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Confused about the layout of the house


More specifically, Dan and Roseanne's bedroom and how it aligns with the living room. Based on where the entrance to the bedroom is, does it appear to anyone else as if their bedroom window is where the living room wall (behind the couch) is supposed to be?

This has always itched at me. I've been known to have a poor sense of direction, so please correct me if I am wrong.

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This has been discussed to death on here. there are a few people who have drawn up plans for 714 Delaware (google image search "Roseanne sitcom house" maybe add "plans/layout"), but trying to accommodate what we see versus what is actually feasible in reality is a hard task. the stage set floorplan could NOT fit into the external house we see.
(there are actual inside pics of the real house in Evansville online, from when it was for sale, several years ago.)


Here's one layout: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/368098969516914800/
another take: https://thirdanddelaware.wordpress.com/category/roseanne-floor-plan/
I have to disagree with the placement of the Master Bedroom, widening the living room to run across nearly the whole front of the house, only allowing for the front closet and stairs. Master bedroom should be behind that, in the back left of the house.

The kitchen placement is angled wrong, as well, as we're shown the back windows (over the sink and past the laundry/mud room) face the back yard, toward the garage off the back right corner of the house. The stove should be against the right hand wall (aka 4th/audience wall), same as TV (and s1 basement stairs), alongside the driveway. There is an early scene where the camera seems to be placed in the kitchen doorway and we get an obviously fake wall extending the wall to laundry room well past the back of the stove. Even allowing extra space for an "open stairwell" placed behind stove, this wall extends too far out. Also, a few scenes taking place in laundry room (eg: DJ revives the frozen bee), when the camera is "outside", you can clearly see through to the front door, or at least the easy chair by the door.



So people can play around with architecture programs all they want, but recreating it in Sims Freeplay, this was the best layout I could come up with. even after a slight remodel when 1x hallways were added, I had to fudge a few things to get it even close to what we see on TV. Forget the porch, we still don't have those. patio+balcony is closest and that still doesn't work.
(Sorry, I can't post pics of my layout, BUT Dan's closet door is the one that opens to hallway, not the actual hallway we see between pantry and stairwell. hell, I didn't even have room for the master bath door and a tub (1x3), so they get two 1x1 showers instead! LOL)

Then upstairs and downstairs are a bit more vague, so in my SFP, I left half the basement unfinished and made two bedrooms, one close to what we see all the time, the other her writing room. Upstairs has to be a U-shape, with the shared bathroom separating the two rooms. I know someone recently claimed they had TWO upstairs bathrooms, but there is only mention of ONE bathroom upstairs connecting the bedrooms throughout, esp in "Nine is Enough". and of course, none down in basement, as NIE posits the master bath is the only working one since the upstairs bath is out of order. (David frequently uses the master bath when he lives downstairs.)


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