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The Simpsons Floor PlansOriginally by Chris BairdRevised by Tim Reardon
IntroductionThe following is a proposed floor plan of the Simpson family home. I came across this file, originated by Chris Baird, about a year ago and was really intrigued by it. One of my favorite hobbies is wood working and after reading this file, I was ready to build a doll house of 742 Evergreen Terrace. Unfortunately, I had more trouble building this than any others I had built before. It was really difficult getting everything to scale, but after several revisions, I came to this plan and all the rooms flowed together smoothly.As noted in the last revision of the floor plan, the home seemed to evolve through the earlier episodes. By the second season there was a really consistent floor plan, however, the directors are allowed to use their own artistic license and rearrange the house to fit a particular scene. For example, in "Hurricane Neddy", Lisa's bedroom faces the rear of the house so she can tell Homer, in the back yard, that a hurricane is coming. In "Lisa's Sax" her room faces the front of the house. When her saxophone gets thrown out the window, it lands in the street for cars to run over it. The directors relocated the room so it could happen. What I have here is the general floor plan, when it doesn't need to be arranged for a scene. It is also consistent with the floor plan of the house in "Virtual Springfield". I also wanted to compare this floor plan to the floor plan of the "real" Simpsons home in Las Vegas, which is included here. Bird's eye view of the property
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|| +===============================+ | | (- garage
|| /..... | | | #
front entrance ..... +=======|=======+ #
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(-- Flanders' property ..................................... #
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mailbox -) [] ...............
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-- The area of the roof above the garage is drawn differently
based on the angle the camera is from. Sometimes it appears to be
separate from the rest of the house. Side shots usually show it
separate, while front, rear, and overhead shots have shown it connected.
Apparently, the background artists haven�t agreed on how it should look
exactly. The above diagram is my proposition of how it could be made
so that most of the camera shots compliment each other. The slant
between the front of the house, and the rear up to the back landing is
the same. The area past the landing goes down further. The slant
towards the front of the garage meets the area behind it evenly. This
allows that part of the roof to look separate, and also gives a clear
shot of the tree house, which can always be seen in the reused
exterior shot of the house.
-- A wooden fence runs along Flanders' property and the back of the yard.
-- Usually two trees appear during the 'crane' shots of the house, but
Homer's hammock {7F06} requires a third, and occasionally a tree appears
near the back fence. In 7F04 there's a whole line of trees behind the
back fence.
-- For a really good look at the fence line and the backyard, see "Hungry
are the Damned".
-- The `gym-boree' appears in 7G04, 7F02, 8F14...
-- The Brick wall along the right-hand side of the property has a small
hill behind it which allows Bart to make the jump on his skateboard in
the opening.
Oblique view of the Backyard
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/ /
_-/ / / ________________________________
_- / __________________/ /\
/ / ,' / /// \
/ / /------------------/ / || |
/ / / .------------| | \|
/ / / / | |~|~| |~| | | ||
/ / /______________________________________/ | ~~~~~ ~~~ | | ||
/ / | |~~~~~| |~~~~~| |~~~~~| | | _ ______ | | |/
/ / | ------- ------- ------- | ||O| |~~~~| | |_/
/ / | _______ _______ | || | ------ | /
/ | |~~~~~| |~~~~~| | ||_|________|/
/ | ------- ------- | / /
/ |______________________________________|/ /
/ /
/____________/
The Basement
+--------------------------------|======+
| | hot water /~~~\ |======|
| / heater - \~~~/ |======|
| / |======|
|----/ omec indian head |======|
| |======|
| |======|
| ____ +---+|
|| | | || -washer and
|| | sink +---+| dryer
|| | sofa +------+ | ||
||----| | | +---+|
+--------------------+------+-----------+
-- The above is the most consistent model of the basement. It looks
different in "Bart Gets an Elephant" with a really tall ceiling.
In "Hurricane Neddy" it has an outdoor entrance which was never there
before.
-- Hot water heater.
-- Washing/Drying machine with a bin at its side.
-- Assorted boxes everywhere.
-- Cracks in the cement wall.
-- Unpanelled walls and bare crossmembers above head-height.
-- A pole besides the stairway.
-- Inconsistent with "Some Enchanted Evening", where Bart climbed a
cupboard at the bottom of the stairway in attempting to subdue Ms. Botz
with a bowling ball.
-- Various props from old episodes appear from time to time, such as
Homer's Santa Clause suit and Bart's soapbox racer.
-- Keep in mind, in "Trash of the Titans" the house gets moved without
the basement, however, the basement in episodes since then looks the
same.
Ground level
+-----=====---------+-----=====-----+
| | +
+-====--====+ | Rumpus Room !
| Kitchen | +
+ Family - +---====--------+
! Room | Side Hall |
+ +-------+-----| |-+-----====------+
| +===+ | | |
|-+---| |---+ ===| | |
| | | ===| Dining | |
| +-+ Living - ===| Room | |
| | Room ===| | |
|-+-+ - Foyer | |
| | - | Garage |
+--\_____/--+-=====-+--\_____/--+ |
| |
+===============+
Garage (Car Hold according to Moe)
-- In the Introduction, Homer runs for his life through a exit into the
house.
-- The automatic door: In the first season this swung open, in the 2nd and
3rd it winds up. (An obvious flaw with the "Raiders" sequence in 8F22.)
Objects:
-- A power box to the left of the doorway.
-- A spare tire and shelves appear during the intro.
-- Homer's workbench occasionally appears.
1st season:
-- Oil slick
-- Partition.
-- Bicycle (probably Homer's).
-- Black and yellow boxes at the rear of the garage.
2nd season:
-- The partition has been removed
-- A rake leaning against the back wall, 2 large boxes, and a tool rack.
When Marge tries to run Homer over during the introduction, the two large
boxes are missing, but when Homer makes his escape through the door the black
and yellow boxes from the 1st season are there.
In "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge" a staircase is seen in the garage. This was
another example of artistic license. Maggie just needed to get above Homer
so she could bat him with the mallet. It was just there for that one scene.
The TV room
window
+-------+===/===+-------+
plant--) |() |~~~~~~~| |
recession--)[ | TV | ---! (--window
| --------- | !
- | - stereo
---!
(-living room |
|
- __________ #
| || ||__ # (-- back door
| || couch ||||-stand #
lamp--)|()|__________|-- #
+----------------| |+
\kitchen/
-- Has three entrances (the Back door, from the Kitchen and the Living
room).
-- Painting of a forest/boat behind the couch (in the first/second season
respectively).
Objects:
-- The Couch (brown in color)
-- Mouse hole (Intro)
-- Side table next to the couch (Intro)
-- Lamp besides the couch (2nd season onwards)
-- Telephone (red/green/aqua). Usually Aqua in the latter episodes.
-- Large rug with a concentric circle pattern.
-- TV.
-- Stereo system and bookshelves (underneath the window looking out onto
the backyard).
-- Magazine holder near Lamp stand.
The Foyer
+---------------+
| closet |
+========+ |
| | to basement (possibly)
| +==/===|
|clock-|-|======| (-- stairway
| |_|======|
- |--|======|
drawers - | |======|
|__|======|
(( Living room |======|
-
- Dining room ))
|
| -
small table --)||-| ()|(-- coat rack
+---====\====---+
front door
-- The door next to the stairway is usually either a closet, or
the entrance to the basement. I assume that it is both. Coats can
be hung in the front, and the basement entrance is around the side.
In several episodes, such as "The Day the Violence Died" another
staircase is above the staircase going down to the basement. This
would be consistent with the above model.
-- The front door is near the bottom of the stairs.
-- Several pictures (Baby Bart, one of Marge's ancestors, Bart & Lisa..)
up the staircase.
-- Foot mat at top of stairs.
-- A chandelier
The Living room
piano fireplace
+---/----+--/--+--------+
||_____| | | \ |-trophy case
| ~~~~~~~ --|
/ |
/ -
bay | ___________
window | | | | | --) TV room
| | | couch | |
\ |___________| -
\ |
| ___ |-----||-desk
table-||___| |_____||
+-------| |-------+
\Foyer/
The Dining room
^ foyer recessed shelves
+---| |----/~~~~~~~~~~~~~\--+
| |
| |
/ .---------------. |
/ | | |
bay | | dining table | -
window | | |
| | | --) kitchen
\ `---------------'
\ -
| ___________ |
| |___________| |
+-------------------------------+
-- Three bulb chandelier above table.
-- light switch near entrance to foyer.
-- The recessed shelf:
- Salt and pepper shakers.
- Crockery.
-- Chest of drawers and a abstract painting above it.
-- Mirror near to the exit to kitchen.
The Kitchen
window dishwasher
+---+---/---|=======|---+------+--------+
| | | | | oven | |
||-|+-------|_sinks_|---+------+----+ |
microwave --) ||_|| | |
+---+ ________ +---+
/ \ |----||
(( TV room (( / \ | ||--fridge
| table | |____||
- \ / +---+
| \__________/
|__ ___________ )) side hall ))
corner --) | \ |___________|
ornaments +-------------------------| |-----+
^ cabinets \dining room/
-- A telephone on wall besides the fridge.
-- The second and third seasons have a green refrigerator, with a painting
of a house on the door.
-- A Microwave oven near the exit to the TV room. (Presumably so the
family can heat up their dinner without having to move too far from the
tube?)
-- Color scheme: dark gray ceiling, light gray walls, checkered floor.
Objects and utensils on the kitchen bench tops
-- Blender
-- Spice Rack
-- Toaster (single slice)
-- Spoons in a container
-- The proverbial coffee machine
-- Fork rack
-- Microwave oven
-- Paper towel dispense
-- Cornflower/cornstarch canisters
-- Oven (4 hot plates) {in the 1st season it was a gas model}
-- Exhaust hood above the oven
-- A cork board besides the fridge, often with an abstract portrait of
Bart.
-- Dishwasher besides the sink, and dish-rack.
-- The sink has two tubs.
-- Cookbook
-- Curtains with a corn cob pattern
Ornaments in the corner of the room:
-- Recessed shelves
-- A corner table with a ceramic chook
-- Above the table is a three-tiered macram� pot plant holder (& plants)
-- A clock with a star-shaped face
Rumpus Room and side hall
window built-in cabinets
+-----------====/====-----/-----+
|_______________________________|
| +
toy box-||---| |-----| !
||___| |_____|-TV and ! (-- window
||----| table !
cabinets-|| | ---- +
||____| |____| |
+-------=======----\------------+
credenza |
(( kitchen (( |
|
+---::\::---===\====------------+
hat rack door to garage
-- The rumpus room has only been seen in a few episodes. It is seen
in "Three Men and a Comic Book", "Separate Vocations", and "Lady
Bouvier's Lover". The above diagram is consistent with those
episodes. In "Radio Bart" it is seen, but looks different (no
built in cabinets. In "The Canine Mutiny" Laddie flushs a toilet
where the rumpus room would have been. Since the room hadn't been
seen in a long time, it is possible it could have been remodeled
as a bathroom, but most likely it was another example of artistic
license.
Objects:
-- Growth chart
-- Beanbag chairs
-- plastic table + small portable TV (with no power cord)
-- A toy box (Happy little elf & Binky dolls)
-- tic-tac-toe rug
-- dart board
-- Curtains with green blotches on them
Second Floor
+-----=====-+---=====---+-=====-----+
| | | | |
+-====--====+ Lisa's | Bart's | | |
| Bath | + Room | Room +-| Bath |
+ | ! | ! | |
! +-----+-+ | + | |
+===+=======+--------===+===----+---+-+-----===-+
| ! ! |
| Homer +----===+----===----+--===--+--===--+
| and | ===| | | |
| Marge's | ===| Maggie's | | |
| Room | ===| Room | | |
| | | +-------+-=====-+
| | | |
+--=======--+-------+--=======--+
West Hallway
to Lisa's Room to Bart's Room
+----------------===\===---===\===------+
! !
to parents' ! ! - to east
bedroom- ! ! hallway
+~~~/~~~~|======|--------===\===--------+
railing stairs to Maggie's Room
Parents' bedroom
+----+-----+----+
| | | |
+===\===+====+==\==+====+
|to bathroom closets !
night ||--| ! -to hall
stand-||__| !
||------------| +
|| | | |
|| | | |----|
|| | bed | | |
|| | | | |- Marge's dresser
||__|_________| | |
night ||--| | |
stand-||__| |----|
| |
||-------| |-----||
Homer's || | || |||- chair
dresser-||_______| |_____||
+-----=====\=======-----+
sliding windows
Objects:
-- Bin
-- dressing table
-- Perfume bottle on the dressing table (similar to the one in Lisa's
room)
-- Entrance to the bathroom
Parents' bathroom
built over windows
_________ _________
+-----+------+------+---+
|( )| | | |
|_____| |shower| |
| sink |______| +
+ | !
! toilet ()[]| !-Lisa's closet
window-! +----+-----++---+
! | | | |
+===\===+====+==\==+====+
to bedroom closets
-- Two windows appear from the outside, but not from the inside.
Perhaps the bathroom was built later on. Occasionally the fake
windows are used ("Homer the Great", "Bart Carny") but this is
probably another example of artistic liscence.
Lisa's bedroom
desk w/ mirror window
+------\----===/=====---+
| |-------| |
| |_______| |
| |-------|-||
+---+|-| | bed | ||
| || |- book | | ||
| || | case |_______|_||
closet-| +|_| |--||- night
| ! |__|| stand
| ! |
+---+ |----------| ()|- music
| |__________| | stand
+---------------===\===-+
to hall
-- Lisa's room normally faces the rear of the house and is usually
the first door on the left. The window is off-centered to the right.
This shows that it is not intended to be the room over the dining
room, as that window is centered. In "Lisa the Simpson" Lisa's room
switches from the rear to the front (in the same episode). With the
centered window, her desk had to be moved.
-- The placement of the doors in the hallway can indicate where Bart
and Lisa's rooms are suppose to be. Lisa's door is to the left (inside)
and Bart's is to the right. In the hallway there are 2 doors next to
each other toward the rear of the house which fits.
-- We also know that Bart's room faces the rear of the house, so he can
leap to his tree house from the window.
-- In "Home Sweet Home-Dum-didily-doodily" a sad Marge and Homer look
at the kids' empty bedrooms. This would be a good model to follow,
because there was no reason to rearrange the rooms for that scene.
Bart's bedroom
Krusty
poster window
+---/---====/====-------+
| |----| |- book
night- ||--| |____| | case
stand ||__| |
||-|-------| |-|
|| | bed | | |- desk
|| | | | +---+
||_|_______| |-+ |
night- ||--| ! |
stand ||__| ! |- closet
| |--------| + |
| |________| | |
+-===/===-------\-------+---+
to hall dresser
Objects:
-- Krusty Alarm clock.
-- Photograph of Krusty at his bedside.
-- Airplane mobile.
Maggie's bedroom
to hall
+--------===/===--------+
||------| |
||______| -changing |
| table -|- |
||-| | | - swing-a-ma-gig
|| |- diaper -|- |
||_| pail |
| |--|
||----| |------|| | - shelves
crib- || | | play ||__|
|| | | pen | |
||____| |______| |
+-----======\======-----+
sliding windows
-- Curtains with mushrooms on them
-- Decorations of the Happy Little Elves Train and Mushrooms
-- No closet
Bathroom
window
+====/===-----------+
|~~~~~~~~~~~| |
| bath tub | |
| | |
|~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| |--|
|----| | | -shelf w/
| 0 |- sink |__| towels
|____| |
| |
|[]() - toilet |
| |
+---------===\===---+
to hall
-- Blue tiles
-- Fish on the wall above the toilet
-- A really dirty rug
East Hallway and two small rooms
to bathroom
+---------------------===/===---+
! |
to west hallway- ! |
! door door |
+----===/===----+----===/===----+
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+---------------+---====/====---+
window
-- These two small rooms are speculated. In the Tracey Ullman shorts
many scenes take place in small, non-descript rooms with minimal
amounts of furniture. There might just be a table and a picture
of Marge frowning on the wall. These rooms could also be used as a
walk- in linen closet or laundry room (if the house didn't have a
basement.)
-- The bathroom must be to the rear of the house, as there is no gas
pipe in the front. The model in "Virtual Springfield" seems as if
the bathroom is directly behind the door at the end of the hallway.
Yet if this were the case the bathroom would be huge. Also, from
the inside, the bathroom doesn't appear at the end of the hall, but
on a side.
The Attic
-- The attic has never looked the same from episode to episode.
It is seen in "Brush With Greatness", "The Thing and I",
"Lisa the Simpson" and "Homer to the Max". In "Brush with
Greatness" the attic has a full ceiling entrance and windows.
This really couldn't work since there is nowhere the stairs
could be situated and no windows from the roof can be seen
outside. The background artist realizing this, gave the attic
a ceiling entrance in "The Thing and I". A large window could
be seen, yet it was probably there to give the scene it's spooky
atmosphere. In "Homer to the Max" a window from the attic
appears to the right of the chimney, despite that that side of
the house has been seen hundreds of times before without the
window.
-- In the first clip show, the roof get blown off the house, so
the attic was probably rebuilt.
Floor plan of the "real" Simpsons home
-- Although making a real house based on the Simpsons' house was a great
idea, the final results were a little disapointing. The biggest problem
was that the lot used was too small. The garage had to be relocated.
The side hall is taken out and the kitchen leads directly into the
rumpus room.
-- The other rooms looked pretty good. The family room and kitchen were
pretty accuarate.
+-----=======-------+-+
| | |
+---=====----|---|-+ +-+--========----+
| | | |
| - | |
! KITCHEN | |
! - | |
! T.V. ROOM | | |
| | - RUMPUS |
| | ROOM |
| |-----+----| |---+ |
| |=====| | |
+----| |---+---+=====| | |
| | |=====| | |
| +===+=====| | |
| LIVING - =====| | |------------+
|--| =====| DINING | LNDRY |
| | =====| | |
| | - =====| | |
|--| | ENTRY - |====------------+
| | | |
+---\______/---+====+\______/-+--------+ |
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| 2 CAR GARAGE |
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+-=======================-+
-- The second floor wasn't even close, especailly the parents'
bed room.
+----=====-----+-------+
| | |
| |MASTER |
+-----------+--------+ BEDROOM 3 |BATH +-===+----------+
| | | (LISA'S) | | |
| BATH | WIC ! | | WIC |
| | ! | | |
| | | | | |
| +--+--------+----------====+----+--====-+---====---+
| ! HALL ! !
+--------++====+ =====+====+---------+ !
| | | =====| | | |
+-=======-+ | =====| +-=======-+ |
| | =====| | |
| | =====| | |
| +-----=====| | |
| | =====| | |
+-+ | =====| | |
| | BEDROOM 4 | =====| BEDROOM 2 | MASTER BEDROOM |
+-+ (BART'S) | =====| (MAGGIE'S) | (HOMER AND |
| | | | MARGE'S) |
| | | | !
| | | | !
+---=========--+------====+====----------+------------------+
Elsewhere in SpringfieldMr Burns' office
+---------------------+
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[ |~~~~~~| |
security [ ------ |
monitors [ |
[ |
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|_______ ________|
-- Stuffed and mounted Polar Bear
-- The books on his desk (usually facing outwards)
-- A window looking out over the SNPP's cooling towers/power transformers.
-- Security monitors (colour in "Stark Raving Dad", but usually B&W)
-- A large clock above the entrance to the room. {"Blood Feud", "Homer
Defined"}
Moe's Tavern
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| |
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| pool table |
| |
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swinging/ |
doors / |
\ /~\ /~\ /~\ /~\ /~\ /~\ |
\ \_/ \_/stools \_/ \_/ \_/ |
|+--+ +--------------------------------+ |
|| | | bar | || Duff
|| | | +----------------------------| || poster
|+--+ | | | | ||
| | | | X | |
+-----------+---+------------------------+---+-----------+
^-telephone
Objects:
-- Cigarette machine
-- ``The Love Tester'' in "Flaming Moe's".
-- Barney Gumble
-- The mechanical Bull, "Flaming Moe's"
CONTRIBUTORS
Raymond Chen
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