Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! Your childhood home just sold!

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Generations of fans have loved The Brady Bunch since the sitcom made its debut on TV in September of 1969. Fans still collect merchandise like games, paper dolls and lunch boxes featuring Mike and Jan Brady and their children Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy. Now, one fan has bought what might be the ultimate piece of memorabilia: the Bradys’ house, as it looked on the show, inside and out.

While interior scenes were shot on a sound stage, the show used a real house in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles for the exterior shots. The Brady house is said to be the second-most photographed house in America, behind only the White House.

HGTV purchased the house for $3.5 million in 2018. In 2019, the year of the show’s 50th anniversary, the actors who played the six Brady kids reunited for A Very Brady Renovation, a limited series where they worked along with HGTV stars and construction workers to renovate the house so the interior would match the Brady Bunch TV sets, from the burnt-orange and avocado-green kitchen to the famous floating staircase and the bedrooms on the second floor. There’s even a teeter-totter and doghouse in the backyard. Then they furnished the house with 1970s-style decorations sourced from fans and Paramount studios. Some pieces were show originals.

The house went to market in May 2023, listed at $5.5 million. It sold at a loss at $3.2 million to art collector Tina Trahan. The loss wasn’t unexpected. Danny Brown, the listing agent, told TVLine it was “impossible to comp,” acknowledging that “This is not a home anyone would ever live in.” The home’s listed price was based on what HGTV spent buying and renovating the house. The network is donating a portion to the proceeds to No Kid Hungry.

Trahan initially called the house “the worst investment ever” in terms of property. Fortunately for her, she didn’t buy it as property; she bought it as art. “When I buy art, it’s because I love the art,” she told People magazine. A longtime fan of The Brady Bunch, having grown up watching the show, she sees the value in the work that went into renovating the house and the joy the show brought to people. She hopes to share that joy by using the house to raise money for charities.

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