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Super fan Tina Trahan has bought the original Brady Bunch home.

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The Brady Bunch super fan Tina Trahan, 53, has paid nearly $5m for the Los Angeles house that served as the exterior of the famous family home on the popular TV show.

And she may have scored it for a relative bargain, with the price $4.97m ($US3.2m) approximately 9 per cent less than the seller, the television network HGTV, paid for it in 2018.

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Trahan, a historic home enthusiast and the wife of former HBO chief executive Chris Albrecht, said she is a fan of The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974 on ABC, and 1995’s The Brady Bunch Movie.

“I thought that was hilarious,” she told the Wall Street Journal.

The house used in the American sitcom The Brady Bunch in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by PG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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The Brady Bunch cast got together to renovate the home. Picture: realestate.com.au via TopTenRealEstateDeals.

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She said she plans to use the Studio City house for fundraising and charitable events.

“It’s almost like a life-size dollhouse,” she said.

HGTV listed the circa-1959 house in May for US$5.5m. After buying the home for US$3.5m, the network renovated it to match the interiors depicted on the show, documenting the process for the series A Very Brady Renovation.

Before HGTV bought it, the home had remained in the same family for nearly 50 years.

While Ms Trahan lives primarily in Bel Air, she is a collector of unusual homes, she said. Among her more unusual holdings is a grand Italian Renaissance mansion known as Stone Manor in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Trahan said she has spent millions buying up units in the mansion, which had been subdivided.

Ms Trahan’s real-estate agent, Marcy Roth of the Eklund Gomes team at Douglas Elliman, said when she announced she wanted the “Brady Bunch” house, she thought her client was joking. “She was like, ‘No, I’m not kidding, I’m obsessed,’” Roth recalled.

Buyer Tina Tahran described the home as ‘like a doll house’. Picture: Mansion Global

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On “A Very Brady Renovation,” hosts Drew and Jonathan Scott collaborated with original Brady Bunch cast members to make the interior of the home resemble the show’s set. They re-created the floating staircase, the orange and avocado-green Formica kitchen, the ‘groovy’ attic and the stone-covered entry.

They also added nearly 280 sq m to the house in the form of a second storey, bringing the total square footage to approximately 742sq m with five bedrooms, according to the listing.

The Brady Bunch cast: Mike Brady (Robert Reed), an architect with three sons, married Carol (Florence Henderson), a widow with three daughters. Their children were Greg (Barry Williams), Marcia (Maureen McCormack), Peter (Christopher Knight), Jan (Eve Plumb), Bobby (Mike Lookinland) and Cindy (Susan Olsen). Alice (Ann B. Davis) was the family’s housekeeper. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)

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The Brady Bunch house. Picture: Getty Images

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Still, Trahan said she felt the house was overpriced because it doesn’t have modern appliances or conveniences.

“Nobody is going to live in it,” she said. “No one is going in there to make pork chops and apple sauce in that kitchen. Anything you might do to make the house liveable would take away from what I consider artwork.”

She said she believes HGTV overpaid for the house in 2018 amid a bidding war with former NSYNC star Lance Bass. The average home on the block typically trades for $1 million to $3 million, property records show.

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