Tasteful Friends - Bonnie Franklin’s House

Wasn't this already posted yesterday? or maybe it was inside the other BF thread?

The Valley? Hold me, I’m scared!

Love it! And would love to live in it and leave it as photographed. Just look at the photos--all the red is vibrant, warm, inviting, lots of open space. Nice vintage vibe, earthy.

That RED! Like a living HELL!

Pool's nice, bathroom, okay-ish.

It's fucking hideous! Hasn't been updated since the late seventies!

What drugs are you on R3? The kitchen looks like that Armadillo cake from that Sally Field crying movie. Oh damn - that's all of her movies. I meant the two pigs fighting under a blanket movie. I think she was the one who made the offensive cake too. Something about flowers...

What's with the weird obsession with Bonnie Franklin?! How many threads do we need about the poor lady?

You think this is bad, you should see the shit hole Linda Lavin squats in.

She's one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, R6. Mason Reese? Yeah, he rides a corgi.

You're lucky right now, R6. For most people Bonnie Franklin is a hazy memory, if ODAAT ever gets a full DVD release or starts streaming somewhere, there will be an unending deluge of threads analyzing her every movement in every episode.

Dammit, R1

Dammit, R2

Dammit, R3

Dammit, R4

Dammit, R5

Dammit, R6

Dammit, R7

Dammit, R8

Dammit, R9

Red. I might have known it would be red.

Is there a horn on the bathroom door?

Beautiful property. House looks like a nice one, but needs a total renovation.

Nice humble home.

[quote] What's with the weird obsession with Bonnie Franklin?! How many threads do we need about the poor lady?

One per day, bitch!

Even the ceiling is painted red in that kitchen. It’s like that hidden room in the house from “The Amityville Horror”.

R9 the complete ONE DAY AT A TIME is available on DVD in stores everywhere

Green carpet. Moss. Mold.

The carpet doesn’t match the drapes.

It’s a tear down. Encino - but nice Encino. They will build a 15,000 sq ft pseudo-Roman/Greek/modern monstrosity that takes up the entire lot.

I can say this okay? It's jewy

They’re vacuum tracks!

Her neighbour was Pauly Shore. The most hilarious block in Encino.

Good Christ! What a shithole!

Pedestrian at best....

Encino? Lol.

I can picture Bonnie/Ann running in slow motion, wearing clogs and flailing her arms every time the door bell rings. Unless it’s Glenn Scarpelli at the door.

All that red! Wouldn't that have clashed with her hair?

I don’t know who she was married to but they mustn’t have had much money if they didn’t renovate in all those years. I like to cook and that kitchen just depresses me. It’s California for christs sakes - isn’t it supposed to be bright and airy in there at least? I can’t believe Bonnie lived like this.

ITA @ R29. It's God awful. That red, red, RED kitchen, green carpet (who even does that besides flyover grannies?), and the ridiculous bathroom with a dance floor in the middle. Ugh. Where to begin?

[quote]and the ridiculous bathroom with a dance floor in the middle. Ugh. Where to begin?

I hate to take a shit but I love to tap!

I like it,

It's very middle class.

R13 you are crazy. That shithole needs a date with some backhoes. Push it in and put up a real house.

Uh, that post is 5 years old.

That house has been remodeled/torn down LOOOOONG ago

Is there a little cottage on the lot to hold a wisecracking handyman, preferably one who bursts in with one-liners at inopportune moments?

Please say so.

What happened at the foot of the bed. The 1980s green carpet looks like something turned it from green to yellow. Did she have an incontinent pet? One of her red sofa cushions is also discolored.

Where's the macrame plant hanger I gave her for Christmas?

No alcove.

All those trees by the pool, that's got to be a bear to clean!

Why the gigantic bathroom? It's twice the size of the kitchen.

Like her tv series, this house too 'reeks of the 70s'.

Has great potential but quelle soir, needs a re-do.

Did she live in it or had she bought it as an investment and rented it?

Her mother survived her, so she’d probably bought it for her mother

Red was her lucky color, it made her a star.

That house was last decorated in 1978! The bedroom looked like it belonged to an 80 year old woman. There are far too many cabinets in the kitchen. I never understood hanging pots and pans like that. Wouldn't you just keep hitting your head? The floor's great, though. And those are big rooms.

Did she ever have smart dinner parties over there?

Did YOU, Lucy you cheap bitch?

WW, r12.

That is a WEIRD, WEIRD house. That kitchen!

And did she do laps in the bathroom? Did she practice stomping around the Romano apartment in there?

What was in Bonnie's crawl-space?

Does anyone think Schneider was doable?

I can only handle looking at that house ONE BAY AT A TIME.

So awful. Just awful.

Where did she do her tapping?

.....on Norman Lear’s balls, R54.

I can totally see Bonnie making full use of that expansive bedroom: On birthdays I imagine she locks herself in the room and recreates her gushing laughing-crying monologue. It's much bigger than the set, and Bonnie would definitely use try and fill that space. Perhaps she might even toss in a run from end of the room to the other in a particularly fitful moment.

Gurl/r56 - Bonnie ain’t doing monologues anymore.

Oh, dear, r56.

The house is nothing less than hideous. Kill it with fire.

Now, I'm off to look up this Bonnie Franklin obsession on DL.

I wish I could find that TV movie with Bonnie Franklin. She portrayed Margaret Sanger.

I wonder if Margaret Sanger had the same lack of sexual charisma as Bonnie Franklin. I hope not. I doubt she could have less.

What happened to her 101 year old mother?

Nose dive.

Bucolic setting....

I think my favorite feature is the carpeted bathroom. So '70s. And Bonnie wasn't stuck for cash, so she could've easily redone it -- but no. I only wish it was shag and had a needle hidden in it that Mack dropped when invited over for a dinner party.

There is no carpeted bathroom.

The photos aren't very HD.

It looks like carpet to me.

I'd have thought Bonnie favoured wooden floors.

Y'know, for all that tapping.

Rosa Moline describes the place perfectly.

I’m sure she had a coterie of gay male friends. Apparently, she never asked for their opinion or asked for their advice. I bet they rolled their eyes when they entered her home, and then they savaged that house of horror behind her back.

The place has an old mix of a men’s frat house on the first floor, and an elderly lady’s nursing home on the second foor.

R61 Her mother died at 102, a year after Bonnie.

Redrum, redrum, redrum!!!

They can’t tear down that wreck of a house fast enough.

Bonnie Franklin died at her home; I can see why.

Visitors said they heard tap dancing in the house after Bonnie died.

I'm disappointed at the lack of lava lamp.

[quote]Now, I'm off to look up this Bonnie Franklin obsession on DL.

She was an utter ham. Not hard to understand.

[quote]Visitors said they heard tap dancing in the house after Bonnie died.

That wasn't tap dancing, it was Pat Harrington Jr. desperately trying to get out of the secret room Bonnie had walled him into.

She sure loves red...

r78 made me think of the Winchester estate. I can imagine Ann Romano proclaiming on her deathbed that the sound of hammers must never stop! Poor Schneider!