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What I love about homes from the past are the uniqueness of them. The Brady home fit the style of the 70's. I grew up on a large block that had many homes, each one totally different from each other. Today's homes tend to be open concepts with no uniqueness. I loved the tour and you did an outstanding job!

The Brady Bunch always reminds me of growing up in the 70s and 80s - coming home after school and watching the reruns. One of my favorite scenes from the family room is the one where Mike puts in a pay phone. 😂

They definitely were a "perfect family", and like all sitcom families, you do long to be a part of it. The love, the acceptance, the support, and kindness is not something I ever found in my own life, so these tv families were that for me. Seeing the home brings me such warmth. Thanks for recreating it. You do such an amazing job.

I'm Australian and one of my fondest childhood memories is anticipating five o'clock rolling around so we could watch The Brady Bunch. I've always loved the house and always loved the series. I'm literally rewatching it now!

I never get tired of Brady Bunch tours. Disney+ has a new show called Secret Invasion. The character Nick Fury lives in one of the most glorious mid-century modern homes I've seen on television in a long time. I immediately thought of your channel when I saw the house.

Never gets old! I LOVE viewing this home! ♥️

My favorite Brady Bunch episodes are the vacation episodes such as The Grand Canyon episodes, and oh when they traveled to Hawaii. Also the one where they traveled to Ohio and went to Kings Island amusement park. And how nice they even brought Alice along with them on their vacations.

Marina, this was wonderful! And I loved the personal asides like touring the real home (wow) and meeting up with Mike Lookinlad to boot, just incredible. Thank you! 😊❤

Congratulations Marina on seeing the Brady bunch home and meeting Bobby you lucky girl😃🧡👏🏾

I just love your hard work, I love all your videos you make us feel like we go on a wonderful journey God bless you , I would love to see different strokes penthouse

My Mother loved this home. I remember the first episode really well in 1969. My sisters and I bought Tiger Beat Magazine. There were lots of Brady Photos. My sisters and I were the same ages as the Brady Girls in real life. I am 67 today just like Marcia, my sister Nancy was the same as Jan and is 65 and my Sister Sue was the same age as Cindy 62. Since they were our ages in real life we could totally relate. My parent's were expecting a new baby in March of 1970. So our life was about to change. We added an extra large bedroom in the back of the house. Our house was paneled in 70's brown paneling. We lived in a 1950's ranch. The addition bedroom I shared with my sisters like the Brady girls. We had avocado green carpeting. My oldest son moved to Southern California in 2008. A has a major in structural engineering and architecture. He has his own company and lives in Orange. I will always be able to relate to the Brady's because I remember having long straight blonde hair and blue eyes and many of the type of outfits that Marcia wore. The 70s weren't a retro thing when you were living in that era. It was normal life like today.

What a great redo tour of the Brady Bunch home! It really looked like I was viewing the actual house instead of a computer image. Can't wait for the upstairs. Thanks to the gentleman for sharing his objects for this show, made it that much more enjoyable.

I was always bewildered as to why a home of that size had six kids needing to share one bathroom, which played into the plot of many episodes. Now I know the truth! Thanks for revealing what was going on under those iconic stairs.

Another 70s home I always loved was the apartment in one day at a time. It was a really colorful set!

Who else gets the "Mockingbird Lane" reference?

I just discovered your channel today. Thank you so much for this video! I'm 52 and have absolutely loved The Brady Bunch since I was a child. But even since I was young, it has driven me bonkers that the inside of the house looked to me like it never worked with the interior. You are the first person I not only heard say it but confirm it with proof. Thank you!!! Love your channel!

It never crossed my mind that those were chimneys! I feel like an ash now.

I cannot express how much joy your videos bring. Even you beautiful voice brings me home!

Love It! Also the the new tech!

how fun - thanks marina for revisiting & updating this iconic home - most enjoyable! :)

I love this one, I had no idea those 2 columns seperating the living room and Mike's den were chimneys! It makes total sense now, I just never thought about it lol

Before I write my book here, I just need to mention that the Herb Alpert-esque music you chose, starting @5:39 is absolutely *perfect.* It definitely has that "Brady-Mod," Southern California sound to it. Herb Alpert-style muzak was a staple in supermarkets all over the L.A area in those days, so why shouldn't we listen to it while touring the Brady house? 😂. I so appreciate how much research you do for all these videos, Marina. I think all the details are what set your videos apart. How many mid-career Architects do you know who clear $200,000?! I studied Architecture in college, and one of the things that made me change my major was when one of my Arch profs said in a lecture, *"For those of you who are pursuing this discipline for the money, I'm afraid you'll be sorely disappointed. After some years in this field, you'll find the living to be comfortable, but it won't get much better than that."* I'm afraid that's when the music came to an abrupt *halt* for a good many of us! 😆 You placed Alice's ensuite exactly where I had it placed when I was doing my "TV House Historian" channel about 10 years ago. My renderings were nowhere near as high tech and rigorous as yours. My primary motivation for building the set in virtual space was to get into the house I grew up in and see POV's no one had ever seen before. I wish I had kept some of my old videos, you would laugh at how primitive they were! It was fun for the time, but I feel like the world needed Marina Coates to take the baton and use her expertise to *really* get us behind the scenes. Love love *love* the picture of the Bradys inside the garage. Wonderful easter egg! I got made fun of in college for being so obsessed with the Brady Bunch house, and rightly so. The actual home that was used for exteriors is a typical tri-level ranch-style, which I found was largely disdained by my instructors who are practitioners in the field. Was it the Bradys who made the house, or was it the house that made the Bradys? That was the question that took me on quite a research safari as I studied many different articles and other publishings on the subject. The history of the ranch-style in America, I found, is a very intriguing one, and it was worth the journey. It comes as no surprise that, when searching for the perfect Brady home, that this is the one ultimately chosen. The home was a product of an era that represented national optimism and prosperity. Though in reality, very few self-respecting Architects of Mike Brady's day would have ever dreamed of designing such a home for themselves to live in, it makes sense that the perfect Brady home would be a spacious tri-level ranch. In order for audiences to accept the Bradys, they needed to be relatable, both individually, and as a family. If the Brady dwelling were solely a representation of the father's occupation, then they would have had to stick with the Fryman Canyon home used in the pilot episode. However, Sherwood Schwartz very intuitively knew that the Brady dwelling needed to represent 2 things: the economy of the household, and the father's occupation. At the same time, it needed to be relatable to audiences. "Not blue collar, but not too white collar either," as Sherwood Schwartz put it. The house ultimately chosen for the Brady home very much symbolized the sunny optimism that the Bradys stood for, while also being a symbol of the ideal nucleus for ideal middle class living in America. I think, in order for The Brady Bunch to be successful, the perfect home - or rather, the perfect *symbol* for middle class American living - needed to be chosen, and indeed it was. Because, in terms of production, writing, and consistency, The Brady Bunch was *not* a very good show in and of itself. In order for the Bradys to endure, we needed everything to be in place - iconic, even. The Brady dwelling was the final consideration in order to get the show ready for production, and as such, one might be tempted to think that the ultimate selection of a suitable Brady dwelling came with very little deliberation. The fact that 11222 Dilling St. became the ultimate selection seems miraculous to me, as it sat among THOUSANDS of plausible valley homes that could have been selected. Yet they found THE one. I know I'm WAY over-thinking it, but the psychology of both the Bradys and the Brady home itself is fascinating. What other home in all of America has been the object of so many *thousands* of pilgrimages every single year since the internet was born? It's not just the show that keeps us coming back. It's also the very quietest Brady among them all: *the house.*

I have to say you make us feel like we are with you touring the home

The Brady home has always been a special one to me. My dad was an engineer by trade and had an interest in mid-century modern architecture. As a kid, I'd admire the pictures in the books and magazines he kept around. Many of these homes, the way they were designed and put together, were absolutely beautiful to me. They formed my standard of what a beautiful home is, and the Brady home was the only one on TV that was even in the ball park. At least on the inside. All these years later, living in my own MCM home, with the period retro-funky vibe still intact, I can't imagine wanting anything else. It's not just the nostalgia. It's an aesthetic that genuinely feeds my soul. It sparks me creatively, and brings a glow to my world. I really enjoyed your piece on the Parent Trap home. Some great stuff going on there!

Poor Alice, having to live off the laundry room. Love your house tours. Would love to see the house from "Designing Women," another home whose exterior doesn't match the interior, and the season 1 apartment from the "The Odd Couple" with the beautiful wrought-iron hallway doors.

I don't know how I missed this one, I finally just watched it! Love what you do, it's always so interesting, and your insights into our feelings of these shows and the houses really hit "home" 😁

The episodes that I enjoy watching the most were the Christmas ones just because I used to play Santa Claus for my Family and Friends and it's my favorite holiday. So, the movie that came out after the show was over I really enjoy too because it's a reunion of the cast together and it was just a wonderful made for TV movie 🙂💖

I still say the way they redid the house in the 80s christmas movie looked classy.

How could I have known that by the end of this video I would be in tears? Bravo. Thank you.

I was like, "I've seen this one," until I realized it was an updated video. You did a great job as usual.

Perfection. In this case perfect after tragedy. 2 families with multiple children lost a parent at the worst possible time. Not only did they fix this, or attempt to, by finding each other, they had to live in a picture perfect surrounding where dark realities could exist, but only in the far corners.

I am soooo jealous you got to go see the Brady house!!! This looks stunning. Thanks for sharing :)

I enjoyed watching HGTV renovating the Brady Bunch house and enjoy your tours of TV show homes. This is amazing. Thanks once again for the memories.

You nailed it yet again Marina and when you talked about what this house or home does to us that you just cant describe but feel then again 100% fact! You're a star!

When watching the Brady Bunch now, I'm always drawn to the mid-century modern decor pieces. Love them!!

I watched the show at times but was really never tuned into the kids much. Even though I’m in the age bracket of Greg and Marcia, I didn’t find much in common with them. I was living my own life and then was sent to a far away place in the military. However, my favorite place in the house was the kitchen. I admired the island. I liked how it was the focal point for Alice and Carol as they discussed issues pertaining to the show. To me, it seems the main feature of their home. The center of gravity. In particular I was very interested in Alice. I often wondered about her relationship with the family. I’m glad to see her room and path to the kitchen. Her center of operation. And then her boyfriend Sam. I liked him too. He was in many TV shows as I was. growing up. Mostly westerns. I was so happy to see him as the owner of his own business and the main man in the life of Alice. Even if it was only a dream.

Wow! Marina, your computer art, almost looks real! Thank you so much for making this video! And such a coincidence for me, as I'm currently working my way through all the Brady episodes! It was great to learn details about the artwork and nick-nacks. (I will be studying them now, when watching episodes.) That must have been a thrill to travel with Mike Lookinland! And also to visit the Brady house! Too bad the council couldn't make an exception ...I mean, it is the Brady house!! ☺

What a wonderful surprise!

Great video. Thanks for it.

Awesome ❤😊❤

I love this so much!

Loved this Marina!

This is fantastic! I love this so much! ❤❤❤

Omg I’ve been waiting for this tour!! 2.0!! 🎉💕💫

Thanks for all your work! I REALLY appreciate and enjoy it!

Once again, amazing job! This house brings not only nostalgia but comfort...maybe there us a sense of saftey and warmth

Great job Marina.

Love the updates. Definitely one of, if not the most, iconic TV homes.

The home tours are so fun!!

This was wonderful Marina! Thank you so much! This is an awesome channel and I am enjoying it!

Thank you for another Masterpiece Ms. Marina! This is a wonderful and detailed video, Thanks so much again!

Phenomenal work, Marina!! I can’t wait to explore the links to the furniture and artwork!

Great video, Marina. Your videos are theeeee' BEST!!!

Love living room and stairs

So amazing once again!Of all the tv homes this one and the Bewitched house are my absolute favorites.

Awesome tour finally got to see it all enjoyed this much Congrats on seeing the Brady home and meeting Bobby from the Brady Bunch show .

You’re extremely talented! Love the recreation. Thanks for sharing.☺️

Thanks Marina. Glad you got to see the home.

I love your tours. Thanks so much for all you do! Very fun to seet them all! Brady Bunch was one of my favorite shows (just as it was for many others) and it was cool to see the renovation they did on HGTV too. I am glad you got to be in the house (and ride) with Mike Lookinland. How cool was that!

That is cool! Awesome you got to meet the actor!

Fantastic tour Marina. We live a few miles from the house used in the Brady Bunch and were thrilled when it was restored to its 1969 exterior appearance.

That home would make for a great airbnb

I loved this Marina! I wish you could draw my grandparents home up in the Orinda Hills in the Bay Area of California. I remember playing shuffle board and swimming in their pool back in the mid 1960s. It was perched up on a hill, and we could overlook the mountains as we were playing. They had side by side his and hers kitchens, complete with an indoor barbecue, and a special parking area for when they had dinner and cocktail parties. I still have a few of her furniture pieces including a china hutch and rolling tea cart. I have very sweet memories! ♥️

Loved this so much. If I were rich, I would definitely build my own Brady house replica. I would even keep the original color scheme inside as well. :) I am looking forward to seeing the upstairs as well. Not only is this house so special to so many people, I think the people in the show/cast/family is what made it all the more special to so many of us. Its like the Brady's are a huge part of our own lives, we adopted them to being 'our' family.

Great tour watched brady bunch every friday nightv8 pm

Thanks for yet another tour. This was so much more detailed than the first one (4 years ago? How time flies!) I especially loved your monologue beginning around the 20:00 minute mark about how watching shows like the Brady Bunch and seeing the home strikes such a chord in us, a longing for the past, and maybe if our own family was less than perfect (or dysfunctional) we could see a loving family for a short time each week. I feel that way still when I see shows like this, as well as the Waltons and Little House. Though they are TV shows so they can come across as rather idyllic with loving parents who really care about you and our parents were less than perfect, I couldn't then or now, help but wish my family had been more like these families. Especially the loving mother on these shows who always cared and listened when her children needed her. I often wished to trade in my verbally abusive mother for Olivia Walton, Carol Brady or Caroline Ingalls. So I love and watch these shows even now to remember shows I loved as a child and teenager. I own some of them on DVD now and hope to add to my collection. Again, thanks for all your hard work in making these tours for us. We love them!

I'm glad you added the door to the laundry room from the hallway behind the stairs I always thought there was one there or should be one there. P.S. I hope the Golden Girls house is on your list. 🤞

I think the art work on the walls and shelves is gorgeous! The house is pretty good too. Mike must have been a good architect! :D Thanks much!!

Marina I am in Australia and loving this update from your terrific original which I watched over and over. Congrats on this great work. When you explained the meaning this house has and the why, it almost brought a tear to my eye. I have had a rough few years losing both of my parents and a few other big things too, so when you described the 'longing' it very much resonated. I wish so badly that the renovated house was open to the public. I would definitely fly to North Hollywood to see it. I wish the same for the Bewitched house (which you also did great work on). Hopefully someone will replicate that.

As always, thank you so much Marina for this great tour! I loved the first one of the Brady home, but this one was fantastic as well! I actually saw a painting hanging in the home that looked exactly like a print I have (an Impressionist print of a Parisian type street) and I wonder if I noticed it back in the 70’s, and that’s why I had to have one too! The fact that you ran into Mike Lookinland at the airport and then got to ride with him to the premiere is so awesome and totally deserved! You definitely earned that! And being able to walk around in the home is a dream come true. For me, my love of the Brady home is based on wonderful memories. I was lucky enough to have a very happy childhood, and the house I grew up in had some features that remind me of the Brady house - especially the avocado green accents! We had a large den with a 2-step down entrance. There were avocado green and burnt orange furniture pieces. So touring the Brady home brought a huge smile to my face. You are your channel are both a treasure ❤.

Best one yet! Loved all the little details especially. I'm the same age as Greg and Marcia so it made me very nostalgic! 😅

Your description of why we are drawn to this home is insanely accurate. I have wanted to live in this house ever since I was a little kid.

I love your tours. I just binge watched the Dick Van Dyke show. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful talents and creativity. It brings our favorites to life in another dimension. 🎉 You're absolutely kind and wonderful. Thank you again. 😊

I think part of the charm of a mid century modern home that was shown only for a few seasons, is the familiarity of it. Remember the old saying “you can never go home again”? That’s all so true in this case. The Brady’s home is always there for us. We know where everything is, we don’t have to ask, “where is the bathroom?”. And the old saying I quoted is sadly true for most of us. Once your folks are gone and the house is sold, you really can’t go home again. Those “people who live in your folks house” now just don’t get it. “And why would they put a sofa against that wall”, “don’t they know it goes over there?” You can visit the Brady’s anytime and it’s a member of the family. It will never change, and it makes us smile.

This was great seeing this iconic home again, as I did enjoy going through it the first time. 😄 I too have always loved movie/tv homes, they're just so memorable and iconic, and always tend to remain in your mind for years cuz of how much of a positive effect they had on us. Growing up, the two earliest homes I loved as a kid was the McCallister's house off of Home Alone, and the other one was the Parrish Mansion from the original Jumanji, which I was surprised to find out that the latter house wasn't even real, inside or out. I still have fond memories of both, even to this day wished I could've lived in either one of them while growing up, and seeing you cover the first one brought back wonderful childhood memories of Christmas. I hope maybe one day you may cover the other one.

L❤VE your vids!

I absolutely love your videos. I’m a huge classic tv buff. You bringing all those sets to life is amazing! P.S…”Rear Window” is also one my favorite movies as well!!

That's so wild how the home would really look like.

Porkchops & applesauce--and peas. LOL! I absolutely LOVE seeing you in that home!!! Hey I heard that the home created for Bewitched (on Paramount lot??) and several other movie homes on the lot are going to be demolished.

You should do a tour of the Father Knows Best home, it has always been one of my favorite homes! It is traditional, yet so beautifully decorated!

This video was awesome! I recognized the volcano from "Today I Am a Freshman", the football from " The Subject was Noses," Kitty Carryall in Tiger's Doghouse from "Kitty Carryall is Missing, the family portrait in the garage that Jan runs into with her bicycle. Wonderful video!

I always wanted to live in this house when I was a kid 😊

Hey Marina! I love this new updated video and appreciate always trying to make it accurate as possible. I’ve been fascinated by the Brady Bunch house since I was about 5. It seemed so captivating due to its modern openness yet comfort at the same time. Have you thought about doing a video of the Golden Girls house? I would love to see that!

In the 6th season episode 24 of Mannix (The Danford File) you can see a redressed Brady Bunch house set, with the fireplace and den hidden, but the staircase, front doors and backyard plainly evident. Even the tv room is used. Robert Reed also appears as Lt. Tobias, a cop friend of Mannix. I know the set has appeared often in many different shows, this is just the most recent example I have seen.

19:09 It's not just the house/home... It's the people that live in it and the memories made.

I took am fascinated with the hallway " under the stairs!" I have seen every episode no less than 12 times( probably more), and I never knew there were rooms( or even a hallway) back there. Guess I need to pay way more attention!

Marina! This is incredibly fabulous! These houses are in our psyche and we do long for those days. And the back hall is cleared up now. It bothers some of us if we can't make sense of the floor plans. 😅 I always think about it. The original arf objects of the set are amazing too. I have to look through your videos but have you done the Hazel house yet? Her room was off the kitchen too. And that house is the same house used in Gidget show. Kitchen the same but interior of the living area and hall etc different. Exterior the same house. Like the Bewitched house was used for the Jerry Lewis house in the movie, hook line and sinker. An obscure late 60s movie with the actress who also played Honey West. And the Bewitched house was also used as a house in a Gidget episode. Anyways, those of us obsessed with old tv show houses can go on. This is so excellent!❤

Always look forward to your videos and now I get to see this one again, except it's the new "enhanced" version.

Love watching your videos, Ms. Coates. Your research is amazing. Don't know if you take requests, but it would be great to see you present the home/office of Joe Mannix on the 1960's TV show "MANNIX." Thank you and keep 'em comin'.

This is so cool!! I love The Brady Bunch! One of my fav shows! I always wish I was born there era lol I came a few years too late. I own the complete series on dvd def one of my fav comfort shows! I felt like I was Jan bc I’m always ignored and I’m the middle child as well 😅 just love you’re channel 💜 oh I found the volcano 🌋 football 🏈 tigers doghouse the teeter totter, so many things man just love this show

This is amazing!! I hope one day you would consider doing the home in The Ghost and Mrs Muir, the original movie!! Thank you for sharing your amazing talent with us!

This is amazing... Golden Girls house must be done!

Would love to see the house from Dallas (the version with the magical hallway, upstairs) 😊

These videos are great! My request is a tour of the wonderful apartment in Seattle, from the T.V. show Frasier.

I've been subscribed to your channel for some time now. I appreciate and ADORE your passion, attention to detail, and creativity. I use the SIMS and have recreated every home I've lived in. my childhood homes are my favorites. I can appreciate all the hours of work and research you go through. 3 of my favorite sitcoms (in order) that I would LOVE to see your take on would be, The Golden Girls (famously physically impossible, but I'd love to see your creative take on it). Rosanne, and Home Improvement. I grew up with Nick At Night and TV Land to see all the fantastic classics you've covered so far and have been super impressive. Keep up the amazing work!!!

I think it would be a great house to live in, maybe converting the den to an extra bedroom. Turn the family room into a game room. The exterior may need some spice added, to make it more elegant.

Marina,as you recall during the 5th season the stage production swapped out the wall unit oven.

It would be kewl to see a version of the real life renovated house. Since you toured it, you would know all the new and not seen areas

Hi Marina, thank you for your work. Would love to see your work on the Eight Is Enough House.