So, what kind of television home would you want to live in? Would you be more at home in the Walton’s country home or the Osbourne’s mansion? When you watched Dallas and Knot’s Landing in the ‘80s (yes you did, don’t even deny it), did you dream of living there or balk at what the homeowners insurance must have run the Ewings? Would you rather have the suburban comfort of the Cunningham’s two story home from Happy Days (complete with a leather jacket wearing, motorcycle riding tenant above the garage) or the opulence of the Beverly Hillbilly’s mansion home?

Come to think of it, the Beverly Hillbillies weren’t even all that comfortable in their mansion. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that you couldn’t be. If you think your home value took a hit with the housing, crisis, though, imagine what happened to their home. Valued at over $25 million at the peak of the housing market, the value plummeted to a trifling $8 million. Admittedly, most of us would be thrilled to be able to own an $8 million dollar house, but still.

One of the TV houses that we think many of today’s families wouldn’t mind living in is the Brady Bunch’s house. While the California split level home screams 1970s, we suspect that there are a lot of step parents who would love to discover the Brady’s secret for solving all of the problems of a blended family in the space of half an hour.

How about the Addams Family’s house. Or The Munsters’? There are a few of us out there just oddball enough that we wouldn’t mind giving it a shot, at least on a trial basis. But can you imagine what the homeowners insurance would run? Yikes!

We can’t think of many places that would be cooler to live that the house on Silver Spoons. Ricky Schroeder never did quite outlive the image of the plucky little kid on the show, but hey, if you got to live in a house with a real working train and an arcade in the furnished basement, why would you even want to grow up in the first place?

Of course, most of won’t ever have the opportunity to live in homes like that, but it’s OK. As the old saying goes, our home is our castle anyway.

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