From the outside, the Cleavers appeared to have a fairly large house. I never gave it much thought as I was watching the episodes growing up, but as an adult, I wonder why the boys shared just the one bedroom all the time? Surely there were at least 3 bedrooms in a house that size. I realize that from a writing point of view, the boys' interactions had to take place in just one room so that's probably why they shared a bedroom for the entire series.
shareIt was problem just easier, or even not enough bedrooms for both Wally and Beaver to have their own room. I know that they did have a guest room, that Wally would always winded up having to sleep if Beaver wanted a guest to stay over for the night, instead of Beaver's guest spending the night there, wally would spent the night instead. But for the most part I not sure even if then a lot of guest rooms had a bed, or maybe a couch that turns into a ed or somewhat of a bed.
shareBeaver and Wally had bunk beds in the first season but from the second season on twin beds. Perhaps it was because LITB switched networks CBS to ABC I think which might account for the difference or maybe it was felt the boys were too old for bunk beds.
shareYep or maybe not enough in the budget for them to have bunk beds
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In the episode where Beaver loses his money for a haircut and Wally cuts it but cuts it too much and Beaver wears a cap to dinner and Ward and June are curious as to why and after the boys are in bed the parents come up to check and they look under Beaver's cap and it shows Beaver sleeping in the top bunk.
shareBet you can't diagram that sentence!!!
A sentence with 7 and(s)
Wow!!
It was dumb just having a guest bedroom when the kids had to share.
shareWe needed both boys in the same bedroom so there could be dialogue and interaction.
I often wondered why a young boy would be sleeping high up in a bunk bed.
I have read that even as rich as the Kennedys were the children shared rooms. I am speaking of JFK and his siblings. When they were home from boarding school, that is.
shareMany families with extra bedrooms make kids share a bedroon. It is a bonding thing.
Garth Brooks has 6 extra bedrooms but made his kids share.
I would do the same thing ifr I had mor ethan one child even though I have 5 bedrooms.
That house isn't that big. The use of dormer windows on the second floor means the second floor is actually smaller in terms of usable space. The boys had their own bathroom and this may have limited or even eliminated a third bedroom. And even if it had a third bedroom, it might have been a combination guest room/sewing room or some other purpose.
I grew up in a neighborhood with houses like this and they all looked bigger outside than they were inside. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether this is a function of building technique or clever architecture.
You are under the impression that brothers sharing the same bedroom was regarded as something undesirable that was done only out of necessity, when the house was too small for individual bedrooms. I may be wrong, because I had not been born then, but from reading accounts from people who were, I get the impression that it was normal, and not necessarily considered a hardship back then. So the question, how come we are sharing a bedroom when we have a guest room would not necessarily come up.
shareFamily I knew had 4 children. The daughter had her own room, two youngest sons shared a room and the oldest son was in the basement.
shareIn the '50s and '60s my family moved a lot, so we lived in several houses. Thank goodness only one of them was two-bedroom, forcing me to share a room with my little brother. The rest all had three bedrooms so we each got our own. It doesn't make sense for Beaver and Wally to have to share a bedroom in a house that obviously has more than two, but on the show it's expedient for their many one-on-one conversations. As for their en-suite bathroom, it likely has a second door from the hallway so it can be used by others without having to walk through their room to get to it. One of the houses I lived in was built in 1912, and the bathroom had three doors--one each from two different bedrooms, and one from the hallway.
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