Anonymous wrote:Phil and Claire's house on Modern Family.

I agree!

Dynasty- so fancy! Wouldn't want it now that I'm an adult but when I was little I imagined it would be wonderful to live in.

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Anonymous wrote:The house from Full House sticks with me. I remember being jealous that they had two staircases, but now I guess it's because it helped them block scenes better.

Op here. I loved the two staircases too and spent so much time as a kid thinking really fancy houses have a kitchen stairway and a front stairway only to realize IRL you rarely see that because nobody is living in a sitcom and needs easy entrance/exit points for scenes. But so many of those 90s show houses had them!!

I think it depends where you live. A lot of houses in Virginia Beach have them- the regular suburban neighborhoods in Virginia Beach, not the beach resort area.

They aren't uncommon in some areas. I grew up in New England with a lot of Queen Anne houses and Dutch colonials that frequently have two staircases. I see them around DC area too. I even know of a few city row houses with two staircases.

We live in what many here would call a suburban McMansion neighborhood (except that we have larger size appropriate lots, and better workmanship). Our neighborhood had 13 models that buyers chose from. 2 of the models had front and back staircases. I only remember one of them (one had a model home when the neighborhood first opened up) but I've seen at least a handful of that model scattered around the neighborhood.

Nancy and Elliot's house on thirtysomething.

Hope and michael's was too dark.

Anonymous wrote:Another not a tv show- have always wanted the Home Alone house.

I grew up about 2 blocks from there! It IS a gorgeous house. Was for sale pretty recently actually.

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Anonymous wrote:The house from Full House sticks with me. I remember being jealous that they had two staircases, but now I guess it's because it helped them block scenes better.

Op here. I loved the two staircases too and spent so much time as a kid thinking really fancy houses have a kitchen stairway and a front stairway only to realize IRL you rarely see that because nobody is living in a sitcom and needs easy entrance/exit points for scenes. But so many of those 90s show houses had them!!

I think it depends where you live. A lot of houses in Virginia Beach have them- the regular suburban neighborhoods in Virginia Beach, not the beach resort area.

They aren't uncommon in some areas. I grew up in New England with a lot of Queen Anne houses and Dutch colonials that frequently have two staircases. I see them around DC area too. I even know of a few city row houses with two staircases.

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Anonymous wrote:Loralai's house in Gilmore Girls.

Absolutely and Juliet's house in Grimm. Though, I always did wonder, why weren't there more bedrooms upstairs in Lorelai's house?

What I always wonder: when TV characters have these huge houses, why is a visiting guest or a disagreeable spouse always sleeping on the couch and not in a guest bedroom?

Because they're disagreeable.

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Anonymous wrote:Loralai's house in Gilmore Girls.

Absolutely and Juliet's house in Grimm. Though, I always did wonder, why weren't there more bedrooms upstairs in Lorelai's house?

What I always wonder: when TV characters have these huge houses, why is a visiting guest or a disagreeable spouse always sleeping on the couch and not in a guest bedroom?

Anonymous wrote:Loralai's house in Gilmore Girls.

Absolutely and Juliet's house in Grimm. Though, I always did wonder, why weren't there more bedrooms upstairs in Lorelai's house?

Bilbo Baggins' house!

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Anonymous wrote:The house from Full House sticks with me. I remember being jealous that they had two staircases, but now I guess it's because it helped them block scenes better.

Op here. I loved the two staircases too and spent so much time as a kid thinking really fancy houses have a kitchen stairway and a front stairway only to realize IRL you rarely see that because nobody is living in a sitcom and needs easy entrance/exit points for scenes. But so many of those 90s show houses had them!!

I think it depends where you live. A lot of houses in Virginia Beach have them- the regular suburban neighborhoods in Virginia Beach, not the beach resort area.

My house in Richmond had a servant's stair, as did my childhood home in Ohio. It goes with the age and size of the house--these were pre-1920s.

Phil and Claire's house on Modern Family.

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Anonymous wrote:The house from Full House sticks with me. I remember being jealous that they had two staircases, but now I guess it's because it helped them block scenes better.

Op here. I loved the two staircases too and spent so much time as a kid thinking really fancy houses have a kitchen stairway and a front stairway only to realize IRL you rarely see that because nobody is living in a sitcom and needs easy entrance/exit points for scenes. But so many of those 90s show houses had them!!

I think it depends where you live. A lot of houses in Virginia Beach have them- the regular suburban neighborhoods in Virginia Beach, not the beach resort area.

Anonymous wrote:The house from Full House sticks with me. I remember being jealous that they had two staircases, but now I guess it's because it helped them block scenes better.

Op here. I loved the two staircases too and spent so much time as a kid thinking really fancy houses have a kitchen stairway and a front stairway only to realize IRL you rarely see that because nobody is living in a sitcom and needs easy entrance/exit points for scenes. But so many of those 90s show houses had them!!

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Anonymous wrote:I figured DCUM would have a fit IRL with the layout of Roseanne's house. The parents' bedroom was on the first floor while the kids were on the top. And didn't Becky and Darlene sleep in the attic? Also no formal dining room. And considering Dan worked in construction I'm surprised the basement wasn't finished.

It's like that saying "the cobbler's wife has no shoes"; the contractor's wife has no finished basement and a house full of half finished fucking problems going back for YEARS.

- Totally not bitter contractor's wife.