The Simpsons House gets a modern-day makeover

In 30 years on our screens, Homer and Marge haven’t touched a roll of wallpaper. It’s high time their house got a modern-day makeover!

Georgie Mihaila
6 Min Read

In more than 600 episodes of The Simpsons, one thing has remained unchanged: Marge and Homer’s home at 742 Evergreen Terrace.

The iconic TV house set in the imaginary town of Springfield has maintained more or less the exact same layout and decor since we first laid eyes on it three decades ago.

Well, the imaginative team over at Angi thought they’d fix that, and traded the Simpson’s simple décor style — that has been synonymous with American suburbia since the first show aired back in 1989 — for a more contemporary look.

So they teamed up with interior design consultant Pat McNulty — who provided them with the latest trends in furniture, colors, and décor accessories — to recreate the Simpsons family’s rooms in line with modern interior design trends.

To help you visualize what the rooms were like beforehand, they also made sure to provide renderings of the Simpsons home pre-makeover, for comparison.

Living room inside the Simpsons house - BEFORE
Living room inside the Simpsons house – BEFORE. Image credit: Angi (formerly Angie’s List)
Living room inside the Simpsons house - AFTER.
Living room inside the Simpsons house – AFTER. Image credit: Angi (formerly Angie’s List)

Every room in the Simpsons house gets an updated look

The Simpsons is the longest-running primetime scripted series in television history, surpassed in overall longevity only by daytime soaps, Sesame Street, and late-night shows.

With the home of the Simpsons standing as grounds for most of the action in the series, it’s no wonder it reached such critical success that there are people out there building their own homes based on the iconic Simpsons house.

The Simpsons house is a light pink (later in the series, the house becomes light brown) two-story detached house with an attached garage, basement, and loft.

As we’ve seen repeatedly on the show, the arched front door leads directly into the foyer, opening into the sitting room to the left, and the dining room to the right, both of them featuring bay windows.

P.S.: If you want to build your own version of the Simpsons house (complete with the family car, dent included) check out our article on The Coolest Movie Homes You Can Build from LEGOs.

The living room and the kitchen stand at the back of the house. Towards the house’s rear, we’ll also find stairs to the basement, which are replaced by a closet in some episodes.

Though rarely seen, there is also a hallway off the kitchen leading to a recreation room.

The kitchen inside the Simpsons house - BEFORE.
The kitchen inside the Simpsons house – BEFORE. Image credit: Angi (formerly Angie’s List)
The kitchen inside the Simpsons house - AFTER.
The kitchen inside the Simpsons house – AFTER. Image credit: Angi (formerly Angie’s List)

The second story of the house features the bedrooms, including Marge and Homer’s bedroom (with an ensuite bathroom), Bart’s bedroom, Lisa’s bedroom, and Maggie’s bedroom.

The master bedroom inside the Simpsons house - BEFORE.
The master bedroom inside the Simpsons house – BEFORE. Image credit: Angi (formerly Angie’s List)
The master bedroom inside the Simpsons house - AFTER.
The master bedroom inside the Simpsons house – AFTER. Image credit: Angi (formerly Angie’s List)

The episode “Lisa’s Wedding”, set fifteen years in the future, shows a wooden addition to the second floor, built (rather poorly) by Homer, which 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“.

 Bart Simpson's bedroom - BEFORE.
Bart Simpson’s bedroom – BEFORE. Image credit: Angi (formerly Angie’s List)
  Bart Simpson's bedroom - AFTER.
Bart Simpson’s bedroom – AFTER. Image credit: Angi (formerly Angie’s List)
  Lisa Simpson's bedroom - BEFORE.
Lisa Simpson’s bedroom – BEFORE. Image credit: Angi
  Lisa Simpson's bedroom - AFTER.
Lisa Simpson’s bedroom – AFTER. Image credit: Angi

The backyard of the house is surrounded by a wooden picket fence and a low box hedge.

It features a patio and Bart’s treehouse, from which The Simpsons annual “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween specials take their name. Occasionally, there is a hammock tied to two trees near the fence that borders Ned Flanders’s backyard.

And while the outside did not get its own makeover, the most striking update to the Simpsons’ house is likely the bathroom redesign.

Arguably the most outdated room of the house, the bathroom and its blue tiles, paired with its green, yellow and pink accents, were completely overhauled to ditch the ’80s design in favor of a much more sleek and contemporary look:

 Bathroom inside the Simpsons house - BEFORE
Bathroom inside the Simpsons house – BEFORE. Image credit: Angi
 Bathroom inside the Simpsons house - AFTER.
Bathroom inside the Simpsons house – AFTER. Image credit: Angi

The Simpsons house remodel and associated renderings are part of a series of visual content campaigns commissioned by Angie’s List (now Angi), with the goal of inspiring homeowners by introducing new ways of thinking about the spaces in their homes.

Now, if the Simpsons were real, I’m pretty sure they would have been inspired by the incredible new look of their home.

Do you like the updated look more or would you rather see the Simpsons house stay unchanged?

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With a decade-long career as a digital content creator, Georgie started out as a real estate journalist for Multi-Housing News & CPExecutive. She later transitioned into digital marketing, working with leading real estate websites like PropertyShark, RENTCafé and Point2Homes. After a brief but impactful stint in the start-up world, where she led the marketing divisions of fintech company NestReady and media publisher Goalcast, Georgie returned to her first passion, real estate, and founded FancyPantsHomes.com