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Post by Kathy Lee on Apr 8, 2014 5:26:10 GMT -5
Have you ever wondered about that living room door in the show that no one ever went near? In my family, we have always called the door by the staircase....The Walton Mystery Door! No one ever went in or ever came out! It looks like it goes into Grandma and Grandpa's room. Or, maybe it is a closet? Or....what could be behind that door?  ?? But, no one ever uses that door. No one goes near it! No one looks at it!!!!!!! What is behind that door? Did they ever open it? Was the great mystery ever revealed? |
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Post by goodnight on Apr 8, 2014 6:58:32 GMT -5
In the post series movie where Erin got married. Paul was getting ready in Grandma's room and I think I saw his dad come through that door into the room. Otherwise I would think it was a closet. I've wondered about the one by the stove as well, but I'm pretty sure that one is a pantry or a broom closet or both, maybe even an interior entrance to the cellar.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 8:48:20 GMT -5
Grandma comes out of it in the episode where Jim bob and Jason are playing cards in the living room.
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Post by married2oldfool on Apr 8, 2014 12:18:11 GMT -5
Here's a photo of the house floor plan. Sorry it's so small. There is a door leading out from the far side of the stove and hot water heater. I read that this is a doorway leading to a pantry. There is also a door on the other side of the kitchen next to where the fridge sits. Then there's the doorway leading to the mud room on the other side of the bay window. I did some research on their floor plan because my husband and I considered this (with a few tweaks) when we were building our house.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 12:27:20 GMT -5
I thought every house had a secret door? Mine leads to the attic and I've never been through it! (seriously). I used to watch "Friends" and it was revealed later that the apartment actually had 3 bedrooms and no one knew it. Monica had been using it for storage, but that door had been there all along and was never seen opened.
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Post by Kathy Lee on Apr 8, 2014 17:21:22 GMT -5
Here's a photo of the house floor plan. Sorry it's so small. There is a door leading out from the far side of the stove and hot water heater. I read that this is a doorway leading to a pantry. There is also a door on the other side of the kitchen next to where the fridge sits. Then there's the doorway leading to the mud room on the other side of the bay window. I did some research on their floor plan because my husband and I considered this (with a few tweaks) when we were building our house. Thanks for the floor plan. Fun to look at! The Hamner home is so much smaller. A simple front porch about half what is on the show. Downstairs there is a modest living room, the parents bedroom off the living room, a bathroom, and the kitchen across the back. Upstairs there are two bedrooms and a small hallway. If anyone had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, they had to come downstairs! The house was a company house and it was probably cheaper to keep the bathroom on the first floor. Also, the yard is very small. The front yard is a long, skinny triangle. I think I remember Earl Hamner saying that his whole house would have fit into the film set's living room! |
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Post by eclectic on Apr 9, 2014 14:55:05 GMT -5
I never saw anyone use that door next to the water heater in the kitchen.
Married2OldFool, do you have a plan for the second floor? I love looking at house floor plans.
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Post by married2oldfool on Apr 9, 2014 19:39:36 GMT -5
For some reason when I try to attach a copy of the floor plans, it turns out really small. I opened it with "paint" and enlarged it, saved it but when I come here to attach it, it still comes out small...so I just pasted the links here for the 1st floor and the 2nd floor. The 2nd floor is a typical "stage" because they moved walls around to change the girls' bedroom to John & Olivia's bedroom. www.rockfish-river.com/en/floor-plan-first-floor.htmlwww.rockfish-river.com/en/floor-plan-second-floor.htmlAlso, check out their Walton family tree diagram. |
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Post by Sussie of Teckelhut Acres on Apr 9, 2014 21:34:43 GMT -5
I always just figured it was the door to Grandma and Grandpa's room.
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Post by Kathy Lee on Apr 10, 2014 5:11:37 GMT -5
I always just figured it was the door to Grandma and Grandpa's room. I thought the same thing but it never seemed practical for them to go up the steps and around and down if they had a door straight through. Also, didn't they have their dresser on that wall? It seems like it is about were the door would be. Still a deep, dark mystery!!!! |
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Post by flyaway on Apr 10, 2014 5:30:24 GMT -5
I never saw anyone use that door next to the water heater in the kitchen. Married2OldFool, do you have a plan for the second floor? I love looking at house floor plans. I believe that the door was used. Once I saw Olivia or Grandma open it and take out a broom , or was it putting the broom away. Never did see anyone use the door by the fridge. Did see the door in the living room used, it lead to Grandma's and Grandpa's room. |
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Apr 10, 2014 8:04:12 GMT -5
I never saw anyone use that door next to the water heater in the kitchen. Married2OldFool, do you have a plan for the second floor? I love looking at house floor plans. I believe that the door was used. Once I saw Olivia or Grandma open it and take out a broom , or was it putting the broom away. Never did see anyone use the door by the fridge. Did see the door in the living room used, it lead to Grandma's and Grandpa's room.
On July 31st, 2013 someone asked Mary McDonough (Erin) the following: I never saw the door in the kitchen opened that was by the stove. What was behind that door? Mary's reply was, "The prop room. It went nowhere!"
Eric Scott (Ben) has mentioned the door in the living room before. It was a door to grandma & grandpa's room (which they have shown someone coming out of it in two or so episodes-I know I have seen Grandpa come out of it). Eric said that they also used it for something else. I don't remember his exact words (nor did I write them down like I did Mary's) but it was something about storing equipment or putting camera equipment or such in when not filming in the grandparent's bedroom.
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Post by Sussie of Teckelhut Acres on Apr 10, 2014 9:57:09 GMT -5
I always just figured it was the door to Grandma and Grandpa's room. I thought the same thing but it never seemed practical for them to go up the steps and around and down if they had a door straight through. Also, didn't they have their dresser on that wall? It seems like it is about were the door would be. Still a deep, dark mystery!!!! True. But if you look at the house overall and the fact that the steps had them going up, I always felt it was that the house had been added on to and they were living in that addition. In external photos of the house,you can see the addition off to the left of the house. The original roof stops where that extension begins. |
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Post by Marilyn on Apr 10, 2014 12:46:32 GMT -5
If you click on the floorplan, it's plenty big enough. I don't think the kitchen is at an angle like that though? Also, one day Grandpa came down the steps into his bedroom and opened up that door on that wall between his room and the living room and it was a closet. He grabbed a bunch of clothes out of that closet. There isn't room on that wall for a closet and a door into the living room and like Scarlett said, Grandma came out that door one night when the boys were in the living room playing a board game. Just another gaff made by the set people.
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Post by Marilyn on Apr 10, 2014 12:48:35 GMT -5
I always just figured it was the door to Grandma and Grandpa's room. I thought the same thing but it never seemed practical for them to go up the steps and around and down if they had a door straight through. Also, didn't they have their dresser on that wall? It seems like it is about were the door would be. Still a deep, dark mystery!!!! |
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