bassman
18-Mar-2011, 04:13 PM
This might be old news to some, but apparently back in 1997(hard to believe that was almost 15 years ago...) Fox set up a promotional competition where the winner received a real-life replica of The Simpsons home.
http://curbed.com/uploads/simpsons_house_1-%281%29.jpg
More pictures HERE (http://curbed.com/archives/2011/03/16/this-exists-reallife-simpsons-house-outside-vegas.php#simpsons-house-3).
Back in 1997—way before these things called "blogs" and all—the 2,200-square-foot four-bedroom yellow house was built by Kaufman and Broad Home Construction as a nationwide sweepstakes organized by FOX and Pepsi. How'd they do it? Well, for starters, by watching more than 100 episodes of the show, obsessing over 7,200 color swatches (before actually settling on 25), and ultimately choosing 1,500 Simpsons-themed styling props, from Duff Beer cans to the living room's sailboat painting. Part of an affordable-housing community—not Evergreen Terrace but still appropriately named Springfield—the house cost Kaufman $120K to build. And here's the extra-depressing part: the retired factory worker from Kentucky who won the sweepstakes decided, instead, to take the $75K payout instead of the house itself. In 2001, after being stripped of its Simpsons likeness, it was sold to another owner.
http://curbed.com/uploads/simpsons_house_1-%281%29.jpg
More pictures HERE (http://curbed.com/archives/2011/03/16/this-exists-reallife-simpsons-house-outside-vegas.php#simpsons-house-3).
Back in 1997—way before these things called "blogs" and all—the 2,200-square-foot four-bedroom yellow house was built by Kaufman and Broad Home Construction as a nationwide sweepstakes organized by FOX and Pepsi. How'd they do it? Well, for starters, by watching more than 100 episodes of the show, obsessing over 7,200 color swatches (before actually settling on 25), and ultimately choosing 1,500 Simpsons-themed styling props, from Duff Beer cans to the living room's sailboat painting. Part of an affordable-housing community—not Evergreen Terrace but still appropriately named Springfield—the house cost Kaufman $120K to build. And here's the extra-depressing part: the retired factory worker from Kentucky who won the sweepstakes decided, instead, to take the $75K payout instead of the house itself. In 2001, after being stripped of its Simpsons likeness, it was sold to another owner.