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Top hung, swing out aluminum windows.
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| Great example of the rear doors. |
Full transparency, 3 sections, forward facing roof gable, white beams, good match!
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| Excellent example of modernist, minimalist architectural design, oversized double front doors with oversized hard ware and lantern. |
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| To the right is a white iron gate, akin to the breezy walls of the 1978 house. |
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| Late 70's California contemporary Spanish shed roof with 2nd floor patio - the exact style of the Barbie 1978 or 1979 A Frame Dream Doll House. |
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| 4 tall, skinny, glass patio doors. |
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| This house is in southern California, features exposed white beams and a front, central white balcony, these were built around 1980, when I was driving past I immediately saw the similarities between Mattel's house and these ones, but as I have not ever seen these anywhere else, I wonder if the original designer of the toy house lived around here or someplace similar. |
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| A variation on the house above, there were about 5 of these houses in the neighborhood I was in. Not far, there was a house with a very exaggerated long sloping red roof, shed roof and different angles, very akin to Barbie's house, regretfully, I did not pull over to take a photo. |
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| White beams, yellow floor side view in 1970's local restaurant. |
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| Two real center sections placed together. Just needs a new paint job. |
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| This is a 1970's Spanish contemporary that seems to have been restored for a "Tuscan" look. Yes, if it were painted white with a red roof, here is our beloved A Frame Dream House. |
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| while the house is not a frame, look closely at the red roof tiles, they are a perfect match. |
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| here is another 1970's Spanish contemporary asymmetrical suburban house with balcony in the front. The center garage is the only real departure from our beloved |
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| Imagine this house painted white, with yellow doors, its a near perfect match! |
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| rear side section ground level |
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Just the right shade of yellow!
thats what I imagine the real life bedroom to be decorated like. '70's Optimistic Yellow'.
Casper quietly enters the home. The only thing I would change is the door hardware needs to be oversized and vintage.
This aging suburb relic features a long sloping asymmetrically gabled roofline, front balcony, horizontally rectangular windows and vaulted ceilings, just like the 1978-1985 Barbie DreamHouse.
From 1987's, 'Harry and the Hendersons', the neighbor's kitchen floor is sheet linoleum in the same pattern as the yellow floor pieces of the 1978 A Frame house. I didn't know until now that was actually a thing, I always thought it was meant to be a flagstone patio thing they just made for all the rooms, good to know this is based in reality. |
