How many people loved the guesthouse and tried to decorate their own apartments in a similar fashion? I always tried to take note of the furnishings and pictures so I could possibly get something similar in my first apartment, years ago. I just realized that it was also immaculate considering a toddler lived there. Ah well, the magic of TV.
shareI loved the guest house. I wanted my parents to build one for me in our back yard! It was so cute and homey. And yes, it was immaculate. Do you recall Kate picking a few things up each time she'd stop in?
shareI loved this show as a child and teenager. I wanted to live in the guesthouse and in Pasadena.
shareUnfortunately, the guest house comes with that meddling sourpuss, Kate.
shareKate and Nancy do argue a lot, but I used to wish for parents like Doug and Kate! And Nancy had it made as a single mom -- no rent or utility bills, built-in babysitters. Remember the episode where her car wouldn't start? She took Kate's! God, in my single parent days, if my car wouldn't start I took the bus or walked. If I'd gone to my parents' house and taken their cars without permission like Nancy did, they'd have been furious!
shareI loved the guest house too...it ranked right up there with the house on APPLE'S WAY, still my favorite TV house.
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I LOVED LOVED LOVED the entire house guest house and all.
I cracked up laughing on the first disc the episode where Doug is offered this huge raise and the family would have to move to New York.
Kate says she'll call in the real estate to see how much the house is worth.
Well, the real estate agent comes in and says $90,000.00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kate says, are you sure, that much????
The agent says well you have the guest house, but you would have gotten more if you had a pool, and you have no pool.
Can you imagine what that house would be worth today????
One of the things that I loved most was the staircase that came down directly to the kitchen.
I would love to have that house and restore it as much as possible to the way it was. But I'm obsessive that way...
shareI enjoy the guest house for the fact that it's so clearly not a part of the same property, and once it suddenly appears in season 2, they go to great pains to never show the whole back yard, and people heading toward it suddenly come out from behind hedges and things that wouldn't be there. Quite amusing. Same paint as the main house, same shingle siding, but clearly on a different property.
shareFunny, I used to watch this show religiously but cannot recall Nancy's guest house. What was so special about it?
Wish they would bring it back, would love to see it again - good show!
I was living at home & attending college then (when the show was on prime-time) and I wanted so much to have my own place that was just like Nancy's. I liked the pictures on the wall, the curtains over the door, the "funky" furniture, the plants everywhere. It was just the kind of starter-home I wanted. Now, it does seems a bit small and cramped, and the kitchen is little more than a galley. But I still love it.
shareFunny they didn't have a guest house in the episode where Kate's mother Hattie came to visit and it was determined that she was too old to live by herself. Her only options were a nursing home or to live in her farmhouse with hired help since she and Kate couldn't live under the same roof. No mention of a guesthouse then, though what a perfect solution.
shareThe only son was Willy (the Lawrences' other son had drowned as a child). He moved into the guesthouse alone after Nancy moved into her own apartment. Willy did indeed fall in love and marry, in a tear-jerking 2-part episode. His bride was suffering from radiation poisoning and died. I believe they lived in her apartment and not in the guesthouse.
shareThe apartment that Willy and his wife lived in was the same apartment set that Jeff lived in. I recognized the tiles on the steps.
The actress who played Willy's wife, Brooke Adams, is married to Tony Shaloub of Monk.
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I remember that! But I also recall Nancy's apartment, the one she moved into once she became a lawyer and moved out of the guest house, was also the same apartment as Willie's/Lizzie's/Jeff's. I could be wrong, but I think the producers must have figured "Hey, we have this set, why not use it?"
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