Great work. IMO I would love to have had Alice's bedroom. It was tucked away, close to the laundry room to clean my clothes and close to the kitchen for a late night snack.
I agree. It had just enough privacy, yet still convenient to the important parts of the house, like, as you said, the kitchen. Although I would probably want a back door off the laundry room, just so that I wouldn't have to walk through the house when returning from being out on the town.
That was a lovely tribute! Im 57 and the BB was my make believe family cuz i had a busy single mom. I absolutely loved that show and a few other of the late 60’s. You put a lot of passion into this project. Thank you 🙏
YOU EVEN INCLUDED THE PAYPHONE!!! Such stunning realism and wonderful detail you've added to these, Marina. Plus the way you've formatted the videos makes it so much fun. Thank you! Once again, you get a standing ovation from me.
I'm still so so sad they couldn't recreate that groovy spider leg garage at the house. I heard with space limitations and code restrictions it just wasn't feasible. As a Brady fan, I mourn over that. The garage being absent was a big one to get over. Still, it exists in 3-D, so that's good enough for me. Besides, I'll never get on the property anyway so it doesn't matter... well, sort of doesn't [big sigh]. LOL!
My friends across the street had a pay phone in their house in the 80s. It was so odd to me. We had a very heavy phone but it wasn’t a wall phone, I remember my mom saying she rented it monthly but my friends pay phone always confused me. We were poor but not that poor lol
Thanks. I had fun doing that. I'm always curious what that family might be living like today. You might like my website, I have tours of classic TV and movie homes, but I also show them updated. It's mockingbirdlane.design
That's exactly what my mom used to say. I was one of six kids too. 3 girls and 3 boys, all close in age just like the Brady's. I was the middle girl so I'd be Jan. We grew up in a small town and people actually referred to my family as The Brady Bunch. What's weird is my older sister and brother really looked a lot like Marcia and Greg!
@@KidRocker44 I had ( still have ) a sister a year and a half older than me. She washed the dishes and i dried them. Hey......I also had to take out the garbage.
Growing up, I always longingly watched the Brady Bunch wishing I could live in that home. Watching this series brings back those feelings and I’ve discovered I still wish I could live in the Brady home. ☺️
Who didn't?! I always wished I could've had them as neighbors, even, let alone growing up in their household. It was well-known in our house. (Of course my brothers used to joke how they were always crying on that show!😁)
Awe, I love this!!! I could say I was and still am probably their biggest fan but I'm 100% there are tons out there just like me! Such a great show, great time to grow up with good and decent programming. I miss the good ole days and wish things hadn't gotten so out of touch with what's supposed to be right in this world. A huge thank you for all your hard work to take us down memory lane! Can't wait till the special airs 👏👏👏
The architect and the classic tv lover in me really loved this! I used to try to draw out the floor plans for the tv houses but this is great! I specifically remember doing the Bewitched home.
Me too. I drew the Bewitched home up when I was a little girl. And I have a degree in architecture. By the way, I have the Bewitched home tour done and up on my website mockingbirdlane.design
What a well done and fascinating video. My uncle was a plumber for Paramount in the 60’s, ‘70’s and ‘80’s and worked on many different sets including the sets used in the Brady Bunch house. Some of his duties included going around and making sure everything plumbing-related worked well before filming. I wish he was still around today. I would have so many questions for him about the sets he worked on!
I'd love to ask him questions too. I'm glad you liked the tour. I have done other homes too and there are two more parts to the Brady Bunch home. You can see those and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Thank you. Glad you liked the tour. Hopefully you saw the rest of the home and backyard in parts 1 and 3. You can see those and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
I thought the See Saw in the backyard was and Easter egg....from the episode where Cindy and Bobby were trying to do a world record or something, cute episode. And great vids! Enjoying them here! TY!
Did you notice in the family room those are not two couches along the walls. IN the 60's and 70's it was popular to have a " Corner Group " consisting of two twin sized beds with covers on them arranged in a corner with a square piece of furniture in the corner. I had a Corner group in my bedroom in the 60's when we lived in Glendale, Ca. One bed was exposed full length with a padded bolster along the wall. The other actually slid half way under the corner piece. My corner unit had a hinged and padded front that lifted up for use as storage. Both beds had covers that made them look like couches. Mom put a big Swag Lamp over the corner piece . On Feb 9, 1971 the Sylmar Earthquake made that big heavy lamp fall from the ceiling onto my bed. Good thing i wasn't in it haha.
Whoa! Quite a story. I didn't realize that they were twin beds. I just thought they looked odd - deeper and flatter than a sofa. So, you just answered my questions.
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane I bet the Bradys used the beds of this corner group for occasions when they had overnight visitors or when family dropped by. Haha also when Mr Brady was in the Dog House with Mrs Brady hehe.
@@Bill23799 Yes! There is an episode where those bed/couches are made into beds for guests. I'm trying to remember if it's when a grandparent comes to stay or maybe when they did the backdoor pilot episode for "Kelly's Kids" (costarring "Bobby's" real life younger brother). Or maybe it was another time. Anyway, I was recently trying to find a way to cover a mattress on a daybed effectively, and I actually looked up some Brady Bunch clips on RU-vid so I could get a good look at those couch/beds. I noticed they were covered very similarly but their backs were done differently/complimentarily. I loved those couch/beds. Such a good use of space!
I like that. Thanks. I'm working on part 2 of Bewitched right now, then onto finishing the original Parent Trap ranch house that I started awhile back. This year I plan to do I Dream of Jeannie, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, The Partridge Family and The Monkees. You can see all of the other TV and movie homes I've finished here ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
I couldn't see where the powder room by the staircase was accessed. In part one, it looked like the powder room was off the hallway that went to the right of the stairs. But in part two I see that it's actually shares a wall with the kitchen. How do you get to this bathroom?
I'm not quite sure what you're referring to in Part 2 where it looks like the powder room shares a wall with the kitchen. Could you give the time mark for that? The way you saw it in Part 1 is where I put it - down that hallway on the right. I gave Alice a bathroom, is that what you're referring to?
I kept noticing that the plans have the kitchen island with a 90-degree corner, but in real life it was something larger than 90 degrees. Otherwise a great and fascinating walk-through!
In the meantime, you might have fun on my website - I have made computer generated tours of several classic TV and movie homes. Here's the link: www.mockingbirdlane.design/
Concerning those giant cans of tomato sauce. Mrs. Brady's ex husband Roy Martin LOVED spaghetti (as witnessed in A Very Brady Sequel). Mrs. Brady loved to spend Mr. Brady's money, so therefore she bought all that tomato sauce in the event that Mr. Martin should return! Welcome to your new home Roy, so long Mike!
I heard that Marcia Jan and Cindy's father was a University Professor who joined a cruise ship to Hawaii to find rare orchids, he was only supposed to be gone for a Three Hour Tour, but was lost in a storm and never heard from again. 😜
@@Johnnyboy792 P.S. Someday, not too far off, I will be doing an episode on here of the Bewitched home, with fun facts, stories, etc. I'm getting to them one at a time. But on my website, as you've seen, I do have the video tours and some information.
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane Oh that's awesome Marina. Are you planning on The Munster home ? I know the decor (Spider Webs & all ) would be taught to match. Also for some ideas Ozzie & Harriet, Donna Reed & The Partridge Family :) Here's hoping my friend :)
Great job ! One thing I did notice however. In episode 1 you show a bathroom in the hallway next to the den. In this episode the bathroom is gone and replaced with the laundry room. In my mind, I always that little hallway under the stairs went back behind the kitchen - so you could access the laundry room and Alice's room from that hallway or from the kitchen.
I have several models of the Brady home. When I did the overhead in Part 1 I had used an older model. There were times on the show when there was a door in that hallway that led to Alice's room. But there were a couple episodes where that hallway is shown clearly and there is no door on that wall at all or at the end of the hallway. So it changed, I'm assuming according to what they needed for the storyline that week. Others have brought this up too. I think if I redid the hallway, I'd keep the door to the bathroom, but add another on the other side for Alice. Thanks for your input 😊
Thanks for this look at the rest of the Brady first floor. I'm sure the laundry room was supposed to face the back of the house, but the door is at about 180 degrees from the back doors, so it would have to face the front of the house. As for the Easter eggs this time, I noticed 2 of them but missed the rest from not looking closely enough. I'll look more closely next time. I'm looking forward to going upstairs next time.
WOW!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! you have REALLY done your homework here, and it shows with STUNNING RESULTS!!!! THANKS AGAIN SO MUCH!!!!! I can only imagine how many hours of hard work it took you to complete such a project, I can also tell you've put a lot of love, because again...the results are ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!! A humble suggestion...would you consider making such a project but exploring the house of "THE GOLDEN GIRLS" I just love Blanche's room with all the leaves decour!
They eventually did get a dishwasher in some of the later years when they did the reunion shows but my theory for the lack of one in the original is that there is more opportunity for different plots if the dishes are washed by hand. I remember episodes where someone washing dishes was a plot device (i.e. Greg getting all wet using the sink sprayer to clean cups) The Eight is Enough house didn't have a dishwasher either and that kitchen was twice the size of the Brady one and even later in the 70's when almost everyone had one. Many episodes had plot situations involving washing dishes. Having said all that, the Partridge house -did- have one but they were too busy touring to wash dishes I guess!
I really don't think dishwashers were all that common in the 1960s. I was a child in the 1970s (when I started watching the Brady Bunch reruns) and our family didn't get a dishwasher until the late '70s. So I think most people watching the Brady Bunch could relate to having to hand wash dishes.
Glad you enjoyed it. There are 2 other tours that take us through the rest of the entire home and back yard. You can see those and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Thanks Marina - I’ve seen those but was watching the BB show and thought I’d revisit this particular video. Didn’t know you had more TV houses I definitely need to check out. I think your talented rendering ideas are very well thought out and comprehensible for us fans to enjoy its wholesomeness.
I thought that behind the wall at the top of the stairs was Mike and Carol's master bath/vanity area. When you get to the top of the stairs, you make a little right/left jog to start down the upstairs hallway. First door on the right was the boys' bedroom. Can't remember if there's a door into the bathroom (between the bedrooms) that the 6 kids shared. Past that on the right was the girls' bedroom. Turn to the left near the end of that hallway, and somewhere in your general field of vision would be Mike and Carol's bedroom door. Go through it, and at the far left corner of the bedroom itself is the door that leads to that master bath/vanity area.
@@ApartmentKing66 Here is a post from my website that goes over the layout of the upstairs. www.mockingbirdlane.design/post/the-brady-home-a-house-of-lies
Thanks! I noticed your RU-vid name - Opie. I have a full tour of the Andy Griffith Show home coming up soon. It will include the upstairs and the courthouse. And I have a very special surprise interview lined up for it too!
in 1960s and 70s TV, i always wonder what behind the door, or next room. making you tube videos myself now, i always make sure something in the background is interesting. your videos are amazing.
Glad you liked it. Hopefully you saw parts 1 and 3 where we tour the rest of the Brady home. You can see that and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
@@yvettegandy8804 The renovation of the real life Brady home by HGTV will air on HGTV. People get HGTV in different ways - through cable, on Sling, to name a few.
Awesome job again!! You totally satisfied my curiosity of some of the unseen areas of this house. Wouldn’t it cool to make some of those famous tv houses as VRBOs??? I would love to spend a couple of nights there!! But I bet that would be super expensive. One can dream! :) ❤️
I didn't know that. There was a show on tonight where they focused on their car. I just saw commercials . But, by golly, they even got the car right. HGTV has not missed a single detail.
@@scottdowney4865 all the cars on the show were Chryslers or Plymouths except the car that Greg bought for $100 in the episode titled The Wheeler Dealer. That one was a 1956 Chevy Bel Air convertible.
Glad you enjoyed the tour. I hope you saw parr 3 of the Brady home, where we go upstairs. I'm working on Part 2 of Bewitched right now, where we'll go upstairs and to the backyard. Then it's onto the original Parent Trap ranch house that I started awhile back. This year I plan to do I Dream of Jeannie, The Partridge Family, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley and the Monkees. You can see all of the other TV and movie homes I've finished here ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Wait...I remember an episode where Mike & Carol switched places; and Mike had to help the girls with a Girl Scout badge (or Daisies I think). There was a terrible mess made and I thought they did show between the other side of the island, as they were slipping on broken eggs that were on the floor. I will have to watch and see! Thanks for this Marina🌟💗
In case you don't already know, there are 2 more videos of The Brady Bunch home tour. You can see those and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Great job! I was hoping you would address the back door to the fence which the kids came in and out of. I thought they had a next door neighbor so I didn't think it was an alley or led to another street. Also I've noticed in season 1 several times the kids leave the house via the laundry room through the back door instead of the side fence or the driveway. Very interesting.
Yes. Those are some very popular TV homes. Maybe you already know this, but You can see all of the other TV and movie homes I’ve finished here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
One of my favorite sets. If you want to see all of the TV and movie homes I've done so far, you can visit my website. I haven't turned them all into episodes like I have with the Brady Bunch, like I've done on RU-vid, but I eventually will. For now there are computer generated tours on that site - here's the link www.mockingbirdlane.design/
That's good to hear. I have done tours of the rest of the house too. You can see those and all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
The harvest gold! I lived in my great aunt and uncle’s house from 2009 to 2018 and their kitchen was harvest gold. They had harvest gold tile in the backsplash and the hall bathroom. The couch was 7ft harvest gold velvet with burnt orange accent chairs and brown as well. My gram was the one who had avocado colored stuff. I don’t like those colors myself but I can appreciate them in TV homes.
I think you've done a great job at giving the Brady home life in your software modeling. I do however want to point out a mistake in the overhead layout image @ 9:55 . You showed in part 1 that the bathroom behind the staircase was positioned to the right in the short hall and just to the left of Mike's office. In part 2 you have the laundry room in a L shape and the washer and dryer are where the bathroom was previously positioned in part 1. Still you really have done a wonderful job here and it has put me in nostalgia overdrive! 😊
I grew up in an old house but when I was very young my parents remodeled the kitchen and put in that same orange countertop. We had a dishwasher though - that's one up on the Bradys.
I'm in my forties in I Love The Brady bunch when I was a kid and even nowit was such a great show it was an older show when I was a kid but it was great it was my favorite show actually
Hi Marina! Your videos are beautifully done! Answering questions that I personally have wondered about that actual house & even more the Paramount set! You have answered questions before I was about to ASK them! [:-)] Very very (very) cool & detailed over-views & all. Thanks so much for uploading these videos. [:-)]
You are seriously talented! Coming from a family of 6 kids, I always felt a connection to the Brady Bunch and watched every episode over and over! Additionally, my love of architecture (yes, even as a 10 year old watching the reruns) made me fall in love with their house and these videos were absolutely fantastic! Great job Marina, can't wait to see episode 3 of the upstairs!
Wow! What coincidence. I have 6 kids, 3 boys right in a row and then 3 girls right in a row. And I have a degree in architecture! When I was modeling this it was easy to picture if a family of 8 could actually work in that home. P.S. The answer is they need toilets 😁
@@MarinaCoatesMockingbirdLane Ahhh, that's why it was so amazing- you have a degree in architecture! I went to school for architecture as well but didn't make it as far. I still have a love for it and have shifted to interior design. Oh yes, the missing Brady toilets HA! 😁
Thank you for all your work on this! Great job! I'm guessing younger folks might not understand the fascination some of us have with this fictional house and family. For me, I think they represented some kind of an ideal. Whatever the case, I admire your detective work and story-telling.
Thank you so much! I agree, for whatever reason this show captures something for so many. Seems to go beyond nostalgia, judging by the ratings HGTV's show got last week. It's America's house 😊
In your part 1 segment, you described and showed the mysterious hallway behind the stairs (contained a bathroom). But in your part 2 segment, the overhead view of the home (@09:59) actually shows the Laundry room flowing into the hallway behind the stairs. Which one is correct, the hallway with the bathroom, or the Laundryroom??
That overhead view was from an earlier model. I had put a bathroom back in the laundry room. After seeing the Christmas special, I decided to put it in the hallway. Good catch.
Thanks for all of your work, Marina! The material is quite interesting. By the way, has anyone noticed the Brady House set used in other shows? I think it was used on "Mannix" three times. It was strange to see criminals using the familiar sets for nefarious purposes! "The X-Files" used them once, too.
This is great! You covered two areas I always wondered about: Laundry/Alice’s bedroom, and in part one - the hallway behind the stairs. I think in the first season the kids came into the house once from school via behind the stairs! Anyway, fantastic job and you have a new subscriber! Thanks so much.
My in-laws had the same orange countertops on their house along with copper-tone appliances and sink. We changed them out when we inherited the house in 2006!
Your video and blog are terrific! I hope you enter the contest, you deserve to win. I'm soooo excited for this reveal. I hope I can visit someday. Would love to hear your perspective on the reno.
LoL @ the huge tomato sauce cans. All I can think of is Peter Clemenza in The Godfather talking about cooking spaghetti for 20 guys. You never know when "the bunch" might have to "go to the mattresses". That kid who called Cindy "Baby-Talk" done messed with the wrong mafia.
You really out did yourself, love how you would change the looks if it was today's time. And, I didn't know that Ann B. Davis had a twin sister in real life, wow. I learn something new everyday, thank you. I enjoyed the part 2 tour of The Brady's House. Looks kinda small when you do the whole turn around thing. I thought it would be much bigger than that but it's not. Not even the house they turned into looking like the one at the studio stage. That and yours both look dead on. Again thank you and God Bless. C. Wayne Brock. California
The big tin cans in the cupboard, I can tell you that my family had those! There was 3 biys, 4 girls and 2 parents! And yup they would be in stock on the regular, even big tins of Heinz ketchup!!
I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. Hopefully you've seen part 1 and part 3 of the Brady home as well. In case you happened to love the Bewitched home - I just finished a new, much improved tour of the Bewitched home. And, I am currently working on Part 2 - the upstairs and backyard of the Bewitched home. Then, it's on to the original Parent Trap ranch house I started awhile ago. This year, I plan to get these homes done: The Partridge Family, I Dream of Jeannie, The Monkees, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. You can see all of the other TV and movie homes I’ve finished here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
That was just amazing! There was an episode where the boys were wearing sheets, pretending to be ghosts, and they walk past Alice’s doorway. That’s what made me think that there was a back hallway that led from behind the stairs to the kitchen, via the laundry room.
There was a hallway in that episode with a picture hanging on the wall visible through Alice's bedroom door! When I saw that when I was young, it led me to believe that Alice's room was upstairs.
That back hallway went from under the front main stairs to the laundry area and then to the kitchen. The creator of this missed that small detail but you really have to watch to notice that hallway goes the entire length from the front room to the kitchen. The haunted episode in season 1 I thin proves this hallway exists and comes out in 2 places.
@@animalyze7120 I agree. And it is shown at times. But, just yesterday, I was watching episodes for Part 3 of the Brady home and there were 2 episodes where they show that hallway clearly - a really good clean shot and there was no door there and it ends with a dead end - meaning just a wall. ! I wish I'd caught that when I was doing part 1. What it tells me is that sometimes there was a door there and sometimes not depending on what they needed. Wish I could pull that off in my home ;)
This is awesome. You are so talented. But there was a garage door because in the episode where they practice their dance routine Mike asks them what they are doing? They grab brooms and start sweeping and all you can are their feet because the garage door is slightly up.
Where were you when I was modernizing my kitchen? Love what you did with that 💙👍🏻 EDIT: That giant mirror in the family room was “probably” in the corner of Alice’s room by the bed. I was there, you know 😉
The Brady indoor grill came up when I was selling appliances. They basically do not put grills like that indoors anymore. It's basically a barbeque inside the house. Very hard to ventilate. This particular one maybe had sufficient ventilation? It would be interesting to see if there was a chimney of sorts implied above it. Anyway fascinating and wonderful tour! Thank you.
Thanks for adding that information. Now we know. 😊 You can see all of the other TV and movie home tours I've made here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
This is great and glad you expanded on areas not shown much. So the laundry room and the bathroom next to the den seemed to be different from episode 1 and 2. Even how the W&D is sitting.
Yes. Good eye. I made several models and the overhead was from an earlier model before I made corrections. You can see all of the other TV and movie homes I've finished here: ru-vid.comvideos?view_as=subscriber
Those indoor grills are a nice amenity to have, and I noticed that by the Christmas reunion movie they had bricked it up and put a microwave there. I have heard though, that the indoor grills like that can be a fire hazard from the grease and cooking fats that can build up inside the chimney, unless your diligent about keeping it cleaned out.
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