Really cool link to see the Cleaver's floorplan to the house.

[DarleneIllyria]

http://classictv.about.com/gi/dynami...2Findex3a.html

*Hope this link works. It's pretty cool though!*

[tdr]

I have seen these plans before and they do seem to make sense, with a few fine discrepancies. Wally and Beaver's bathtub is on the wrong side of the bathroom, and I think it is either the first or the second ep in the new house, "Beaver Takes a Bath," that he leaves the water running and it drips through the ceiling of the middle of the kitchen. In the drawings, that bathtub is right over the wall between "Ward's den" and the downstairs bath, which we never see but suspect should be there. Really, I think the den should be a smaller scale than it is drawn, and the staircase should be closer to the front door.

In "Beaver's Jacket," when Beav is pulling the jacket up by a rope, it goes right in front of the kithcen window over the sink. The upstairs window is not nearly far enough toward that kitchen window for that to be possible. In the final season ep where Richard and Gilbert dump Pepe the burro in the Cleaver's backyard at night, Beaver looks out the window right above the burro. None of their bedroom windows are over the backyard.

One interesting thing about the bedrooms is the 2 occupied ones have their own baths, and those are the only 2 baths upstairs. That would mean that if more than 2 rooms were occupied, one would have to go through one of the other bedrooms to the bathroom. More likely a house would have a master bedroom larger than the others with its own bath, and another upstairs bath accessible from the hall. Actually, in the drawings it looks like Wally and Beaver's room IS the master bedroom, if any bedroom is. It does seem there should be 4 bedrooms upstairs, even though we only see the 2 occupied rooms and another referred to as "THE guest room." That brings up a question brought up before: Why did Wally and Beaver share a bedroom all the way until Wally was out of high school? Wally would have wanted his own room, and Beaver would have also by the time he was 11 or 12. Maybe Wally would have had to 'move out' if he wanted his own room, and then he would have had to go through "Beaver's room" to take a shower.

Supposing there are 4 'bedrooms,' it seems one should have had another purpose-- craft room, hobby room, for example-- and maybe that does leave just one 'guest room.' If I had been Ward, I would probably have used one of the upstairs rooms for my 'office,' supposing the big desk could be taken upstairs and through the door. That would have left the den as comparable to the "family room" on the Brady Bunch, with TV, game tables, more casual furniture. Then he would not have been working in the same room as the television (which is so often talked about, but hardly ever watched in the show), and there would have been less other distractions.

[crakker_jakk]

thought I'd bump this up. There's also a book called "TV Sets" with blueprints of famous TV show homes by Mark Bennett @ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...l/-/1579121071

[miss landers]

There are three windows across the front of the second level of the house. One of these windows belongs to the boys' bedroom. This is the window closest to the driveway.

The center window of the second level is shown to be in the boys' bedroom in the blueprints. But this isn't possible because in a recent episode (when Ward has a talk with the boys in their bedroom), we see only one window (the driveway window) on the front interior wall of the boys' bedroom. There are other episodes in which we see only one window on the front interior wall of the boys' bedroom.

I think the rooms and the arrangement of the rooms on the 2nd level of the Cleaver house at 211 Pine is very peculiar. What we see in the blueprints and what we see on the show are two different things. There must have been another full bathroom somewhere on the second floor of 211 for "guests". This bathroom however does not appear in the blueprints.

[miss landers]

Here's the blueprint for the Cleaver house at 211 Pine. See the center window on the second level? In the blueprint, the center window is shown in the boys' bedroom. This isn't possible. On the show we are shown several times that there is only one window on the front interior wall of the boys' bedroom - the window closest to the driveway. Wally's bed (which is the bed on the right in the blueprint) is in the corner where the center window is depicted in the blueprint.

[miss landers]

... with the second level blueprint is the fireplace chimney - where is the fireplace chimney on the second level in the blueprint? It should occupy the space where a door leads into a guest bedroom.