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What Is the Most Popular TV Home Design Ever?

We all love the homes on television so home builders might want to know which are the ones Americans would most like to live in.

Yes, they’re not real people and real homes – some of them are just facades and these days they may even be computer generated – but when a research company asked 2,000 Americans if they would swap their current homes for one of the ones on TV, almost half of them said absolutely.

The designs of the most popular TV homes say a lot about home building trends as classic looks dominated the list, regardless of which television characters they were associated with. And curiously, the desire to live in one of these houses breaks with demographic stereotypes. Gen Zers and millennials were the most anxious to move in, but Gen X members were less enthusiastic, and boomers were the least – all of which may reflect the current home status of the respondents.

So, what were the top houses on this list “we most want to live in?”

  1. “Full House” – The Tanner family’s Victorian home in San Francisco
  2. “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” – The Banks’ mansion in Bel Air, CA
  3. “The Golden Girls” – Blanche’s home in Miami
  4. “Friends” – Monica’s purple apartment in New York
  5. “Bridgerton” – The Bridgerton mansion in London
  6. “The Brady Bunch” – The iconic mid-century home in Los Angeles
  7. “Big Little Lies” – Celeste’s beachfront mansion in Monterey, CA
  8. “The Sopranos” – Tony Soprano’s New Jersey mansion
  9. “Breaking Bad” – Walter White’s house in Albuquerque
  10. “The Simpsons” – 742 Evergreen Terrace in Springfield

Other top 20 homes include Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment from “The Big Bang Theory,” the White House from “Veep,” and the New York City apartments from “Seinfeld” and “Sex in the City.” A few less expected choices turned up: the “Stranger Things” cabin and the mansion from “The Haunting of Hill House”.

The survey, by Talker Research, is based on an online questionnaire to 1,000 men and 1,000 women conducted earlier this year.

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