The Brady Bunch House Renovation Revealed - Part 2: Mike's Den & the Kids' Rooms

Brady Boys' Room. For this phase of the restoration, Mina Starsiak and Karen E Laine of HGTV's Good Bones teamed up with Mike Lookinland (aka Bobby Brady) and Susan Olsen (aka Cindy) to re-create the kids' upstairs bedrooms. Seen here in the completed boys' bedroom are (L to R) Karen, Mike, Mina and Susan.

Brady Girls' Room. And the upstairs renovation team — Karen, Susan, Mina and Mike — pose for a pic in the completed girls' room.

HGTV host Karen Laine can't resist the opportunity of a photo op with the stuffed giraffe that Brady fans will remember from the girls' room.

Mina, Karen and Susan take a breather from work on the forms for the concrete foundation for a new addition to the home's original floor plan. The new addition at the rear would add about 2000 square feet to the home's floor plan.

Mina and Karen work on removing a portion of the old roof to make room for the addition at the rear of the house. The new addition will enable the creation of the full-sized Brady kitchen and family room on the lower level.

Mina and Karen, who have no fear when it comes some serious roof work, strike a classic Good Bones pose.

Since the home's existing floor plan had to be altered to allow for the open-concept living area of the Brady interiors, the home's existing kitchen would essentially be gutted to allow for the creation of Mike's den.

Once completed, the re-created den will actually encompass portions of three existing spaces in the actual home's floor plan — the kitchen, an adjacent hallway and portion of the existing living room.

Prior to the kitchen demo, Barry and Jasmine check out the vintage home-intercom system. Like many of the artifacts from the original home, components of the old intercom system were salvaged and repurposed. The intercom components were used to create a bluetooth speaker system with a vintage mid-century look. Find out more about it and get DIY instructions here.

Eve Plumb (aka Jan Brady) joins Jasmine and Barry to pitch in on the kitchen demolition.

Jasmine Roth, Mike Lookinland and Barry Williams begin the re-creation of Mike’s den by framing out the new fireplace.

Framing the den fireplace

Framing the den fireplace

Framing the den fireplace

Karen, Susan and Mina work with graphic designer Brian of Astek Wallcovering of Van Nuys, CA as he attempts to re-create the wallpaper in the Brady girls' room.

Karen, Susan and Mina look on as the custom wallpaper comes off the printer at Astek Wallcovering.

Mina inspects the '70s-look floral wallpaper prior to installation in the girls' bedroom.

The home's original kitchen that would now become Mike's den

Mike Brady's den and home office, complete with drafting table, fireplace and free-hanging shelves.

At the end of the day, we're rebuilding a set, but we have to make a house that works.
—Jasmine Roth

Mike Brady was an architect. So this was where he had his drawing table, where he made plans, where he revised plans. This is also where we [Brady kids] got our life lessons.
— Barry Williams (aka Greg Brady)

The upstairs hallway provides access to the girls' and boys' bedrooms and Jack-and-Jill bath. You will notice in the photos that follow that there are no 'before' photos of the upstairs rooms. The actual house was a split-level ranch with no second floor. The upstairs was added on to re-create the layout of the home as depicted in the Brady interiors which were actually shot on sets at Paramount Studios.

Vintage replacements for the bunk beds in the boys' bedroom could not be located, so replicas were built by carpenters.

The vanity cabinetery in the bathroom, because it's unlike any being mass produced today, had to be custom built to create that authentic Brady look.

The visual elements seen in the original show are all present, as well as new additions like the tub-shower that make this a functioning bathroom.

The mirror above the vanity actually slides to reveal window behind it.

Karen Laine, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen and Mina Starsiak in the completed upstairs bath.