Favorite TV Homes

I still like Lucy and Ricky's apartment in Fred and Ethel's East side brownstone.

I loved the Clampett mansion when I was a kid.

I still dream of the day that I will have a home with a cement pond.

I liked the Ricardo’s 2nd apartment NOT their first.

Mary's first apartment was perfect for a young single person.

The Sopranos

Frasier Crane's apartment at the Elliot Bay Towers.

I want to live in the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space and help June Lockhart with the laundry when she is hung over.

Conversely has there e er been a more depressing set than Ralph & Alice’s apartment on The Honeymooners?

Hot in Cleveland house.

The Bewitched house and the I Dream of Jeannie house. Gomer Pyle's quonsets.

The Sheffield house (brownstone?) is light years better than the Cosby brownstone. And it is my favorite TV house.

George and Gracie's house on the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.

They used a shot of their own house on Maple Drive for the opening shots and the sets for the show were based on the interior of the Burns and Allen's home.

I blew it. Sheffield's house is from The Nanny.

Bedrock

The Cleavers’ in “Leave It To Beaver.” Both the original smaller house when the kids were younger, and the bigger second one they moved into when June’s hairstyles got bigger and her housework high heels became higher.

Do Martha Stewart's homes count? Especially the Connecticut one that most of her '90s shows were filmed at.

The Honeymooners

Lady Rosamund Painswick's Belgrave Square home. I like it much better than Downton Abbey.

A friend used to get annoyed by “The Honeymooners” as their entry door opened into the hallway instead of into the apartment.

Even after all these years the Bewitched home is among my favorites.

6151 Richmond Avenue

[quote] "Frasier Crane's apartment at the Elliot Bay Towers."

Stylistically, it's a little too sleek and polished for me, but I love it too, R6.

The apartment in Family Affair.

Frasier's apartment didn't have a washer/dryer. Daphne had to schlep down to the laundry room. Hard pass.

Here is a very nicely done CG recreation of the Bewitched Stevens Family home.

Sandringham, "The Crown."

Less cold looking than Buck House, less cavernous than Windsor, and not weirdly Victorian-Scottish like Balmoral.

1313 Mockingbird Lane.

R27, especially the 2012 remake.

My childhood vote was Dan Tanna’s bachelor pad in Vega$. He parked his car and other toys in the house. He wasn’t afraid of leaded gas or carbon monoxide.

- Dan’s mom, Danna Tanna Danna

The Brady house.

The Bewitched home ! Sad to report they knocked it down on the Columbia backlot a few months ago (they knocked down that whole 'street' to build on).

The Snyder eavesdropping porch

Another vote for Frasier's. I liked his brothers too. I also quite liked the apt on Friends.

As a teenager in the early '80s, I thought Laura Holt's loft apartment on Remington Steele was the coolest thing ever & wanted to live there.

Also, the run down “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” pile was a great alternative to contemporary houses - as if it was decorated with cast-offs from Robin Hood movies.

Not tv but Clint's house in Play Misty for Me fascinated me as a kid.

Don Draper's apartment in Mad Men.

The Davis apartment on Family Affair. They spent some money on that set. It looked and felt like a whole apartment and allowed for some great A to Z scenes. I also love the I Dream of Jeannie house. I bought a house very similar to that. I turned the downstairs office off the door into the bedroom and upstairs is the office/TV room.

Am I really the first one to say the Golden Girls house?

No love for Green Acres?

R12, I’ve always had a soft spot for that place. One thing that charms me about it (and maybe you can confirm)… whenever Gracie was at the front door - chatting with the mailman, for example - it always seemed that they were not on the sidewalk (i.e., streetside) but down a little mews where a small cluster of houses was located. Do you know any more about that?

I always look for such spaces. I know of a very few here in NYC but I suspect most that still exist are well hidden.

Thanks!

R30 That's too bad. I heard that the Colombia backlot was torn down, but I wasn't aware of the shows that were there.

The I Dream of Jeannie house was suburban perfection.

I preferred Jeannie's bottle.

Love the Frasier condo from the nineties.

But if I got to choose, I'd always go with the Gioberti house in Tuscany/Napa Valley. I liked the architecture inside/out and would love to live in the center of wine country. The Channing mansion is very nice too. But my preference would still be the Gioberti house.

Who the hell are the giobertis?

Jeannie's bottle set.

Gull Cottage (including Reta Shaw)

R45 the winemaking family on Falcon Crest.

The Barkley's ranch on The Big Valley was nice.

50's houses were always my favorite. I loved the Wilson's house on Dennis the Menace and Ozzie and Harriet's house.

R35 You'll enjoy this...

The Addams Family

R45, “Falcon Crest”.

Bob Newhart's Chicago apartment almost looks like it was Mary Richard's apartment in a new incarnation.

Same two doors on either side of a raised entry way with steps leading down to the living area. Big window in between the doors.

Dark Shadows mansion.

Sanford & Son

Rosanne

Little House On The Prairie

R40 That can't be based on the real house, then, unless it wasn't the front entrance as it appears the front door faces Maple Drive. Perhaps the mail came to a service entrance? The house has been remodeled, but it's still recognizable. George Burns lived there until his death in 1996 at the age of 100. The LA Public Library's photo collection shows the house as it appeared some time ago, but the photo is undated. The street view above shows a large hedge on the left that doesn't appear there earlier. But the houses on both sides appear to be pretty big.

The thing I can't recall completely was Burns' ability to turn on his TV and see Harry Von Zell and Bea Benaderet, supposedly his accountant and secretary respectively, where? Next door? His office? Was it part of a "tear down the third wall" thing by addressing the medium of television, or a fourth wall thing letting the audience in the joke? Were they highlighting TV's possibilities? I mean in the early-mid 50's, a TV camera was about the size of a large outboard motor. You couldn't hide it in a light bulb or on a bookshelf as now.

I remember a scene from SATC when Miranda was dating the exhibitionist, played by Will Arnett, where he lured her into some alley under the guise of showing her where Mark Twain lived while in NY. It looked like an alley with a house at the end and some possible other doors. I thought that was an unusual NY feature but maybe it's common. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I liked the exterior of the original Roseanne house. I also liked the simple layout of the interior.

MTM, both apts. I liked. I liked the blue sofa with white piping in the 2nd apt. and the little kitchen in her 1st apt.

Ted Baxter actually had a cool, modern bachelor pad.

Will’s apartment on Will and Grace

The Cory Mansion on Another World and the original Capwell mansion on Santa Barbara

Karen and Val’s homes on Knots Landing

Jill and Kris’ beach house on Charlie’s Angels

The Brady house would be fantastic for a family of four and a maid/grandparent living downstairs

Vera Louise Gorman’s apartment and her elevated bed

Definitely Collinwood, although I would be spending most evenings picking up trucks at the Blue Whale.

My second choice would be Wayne Manor with the greased up bat pole for me and my ward to use.

I like the Bucket residence, because it has one of the most sought-after postal codes.

Tim O'Hara's garage apartment on "My Favorite Martian"

Does no one want to live in a deluxe apartment in the sky?

R60

Could be one of these, or some other alley/entrance to a Mews around the city.

Yes, R69, it looked like one of those.

I liked Rhoda Morgenstern’s apartment a lot. For the same reasons, I did like the inside of the genie bottle.

For R11:

Lucy Ricardo’s Connecticut house.

Call me crazy but I always thought the Bundy house from MWC looked so open and cozy.

Jack, Janet and Crissy’s apartment of course!

Edina's house on AbFab. I loved the layout.

The Roseanne house is for sale.

R31: "The Snyder eavesdropping porch"

Since you brought up ATWT, I loved, loved, loved Bob and Kim's home, especially the slate-blue library.

Frasier's apartment would be fantastic.

My only comment is that it needs an office/library space. You could obviously use the smaller of the two guest bedrooms, but I prefer an office more readily accessible from the entry so people aren't wallking through the "personal" areas of the home.

Newman Ranch on The Young and the restless. Casa Walsh on 90210. The Tanner house on Full House. I really liked when Stephanie moved into bathroom and made it her room.

I think they converted the study into a room for Daphne R79.

R60,

This is the Mark Twain house in NYC…

R55 Ever notice how the main entry, foyer, stairway and drawing room set of the Collinwood mansion looks an awful lot like the layout of the main set of the Forrester mansion on The Bold & the Beautiful?

Sy Tomashoff was the production designer for both shows. About the only thing that's different is that there's a slight turn at the bottom of the staircase as it reaches the foyer on B&B, and the windows and fireplace have traded walls in the main room. There's even a door in the same place underneath the catwalk where we'd often see Mrs. Johnson on Dark Shadows head off to the kitchen. On B&B that would be where Maria the maid would come and go.

That mark twain house looks nothing like the place Miranda's date took her to. Poetic license, I guess. It looked exactly a mews house pictured in the link above.

The One Day at a Time apartment had a huge wasted space behind the living room. Some little gazebo-looking area that nobody ever used. Meanwhile, I think Julie and Barbara shared a bedroom.

Mrs. Chancellor had a nice house. The Young and the Restless had the best production values in the '70s through maybe the '90s.

R85 - Archie Bunker's house had a similar unused area - behind the dining room. It's better for sets to have some visual depth to them, regardless of how the action is staged.

I don't remember the Bunkers' house having something like that. Mama's Family had a little phone nook and some wasted space, but not as much as ODAAT.

[quote] The One Day at a Time apartment had a huge wasted space behind the living room. Some little gazebo-looking area that nobody ever used. Meanwhile, I think Julie and Barbara shared a bedroom.

It was for Ann's plants, to show she was caring, even though her slapping and "DAMMIT JULIE! DAMMIT BARBARA!" iterations would make you think otherwise.

(Actually, my theory was it was to make the apartment look more spacious and appealing, even though they wanted to constrain the space for the characters to save wasted time on crossing large rooms.)

Will Truman's apartment was gorgeous, although recently when i saw the show again I was surprised by how cluttered it was. Lots of paintings on the floor since he had no room to hang them, lots of kick-knacks. My own condo is like that, and it's a bitch to keep it clean and dusted.

I did like Edina Monsoon's kitchen.

R88 - it's not as big as ODAT but nobody ever went into that area behind the arch - where the door to the cellar stairs and the desk with the horse-head lampshade were.

Thanks, R92. I see the nook, now.

Will Truman's apartment. I like the TV alcove and the raised kitchen.

Will's apt was very nice. I really liked the one apt he and Grace moved into at some point during the show that had two floors but they were two co-dependent to have that much space.

I loved the Seaver house in Growing Pains.

1164 Morning Glory Circle

1313 Mockingbird Lane

1600 South 6th Street

1230 Milan Avenue in South Pasadena

The Barkley residence in "The Big Valley"

Apartment 12D 185 East 85th Street

The Family Affair apartment outside was actually the Wilshire Regent Condos at 10501 Wilshire Blvd in LA.

Lena & Stef's two-story craftsman on THE FOSTERS.

I'd live anywhere in Badger's Drift. And probably be swiftly murdered.

R98 Thanks for that. I recently saw a few episodes of Family Affair and as familiar as I am with Manhattan, and while I assumed it had to be in the Upper East Side, that building did not look the least bit familiar. It makes sense that the building would be in another city entirely.

The green carpet of Family Affair. The little vase on the pedestal was actually a light. This also shows the cool mural over the father's bed and the famous doorknobs of the front door.

Are we including cartoons? I'd love to live in Finn and Jake's treehouse.

Speaking of treehouses, I loved the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse.

I like the house in The King of Queens but the modern living room furniture looks so out of place.

Harry Bosch's mid century bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills.

When I was a teen, Molly Dodd's apartment was my dream home.

Archibald Manor on "Gossip Girl" home to Nate Archibald and family.

Real Address 4 East 74th Street, NYC.

I actually love Lucy's Connecticut home. And I am one of the few who actually like the last couple of seasons with them living there

I agree, the Ricardo's country home in Westport was very nicely designed.

The Connecticut house was nice but the furnishings were awful.

Yes they were, R111, very much of their time

That colonial shit dragged on to 1976.

Not everyone had the daring confidence to go with Chinese Modern R111

The Honeycomb Hideout

As a child I was obsessed with Barbara "Batgirl" Gordon's apartment, especially the bedroom with the ornate carved headboard and the secret revolving wall.

I did like the Cohen's pool house on The OC.

I like Ally & Renee's second apartment on Ally McBeal. Huge space, not too fussily decorated.

Still waiting for this reality...

Pee wees playhouse

[quote]Ever notice how the main entry, foyer, stairway and drawing room set of the Collinwood mansion looks an awful lot like the layout of the main set of the Forrester mansion on The Bold & the Beautiful?

R83, I know only Collinwood, which is broadly similar to the house (set) at your link: a double-height entry/stair hall with the principal rooms arranged to the left and the balustrade continuing along at the level of the upper floor.

Collinwood was a fucked up design, though. It had just 9 steps leading the upper floor, impossible in a house with high ceilings and any pretense to design. At a minimum 13 or 14 steps are required in real life. All for show, and as a result characters were rarely filmed at the upper landing or descending the stair as it would look like they were giants (sometimes they are shown coming up or down but at the very bottom steps.)

It bothers me every time.

The South Pasadena house used for the exteriors of 'Family' (1976-80) was pleasant.

R83 was thought to be a recreation of Y&R's Brooks family home, the layout was the same. The Brooks had a Victorian home with authentic front doors, bay windows in the living room and it always reminded me - also- of Collinwood's foyer and drawing room.

Castle Howard doing duty as the namesake house in Brideshead Revisited. There are few houses better

Always liked the Dallas exteriors/interiors. Something authentic yet cozy about them.

I liked Lucy and Ricky’s house in Connecticut, including the furniture, but some things about it were strange.

It seemed like it had two front doors on the same side of the house.

What exactly did the stairs lead to? I mean, there was a landing but it only seemed connected to Lucy and Ricky’s room, not a hallway.

And did anyone EVER sit on that sofa that faced the other way?

Being a sucker for Victorians, I'd go with the houses from Falcon Crest or Full House. Which makes me think, was that widowed father on Full House independently wealthy? How the hell did he afford that place? Oh, and for city dwelling I liked Frasier and The Jeffersons.

Jessica Fletcher's cosy home in Cabot Cove, just by the ocean.

Mid-20th century BC-modern bliss

I loved Ted Lasso's quaint little apartment in London: the interior AND its picturesque surroundings.

Another vote here for Bosch's house, though surely it will fall down the cliff in the first big earthquake.

The Bosch house was built in 1958, so it's survived several including the 6.7 Northridge quake in '94. Quake reinforced houses in SoCal are a booming business.

The Waltons' home. I loved the interior.

Wayne Manor...who wouldn't want a Bat Cave, where you could slide down poles for some Cosplay?

More impressively, the slide down the pole appeared to dress you, R132!

R128 - Dear God no! You'll never get the old lady stank out and the hardwood floors are stained by dropped Werther's candies.

The seaside house in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir".

An odd home was Christine Cagney’s home in Cagney and Lacey. I think it was an open plan loft, but the entrance from the parking place seemed to entail crawling through a sort of cupboard door. You were then in an unfinished communal hallway which led to her apartment. Did anybody else notice this and was this how lofts were in the early 80’s?

@r134, "Dear God no! You'll never get the old lady stank out "

🎵 Thank you for being a friend... 🎵

Oh, c'mon, you guys, the grand daddy of all TV houses...

I want to live Inside Marlo Thomas's Glamorous Upper East Side Penthouse.

I kind of like Athena's house on 9-1-1. It has a very MCM vibe to it.

Never found the “Beverly Hillbillies” home all that cozy or attractive. Too cold looking.

^ They'll be so disappointed

[quote] I want to live Inside Marlo Thomas's Glamorous Upper East Side Penthouse.

And for $10, Marlo will come over and take a photo for you. $20 if you're in it too.

"I want to live Inside Marlo Thomas"

Careful what you wish for 🙄

No mention of Laverne and Shirley’s place? Seemed economical, good for two singles. Plus, Edna Babish appeared to be an ideal landlord.

I loved Sue Ellen’s condo on Dallas, the one she bought the first time she left JR. It was fabulous in an early 80s way.

I liked Maggie and Chase’s home on Falcon Crest.

I also loved Vicky’s home on Another World when Anne Heche was playing her. Another World had the best sets of all the New York soaps.

Hey, what about me?

Did you know that DL favorite Chris Meloni owned the haunted Ozzy and Harriet house?

I did like the Laverne and Shirley basement apartment.

Ozzy Osbourne's house (reality show) was nice. It looks super-cluttered from this angle, but most of the scenes were filmed in this kitchen area. It was the beginning of the shabby chic trend.

Well, you wouldn't think it would be a tv house but because of The Girls Next Door I can say 'The Playboy Mansion'. I've always loved it.

Here's a better photo of the Ozzy Osbourne house.

Fred's house on Sanford & Son.

R68 I didn't like that there was a bathroom right next to the front door.

@r170, Hard to believe that Hugh Hefner only paid a million dollars for that back in 1971

Why did the Jetson's house have to be so high?

I like Charlie Harper's Malibu house from Two and a Half Men.

@r155, To be closer to their flying cars 😏

The Mad Men house of Don and Betty.

Has anyone said Haliwell Manor? I have read through, but I'm tired and my brain is not working like I want it to.

What about the Haney place, where Oliver and Lisa Douglas lived? It was a bit of a fixer-upper, but it was more about the lifestyle and the community.

R154 - Do you have any idea how much money $1M was in 1971? A little over $7.6M based on national inflation, but then you factor in the insanity of real estate over the last 50 years and you can easily double that or more.

My parents bought a modest 3/1 in suburban Miami in 1976 for $35K. Today it lists for for $650K - $850K, still at 2100 sf. And it was (is?) a working class neighborhood.

[quote] "Frasier's apartment didn't have a washer/dryer. Daphne had to schlep down to the laundry room. Hard pass."

I honestly didn't think about that, R24. It would have to be a pass for me too. That said, here's an interesting few words on the subject, with references.

I loved Kate and Allie's Bank Street Greenwich Village basement apartment (with four bedrooms upstairs)!

@r161, That house in Bel Air with several acres on the golf course sold for $100 million in 2016. Nice return on that $1 million

R30: Oh, what a shame! I absolutely adored the Bewitched house, and was so happy to see it in Marvel’s WandaVision tv series.

Agatha the witchy neighbour lived there, appropriately.

I believe at some point Frasier put in a washer/dryer after Daphne found out that other units had them and shamed him into it.

The Playboy mansion needed a shot ton of updates. It was horribly outdated with old nasty shag carpeting. Probably needed fumigation plus the grotto drained and disinfected.

Florence Castleberry

I loved Jeannies bottle on the inside, and I also liked the Ropers apt.

As a kid, I liked the Ozzie and Harriet house. Nobody really seems to remember the show very well. I watched it in the era when Ricky and David were older and the best friends were played by Mary Jane Croft and Lyle Talbot (I think M. J. was simultaneously on one of the Lucy sitcoms). There were re-runs of the show on every night (probably syndicated) after dinner, that was a little confusing. Anyway, I loved their tasteful Colonial home. (There are some shots from it here.)

I also like the Shady Rest, on Petticoat Junction.

Looking at the photos of the back of the house and the pool, you couldn't/can't tell from the front view that the Nelson house was such a mini-mansion.

I hated Lucy's Connecticut shithole.

R170 Fun Fact: The Nelson home TV set was recreated to match the real Nelson home interior design, sans the fourth wall. The family was basically playing lightweight comedic versions of their home lives in a duplicate home reality setting.

I don't understand why people like Lucy's Connecticut house.

^ Except David and Ricky would laugh at the idea of their mother in the kitchen baking cookies. In reality Harriet Nelson couldn't boil water and never set foot in their kitchen at home

I have a recollection that at some point one of the Murdochs lived in the Beverly Hillbillies house. Must have rented it.

^ You're right...

"The house, located on 10 acres (4 hectares), with gardens designed by Henri Samuel, later was owned by Arnold Kirkeby and then Jerry Perenchio. In 2019 the mansion was sold to Lachlan Murdoch for about $150 million, which was the highest sale price for any house in California history."

Aussies and Brits, admit it - you'd have moved into any house on Ramsay Street. I'd have shared a bed with either Jason Donovan, Guy Pearce or Craig McLachlan. Or all three.

I was always partial to Jim Robinson's house. Seemed the most prestigious.

[quote]Aussies and Brits, admit it - you'd have moved into any house on Ramsay Street.

Ramsay Street???

Did I stutter, R179?

[quote] Ramsay Street???

It’s something meaningful to foreigners.

I love the Ozzie and Harriet house, gracious living at its finest.

Gidget’s house. Very 60s.

R182 I liked Gidget's house, too.

And...don't know how I forgot it, but - the house on The Ghost And Mrs. Muir was great.

I liked the Baxter's house on Hazel. Especially the breakfast nook.

Seemed like more of a banquette...

I liked the Keatons house on Family Ties, seemed very cozy and I loved the big kitchen.

Alexis's apartment.

Oh to have an elevator that opened up into the living room!

The 2nd season cottage wasn't bad either but did she have a toilet in there?

Good Times. At least the rent was cheap.

Slaystacks Gatehouse on OLTL.

[quote] The 2nd season cottage wasn't bad either but did she have a toilet in there?

Just a bidet. That's all she needed.

Maddie's 80s mansion on Moonlighting

Buffy's house seemed liveable but for the frequent vampire attacks.

I like the Gilmore girls house.

I liked the guest house on Family that Nancy lived in, then Willy.

I really liked the Brady house. Not for a family of eight and a housekeeper though.

R30 Yeah, sad that the Bewitched house on the backlot was torn down, but I'm happy to report that the real house it was based on still stands in Santa Monica, California.

This home once belonged to my absolute best friend in the neighborhood while growing up. I can't tell you how many hours I spent inside that house. The real house was also the home used in the original "Gidget" movie starring Sandra Dee.

For Bewitched, the producers simply used the home as it's model, then constructed a mirror image of it. The main difference from the outside is that in Bewitched they made the garage an extension to the side and you drove in from the front. The real house sits on a corner lot with the garage extending from out the back of the home, so that you enter it from the corner side street. There's also steps and another door to the house on that side.

I liked both of Rhoda’s apartments. So 70’s.

Very cool, R197!

The homes in The Americans.

Yeah. Interesting .R197

[quote] I love the Ozzie and Harriet house, gracious living at its finest.

The exterior shown in the opening credits was their actual home. It still exists today, right above Franklin in Hollywood.

And Meloni once owned it.

The Family Affair living room - so cozy!

My grandparent had furniture just like that ... the chairs, the coffee and end table, the lamps EVERYTHING.

R204 - that’s actually the den, and it is cozier than the sleeker living room.

Hercule Poirot's swinging bachelor pad

R1- They're second apartment only with the window in the living room.

The Gracious Bellamy townhouse at 165 Eaton Place, Belgravia, London.

Dev's apartment in Master of None

Hank's pad in Californication

I liked Mary Richard's place too. But I wouldn't have been as diligent as she was about folding her sleeper sofa up in the morning. I would have left it open and the whole place would have looked like a flop house. She was tidy and had that little dressing room. I love it when people make the most of the space they have and keep it looking right. I need to take note.

No matter what you think of the style of the apartment on Family Affair you have to admit they built a great set. Scenes set in the apartment never seemed claustrophobic and you always felt it was a real apartment. Well on TV anyway.

I do like Mrs Russell's self-effacing little place in The Gilded Age.

R178, the contents of the beds aside, the houses on Ramsay Street are not that nice. They are typical houses in the suburbs, of the type lots of working- and lower-middle class people owned when Neighbours started. Comfortable but without style. The cul-de-sac was a favourite feature of housing estates planning for lower-income buyers, until they discovered it was socially isolating (unless you happened to have a street full of busybodies like in Neighbours). Now cul-de-sacs only happen where the topography makes it inevitable, or in posh communities where people don't want to mix with the locals or catch public transport.

"Leave It To Beaver" in Mayfield, USA.

I liked the SoCal faux Tudor on Knots Landing (the Avery house), but all those drama queen neighbors would be a deal breaker.

Smurf's "Animal Kingdom" lair.

Andy Griffith's house.

The house on the OC

Oscar the Grouch’s garbage can on Sesame Street

Maybe not my favorite, but I really did like Carrie's apartment on SATC - how it was laid out.

I know it’s not TV, but the home of A Single Man.

I liked the Byrd's house on Ozark, but honestly that many naked windows would make me feel like a goldfish in a bowl.

I liked the house on “Maude.” The contemporary artwork and the wet bar. It was comfortable.

The huts on Gilligan's Island. I never understood why they wanted to leave.

R224 - The Skipper's uncontrolled flatulence, penchant for walking around naked, and sudden profanity-laden racist rants that came out of nowhere.

Good Times - Chicago projects

R222, I notice the same thing in all those Scandi noir shows, where the detectives all seem to live in glass houses in the woods, their entire family constantly on display to anyone outside, despite the fact that they're tracking serial killers all the time. (Detectives with families never have security doors, either. They throw open the front door every time someone knocks, and murderers rush in from all over the place.)