Equally as imperative to the producers was that all six Brady kid actors sign on to appear each one’s schedule finally got aligned for it a mere 12 days before shooting began. Maureen McCormick takes a break from demolition duty during “A Very Brady Renovation.” Photo courtesy Discovery Communications, LLCįive weeks of preproduction on the new show also got underway around the same time – less than a year ago. The living room floor had to be dropped a foot and a new concrete slab poured. With the sacred rule of not impacting the street view always in mind, design and build manager Dylan Eastman and contractor Dave Clark set to work planning a down-to-the-studs demolition and restructuring of the home’s interior and a more than 2,000-square-foot build-out into the back yard (which ends at the L.A. HGTV’s Jasmine Roth takes you inside ‘The Brady Bunch’ house renovation.Got Brady Bunch furnishings? HGTV’s ‘A Very Brady Renovation’ is searching for ’70s stuff.‘Brady Bunch’ siblings reunite as HGTV renovates Studio City house for new show.A six-night stay at the ‘Brady Bunch’ house in Studio City? Win this contest, and it could be yours.But we could clearly see what the structure of a renovation show could be.” “And then they learned that we never worked at the house, that we weren’t connected to it like America was. “They just bought it without having an idea yet of what they were going to do with it,” Knight said of the network. The reality show chronicles the effort to recreate the two-story home interior sets, made for “Bunch” on Paramount Studios’ Stage Five 50 years ago, at the Studio City house whose street face and front yard was all of it that was ever seen. Laine, “Restored by the Fords” siblings Leanne and Steve Ford, and “Hidden Potential’s” Jasmine Roth. “AVBR” features all six of the now-adult actors who played the Brady kids back in the day – Barry Williams (Greg), Maureen McCormick (Marcia), Christopher Knight (Peter), Eve Plumb (Jan), Mike Lookinland (Bobby) and Susan Olsen (Cindy) – working side-by-side with such HGTV stars as “Property Brothers” Jonathan and Drew Scott, “Good Bones’” Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E. Photo courtesy Discovery Communications, LLC Susan Olsen, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, Maureen McCormick, Barry Williams on the new, real Brady House staircase.
Make it look exactly like the home on the sitcom in every way humanly possible was the answer. We took this gigantic leap of faith buying this house, and once we stepped in that first time it was like, ‘Oh my God, what are going to do with this place?’” What we didn’t realize was just how different it was. “All of America knew that the inside did not match what the set was on the show. “We bought this house more-or-less sight unseen,” HGTV executive Loren Ruch admitted in a video. HGTV ended up paying $1.6 million above asking price. The folks at the network weren’t exactly sure where to start, though, once they outbid the likes of NSYNC singer Lance Bass and others for the house. Now the real estate improvement-focused HGTV channel’s four-episode show “A Very Brady Renovation” is ready to premiere on Monday, Sept.
The property, of course, is the iconic one in establishing exterior shots of “The Brady Bunch,” the blended family sitcom that ran on ABC from 1969 to 1974 and in reruns for generations since.
However, when Discovery’s HGTV cable network paid $3.5 million last year for a very famous, split-level ranch house at 11222 Dilling Street in Studio City, they didn’t exactly know what they were getting into. It turned out to be much more than a hunch.
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