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Post by sotypical42483 on Mar 27, 2007 13:15:52 GMT -5
How many rooms did the Pikes have? Parents room, Mal + Vanessa, Margo + Claire, all the boys. Just 4?! They got shafted. I hope Claudia is enjoying her spacious house.
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Post by hitzpink on Mar 27, 2007 19:27:26 GMT -5
God, that would suck to share a bedroom with three other siblings! Especially for Nicky since the triplets were always so mean to him.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Aug 16, 2007 22:45:32 GMT -5
Haha, i never picked up on any of this!
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Post by greer on Aug 17, 2007 17:16:46 GMT -5
The boy room was mentioned as being quite large in the all-new mallory pike. maybe the parents gave up the master bedroom for them. i can't imagine sharing a bathroom with seven other kids a la the brady bunch.
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Post by ringdings on Aug 17, 2007 18:03:53 GMT -5
I don't know how large the Pike boys' room was, but it could fit two sets of bunk beds and a desk or two, so it must have been fairly large. I had to share a bathroom with my parents and three siblings. Not fun. The good thing that came out of it is that I can pee really quickly. If I didn't, my sister would literally pull me off the toilet. Hey, she was the original Toilet Monster!
Claudia's room could fit seven girls and all her crap. In Stacey and the Cheerleaders, Kristy tries to do a cartwheel in the room during a BSC meeting, so it must have been pretty large.
Stacey's had a futon and I think and armchair in her room in NYC, and Kristy has a queen-size bed in Watson's mansion. These girls had it pretty good. Except poor Mallory.
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Post by greer on Aug 17, 2007 21:20:01 GMT -5
^ i am amazed at a nyc bedroom that can fit a bed, a futon, and an armchair.
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 17, 2007 23:15:46 GMT -5
^ ;D This makes me think about the story my dad told me about the smallest hotel room ever he stayed in on a business trip in NYC. I have to admit I don't give logistics like this in the BSC books much thought. I think I'd go crazy if I did
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Post by ringdings on Aug 18, 2007 9:23:04 GMT -5
^^In some really old NYC apartments, you may find some rooms that can fit all that furniture, but pretty rare. I always found that pretty unrealistic. Speaking of rare, didn't Stacey's old apartment (in Stacey's Mistake) also have a den? But it seemed that all the girls had armchairs in their bedrooms. This board is really making me overthink these books.
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blossom114
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Post by blossom114 on Aug 18, 2007 10:38:26 GMT -5
Hmmmm I never thought much about it. I grew up in a four bedroom two story...and my room was fairly sizeable. I had a double bed, a couple of dressers, a nightstand, bookshelf, and a lazy boy rocking chair recliner thingamajig Lol. Course I had the second largest bedroom in the house cause at that time, my siblings were out of the house, and my grandmother was in the third largest... (well she was in the smallest but moved out..but she had a tv in her room...grrrrr Lol) I didn't think much of it because growing up we weren't rich, but we were comfortable...*shrugs*
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Post by sotypical42483 on Aug 18, 2007 15:23:54 GMT -5
I've always thought claudia must have a pretty big room because I remember when I was younger I would try to imagine 7 teenagers hanging out in my room and it just seemed like it'd be so cramped. Even now thinking about 7 people in my living room in my apt is like uggh no thank you!
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Post by aln1982 on Aug 18, 2007 16:21:02 GMT -5
I can't imagine how cramped Claud's room might feel no matter how big it is because of how cluttered I picture it being. ;D Doesn't she have easels and art stuff all over, not to mention just a general mess? I picture her room having clothes and stuff everywhere you look.
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Katie
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Post by Katie on Aug 19, 2007 1:08:40 GMT -5
My parents house is five bedrooms plus a den but the neighbors on both sides have 3 bedrooms. I guess I'm not seeing a five bedroom house next door to a four or three bedroom house as being all that strange. Here it's fairly common to have neighborhoods with houses of varying sizes. I mean nothing dramatic like mansions next to shacks but pretty much every neighborhood is a mixture of 3, 4 and 5 bedroom houses.
My parents had the option of having the particular floor plan they chose as being 3 bedrooms plus den plus rec room, 4 bedrooms plus rec room, 5 bedrooms plus den or 6 bedrooms. All the same house plan and all the same exact size whether it had 3 bedrooms or 6. In the 4 bedroom house the den would have had a closet in it to make it a bedroom same with the 6 bedroom. The five bedroom house they chose had the big rec room divided into two bedrooms with closets and the den left alone. There is an almost identical house 2 doors down just with 4 bedrooms and then another one across the street with 3.
The 3 bedroom house on the left side is all one level with just a living room, kitchen and 2 bathrooms but the one on the right side is 2 stories and has a rec room on the first floor.
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Post by Lauren on Aug 19, 2007 18:44:37 GMT -5
^ The neighborhood I grew up in was kind of a mixture too, although only two houses having 5 bedrooms, mine being one of them. I always complained because my room was the second smallest, but at least I didn't have to share it. I had room though for a full-size bed, nightstand, armoire, homework desk, and a chaise lounge.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Aug 19, 2007 21:35:54 GMT -5
Where I live you can get anything! But still, I swore all the houses were similar in Stoneybrooke. Oh well.
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Post by greer on Aug 19, 2007 22:50:12 GMT -5
I always really wanted an armchair in my room and i think it was solely because of the bsc books.
in this house there's five bedrooms on the second floor and a huge one i am currently in on the third floor. it's in an area with a lot of victorian homes, which tend to be large with a lot of rooms--although i definitely did not get the victorian house impression from claud's. i don't think it's terribly out-of-the-ordinary to have a five bedroom house, especially in Connecticut as Stoneybrook always seemed really wealthy to me. Also in a small town that was mainly built before the rise of developments it's not rare to have really big and really small houses on the same street. there's both huge estates that could stand in for the Brewer house and small two-bedroom ranch houses on the street where my mom's house is.
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