Mike Brady: Architect

[monkeyboy]

6 kids 2 bedrooms one bath

Makes one think about hiring him,

 

[dislal]

Idk I think back in that time that was pretty good. My mom grew up in the 40's and 50's and she had nine brothers and sisters, two parents, her grandfather and an uncle all living in a two bedroom house and oh yeah the two holer outhouse was out back.

 

[becpee]

6 kids 2 bedrooms one bath

Makes one think about hiring him,

They had a very big lounge area though...LOL

 

[kaytieeldr]

No, wait, it gets better. FOUR bedrooms and (probably) one bath. Remember, Mike & Carol had a room upstairs as well - and didn't Alice live there too? Did she maybe have her own 'suite' behind the kitchen?

 

[kirbsam]

dont forget greg made his dads office a bedroom for a while. and the attic became a bedroom too.

 

[Jeniferdwn]

Google the brady house floor plan and it shows the floor plans. 2 bathrooms, one in the master bedroom and one between the kids rooms. Alice had a room downstairs and it shows a bathroom downstairs.

 

[stevenpensacola]

Greg's attic bedroom was bigger than my whole HOUSE!

Apparently when Mike designed the house, he included heat/air conditioning for the attic...don't we all do that?

I love the Brady Bunch Movie where every building Mike designed looked just like their house...

Remember when Mike had to go to Hawaii to check on the project there...and Mr Phillips said that he could take his wife, 6 kids AND housekeeper!!! That's airfare, rental car, hotel, food, WOW...what a boss. I'm guessing Mr Phillips just passed the cost onto his customer.

 

[LIDisneyFan]

Don't forget Cousin Oliver in the headcount

 

[Carly_Roach]

Google the brady house floor plan and it shows the floor plans. 2 bathrooms, one in the master bedroom and one between the kids rooms. Alice had a room downstairs and it shows a bathroom downstairs.

That's what I'm remembering as well. And you have to remember that there were outhouses in this country well into the 40's and 50's. Having 2 bathrooms (like having 2 cars) for a family was considered a luxury. Heck, even having 1 and 1/2 bathrooms for a three bedroom home was considered modern in the 50's and 60's.

The Brady house was designed to be upper-middle income in the 70's. Most families shared a bathroom and it was considered normal.

Mike was obviously a great architect if he could afford a wife, six kids, a maid and two cars (one a convertable).

 

[tlbwriter]

That's what I'm remembering as well. And you have to remember that there were outhouses in this country well into the 40's and 50's. Having 2 bathrooms (like having 2 cars) for a family was considered a luxury. Heck, even having 1 and 1/2 bathrooms for a three bedroom home was considered modern in the 50's and 60's.

The Brady house was designed to be upper-middle income in the 70's. Most families shared a bathroom and it was considered normal.

Mike was obviously a great architect if he could afford a wife, six kids, a maid and two cars (one a convertable).

But this house wasn't built in the 40s or 50s, and it wasn't in a rural area. When I was growing up, our house was built in the mid 60s and it had 2 bathrooms. All of my friend's houses had at least 2 bathrooms (those with 2 stories, like the Brady house, had 3). And none of us were successful architects who could afford a maid and a convertible.

 

[FredinFL]

Ever notice how Alice's bf called them Mr. and Mrs. Brady and they called him by his first name. Ah, those were the days weren't they?

 

[DMass]

"Oh my nose!"

 

[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed]

"Oh my nose!"

At least you have one...

 

[lizabu]

I'm pretty sure Mr & Mrs Brady had their own bathroom and Alice had another one downstairs.

 

[ols386]

And don't forget "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha". That was my favorite line of all times.

I've seen quite a few houses, IRL, that look very similar to the Brady's house. That look/design must have been pretty popular back in the late 60s, early 70s.

 

[HM]

What they had was typical of the times. One bath off the parent's room and one for the kid's bedrooms. What was unusual was having a maid's quarters off the kitchen. If he had build a split level house, that would have been even more typical.

What bothered me the most was the street photo was the opposite of the actual floor plan. It had the upper rooms on the left as you faced it...when the rooms upstairs were all to the right of the entrance.

 

[tlbwriter]

I've seen quite a few houses, IRL, that look very similar to the Brady's house. That look/design must have been pretty popular back in the late 60s, early 70s.

Friends of ours had a house with a very similar staircase... they called it the Brady Bunch house.

 

[ols386]

What they had was typical of the times. One bath off the parent's room and one for the kid's bedrooms. What was unusual was having a maid's quarters off the kitchen. If he had build a split level house, that would have been even more typical.

What bothered me the most was the street photo was the opposite of the actual floor plan. It had the upper rooms on the left as you faced it...when the rooms upstairs were all to the right of the entrance.

That's a good catch. I had never noticed that.

 

[Arielle22]

When I was growing up in the late 60s and early 70s we had 7 children, 2 parents, a grandmother and 1 bathroom! The girls (4 at that time) shared 1 bedroom and the 3 boys shared another while my parents and grandmom had the other 2.

I tell my daughters how we lined up on the stairs in a row to use the bathroom and if you got out of line then you had to go to the end of it.

 

[mdsoccermom]

What they had was typical of the times. One bath off the parent's room and one for the kid's bedrooms. What was unusual was having a maid's quarters off the kitchen. If he had build a split level house, that would have been even more typical.

What bothered me the most was the street photo was the opposite of the actual floor plan. It had the upper rooms on the left as you faced it...when the rooms upstairs were all to the right of the entrance.

The house they used for the street photo actually one had one floor. They stuck a false window on the front to make it look as if it had 2 floors.

In the 90s, the owners put a fugly fence around the front to prevent people from walking up and peeking in the windows.