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Among the major renovations were the addition of the iconic floating staircase and the orange-and-avocado kitchen. In 2018, HGTV purchased the property for $3.5 million (reportedly 'double the listing price') before filming its renovation in A Very Brady Renovation, which aired in 2019. During the series, they invested $1.9 million into the mid-century estate – creating a replica of the set design from the original series.
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— 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. Mike and Carol Brady's bedroom on "The Brady Bunch" was one of a few different bedrooms the designers were responsible for recreating.
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HGTV will sell the house with many of its contents, including the green floral living room couch and 3D-printed replica of the series' horse sculpture. After a full update and remodel completed by HGTV, including a major second-floor addition, the original Brady Bunch house can now be yours for a cool $5.5 million. The home was listed by the network on May 24, and it's been restored to the full glory of its television days—with a few new features and a lot more square footage. The show takes Londelius’ original structure, completely reconfigures almost all of the existing spaces, then adds 2,000 square feet of additions in the back, including a second story. The additions had to be built in a way that didn’t alter the home’s cinematic street profile. (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.
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The “Brady Bunch” house, renovated by HGTV, has sold for more than $2 million below its original asking price. The network spent another $1.9 million to transform the house to resemble the home where America came to know Mike, Carol, Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy Brady. HGTV added a second story to accommodate enough space for the rooms seen in the show. According to The Wall Street Journal, HGTV sold the property for $3.2 million, less than the $3.5 million they originally bought it for.
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'Brady Bunch' house in Studio City sells for $3.2 million.
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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. The Times didn’t write much about Londelius during his lifetime (barring a few notices of his involvement in professional organizations and an announcement that he was designing a beauty salon in Sherman Oaks). Nor did the paper run an obituary when he died; that fell to the Chicago Tribune, which published a very short brief. A Very Brady Renovation saw Property Brothers Drew and Jonathan Scott meet up with the former child stars to help with the renovation of the home. Barry Williams (Greg), Maureen McCormick (Marcia), Christopher Knight (Peter), Eve Plumb (Jan), Mike Lookinland (Bobby) and Susan Olsen (Cindy) reunited for the HGTV special. The Brady Bunch only lasted five seasons, but its cultural footprint has endured.
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. The building would become what is known as the second-most photographed home in America, behind the White House. The popular design network renovated the property with the assistance of Property Brothers stars Drew and Jonathan Scott on their show A Very Brady Renovation. They also got assistance from several stars from the beloved television series. “Reportedly it is the 2nd most photographed home in the USA after the White House.
"Standout features in the completed home include the iconic floating staircase, the burnt-orange-and-avocado-green kitchen, the kids' Jack-n-Jill bathroom and a backyard with a swing set, teeter totter and Tiger's dog house," the network said in a statement. HGTV will use a portion of the proceeds from the sale for 250,000 meals for Turn Up! Fight Hunger, an initiative that helps kids living with hunger in the U.S. through No Kid Hungry. Items from the restored home, including customized pieces like the green floral living room couch and the credenza with a 3D printed horse sculpture, will be available for purchase.
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HGTV took more than a $2 million hit when they sold off the iconic Brady Bunch house, which they purchased in 2018. The "Brady Bunch" house, one of the most recognizable homes in TV history, is officially off the market. 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.
The single-family house, located in Los Angeles' Studio City neighborhood, dates back to 1959 and was rebuilt by the HGTV network. Brown said it was "impossible" to compare it to other homes in the area. He said the team eventually came up with the home value by basing their estimate on the values of the land the property stood on and the structure of the house itself. Tina Trahan, who primarily resides in Bel Air, recently purchased the home and has admitted the property was 'the worst investment ever' – and plans to use the estate for fundraising and charitable events. She says she felt HGTV paid too much for the house, as it had no working appliances in order to look identical to the Brady home.
But the house he built at Dilling St. (what’s left of it), to some degree, tells the story of architecture at midcentury. There are, presumably, a lot of people on the screen, because it required 9,000 hours of work to transform the two-bedroom, split-level house in Studio City into the four-bedroom, two-story house with a den familiar to viewers of the show. When HGTV bought the home, its interior bore no resemblance to the place where audiences watched the Brady children grow up. Scenes shot inside the Brady residence were filmed on sets built on Soundstage 5 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood.
The network purchased the midcentury Studio City home in 2018 for $3.5 million, nearly twice the asking price, before filming a gut renovation that matched the famous exterior to replicas of the sitcom's set. 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. 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. 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.
"This is a one of kind property which was impossible to comp," Compass' Danny Brown, the listing agent on the property, told TVLine. Located at Dilling Street in North Hollywood, the house was used on the classic show mainly for exterior shots. In 2018, HGTV bought the 2,500-square foot ranch house for $3.5 million—double the original listing price. Another $2 million was spent on the remodeling project, which was documented in the four-part series A Very Brady Renovation. Now a 5,500-square-foot McMansion with five bedrooms and bathrooms, the original front facade was maintained to appease nostalgic fans. Redfin shows similar-sized homes in the same zip code ranging from $2.2 million to $7.8 million, so if a completely updated, state-of-the-art look combined with '70s design are what you’re into, the price isn’t too bad.
HGTV originally bought the house for $3.5 million and spent almost $2 million during the renovations, meaning the network has taken a big loss with the sale. Discovery-owned network rejuvenated the facade and gutted its interiors — adding a second story to meticulously re-create the show’s living room, kitchen, bedrooms and yard that all previously only existed on Stage 5 of Paramount Studios. The process was chronicled in 2019 event series A Very Brady Renovation, recruiting surviving cast members and HGTV talent to bring the fictional home to life. It proved to be ratings pay dirt and attracted 28 million viewers across a four-week run.
The house in Studio City, California, has been totally renovated by HGTV to match the 1970s TV show. According to The Wall Street Journal, HGTV sold the Los Angeles home that served as the exterior backdrop for the 1970s show. Before HGTV bought the home in 2018, NSYNC singer Lance Bass reportedly bid on the famous house and thought he had initially won the bid. Marcy Roth from Douglas Elliman, who represented Tina Trahan, told the WSJ that she thought her client was joking when she announced she was buying the property. 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.
"As for Lance Bass, my brother from another mother, perhaps third time's a charm?" Brown said of the singer and podcast host's dream to own the classic home. 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. It’s impossible to know what Londelius would make of the home’s current fate — as the centerpiece of HGTV’s latest reality show, “A Very Brady Renovation,” which debuted earlier this month, the highest-rated premiere in the network’s history. The network spent an additional $1.9 million to re-create the TV home where America came to know Mike, Carol, Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy Brady.
Megan also focused on travel writing during her time living in Paris, where she produced content for a French travel site. She currently lives in London with her antique typewriter and an expansive collection of houseplants. Here's the story… of the house from The Brady Brunch, which was busy over the past five years being renovated to match the interior set.
