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Post by JeriJet on Jun 20, 2012 23:36:27 GMT -5
Every time I see a full shot of the first floor from the kitchen, I wonder where the load-bearing wall is... Bwaaahaaaa! Yeah. I put all my faith in that column at the end of the stairs, by the desk.....
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Post by glenn on Jun 21, 2012 0:53:55 GMT -5
Yes, the house used for filming was just a shell... Glenn, the doorway into Zeb's bedroom is right at the first landing of the staircase, putting the bedroom at the front of the house. In the living room, you can also see the other door that goes into their bedroom. You're right, Marilyn, I guess I got mixed up. All things considered, the interior shots seem to have more distance than the actual shell of the house, which was probably a necessity for the producers and the film crew at the time.
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Post by JeriJet on Jun 21, 2012 7:33:46 GMT -5
FYI, interior shots are just about always done in a sound studio somewhere..... impossible to get good camera angles otherwise.....
It's fun to note that walls of a room are almost never at 90-degree angles. The Waltons living room is a good example of that -- look at the front wall, the right side/piano wall, then the radio wall ?! What? Add in the desk/fireplace wall and the "left" wall, and you've got a pentagon..... In my drawings, I simply make the radio wall somewhat less wide (as it was in early episodes) and actually on the same plane as the fireplace wall.......
Another nightmare living room to draw is the Taylor home in Mayberry. And, forget Jessica Fletcher's main floor -- impossible !!! M*A*S*H on the other hand is easy -- it's all tents !!!
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Post by goldenslumbers on Jun 21, 2012 7:53:52 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this.
I like the flow of the floorplan, too, Marilyn, but as others have said, it's dangerous in absence of load-bearing walls.
Even as a plan for a single-story domicle, it is insufficient in other ways. This house would be an icebox all winter long. The number of wall surfaces (especially in the left rear portion of the plan) makes the plan extremely inefficient relative to heat. How would any heat generated via fireplace be circulated? The wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove is in a very dangerous location. If there's an unexpected fire in the trap, the fuel of that fire cannot be pushed outside. It'd have to be carried through the house! It'd also be very difficult to electrify the house.
That aside, it's almost unfathomable as to why the Waltons house didn't have a second bathroom. ELEVEN people sharing one bathroom? My forebears had one bathroom for eight people, which was difficult enough apparently, but one bathroom for ELEVEN? Did the Waltons have outhouses? How about a shower tap on the outside of the house? Something.
When they rebuilt the house after it burned down, there's no way that John Sr. wouldn't have added a second bath...
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Post by glenn on Jun 21, 2012 15:48:31 GMT -5
I'm sure that in real life, the Waltons would have had an outhouse....back then, everyone had an outhouse, even some people living in town. When I was a small kid growing up in the 60's and early 70's I saw the occasional outhouse in a town where we lived, and that's no lie. I think the producers of the Waltons left that out for sake of modesty.....too bad there was no episode where someone pushed over an outhouse as a joke, which was common at the time.
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Post by marylou01 on Jun 21, 2012 16:57:43 GMT -5
My granny had an outhouse! It was 1980 before she had a bathroom built! When I was little/tween I was afraid of falling in!!! We kids use to "sneak" in the outhouse and smoke cigs we got from an aunt. After smoking I came across the foot bridge towards granny's house and mom opened the back sceen door & asked if I smoked all that cig! I didn't realize they could see the smoke going out the cracks in the outhouse!
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Post by Marilyn on Jun 21, 2012 17:44:27 GMT -5
I've gone through some of these old abandoned farm houses in North Dakota where the winters are wicked and they have almost zero insulation. I noticed some had newspapers stuck in the walls. We rented a farm house many years ago that had one heat source and that was a propane gas burning stove in the living room. We had to open floor vents to the second floor to get heat to go up there from the living room. You don't know what COLD is until you step out of bed in the middle of winter and put your bare foot on a vinyl floor! I remember sleeping with sweats on and a stocking cap.
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Post by River on Jun 22, 2012 7:56:37 GMT -5
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Post by star2012 on Jun 23, 2012 16:02:32 GMT -5
love the Floor plan - Thanks for uploading it on here.its the strangest shapes for a housing plan i've seen!
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Post by Tracey on Jun 23, 2012 20:59:39 GMT -5
The girls room was usually the same set as the parents just different decorating. The boys and John-boys stayed the same according from Eric Scott (Ben Walton)
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Post by rickking on Sept 8, 2020 22:16:59 GMT -5
I found these Waltons House diagrams someplace, I remember not where.
The first floor is quite detailed, and makes totaly sense to me.
The second floor is a bit problematic. I did make some enhancements, but there are numerous problems. Mainly, there are only two bedrooms in the front of the house. I think John and Olivia's bedroom was in the middle, between John-Boy's and the girls' room. The boys' bedroom was in the back. And you can see where the stairs and bathroom are.
These are nothing perfect, but might help answer a few questions.
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