Brady Bunch house is up for sale, listed by HGTV in Studio City LA

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• HGTV paid $3.5M to buy The Brady Bunch house in 2018
• Ian Bohen Teases ‘Yellowstone’ Will Have the “Best Series Finale in History”
• The house from 'The Brady Bunch' is for sale, listed at more than $5 million
• MORE: Inside the newly-renovated 'Brady Bunch' house, made to look exactly like the set
• Terry Carter, actor known for original ‘Battlestar Galactica’ series and ‘McCloud,’ dies at 95

— and HGTV’s bold move to dramatically renovate it into the ultimate Brady enthusiast’s abode ensured that would not be the case. In 2018, HGTV looked to meld the two realities and bought the house on Dilling St. for $3.5 million, nearly double the original asking price. The channel outbid Hollywood celebrities, including former ‘N Sync member Lance Bass. Brown added that no intellectual property rights of "The Brady Brunch" were included in the sale but that Trahan, the home's new owner, was a big "Brady Brunch" fan who also happened to be a collector of architecturally interesting homes.

HGTV paid $3.5M to buy The Brady Bunch house in 2018

The home, better known as "The Brady Bunch house," in Studio City, Calif., went on the market in May for $5.5 million and sold on Monday for just under $3.2 million to a self-described fan with no intention of living there. Sharon is a writer and contributor at Better Homes & Gardens, where she writes, edits, and updates content on the website, refreshing recipes and articles about home design, holiday planning, gardening, and other topics. Before joining Better Homes & Gardens, Sharon began her career as a blogger, then became a freelance writer, focusing on home design and organization, midlife and empty nesting, and seniors and eldercare. Her work has been published on a range of websites, including Angi, Purple Clover, HuffPost, Grown and Flown, Seniors Matter, AARP’s the Girlfriend and the Ethel, and many other outlets.

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(It wouldn’t be the Brady house if some new eave was poking out from behind the roofline.) So in order to obscure the new construction, the design team lowered the home’s foundation by a foot — a massive undertaking. The first episode of the TV limited series also focused on the heart of the home—living room, dining room, and the staircase. Maureen McCormick (Marcia Brady) offered her consultation to the Property Brothers for the staircase—approving 11 stairs instead of 12.

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The home has now been re-landscaped, in an attempt to keep trespassers and avid Brady fans at bay. So if you plan to visit the house to get a glimpse into the life of a Brady family member, you may be disappointed to see that the property looks a little different than it used to. The iconic floating staircase is begging to be the backdrop of your next family photo. The teaser images and video shared by HGTV and the show's stars didn't let viewers down.

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HGTV will be be selling the house with much of its contents, including the green floral living room couch and a 3D-printed replica of the series’ horse sculpture. So for those with $5.5 million to burn, the listing is being managed by Danny Brown at Compass. The network documented the process on “A Very Brady Renovation,” which featured the six actors who played the Brady children. The cast, alongside HGTV stars, helped gut the house while the crew painstakingly reproduced the set’s rooms and 1970s decor — right down to cabinet hardware. Originally built in 1959 with Late Modernist architecture, the house was used for exterior shots throughout the show’s five-season run from 1969 to 1974, followed by decades of syndication, cementing the mixed family of eight in pop culture.

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Aside from Trahan, other interested parties who had come to see the house included potential buyers who wanted to turn the property into a rental home. Props like the Brady family's tan rotary phone needed to be located and restored. The contrast between modern technology and communication decades ago became apparent to viewers as the renovation took us a step back in time. Practically obsolete technology made its comeback over the course of the show.

From the home's exterior to the grand entrance to the retro home decor, the limited TV series pays close attention to every single detail, with guidance from the Brady kids who know the home better than anyone else. While you wait for the next episode of A Very Brady Renovation, check out some fun facts you may not have realized about the house—and the show itself. When the famed 1970s sitcom home first appeared on the market, Trahan reportedly told her agent she was "obsessed" with the single-story, mid century ranch style house, according to the Wall Street Journal. Danny Brown, the listing agent, wrote that the 5,000 square foot Studio City home was “meticulously” rebuilt and designed to replicate the Mid-century Modern set of the show — which began airing in 1969. "As part of the massive renovation, HGTV invested $1.9 million and added 2,000 square feet to the property’s original footprint, including a full second story," a statement from HGTV said.

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Never mind that the show did take a wrecking ball to the house — the entire back of it (making for some awkward spaces as a result). It may not look like a stereotypical McMansion (for that you’d have to add infinitely more eaves) but HGTV’s “Brady Bunch” house is now certainly McMansion-scale. As a design writer and Gen-Xer who was reared in the ’70s and ’80s when “The Brady Bunch” seemed to permanently occupy at least one of the 13 channels we had on our non-cable television, this seemed like a show made just for me. I was ready for a bubble-gum design show hellbent on channeling the wood-paneled Modernism of my youth. Last, but not least, the third episode showed viewers how the Good Bones hosts, plus Olsen and Lookinland, reimagined the backyard.

Her blog is currently in progress but give her a follow on Instagram @emmaaafarrow to keep up with her latest happenings. The Brady Bunch is about a blended Los Angeles family that consists of six children. The Brady Bunch was filmed all over the city, as well as in the city’s Paramount Studios which is located on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. A city was never specifically mentioned as to where the Brady’s actually lived, but it’s pretty much a given that they reside in LA. There’s always mentions of the city’s main sports teams such as Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Dodgers.

In the second episode, “Here’s the Story,” Hidden Potential host Jasmine Roth worked closely with Barry Williams (Greg Brady) to create Mike’s Den from three existing spaces—living room, hallway, and kitchen. The actor fully immersed himself in the process, helping with demo, construction, and furnishing, including updating a donated drafting table. Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady) joined them for a bit to help build the home's two-sided fireplace. The renovations, which included adding the famous staircase up to an entirely new second storey, reportedly cost $2m – much more than the initial $350,000 estimate, according to city records obtained by People magazine. "No one is going in there to make pork chops and applesauce in that kitchen. Anything you might do to make the house livable would take away from what I consider artwork." Together with her husband, former television executive Chris Albrecht, Trahan is something of a collector of iconic real estate who has, over the years, been buying up floors of Stone Manor, a colossal lakefront property in Wisconsin that's nearly 125 years old.

Actress Maureen McCormick—who played oldest sister, Marcia Brady—shared that she would have loved to have bought the house for herself. Trahan said she thinks the network overpaid for the house in 2018 when it became embroiled in a bidding war with former NSYNC member Lance Bass. According to WSJ, homes on that block in Studio City are typically priced between $1-$3 million. Carolina A. Miranda is a former Los Angeles Times columnist who focused on art and design, with regular forays into other areas of culture, including performance, books and digital life.

Firstly, I can’t stress enough the painstaking detail that went into bringing the original Brady Bunch house back to life in just 307 days. Everything has been recreated down to the finest detail and I mean the absolute finest. Soon after HGTV bought the Brady Bunch house, HGTV took us a trip down memory lane with the limited series A Very Brady Renovation which brought together the actors from the popular TV show to renovate their fictional childhood home. However, the inside of the home looked nothing like the rooms seen on the show.

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Barry Williams, who helped do the restoration, said he hopes viewers of "A Very Brady Renovation" will get "an experience of what this house represented." “It’s the definition of surreal," he added. "They created a home that we only have in our memory now because it was just a set." Eve Plumb, who played Jan Brady on the 70s TV show, helped re-create Alice's bedroom. All six of the original kids on "The Brady Bunch" reunited for the first time in decades to help renovate their TV home together. In 2019, standing outside Dilling St where a staggering renovation of The Brady Bunch house was now complete, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti officially recognized May 23rd as ‘Brady Bunch day’.

” Spencer teamed up with Plumb to recreate Alice’s room, which is located at the back of the house. The two went thrifting in New York City for small items, made their way to Connecticut to pick up furniture, and Plumb even added a needlepoint mini pillow made by Ann B. Davis herself. The house’s new owner, Brady Bunch fan Tina Trahan, told the Wall Street Journal that the property was “the worst investment ever” but said she had plans to use it for fundraising and charitable events, and as a luxury rental. When HGTV bought the home, its interior bore no resemblance to the place where audiences watched the Brady children grow up.

Trahan, a collector of unusual homes, told WSJ that she plans to use the home primarily for fundraising and charitable events. Monday’s first episode of “A Very Brady Renovation” reunites the “Brady Bunch” kids with their TV home. In their quest to copy, the show’s hosts have become curiously oblivious to aesthetics. Which gets at the weirdness of uncritically rebuilding a fictional house from another era. In other words, Londelius’ split-level house on Dilling Street had already been shaped, to some degree, by television before “The Brady Bunch” location scout ever laid eyes on it. In the fourth and final episode, titled, “A Sunshine Day on Clinton Way,” Williams worked with Roth and Flea Market Flip's Lara Spencer to recreate his legendary room.

Every furnishing was also chosen to meticulously match what was in the original episodes. When the show's producers chose the house back in 1969, it was only for the exterior. But after the massive renovation, the interiors are an exact match to the original "Brady Bunch" set.