The Simpsons House

742 Evergreen Terrace is the fictional street address of the home for the fictional Simpson family in the animated television series, The Simpsons.

The house to the left of the Simpsons' house is the Flanders family's house, at 744 Evergreen Terrace. The house on the right belongs to Ruth and Laura Powers.

Design

The house is a pink-orange two-story detached house with an attached garage, basement, and loft. On the ground floor, the front door (with an elephant doorknocker) leads straight into the hallway, with one arch in the wall to the left, leading to the sitting room, one to the right which leads into the dining room, a small cupboard and the stairs to the second floor. The sitting room and the dining room have bay windows. At the back of the house is the living room and the kitchen, with stairs that lead to the basement. Although rarely seen, there is also a hallway leading to a "Rumpus room" and possibly a small bathroom from the kitchen. Homer was seen relaxing in the Rumpus Room during the episodes "Three Men and a Comic Book" and "Brother from the Same Planet", where he could see the boys fighting in the treehouse.

The second story of the house has Marge and Homer's bedroom (with an ensuite bathroom), Bart's bedroom, Lisa's bedroom, Maggie's bedroom, a bathroom and some 'empty' rooms, often shown in inconsistent places in different episodes. On the landing, there is a hatch which leads to the attic.

The back garden of the house is surrounded by a wooden picket fence and a low box hedge, and features a patio and the treehouse from which the Simpsons' annual Halloween specials take their name. Occasionally there is a hammock shown tied to two trees near the fence that borders Ned Flanders backyard.

An episode set in 2010 shows a wooden add-on to the second floor, built (rather poorly) by Homer. It functions as a guest bedroom, but Homer warns Lisa and her fiancé that "If the building inspector asks, it's not a room. It's a window box".

Features and furniture

The basement always includes a washing machine and a clothes dryer and a large Olmec statue of a head, which was a present from Mr. Burns after Bart donated blood to him in a second-season episode. However, the appearance of other features such as a furnace, ping-pong table, air hockey set and water softener vary from episode to episode. The basement is often used as a "secret lair", where Homer has brewed alcohol to beat prohibition and hidden his superhero operation as Pie Man, and where Marge hid during a spell of agoraphobia. The house has two identical red sofas: One in the sitting room which is not seen very often in many episodes and a well-known one in front of the TV in the living room - the current sofa is a replacement of the old one which was destroyed (and had a fold-out bed the new one does not have). A simple painting of a boat hangs on the wall above this couch. A tank full of fish is sometimes seen in the dining room, but it only seems to appear in episodes where it is prominent.

In the Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror VI" episode, there is a portal behind the bookcase in the sitting room that leads to the Third Dimension. This is a reference to the Twilight Zone episode, "Little Girl Lost". However, Treehouse of Horror episodes are not canonical. In Treehouse of Horror IV, the famous Dogs Playing Poker painting appears above the sofa.

Current state

The house is now five miles away from where it was first built due to "Plan B", where, to avoid pollution and landfill, the entire city was moved down the road, as seen in "Trash of the Titans". This is believed by some fans to explain some inconsistencies such as the layout of the basement.

The house itself is often shown as dilapidated; the walls are painted with lead paint, the roof leaks and in one episode, the kitchen was so badly damaged that it needed to be rebuilt. A running gag is that whenever the camera pans between floors or rooms, the interior of the walls are shown to be filled with dangerous and unusual items such as asbestos, toxic waste, hidden treasure, recording devices, baby dinosaurs and dancing mice. Even the family cat, Snowball II, is seen in between the walls from time to time. However, the lived-in spaces are usually kept neat by homemaker Marge. In one episode, it was described as a palace by Frank Grimes. In another episode, Moe Szyslak observed that it contained no silverfish.

The phone number is inconsistent between episodes, though always starting with 555. According to "A Tale of Two Springfields," the area code was 636 before the events of that episode and 939 thereafter.

Damage and Destruction

The house frequently suffers major damage due to attacks, accidents and negligence, including:

• Abraham Simpson crashing through the sitting room window in a car.
• All furnishings being stolen by an angry mob.
• At several times, being set ablaze by Homer including while burning his high school diploma and while skipping church.
• The house's interior trashed by the Hell's Satans motorcycle gang, in the episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze."
• A taxiing airliner crashing down the living room wall.
• Frequently being in a ridiculously untidy and disorganized state (alligator stuck in the toilet, footprints on the ceiling, etc...).
• Serious foundation failure due to leaking plumbing, slanting the house significantly. ("Marge Gets a Job")

In The Simpsons Movie, the house is completely devoured and destroyed with all possessions lost by a sink hole in Maggie's sandpit, which expands after the Police shoot bullets into it. The house is later rebuilt with help of the townsfolk and the family themselves at the end of the film. (It is unknown if anything was salvaged from the sinkhole.)

Real-life version

A real life approximation to the home depicted on the show was built in 1997 by Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation in a promotion sponsored by FOX and Pepsi. The house was painted and furnished with items to match the television show, although the scale of the house was smaller than the house on the series. The house was given away in a contest; the winner, Barbara Howard, was a retired factory worker from Richmond, Kentucky. The house was built at 712 Red Bark Lane in Henderson, Nevada; it has since been repainted.

Address

The house's address was inconsistent in earlier seasons, being 94 Evergreen Terrace, 1094 Evergreen Terrace, 723 Evergreen Terrace, and 430 Spalding Way. In "Homer's Triple Bypass", 742 Evergreen Terrace is a completely different house where Snake hides from the police and Rev. Lovejoy lives next door