House Dick, by Gordon Davis (E. Howard Hunt) Gold Medal s1103, 1961 PBO Cover art by Robert McGinnis
In an earlier blog entry, I noted the unlikely configuration of the Petries' house. The episode "The Man from My Uncle" highlights the difficulty of trying to draw a floor plan for the house that would make sense in real life, and still fit the clues we're given about the layout of the Petrie home. I'm aware of at least two attempts by others to draw a floor plan: One is in a book of blueprints of various fictional TV houses; the other is an online picture that I found by browsing the web. Both versions arrive at solutions that ignore many clues given during the episodes of the DVD Show. One of them even contains numerous blatant discrepancies that conflict with what is plainly seen on the show. So I decided to try my own solution. The main problem is the part of the house containing the den (or guest room) and Richie's room. Here's what we know about the rooms: The den -- this room, which we never see (except for its entrance off the living room), must extend off to the right, as viewed from the living room -- because every character who enters the room turns right -- every single time. Richie's room -- From "The Man From My Uncle", we know that Richie's room: (a) has a window facing the house across the street (b) is reached by a hallway, and is entered by approaching from the left of the hall, as seen from inside the room. Item (a) is no problem; that would position the room to the left of the den, as seen from the living room; and that fits with the wall that can be seen through the open front door of the house. But item (b) is a real problem. How can you go past the den, enter from the hall on the correct side, and be at the front of the house -- unless the layout is something like this: It's a layout that makes no sense. No architect would design a hallway that wraps completely around a room, as this hall wraps around the den. Yet this layout seems to be required in order to make everything fit together as shown on the program. Then I figured out a possible solution. What if the Petrie home were situated inside a curve on Bonnie Meadow Road? There is such a location on that street. In that case there would be multiple houses, in different directions, visible from rooms in the house -- like this: Now everything falls into place. Richie's room is located like this: Richie's bedroom window still looks out across the street -- but at a 90-degree angle from the front door. The den is not surrounded by the hallway, but instead has exterior walls with windows on one or even two walls of the room. The rest of the house is fairly easy to lay out. The following drawing is certainly not to scale; distances and angles are too hard to determine on a 2-D television screen. Green areas are those we see on the show; yellow areas are never seen, and therefore are purely speculative on my part. I've left out the positioning of the basement, and the stairs to the basement. You can only go so far with a project like this... 1 - Front Door 2 - Coat closet 3 - Den (the little wall inside the door is awkwardly placed. Perhaps it's a structural element -- maybe made necessary by the boulder in the basement?) 4 - Step up/down 5 - Bay window 6 - wood stove on brick hearth 7 - Pass through window to kitchen 8 - Ottoman 9 - Piano (usually seen only at parties; once seen against this wall of the room) 10 - Kitchen 11 - Broom closet 12 - Sliding glass doors 13 - Laundry room (never seen but once mentioned; this seems like a logical location) 14 - Garage (orienting the garage in this way makes sense if the street curves around the house as I've speculated) 15 - Wood deck (I've assumed the arms of the U shape; it would explain why the Helpers don't come in straight from outside the sliding door, and also gives a location for the grill (16) that was implied in that location in one episode. 17 - Master bedroom. I've drawn it as a trapezoid instead of a rectangle, as a close observation of the room while watching the show reveals an angle > 90 degrees between the wall with the window, and the wall the beds are against. 18 - Master bath 19 - Hall to Richie's room 20 -Richie's room 21 - Bath 22 - Window used by G-Man for stakeout 23 - Driveway 24 - To Millie and Jerry's house 25 - Bonnie Meadow Road
Legendary TV host Dick Clark and his wife are selling their home in Malibu for $3.5 million. Normally, a celebrity selling a piece of real estate in
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The Flinstones Save Christmas is definitely in my top ten favorite childhood movies of all time, so you can imagine how excited I was to come across these pictures of a Flinstone’s-inspired home in Malibu. The house up for sale belongs to legendary TV host Dick Clark– the Ryan Seacrest of his day, and has an…
Image 7 of 21 from gallery of Skybox House / Dick Clark + Associates. Photograph by Dror Baldinger
Tour the Dick Van Dyke Show Home here: This is also the set recently referenced in the first episode of WandaVision. A funny thing about TV homes, they are made to look great on tv, but seldom resemble a real home. Case in point - most tv homes have walls at odd angles, rather than the 90 degree angles that we're used to. If you look at Rob and Laura's house for instance, you'll notice in the kitchen that the wall with the refrigerator, as well as the one across from it, are at an angle, rather
Completed in 2019 in Austin, United States. Images by Dror Baldinger. On this short and linear urban plot, these two basic rectangular forms fit across and down the length of the lot, exploiting the opportunities of...
The Flinstones Save Christmas is definitely in my top ten favorite childhood movies of all time, so you can imagine how excited I was to come across these pictures of a Flinstone’s-inspired home in Malibu. The house up for sale belongs to legendary TV host Dick Clark– the Ryan Seacrest of his day, and has an…
Image 4 of 21 from gallery of Skybox House / Dick Clark + Associates. Photograph by Dror Baldinger
On this short and linear urban plot, these two basic rectangular forms fit across and down the length of the lot, exploiting the opportunities of using the e...
The Flinstones Save Christmas is definitely in my top ten favorite childhood movies of all time, so you can imagine how excited I was to come across these pictures of a Flinstone’s-inspired home in Malibu. The house up for sale belongs to legendary TV host Dick Clark– the Ryan Seacrest of his day, and has an…
Legendary TV host Dick Clark and his wife are selling their home in Malibu for $3.5 million. Normally, a celebrity selling a piece of real estate in
Image 6 of 21 from gallery of Skybox House / Dick Clark + Associates. Photograph by Dror Baldinger
The Flinstones Save Christmas is definitely in my top ten favorite childhood movies of all time, so you can imagine how excited I was to come across these pictures of a Flinstone’s-inspired home in Malibu. The house up for sale belongs to legendary TV host Dick Clark– the Ryan Seacrest of his day, and has an…
The Flinstones Save Christmas is definitely in my top ten favorite childhood movies of all time, so you can imagine how excited I was to come across these pictures of a Flinstone’s-inspired home in Malibu. The house up for sale belongs to legendary TV host Dick Clark– the Ryan Seacrest of his day, and has an…
Project designed by Dick Clark Architecture of Austin, Texas Photo by Paul Bardagjy
In an earlier blog entry, I noted the unlikely configuration of the Petries' house. The episode "The Man from My Uncle" highlights the difficulty of trying to draw a floor plan for the house that would make sense in real life, and still fit the clues we're given about the layout of the Petrie home. I'm aware of at least two attempts by others to draw a floor plan: One is in a book of blueprints of various fictional TV houses; the other is an online picture that I found by browsing the web. Both versions arrive at solutions that ignore many clues given during the episodes of the DVD Show. One of them even contains numerous blatant discrepancies that conflict with what is plainly seen on the show. So I decided to try my own solution. The main problem is the part of the house containing the den (or guest room) and Richie's room. Here's what we know about the rooms: The den -- this room, which we never see (except for its entrance off the living room), must extend off to the right, as viewed from the living room -- because every character who enters the room turns right -- every single time. Richie's room -- From "The Man From My Uncle", we know that Richie's room: (a) has a window facing the house across the street (b) is reached by a hallway, and is entered by approaching from the left of the hall, as seen from inside the room. Item (a) is no problem; that would position the room to the left of the den, as seen from the living room; and that fits with the wall that can be seen through the open front door of the house. But item (b) is a real problem. How can you go past the den, enter from the hall on the correct side, and be at the front of the house -- unless the layout is something like this: It's a layout that makes no sense. No architect would design a hallway that wraps completely around a room, as this hall wraps around the den. Yet this layout seems to be required in order to make everything fit together as shown on the program. Then I figured out a possible solution. What if the Petrie home were situated inside a curve on Bonnie Meadow Road? There is such a location on that street. In that case there would be multiple houses, in different directions, visible from rooms in the house -- like this: Now everything falls into place. Richie's room is located like this: Richie's bedroom window still looks out across the street -- but at a 90-degree angle from the front door. The den is not surrounded by the hallway, but instead has exterior walls with windows on one or even two walls of the room. The rest of the house is fairly easy to lay out. The following drawing is certainly not to scale; distances and angles are too hard to determine on a 2-D television screen. Green areas are those we see on the show; yellow areas are never seen, and therefore are purely speculative on my part. I've left out the positioning of the basement, and the stairs to the basement. You can only go so far with a project like this... 1 - Front Door 2 - Coat closet 3 - Den (the little wall inside the door is awkwardly placed. Perhaps it's a structural element -- maybe made necessary by the boulder in the basement?) 4 - Step up/down 5 - Bay window 6 - wood stove on brick hearth 7 - Pass through window to kitchen 8 - Ottoman 9 - Piano (usually seen only at parties; once seen against this wall of the room) 10 - Kitchen 11 - Broom closet 12 - Sliding glass doors 13 - Laundry room (never seen but once mentioned; this seems like a logical location) 14 - Garage (orienting the garage in this way makes sense if the street curves around the house as I've speculated) 15 - Wood deck (I've assumed the arms of the U shape; it would explain why the Helpers don't come in straight from outside the sliding door, and also gives a location for the grill (16) that was implied in that location in one episode. 17 - Master bedroom. I've drawn it as a trapezoid instead of a rectangle, as a close observation of the room while watching the show reveals an angle > 90 degrees between the wall with the window, and the wall the beds are against. 18 - Master bath 19 - Hall to Richie's room 20 -Richie's room 21 - Bath 22 - Window used by G-Man for stakeout 23 - Driveway 24 - To Millie and Jerry's house 25 - Bonnie Meadow Road
The Flinstones Save Christmas is definitely in my top ten favorite childhood movies of all time, so you can imagine how excited I was to come across these pictures of a Flinstone’s-inspired home in Malibu. The house up for sale belongs to legendary TV host Dick Clark– the Ryan Seacrest of his day, and has an…
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