There are some houses that are better known than others. I bet 99% of the US population could identify the White House in a line up.
There’s the house that so dismassed Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life. The turn of the century home has aged over the years and Stewart finds the on-going maintenance a dispointment. Also from the silver screen is the gorgeous Home Alone Chicago residence of the McCallisteer family. Kevin (McCauley Culkin) is ingenious at rigging it up with all sorts of traps for the goofey thieves.
From the small screen, the Brady Bunch house- a cool 70’s split home comes to mind. How many times do those floating stairs carry the six kids up and down? The California suburban build’s features are a constant reminder that father Mike Brady is a hip architect. From sitcom comedy there’s Archy Bunkers house on All in the Family, and Roseanne Barr’s family spend a lot if time on the livingroom couch in Roseanne.
One of my favorites from earlier childhood was the log cabin in the big woods- home to Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and Carrie Ingalls. Built by hand; heated with a wood stove. Family time was all the time in the one room structure with a loft. The scenes often would spill out into the barn just to keep some conversations private.
What about you? Which homes hover in your memory?
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