by The Simpsons house is perhaps one of the most recognizable houses on television. The famous cartoon family that never grows older has lived in Springfield for a whopping three decades. Perhaps most incredible, despite minor color changes to the home, the family does not appear to have made any major structural changes during this period.
But how might 742 Evergreen Terrace look in a different style? Well, someone has tested this and presented the Simpson family home in various styles of British homes, from a Tudor mansion to a 1990s new build. Suffice it to say these are some extreme makeovers (if you want to make blueprints for your own house, check out our picks of the best laptops for architects).
The Simpsons were meant to be a typical American family with a typical American home. How accurate the depiction is is debatable, but her Springfield home has become iconic and recognized around the world.
But what if they lived somewhere else… in the UK for example. The home improvement site HouseholdQuotes (opens in new tab) has envisioned how the world’s most popular television family might live if they were in the UK, and has reimagined the Simpsons’ iconic home in several British interior styles, in an exercise it describes as “part hopeful fantasy, part guide to British architectural history”. for anyone who does I don’t know their Tudor Manor from Burns Manor or Art Deco from Artie Ziff.
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The home renovations have attempted to preserve (more or less) the grandeur of the original Simpsons home, which is a lot larger than you might think. It’s hard to imagine Springfield’s best life in some of the houses, but others could be great ideas for one-off episodes. We would particularly like to see The Simpsons in a British Terrace or Semi.
Nonetheless, in all cases the similarities are similar enough to recognize it as the Simpsons’ residence. That’s partly thanks to the fact that the creators of the iconic series paid close attention to the design of every aspect of the characters and setting, and were very consistent and precise, as we can see in The Simpsons’ original style guide.
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