My favorite by far is the girls apartment in Friends.

Oh, I always wanted Mary Richards' studio apartment. And life! I was a teen when this show was on, and everything about her place was so cool. Rhoda's place upstairs was a little groovier - bold colors, eclectic. And I think I am a (frustrated) window designer just like her!
I am now more Rho than Mar (pronounced 'Mare')!
Thanks for all the photos!

But what about The Donna Reed Show house and Gidget's house???

gilmore girls!

My favorite was always Buffy's house from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A totally relaxed, warm, Arts and Crafts bungalow with original woodwork, cute built-ins, and a huge kitchen. It just oozed "home".

How did I forget the Gilmore Girls?! Love that house! Esp. Rory's bedroom where she has all her books hidden and organized in drawers, under the bed etc.

I still love the Boy Meets World apartment though -- that is EXACTLY what I dreamed my first apartment would look like when I was in middle school and would rush home to watch BMW every day.

Family Ties!

Hands down, my favorite TV domicile -- Jim Rockford's trailer in "The Rockford Files." Weather-beaten as hell, but inside it was so cozy, from the cushy leather couch to the cookie jar on the counter (where he kept his gun) to that black-and white photo of his dad Rocky on the desk. Classic!

I'm surprised no one mentioned the house from original Dick Van Dyke show, with their elegant Danish Modern living room and Eames(ish) dinette set. The perfect setting to invite Buddy and Sally over and put on a show in the living room.

Clarissa Darling had THE BEST room. Ugh, I was so jealous.

Edina's townhouse (in any of its decor incarnations) from AbFab.

And the Bob Newhart apartment when Suzanne Pleshette redecorated.

My BF is obsessed with the house from Charmed.

How did the Cosby house not make the list?

Jessica Swanlake - I'm totally with you on Buffy's house. I especially loved the upstairs bedrooms.

i mentioned it on the other post, but i want to live at fisher & sons (6 ft under). i would love to have ruth's kitchen. actually, i would be thrilled just to have the studio above the garage.

For the saddest apartment ever- poor Ralph and Alice Kramden's cold water flat in "The Honeymooners".It made the Waltons look affluent.

Buffy's house was cool, but Spike's crypt was a masterpiece in low budget creativity (including a bit of creative larceny with the artistic dumpster diving).

And the Addams Family (not the John Quincy clan, the other one) sure knew how to live large.

Buffy!

And also the Three's Company apartment!

The Hollywood apartment in I Love Lucy. All that Paul McCobb furniture was beautiful.

Clarissa's room, definitely.

Rosanne. Bull's Eye!

The apartment from Three's Company was definitly a huge influence on me. Like many fans of the show I was obsessed with the "Life" poster of a woman with butterfly wings that hung next to the window, by the plant stand. Their apartment was definitly budget friendly, and comfortable.

The I Dream of Jeannie house was fabulous, I loved that the interiors changed from season to season (with never any explanation) but it always looked very nice. Tony had great taste. It was masculine and modern.

I used to be obsessed with Full House as a child, that house had everything! basement, back yard, upstairs. As I've grown older, I still somewhat doubt the anatomy of that house being in San Francisco. What about the house on Family Matters!!

Seinfeld's apartment!

after having seen every golden girls episode (multiple times), my partner *may* have figured out the floor plan to their house (had it actually existed). it was quite a challenge.... matching everything up from internal and external shots. the result was full of odd angles with nonsensical flow. but, hey, suspension of disbelief, right?

Gilmore Girls- my kind of home. I like to think my house has that kind of style- lived in but gorgeous.

Was My Two Dads the one with the loft? With the huge elevator? I think I loved that.

"I loved the Bewitched house, with the open staircase, the huge fireplace wall, and the patio doors to the backyard (not to mention the cool oven)."

The stove/oven was a Frigidaire Flair...
...it was also a great show for seeing all the "latest" GM Muscle Cars - Where else could you see a conservatively-dressed middleaged neighborhood matron hop into a cherry red '68 Chevelle SS Convertible while Samantha pulled up in her '68 Camaro RS Convertible?

My favorite TV home wasn't a house at all:
It was the "Pacific Princess" (sometimes portrayed by her sistership, the "Island Princess") on "Love Boat".

I love the Walton's big house - how could they be considered poor with a house like that? And all those cute little houses in Mayberry - Andy's & Miss Crump's & Thelma Lou's, too - I always wondered how those two single young working girls could afford family-size homes.

I love Angela Chase's house from my so-called life. And the living quarters on Serenity (Firefly, Serenity).

@5spotter - the house from The Cosby Show was what started off the original post on the subject of tv homes.

Ohhh the Golden Girls house... as pastel and 80s as it may have been, it makes me smile just thinking about it :)

@kb I think I've seen every episode at least twice as well. :)

1. The sisters' house from "Charmed" (Victorian comfy).
2. Charlie's house on "Two and a Half Men" (Spanish Comfy).
3. Clark's apartment from "Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (I loved the layout).

Magnum's guest house in hawaii & Rockford's trailer in Paradise Cove are my favs. I also liked Sydney's Los Feliz apartment.

Will & Grace's apartment! I also have to mention Silver Spoons. Who didn't want a train in their house as a kid?

Most TV homes suck.

The only one I can recall coveting was the fabulous pad occupied by The Jetsons.

Oh, and Doris Day had a great place during the last couple of seasons of the Doris Day Show, back '72 - '73. She had this loft-like apartment in San Francisco with a brass spiral staircase. You get a brief glimpse of it in the opening credits, but I recall it being a lot lighter and brighter than pictured here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBMa9ucXpbo

Buffy's house absolutely, and from what I remember Giles's apartment also had a wonderful cozy, English drawing room feel to it. Why isn't that show still in re-runs?

I also loved the kitchen in Six-Feet Under. Those cabinets were beautiful.

My dream house definitely would be the Gilmore Girls house - it's so charming.

I think the one that inspires the most nostalgia for me is Roseanne and Dan Connor's home. I can remember spending a lot of time with that family, so I have some fond memories of that home.

My dream home, however, would definitely be Lorelai and Rory Gilmore's home, not just for the home itself but for what realtors always preach, "Location, location, location!" The home is cozy, but MAN! do I want to live in Stars Hollow.

i think we're forgetting the most important here... any of the sex and the city apartments! from Carries cool style, to Charlottes adorable place to Miranda's clean house. i wasn't too keen on sams house, but her kitchen and bathroom were cool.

but out of this list, i'd say ether Clarissa or Friends

Oh wow -- so many homes to pick from! I love the Gilmore Girls house. The only way to describe it is cozy. I also adore the girls' apartment in Friends, Will & Grace's apartment, Nile's apartment in Frasier, Lucy and Ricky's apartment in Hollywood, and Dick VanDyke's home. Lucy and Ricky's house in the country was also pretty darned amazing. Lived in but oh so cozy!

Okay, now I want to curl up on my couch with a blanket and watch old school tv shows!

What about Julie and Gabe's apartment in Brooklyn in Welcome Back Kotter? :-)

I loved how it was their first place and NOT fancy at all, they had a pull out sofa for a bed and the kitchen was off to one side of the room. I recall when they fixed it up by adding more lighting to the kitchen area w/ cheap ceramic sockets and bare globe shaped bulbs, lending a modern touch to a pre-war flat.

I have always loved the Brady Bunch house and the various places in Crime Story, all that early 60's glam and MCM was so cool.

Also, Ann Marie's studio in that girl.

But also, some movies have some great interior sets, the funky 5th floor walk up in Barefoot in the Park with George, starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, it was a pre-war flat w/ an odd room off the main room that they lived in. The house used for the early 60's film, the Marriage Go Round, it was a modern 3 bedroom house I think and I caught it on TV and kept trying to conjecture the layout of the rooms.

I'm sure there are others, I just can't place right now.

The Brady House is still my top from before, but I also really dig the Dick Van Dyke house too. I liked the modern furniture and fireplace. I loved the Bewitched house too.

Going into movies is a whole other topic (see the long thread about it on Shelterrific, for example).

I like a lot of the houses mentioned (the Summers' house on Buffy, Lorelai's house on Gilmore Girls, Monica's apartment on Friends, etc), but I'm really commenting to mention that I actually lived in (east coast) Central Florida when The Golden Girls was in its first TV run.

The style of the house was intrinsically "South Florida," but a lot of beachside property in Central and North Florida also had that vibe at the time. So, nothing about the house stood out to me! My own place didn't look like that -- my parents were recent transplants from the northeast, so the only time we had "tropical" stuff was in a furnished rental. But over the next few years... this was an incredibly common style to find in the houses of school friends, church acquaintances, and so on.

There are a lot of engineers and software designers and so on in the area I lived in, though, because of the proximity to NASA and a few of the companies that work closely with it, so a sort of classy modern style was also pretty common among friends... lots of Danish-style furniture.

I always wanted Mary Richard's place and life. That was so ideal to me...also, Ann Marie's (That Girl) cute apartment, not to mention her cool wardrobe. The 'Friends' show's settings were fun and quirky, and I would love to have Monica's apartment.

I was a TV watching child of the 60's. Always drawn to the eccentric; The Adams Family.
Also loved the Ponderosa, especially Little Joe's pinto.

Oh! and The Avengers always had the coolest of everything.

i love all of these homes! while this one is not as nostalgic, I think Carrie's apartment from Sex and the City is worth mentioning. I loved the shelves above her radiator, the bookshelves at the entrance, and of course her desk and Aiden chair.

I always loved the Petrie home in the Dick Van Dyke show!

I feel like I grew up in the Bunker household at 704 Hauser St. Not the best house, but I spent the most time there. The Designing Women had a great house.

I'll second the nomination for the "Six Feet Under" kitchen...though I also get a kick out of the fake turkey in the model home on "Arrested Development," and I have been searching for corn cob curtains like Marge Simpson's!

OK, what about Little House on the Prairie? Seriously. Growing up in the 70s we never missed an episode. It was so cozy and comfortable--Laura and Mary snuggled under the quilts upstairs, and Ma and Pa in the downstairs bedroom. And the barn and horses--that's where I wanted to live.

I grew up wanting to have an apartment of my own after memorizing the details of two TV apartments and one house:
1) Mary Tyler Moore's apartment
2) Laverne & Shirley's apartment
3) The Brady Bunch house

We moved so much when I was young (6 schools from K-12) that I craved permanency and a place of my own. I loved the spaciousness of Mary's apartment, the modern coolness of the Brady house (the girls' bedroom! that staircase! the attic bedroom!) and the make-do-with-what-you-have cuteness of Laverne & Shirley's apartment.

I should add that the I Love Lucy living room and kitchen was adorable too.

Here's another vote for The Dick Van Dyke Show !