Photo:Courtesy Everett Collection
Courtesy Everett Collection
AlthoughTheBrady Bunchended in 1974 — and the movie came out in 1995 — the beloved sitcom’s legacy lives on decades later.
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The renovation added 2,000 square feetonto the back of theBrady Bunchhouse, according toTheLos Angeles Times.
This included the addition of a second story (so it seems that the stairs in the renovated house are, in fact, real). Jasmine Roth recounted in an interview with theOrange County Registerthatthe stairs on the set of the show were fake, and all the kids had to crowd at the top of the stairs during certain scenes. But when emulating the floating stairs IRL,one step had to be removedto preserve the angle of the staircase.
The renovation also added two extra bedrooms — which altogether, took 9,000 hours of work.
Nothing in the house actually works.
While speaking with PEOPLE, Trahan also revealed that any and all appliances in the house are fully decorative, and don’t actually function.
“None of the appliances work . . . The range doesn’t work, the stove doesn’t work, the oven doesn’t work. There’s literally nothing,” she said. “Nothing is functioning. It’s all decorative. So I think that’s pretty funny. You couldn’t make anything if you wanted to.”
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A 2018 article fromTMZnoted thatneighbors of theBrady Bunchhome were in an uproarabout possible construction noise, traffic, tourists, production trucks, and more.
That’s right! Trahan met and discussed the house with the neighbors and architect, and found that after helping during the renovation process,our beloved Marciaalmost bought the abode.
The zigzag walkway remained intact through the remodel.
And it’s still there! Trahan also learned that the home even still has postmarks from where the prior owners had installed a gate at one point. Stars who visited the Brady family (including Davy Jones, Desi Arnaz Jr., and Joe Namath) were walking up that same walkway that remains there today.
The backyard was — and still is — made up of artificial grass.
The house is filled with Brady family Easter eggs.
Trahan noted that Alice’s recipe is still up on the chalkboard from the episode “Click,” and the newspaper article about Peter from “The Hero” (when Peter saved a little girl in a toy store) is still there, too
The horse sculpture at the bottom of the staircase, which was in several shots on the show, was always facing different ways.
Sometimes the horse stood facing up the stairs, and sometimes it stood facing away from the stairs.
The “snow” outside the Los Angeles home was not, in fact, real — Trahan found it was actually 95 degrees in August that day, whenall six of the Brady kids reunitedin the front yard.
source: people.com
