The well-known Studio Metropolis, California residence dubbed, “The Brady Bunch home,” hit the market in Could with an preliminary price ticket of $5.5 million and simply offered — for below $3.2 million.
The property’s new proprietor, Tina Trahan, is a devoted fan of the long-lasting residence 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 amassing 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 Nineteen Seventies sitcom home first turned obtainable on the market, Trahan expressed her deep fascination with the single-story, mid-century ranch-style residence to her actual property agent.
“I assumed that was hilarious. It is virtually like a life-size dollhouse,” Trahan informed the WSJ, including that, even on the marked-down itemizing worth, it is nonetheless “the worst funding ever.”
The home is adorned with traditional 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 among 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 informed 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 would possibly do to make the home livable would take away from what I think about paintings.”
Courtesy of Danny Brown | Compass | TheMLS.com
Courtesy of Danny Brown | Compass | TheMLS.com
Courtesy of Danny Brown | Compass | TheMLS.com
The home was primarily featured in exterior photographs on the tv present, The Brady Bunch, whereas the precise filming happened 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 residence of the Brady household.
All through A Very Brady Renovation in 2019 (a restricted sequence devoted to the renovation of the house, which included cameos from the unique forged), designers expanded the home’s dimension, enlarging it from 2,500 sq. toes to five,500 sq. toes, which included the addition of a second story.
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In consequence, the present residence boasts 5 bedrooms and 5 loos which have been meticulously restored. By the tip of the sequence in 2019, HGTV invested an extra $1.9 million within the endeavor, in accordance with NPR.
