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Welcome to the Draper home located in Ossining, NY, a lovely suburb of NYC (does anyone know the actual street address?). The neighbors are friendly, recreational opportunities abound and the excellent schools are filled with happy, well-adjusted children.

Some interesting features to note: In the living room the latest Perry Como album lies atop the stereo awaiting the repair man; if Betty can come up with that extra $8, then it’s back to happy times! The bar in the lovely bay window is stocked with only the finest top shelf liquor for Don; Betty prefers wine. Down the hall from the living room is Don’s office; notice the desk with its private phone, the pile of bar napkins with advertising slogans jotted on them, and a locked drawer. Also in the office is Sally’s time out space. The dining room is next. Somehow one of the chairs has been broken; no one is really sure how. On the sideboard is an estimate from the air conditioning salesman. The kitchen, adjoining breakfast area and den come next. Pieces of a child’s toy robot are scattered around the kitchen floor. On the table a slightly over-cooked meatloaf is ready for family dinner. Yum! Conveniently located next to the kitchen is the laundry room; like the chair, stereo and robot, the washer is broken. Someone in the Draper family must be clumsy! Notice the empty dog’s water and food bowls; their owner, Polly, has wandered off in search of a less dysfunctional family. The Drapers have not noticed her absence. The laundry room opens onto the breezeway to the garage; strangely, no one ever seems to park in the garage. And finally, the backyard with its child’s playhouse. A pile of empty candy wrappers litter the floor; one of the happy, well-adjusted neighborhood children lived in it for three days. What a little scamp! Try to overlook the dead pigeon; it’s evidence in a lawsuit brought against the Drapers by the next door neighbor. (It was all a misunderstanding, I’m sure it will be settled amicably.)

I hope you’ve enjoyed our tour of chez Draper. If anyone has any suggestions/comments, let me know and I’ll update the floorplan and post a new version. I’m still working on the upstairs and hope to have it done next week.

(Thanks, Dry, for your suggestions re posting to the web.)
And if this link doesn't work, let me know.

Oh, my God, what a great job, Mambo Deb. I love it. Can't wait to see the upstairs. Does anyone have any idea what such a house would have cost back in the late 50s or early 60s? This is so neat. I am now wishing for a Don Draper doll house complete with the dolls.

LOL, Mambo Deb. Fantastic job. You clearly have a lot of time on your hands, but if it let's you do stuff like this? More power to you. I love your floorplan. It's actually more logical than the house on the show. The flow is better, and it's in keeping with architectural styles of the period.

The house on the show seems more confusing. And I love your idea for a wrap-around stairwell. That seems to work much better than the straight one we see on the show.

.....Wow, this is beautiful, and extremely professional-looking. That there are so many little extra inside jokes and small print makes this perfect. Still trying to take it all in, and get oriented!

Mambo D.
Beautiful! So the office is downstairs?
Okay, thanks for all the hard work.

Great, Mambo!

You thought of everything....I would suggest a half- eaten chicken leg on the kitchen counter...but I don't think anything was left but the bones after Betty tore into it! ha

That really does look like a pro did it, Mambo...you are very talented....looking forward to the upstairs!

I appreciate the kind comments; it was fun to do. Actually, I do graphic design for a living; back in the days before computers I was an illustrator for a newspaper. I'll add your chicken leg, SC, along with a couple other things that have occured to me, and repost it with the upstairs.

Awwww, you don't have to do that, Mambo! All your cool "stuff" in there already is plenty...and it would definitely need to be only a chicken BONE....that girl was flat hungry after her rendezvous, wasn't she???!!! ha

Remember when Don came home (from where and when, I don't remember) and the house was empty; what was it he got from the refrigerator? Did he drink milk from the carton?

I may add some things, Dry, it's really no trouble. I was planning on maybe doing it, anyway.

.....Don't forget Sally's cigarettes in the downstairs bathroom, and Betty's glass of red wine in the living room. (Kidding - you can't put everything in there.)

The robot parts were great.

Looking forward to the upstairs.....

Dang, Mambo, that's fantastic! What a hoot!

I helped my 10-year-old daughter to create a model of the Lincolns' home in Springfield, IL this year for a school project. Should be no problem to re-convert the historic home to the Draper's Ossining residence. A paint job, filled ashtrays, empty booze bottles, and we're done.

By the way, you may want to add a stick figure of Betty adhering closely to the washing machine:-)

FABULOUS!!!! Once when I was a kid I drew out the floor plan to the Brady house. Needless to say, it wasn't nearly as professional as yours and curiously, the inside of the house didn't match the outside!

Don't forget to note where the cool air is escaping!

FABULOUS!!!! Once when I was a kid I drew out the floor plan to the Brady house. Needless to say, it wasn't nearly as professional as yours and curiously, the inside of the house didn't match the outside!

Don't forget to note where the cool air is escaping!

FABULOUS!!!! Once when I was a kid I drew out the floor plan to the Brady house. Needless to say, it wasn't nearly as professional as yours and curiously, the inside of the house didn't match the outside!

Don't forget to note where the cool air is escaping!

....maybe a tray with spilled Mother's Day breakfast/goodies at the foot of the stairs.....

Fantastic! All the little touches are what really makes it.

There should be some spoons on the counter next to a bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough. No salt shakers, though, as Betty has hidden them from Don.

That commentary is funnnnneee.....funny!

I do have one question, though, Mambo (since I don't read architectural plans/drawings well)--

Is Sally's "time out space" actually a spot in Don's office, or is a small bathroom with a door that locks only from the outside?

It's the closet in Don's office where Betty angrily closed Sally up in for punishment (for talking back? I can't remember).

Great ideas for the drawing, everyone.

Fantastic job, Mambo Deb. When is the upstairs going to be ready?

I'm working on it now, but it's actually taking longer thatn the dowstairs; for one thing, they don't show much of the upstairs on the show, and as I'm watching S2, the rooms keep changing! I need to watch a few more episodes before I can nail everything down.

I was watching "Three Sundays" last night and it seemed to me that Don and Betty's room and Bobby's room were in the same place.

.....I said the same thing in a recent post. They both appeared to be on the left, which makes me wonder about the whole thing.

Actually, the parents' room and Bobby's room (which, I have determined he shares with Sally; don't ask me why!) are on opposite sides of the hall. It's just that because you enter each room facing from opposite directions, the person entering each room enters from his left. But, doors and furniture move do around from epi to epi, and they have camera angles that would be impossible to acheive in reality, which makes it harder to draw a plan that could be real. But I'm working on it!