our house (bought for 105k, now worth nearly 1/2 mil due to real estate surges, and complete remodel) is only 70x30, 2 story, finished attic, 2 bath, 5 br, 90 years young, 20 acres, 3k sq ft. The Full House living room is about 25 deep by 50 feet long, kitchen is about 25 deep by 40 long, garage is under the house but only the size of the kitchen, full back yard, with, surprisingly, a driveway, but it would somehow have to ramp downward into the garage that’s no longer there (renovated into bedroom). They have a porch, also. The upstairs has a fairly long hallway, there is 1 bath downstairs, 1 in ‘garage’, 1 in master br, 1 in hall, and 1 in attic. The girls room is about 20x15, Danny’s is 20x20, Michelle’s is about 15x10, the attic (apparently it is a flat topped house, since there is no visible sloping) is probably the size of the living room, but doubles as living room and bedroom, because Jesse built a fold-down bed w/dresser built in. Yet, it’s not against a wall… And finally, Nicky and ???'s room is about 10x10. Remember, I’m doing this ALL from memory (I have a thing for remembering architecture. I could draw you completely accurate floorplans of a house I lived in 9 years ago, when I was a young, young child.) so I may have a few mess-ups. The Winslow’s house is also comparitively huge, but I don’t want to go through that, too. It’s also an architectural improbability. Anyway, if I’ve gotten any of this wrong (surely I have) be sure to flame me.
–Tim
BTW, some episodes of Seinfeld had a doorman, some didn’t. And Jesse’s wife’s name was Rebecca. And they didn’t move out because Michelle got sooo sad when they were planning to that they decided to let the brat get her way again, and they just finished the attic.
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