TV show houses I would live in:

1. The castle in Please Don't Eat the Daisies.

2. The Munster's house. Overlook the dust until I have a chance to clean.

3. Fred Flinstone's house. No deal without the car.

4. The Jetsons house..and housekeeper.

5. Inside I Dream of Jeannie's Bottle. That was some 60's pad. :)

Setting aside all of the tiny apartments we see when a show is set in NY or another major city, the worst has to be the house from Rosanne Barr's show. It actually felt dirty to me.

And I don't like the front door on Carlos and Gabby's house on Desperate Housewives. Who would have a door full of windows right there on a development street?

I can't say any TV houses have made a memorable positive impression on me. Funny that I can remember two things that I dislike though.

I always love Darrin and Samantha's(Bewitched)house. ;o)

Leave it to Beaver's house was so classic. Fraser's with that spectacular view. The All in the Family house always seemed shabby to me.

My fave: Susie's house in Curb your Enthusiasm. Worst: Ralph and Alice Cramptons pad.

My all time favorite changes with each new TV season but new favorite is the Grayson house on Revenge. It is so over the top, I am almost embarrassed by my pick, but it is the first time I think I ever hit "pause" so I could stare at the decor.....its the kitchen that made me fall in love.

Two and a Half Men. I'd change some things about the kitchen..color of cabinets. But everything in there is great. I must look at it too much, know when they change couches, pillows and bedding. Charlies room had my son's denim bedding and the livingroom my pillows from stores long gone and forget the names. It is interesting that a lot of decorative items and kitchen are from Target...definitely recognize all.

Yes on Breaking Bad being bad. I lived in NM and never figured out how decorating could be awful in some of the nicest homes. There were walking tours to visit artist workshops and the homes were so filled with stuff you couldn't walk through easily. I'd call this priority, not all see decorating as important. Most of the homes themselves were wonderful adobe designs. BB, that one is very dark and old mixed up furniture. But they were struggling with little income to do much.

Some of my favs:
The Brady Bunch--when I was a kid
Eight is Enough
Dallas
I'm giving away my age.

I'm another one who loved Monk's house, or was it an apartment? Unfortunately, it would never be that neat and clean if I lived there.

When I was a kid, I wanted that perfect "Beaver Cleaver" life, and loved the house. But now, it's just too formal for me.

I always loved the house in The Ghost and Mrs Muir. And my least fav is The Brady Bunch. Even as a kid I never could get past their kitchen.

This is fun--- I am not too up to date with current programs, but I did love the Bewitched house, along with Donna Reed's, Father knows best,and definitely leave it to beaver.
They were all soooo homey. Ieven liked Andy Griffith's house (with Aunt Bea's touches:)
I never did like the Brady Bunch house. Even back then when it was the norm, I never loved the orange and earthtones.

I don't have a tv but can I pick a movie house? Something's Gotta Give is my favorite, it was constructed in a Brooklyn sound stage building!

Also the house in It's Complicated, if you google the link below it will take you to the Something's Gotta Give set, and once at that site Hooked on Houses you can navigate to the other one. Or most any movie house :)

Both the movies with houses I like (above) were directed by Nancy Meyers....she's been responsible for a LOT of kitchen porn over the last few years!

Here is a link that might be useful: Something's Gotta Give house set

II kind of liked the wonder years house...that cute little yellow tv in the eat in kitchen showing the news when they ate dinner.

And loved the apartment on Family Affair....remember how the elevator came right into the apartment so Mr French could greet the guests?

I loved all the houses on Thirtysomething.

And while I just wanted to give Roseanne's a makeover, I hate to say it, but they nailed it as to being exactly what their home would be like.

Just finished watching Mad Men on netflix and I LOVE the Draper house. I'm even crazy about that plaid wallpaper in the kitchen (DH thinks I'm nuts). Actually love just about all the interiors on this show which is funny as I always prefer antiques and traditional decor.

Mary Tyler Moore's apartment and Lucy's apartment, and remember the Petrie's house? (Dick Van Dyke and MTM)

don't like- Golden Girls

I know that on Breaking Bad they were supposed to not have much income, but the actual layout of the house seems so weird--it's like an apartment that grew a fifty-foot hallway as an afterthought. If Skyler was my friend, I'd be reminding her that paint is cheap.

Yes to the Eight is Enough house, the Family Affair apartment (I can picture the doorknobs RIGHT NOW) and how could I have forgotten the house in Six Feet Under? Yeah, I would not want the funeral home part, but the upstairs? LOVE.

I'm with kswl on this one!! I know a movie set, but oh boy, the home from Something's Gotta Give leaves me breathless every time. It is so my dream home!!

I loved the Seattle condo that Frasier lived in.

In a previous house, I had the exact same living room draperies as the Drapers had in "Mad Men" - beige with red trim with wavy bottom cornices.

Loved the interior and exterior in Must Love Dogs. Beautiful, homey craftsman.

And if I were wealthy I would love to own Meg Ryan's brownstone in You've Got Mail as my second home. haha

Nightmare house - Green Acres? :)

Let's see:

(for creepy ones)

a)The Munsters (because we really DO live on Lot 13 on Block 13 on Cemetery Hill)

b)The Addams Family (both the TV ones and the movie one)

c)The house from Tales from the Crypt

d)the house from Dark Shadows

Nice Ones:

a)Gull Cottage from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (both the TV show AND of course the movie one too!)

b)Bewitched House -- have you seen the very first episode when Samantha and Endora arrive at the "new house" and use magic to try out some decorating? (both the Tv ones AND the movie one)

c)Green Acres house -- for fun!

Any of the Real Housewives of NJ houses -- as my worst! Every one is a monument to ostentation. I wonder how that one couple can afford it on what he makes in his pizza parlor?

On the other hand, I'd take Ramona Singer's house in the Hamptons any day.

The first house that came to my mind was the hunter green walls and oak woodwork from The Murphy Brown Show. I think it was the first time I ever saw color on the walls on a tv show. Still remember the gleaming woodwork.

The cool (and real- on location) Queen Anne mansion on the first two seasons of Falcon Crest is about my all-time fave. It was (and is) a real house until they had a set built I think for season 3. And Jane Wyman's Mercedes 600 Grosser limo was awesome, too.
Gull Cottage, yes I remember that place, seemed very real when I was 6 or 7.
Musters was always too campy and over the top, but the Addams Family house seemed quite homey and familiar.
Casey

Charmed! Love that house.

I love all of the houses on Parenthood. They are different styles but all of them are done well.

I love the houses/kitchens on Royal Pains and Modern family. I also like the kitchens/houses on Brothers and Sisters.

Roseanne's kitchen, All in the Family's kitchen, Everybody Loves Raymond's kitchen and Good Time's kitchens were pretty bad.

I'd take Rachel Ray's or Martha's kitchens any day....

I'm really liking the house on Hot in Cleveland.

There are rich tones on the walls, stained glass, feminine wicker furniture on the porch. And the show makes me laugh every time!

The worst? Probably Sanford and Son. Though there might be a treasure amid all the junk.

Here is a link that might be useful: HIC House

Ooooh - I forgot Hot in Cleveland! I love that kitchen. It is funny, but I did not notice they have the same floor we have (in different colors) until after we did our floor. One day I was watching it and my jaw just dropped....
I love how homey it is with the vintage stove and sweet touches throughout.

pps7, Parenthood is my favorite also; such different styles but none is boring;
although Amber's new appartment is scary, lol...

Mad Men appartments are fabulous, I was born in 1952 so my childhood pictures have backgrounds straight out of Mad Men, I remember a black ceramic panther on top of the stereo cabinet.

Love the house from Maryll Streeps movie "It's complicated" and the television series Brothers and Sisters, Father of the Bride of course and the movie You Again I love Jamie Lee Curtis home in that one. Oh there is so many!~

Leafy02, Breaking Bad is completely amazing, one of the top 3 shows I've seen in my lifetime. Are you referring to Skyler and Walt's house? If so, I agree, it is atrocious! For someone who dresses pretty stylishly, like Skyler, I would expect something much better. It looks like dusty 70s southwestern to me. What about Skyler's sister, Marie? Her and Hank's house has everything in purple! Purple coffee mugs, purple drapes over the kitchen sink, purple bedding!

I really do love that house that Jesse inherited from his aunt. I would love to see that house done by a professional designer.

Speaking of Dallas, I always loved the Southfork living room and dining room. I loved in the first couple of years, Miss Ellie's dining room had some type of chinoiserie style wallpaper with these vines and parrots that I was fascinated by. When they added Miss Ellie's kitchen in season 4, I loved the blue and white wallpaper that also had sort of a mid-century asian bamboo style vibe. However, the Southfork bedrooms were pretty shabby. JR and Sue Ellen had the worst bland blue bedroom. The house Pam bought after leaving Bobby was a grand mansion with a gorgeous pool area, but the inside always felt kind of cold to me. I guess because everything was white. And you can't forget Cliff's condo that he got around Season 5. I was decorated with all these crazy modern things like lamps that looked like beehives and sconces that reminded me of wasps nests. I believe he did have a Sciolari chandelier over his dining table.

I always liked the Jeffersons penthouse, especially after it was remodeled about halfway through the series.

One really depressing space was Mel Sharples' apartment from Alice. I remember there were always empty beer cans strewn about.

Jean and Lionel's country house on "As Time Goes By" is my favorite. I could live there and be totally content.

I love threads like this. Someone mentioned Mary Tyler Moore's apt. and it reminded me that I got my first apt. sometime during the "Mary" run. My mom got me a big B like Mary's M and I put it over counter in the little kitchen. Dallas brought back memories because my boyfriend (not hubby) and I used to watch that every Friday night. I always fantasized that we'd have children and when they grew up we'd live together in a big Dallas-type house. I like Hot in Cleveland's house but it confuses me because it looks way too updated for an 89-year old even if she is as cool as Elka. Worst house imo is Everybody Loves Raymond. What was up with that horrible wallpaper in the kitchen? And Marie and Frank's house with all her plastic-covered lamp shades and furniture. Favorite movie house was from Driving Miss Daisy.

The house I liked the best which I've mentioned here before, is the country house Lucy and Ricky moved to. I sweaar after they moved, my mom re-did our whole house in "Early American." lol.

The Cramden house. I hated it so much I couldnt' watch the show!

MTM's apartment
Bob Newhart's apartment
the B&B in Vermont on Newhart
The Cosby Show house
8 is Enough
True Blood (Sookie's and Bill's houses)

I'm sure there are more... :)

I like all the Modern Family Homes
I also like The Middle because it's not updated, some MCM features
If you ever saw the HBO series Six Feet Under, the kitchens were all amazing. Some set designer loved vintage stoves.
Dexter's apartment and Rita's former house on Dexter

What I don't like:
The Sopranos home, everything bad about the 90's

I wish we could go back and edit our posts. I just realized I wrote ...my boyfriend (NOT hubby)...
and what I meant to say was ...my boyfriend (NOW hubby). Sounded like I was having an affair!

Breaking Bad is completely amazing, one of the top 3 shows I've seen in my lifetime.

I got pulled into the darkness, but I'm so ready for it to be over. I'm glad next season is the last.

Loved Sally Field's kitchen (actually her whole house) in Brothers and Sisters.

My old kitchen was reminiscent of a cross between The Medium and Everybody Loves Raymond's.

Lol betsy! Our dhs are our boyfriends right?

The Hot in Cleveland house....Elka (Betty White) lives in a cottage on the same property as the house I like where Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick live.

I agree with many of the previous posters....but what's really standing out to me here is that we are certainly all people "of a certain age", lol! Please Don't Eat the Daisies....The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...Family Affair....it's like a walk through my childhood tv guide! =D Just reading this has made me smile and reminisce. (thanks, everyone!)

And I'd like to add to this list that I've always been partial to (tv) Gull Cottage, & Hope & Michael's house on ThirtySomething; (movies) the dream house that Cary Grant and Myrna Loy build in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House; and every incarnation of Auntie Mame's apartment (the Rosalind Russell version, that is). And Katherine Hepburn's house in Philadelphia Story -- if only for backyard & pool house!

Breaking Bad is so brilliant that I never paid attention to the houses featured in it, which is strange given all the attention both the creators and fans give to things like the cloud passing in the desert, the significance of the colors in the show, etc. Come to think of it, yes, the Whites' house looks awful. Jesse's house is quite nice, though I always wonder in what suburb drugfests, tazing and shady characters would regularly go unnoticed.

I don't watch much TV and never thought of any houses on any show as particularly striking. I do remember thinking that Frazier's apartment, for all the sophistication it is supposed to convey, felt amateurish in the way the knick-knacks and furniture was arranged with no cohesion.

natal, not to highjack my own thread, but I'd love to know your other top two shows, if Breaking Bad is in your top three. Now that I've watched all the existing Breaking Bad, I am desperate for a new series to love....

Probably Sopranos and maybe Six Feet Under? The Wire is up there. Sopranos makes you really care about these horrible, yet terribly interesting people. Also some good action and plotting, although it didn't know where to go towards the end and the last season sucked! Six Feet Under could be very bleak and moody at times but so quirky and artistic. I also have a soft spot for Dallas and Knots Landing. Those last two shows aren't nearly as good from an artistic standpoint, but love the nostalgia and the characters.

Speaking of Six Feet Under, yes I loved Ruth's upstairs part of the funeral home. It was so vintage-y and old, but totally Ruth! Carmela Soprano---those fake leather couches with the big puffy arms? That godawful kitchen chandelier and the balloon valances? The formica kithen counters with the wood trim. I did kind of like the rugs in her entry and living room with the water lily motif and the coral colors in her living room. That musical note thing above her living room fireplace was gross.

Does anybody remember Valene Ewing's pepto-pink living room? Loved the house and the grounds at Gary Ewing's ranch, but the inside was disappointing. You'd think with Abby living there it would have been a bit more grand. Karen McKenzie's house looked like real people may have lived there. Remember Valene's boyfriend Ben? He had that amazing beach house with the sunroom filled with exotic orchids.

The Walton's home. I love that big farmhouse with the big open kitchen/living area. I LOVE that big porch.
Yes, I'd need to add AC/Heat, modern appliances, and paint, but oh I wish we had that kind of warm, homey feel.

The English cottage in 'The Holiday' movie was charming.

Jack O'Neill's place in Stargate SG1. Pretty fireplace and windows with a view. (If you know that one, we can truly be friends!)

Tom Hank's houseboat in 'Sleepless in Seattle'.

Jockewing, did you ever see the pictures of the real "funeral home" from Six Feet under. The exterior is the same with the carriage house, but the inside is totally different. The show was just a set, but the designers who did those rooms were fantastic. Apparently a Filipino-American organization is in the home.

LOL at the balloon valances on the Sopranos. Of course, I had them, too, but now they crack me up. I'm sure those were expensive custom window treatments, too.

LOL Betsy - funny!

Seriously there should be an edit button!

jockewing, oops! sorry I attributed your fine taste in TV to natal.

The Wire is my all-time fave, and Six Feet Under is up there, too. There are scenes from that show that have stayed with me to this day, and it was very hard for me to adjust to seeing Dexter be Dexter because I loved him so much as David Fisher. In addition the wonderful non-funerary parts of the Fisher home, I remember really lusting after Ruth's sister's Topanga Canyon garden and house. So California!

I love that folks posted so many interiors I hadn't thought of when I made the thread--Bob Newhart's apartment, the Family Affair apartment, etc. Love them!

No love for the Numb3rs house?