The well-known Studio Metropolis, California residence dubbed, “The Brady Bunch home,” hit the market in Might with an preliminary price ticket of $5.5 million and simply bought — for beneath $3.2 million.
The property’s new proprietor, Tina Trahan, is a devoted fan of the enduring house and has no plans to reside there, The Wall Road Journal reported.
Trahan, alongside along with her husband, former tv govt Chris Albrecht, have a penchant for accumulating iconic actual property. Their previous endeavors have included buying sections of Stone Manor, a colossal 125-year-old lakefront property in Wisconsin.
When the beloved Seventies sitcom home first grew to become out there on the market, Trahan expressed her deep fascination with the single-story, mid-century ranch-style residence to her actual property agent.
“I believed that was hilarious. It is nearly like a life-size dollhouse,” Trahan advised the WSJ, including that, even on the marked-down itemizing worth, it is nonetheless “the worst funding ever.”
The home is adorned with basic mid-century furnishings, together with avocado inexperienced Knoll-style Tulip chairs, an identical kitchen pedestal desk with a fridge, low-slung credenzas, and a Mondrianesque paneled display screen above the staircase.
Moreover, the itemizing by Compass notes that a few of the fireplaces, home equipment, and fixtures all through the house are for ornamental functions solely — which makes it excellent for the house’s latest purchaser.
Trahan advised the WSJ that she intends to make the most of the home for charitable and fundraising occasions, emphasizing that it will not be inhabited for day-to-day dwelling.
“Nobody goes in there to make pork chops and applesauce in that kitchen,” she mentioned. “Something you may do to make the home livable would take away from what I think about paintings.”
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Courtesy of Danny Brown | Compass | TheMLS.com
Courtesy of Danny Brown | Compass | TheMLS.com
The home was primarily featured in exterior pictures on the tv present, The Brady Bunch, whereas the precise filming befell on a soundstage. Nonetheless, when HGTV acquired the property in 2018, surpassing a bid from *NSYNC singer Lance Bass at $3.5 million, the community painstakingly reconstructed it to copy the on-screen house of the Brady household.
All through A Very Brady Renovation in 2019 (a restricted collection devoted to the renovation of the house, which included cameos from the unique forged), designers expanded the home’s measurement, enlarging it from 2,500 sq. ft to five,500 sq. ft, which included the addition of a second story.
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In consequence, the present house boasts 5 bedrooms and 5 loos which have been meticulously restored. By the tip of the collection in 2019, HGTV invested a further $1.9 million within the endeavor, in response to NPR.