Vintage Los Angeles founder Alison Martino is your tour guide
Alison Martino at The Brady Bunch house in North HollywoodCredit: Photo courtesy Tina Trahan
Fifty-six years ago this week, The Brady Bunch premiered on ABC and launched a pop culture juggernaut that still resonates today. In 2019, the kids from the original show teamed up to transform the interior of the 1959 North Hollywood home used in the show’s establishing shot into a picture-perfect replica of the original sets that once stood on a Paramount soundstage. The house had been purchased by HGTV to star alongside the Brady kids in a new reality series about rebuilding the house called A Very Brady Renovation.
The Brady Bunch house in North HollywoodCredit: Photo courtesy Tina Trahan
Since the show wrapped, a handful of visitors have been treated by private invitation to see the extraordinary replica of this TV icon. Los Angeles reported that a couple of years ago, the network quietly sold the property to Tina Trahan, a historic home enthusiast and the wife of former HBO chief executive Chris Albrecht. “It’s almost like a life-size dollhouse,” Trahan told the Wall Street Journal when she purchased the home. She told the paper that she planned to use the property for fundraising and charitable events.
Now is your big chance to step inside. Trahan is an animal lover who wants to raise funds for Wags and Walks, a nonprofit that finds homes for animals in shelters. She’s teaming up with Los Angeles contributor and Vintage Los Angeles founder Alison Martino for a series of fundraising visits in November. “We’re going to open the house for an immersive experience for three days,” Martino says. “She has taken this house to the next level. There’s nothing like this in the world.”
The Brady Bunch house in North HollywoodCredit: Photo courtesy Tina Trahan
Martino swoons over Trahan’s meticulous additions, from Greg Brady’s cursed tiki pendant to original artwork from actress Eve Plumb to the family’s 1971 Plymouth Satellite station wagon permanently parked outside. “There have been a lot of additions,” Martino says. “Fans have sent her things with notes like ‘I found the exact ashtray’ from a certain episode and I want you to have it.”
The Brady Bunch house in North HollywoodCredit: Photo courtesy Tina Trahan
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Tours are limited to 25 visitors who will all have to wear booties to protect the vintage carpeting sourced for the show. “It is unlike any other museum,” Martino says. “Nothing is roped off. Guests can wander around every room and look at everything in detail up close.” Visitors are encouraged to come in period attire, sit on the beds, pick up their telephones and pose for pictures with a stuffed toy resembling the Brady’s dog, Tiger. The booties can come off for photos on the show’s legendary staircase, which can also accommodate your parents, five siblings and even your maid Alice.
Alison Martino at The Brady Bunch house in North HollywoodCredit: Photo courtesy Tina Trahan
The Brady Experience
North Hollywood, CA
November 7-9, 2025
$275 ticket benefits Wags and Walks