The Brady Bunch Actor Barry Williams Lists the Malibu Home He Helped Build for $6.375 Million
The Brady Bunch actor Barry Williams is officially letting go of a Malibu beach house teeming with memories from his childhood. The former child actor’s parents purchased the waterfront land in 1972 and almost immediately set about building the two-story home that stands there today (with plenty of updates over the years following its completion in 1974). Williams even spent time helping his parents build the impressive three-bedroom home when he wasn’t filming the final two seasons of The Brady Bunch.
Incidentally, the home was built in a midcentury architectural style that mirrors the groovy aesthetic that characterized the fictional Brady home. Situated in the gated Malibu Cove Colony, the home comprises a downstairs living room with soaring two-story ceilings along with exposed beams and a grand, sweeping stone fireplace. The space is flooded with light, thanks to rows of floor-to-ceiling windows that offer a view of the Pacific Ocean and slide open to reveal a generously proportioned wooden deck. Williams and his brother Craig Blenkhorn became co-owners of the house following their mother’s death in 2017, and the home is currently on the market $6.375 million.
Late last year, Williams and the rest of his onscreen siblings—including Maureen McCormick, Susan Olsen, Eve Plumb, Christopher Knight, and Mike Lookinland—reunited at the Studio City, California, home where much of the series’ exteriors were filmed. The home was purchased by HGTV for $3.5 million in a minor bidding war (former boy bander Lance Bass lost out to the cable channel), with plans to renovate it for a new show set to debut in September. “What’s so exciting about this project is that we are creating one of the most iconic homes from many of our viewers’ childhoods,” Loren Ruch, senior vice president of HGTV programming and partnerships, told Architectural Digest at the time. “It will be the first time in history that the house from all of our memories will be created in a real brick-and-mortar location. It’s certain to be a trip down memory lane.”
