Around Christmas Time I Decided To Do A Blueprint Of The Mama's Family House. It is done with alot of detail(carpet,walls,stair numbers). It toke a while to get shots of the upstairs which I could obvisouly only get one room. I feel it it very nice work and would you want to see it? Please Respond I Want FEED BACK.

What are you waiting for? Post It!
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Naomi: Sonya, honey, help me with these bags?
Sonya: I just put up a streamer. What am I, a slave around here?
Fran: If you were, you would have been sold years ago.

Yes, post it!!!! Did you put in the driveway? I tried drawing a rough blueprint of the Harper house and that's the only part of the property that doesn't make sense to me the way they show in on the program. Because if you were to walk straight back through the house you could (pretty much) go straight out the back door. Then if you were to look right you would see the garage and if you looked(down and) left you'd see the driveway. But that would mean that the driveway goes through the Gebhardt's backyard because their house is to the left of the Harper house.
So yes, I'd be interested to see how you worked that out.

I always loved the set design in Mama's Family. Even though there were certain things that were "wrong" on it, as with any movie set, it just had a quality about it that gave it a certain "realness" and nostalgia, like your grandmother's kitchen or something.

I'd imagine doing a floorplan of the Harper house would be pretty hard to do, considering some of the inconsistencies in the show. For example, in the NBC episodes, there were three bedrooms upstairs, plus a room in the attic for Buzz, not to mention the fact that the living room was much larger, with more windows. In the syndicated years, I guess they forgot about the room in the attic and the third bedroom. I know Bubba got Frannie's old room, but what about her studio, which was where Sonja moved into?

As for the driveway and the garage, wasn't the driveway on the right side of the house originally? I remember Ellen pulling her Seville up to the right side of the house. There was a driveway to the left, but I think that was for the neighbor's house.

In the syndicated episodes, there is no driveway from the road in front of the house. You can see this in both the location shot of the real house, and the exterior set they built. I'm guessing that there was just a back alley that ran behind all the houses, and that's how you got to the garage.

Oh well, it's just a tv show, but that kind of stuff always fascinated me!

Originally posted by Andre1969
I know Bubba got Frannie's old room, but what about her studio, which was where Sonja moved into?

As for the driveway and the garage, wasn't the driveway on the right side of the house originally? I remember Ellen pulling her Seville up to the right side of the house.

Well, Vint & Naomi of course couldn't live in the attic, and as for Aunt Fran's studio, maybe they put some o' Frannie's stuff in there, which rendered that room "unlive-able", too? :confused:

But about Ellen pullin' her Seville up to the right side of the house---she did, but she just plowed right through the grass---she was too harried to look for any "driveway!" :lol:

Ellen: "My Mama is NOT runnin'!"

Mama: "The HELL I ain't!"

:D