Brady Bunch house opens to fans with recreated sitcom scenes
Fans can now step into the Brady Bunch house’s recreated living room and staircase, after HGTV’s costly makeover turned the Studio City home into a ticketed nostalgia landmark.
ABC News’ Trevor Ault toured the Brady Bunch house as The Brady Experience opens the Studio City landmark to fans with semi-private, self-guided visits through recreated sitcom spaces. The attraction lets visitors see the living room, the famous staircase and other rooms built to echo the television home that millions remember from the show’s 1969 to 1974 run.
The draw is built on a television trick that lasted for decades: the house was used only for exterior shots, while the interior viewers saw on screen was a soundstage set, not the actual home. That gap between the real house and the fake one is now part of the appeal, giving fans a chance to walk through a property that became one of TV’s most recognizable façades.
HGTV bought the 1959-era house in 2018 for $3.5 million and spent nearly $2 million renovating it to resemble the Brady family set. The network turned the project into A Very Brady Renovation in 2019, with the original cast helping with the transformation, a blend of nostalgia television and real-estate spectacle that helped turn a suburban home into branded content.
The property’s market history has been just as dramatic. HGTV listed the house in May 2023 for $5.5 million, then sold it in September 2023 for $3.2 million to Tina Trahan, taking a loss both against its purchase price and far below asking. That gap underscored how the value of a famous home can be driven as much by cultural attention as by square footage or location.
The Los Angeles City Council approved historic status for the house in 2026, adding another layer of protection to a property that already carries unusual public interest. Tour proceeds are described as benefiting Wags and Walks, a rescue-dog charity, tying the home’s new life to a cause beyond nostalgia commerce.
The Brady Experience extends the house’s afterlife as a pop-culture asset, where the attraction is not just the television memory but the physical proof that a one-time set piece can still command attention, money and preservation more than 50 years later.
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