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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2006 15:06:38 GMT -5
Don't you think this house is a little too big to have in small neighbourhood which the houses have an average of '3 bedrooms'. (4 if lucky)..Not to mention the Kishis' have a rather large backyard too. Claudia's house lookes B-I-G on the cover of Claudia's big party.
The 5th room seemed to conveniently disappear when the hatts came to stay though.
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Post by ktag on May 8, 2006 16:13:49 GMT -5
Yes. I just read Abby's portrait and from the picture, her house, which is also 5 bedroom, looks HUGE. While I do get the feeling that the Kishis are fairly well off, the house does seem big for the neighborhood. Five bedrooms and a den.
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Post by macca on May 8, 2006 21:37:51 GMT -5
A lot of their houses didn't make sense. The Ramsey family moved into the McGills' old Stoneybrook house. Every Ramsey kid plus Aunt Cecelia had their own bedroom, which means... five bedrooms, including the parents. Why would the McGills - who only have one child - buy a five bedroom home? Maybe they wanted to take advantage of having the space, after living in an apartment for so long? Who knows.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 8, 2006 21:47:11 GMT -5
Jessi also conveniently had a five bedroom house. It would have been much more dramatic if Jessi and Becca had to share a room when Aunt Cecelia moved in. Plus it makes no sense that the McGills would have wanted a house that big. I just keep thinking of poor David Michael Thomas living in his closet before Watson showed up. ETA macca posted while I was typing, so we ended up with basically the same post. I wasn't copying, I swear!
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Post by macca on May 9, 2006 6:26:26 GMT -5
^ haha, I was thinking, why are you responding to my post with almost exactly the same comments? Great minds think alike!
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Post by sotypical42483 on May 9, 2006 13:18:48 GMT -5
LOL that is really funny about David Michael, sparklymouse. I'm picturing the Kishi's across the street all spread out in their giant house and little DM Thomas peeking out his "closet" window at them. Which book did it say the Kishi's have a 5-bedroom house in?
I suppose they didn't think about the size of the Ramsey family compared to the size of the McGills when giving them Stacey's old house. I think they just got excited about omg having the same house! Weird little things we notice about these books!
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Post by hitzpink on May 9, 2006 19:54:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I doubt the writers were thinking about the number of bedrooms that Stacey and her mom would have had when they gave each of the Ramsey's their own room. It's only us obsessive fans that think about things like that. Really, though, I can understand Stacey and her mom having a 5 bedroom house. One for each of them, one as a guest room, one as an office, and one for storage or something else. My boyfriend and I have 3 bedrooms and it's just the two of us, but I've never felt like we had so much extra space or anything.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2006 12:04:46 GMT -5
Which book did it say the Kishi's have a 5-bedroom house in? I think it was mentioned first in Goodbye Stacey Goodbye. When Stacey and Claudia were brainstorming how Stace could stay in Stoneybrook for the rest of the year. Claudia said that Stacey could live with her family in the guest bedroom. My take on it--Mimi is specifically mentioned in Claudia and the Mean Janine as having a bedroom downstairs. Perhaps the bedroom was actually supposed to be a den, but Mimi feels more comfortable staying downstairs--no stairs to climb. So the Kishi family converted the den into a fifth bedroom.
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Post by ktag on May 11, 2006 17:17:05 GMT -5
But when Claudia breaks her leg, she stays in the den. So they had one of those too.
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Post by macca on May 11, 2006 18:00:56 GMT -5
We've also got three bedrooms (although granted, two are occupied) but a three bedroom house is a pretty average size, even for just a couple - it's normally only apartments or units that have less. But five bedrooms does seem to be unusual, at least where I live.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 11, 2006 22:53:14 GMT -5
Just how big was Stacey's second house? I'm sure it's not hard to fill the space up with stuff, it's more about the cost of a bigger house. Mrs. McGill didn't have a ton of money to blow and she seemed to buy a big fixer-upper. Her heating bill during the winter would knock her on her ass these days.
How about the Shafer farmhouse? It sounded like it was supposed to be so much bigger than the Spier house, but didn't they both have only three bedrooms? I thought Mary Anne ended up in Jeff's old room or was there still a guest bedroom floating around there too?
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Post by sugarmonkey on May 12, 2006 12:01:42 GMT -5
In Stacey and the Bad Girls that little girl Amy sleeps in Jeff's room. Dawn and Mary Anne redecorate it for her.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2006 14:08:18 GMT -5
I just keep thinking of poor David Michael Thomas living in his closet before Watson showed up. Yet, when the new family moves in to the Thomas' old house and David Michael's bedroom is converted into a nursery for the new baby it's portrayed as a normal sized bedroom, or at least not mentioned as tiny or a closet.
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Post by ktag on Jun 4, 2006 14:36:29 GMT -5
Maybe a closet is proportionally normal sized for a baby? The farmhouse must have had 4 bedrooms, because when the Spiers moved in and the shared bedroom thing didn't work out, Mary Anne moved into the guest room. Now I'm even more confused about the Kishi house. When Mimi dies, they turn her room into a guest room. Do they ever mention the "spare room" outside of See ya later, Stacey? Maybe Claudia was planning on shoving Stacey in the basement?
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 27, 2007 9:42:52 GMT -5
Something kind of related to this subject that I read in Jessi's Secret Language might explain some of the strange things about the houses in Stoneybrook. Jessi says that they are all pretty much the same (Mal's and Braddocks were the ones she mentioned) because they were designed by one guy who didn't have much imagination. That doesn't explain the size but gives me insight into why I tend to picture all the houses as being almost the same - apparently, they are
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