All interested parties should rely on their own enquiries in order to determine the accuracy of this information.Few television series have come under such exhaustive scrutiny, from endless angles, as The Simpsons. His supposed prophecies, the cameos of celebrities, the philosophy given off by his dialogues.
have filled pages of books and newspaper articles. Nor has his house been spared the troubled analysis. Architects and designers have spent time studying the home of the peculiar Springfield clan, reviewing episodes with a magnifying glass, evaluating proportions, paying attention to details and capturing the results in plans and elevations, as if it were a real house. One of the most rigorous works is the plan that Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde made. This interior designer from Bilbao has taken a liking to transferring to paper detailed sketches of sets from successful movies and series. Among the titles that have inspired him are films like Psychosis, The Temptation Lives Above, The Strange Couple and Casablanca (Rick's Café) and series like The Flintstones, Mad Men or Frasier. "What I'm looking for for this project," he tells us, "is that houses, apartments, or businesses are iconic and recognizable places, either because of their presence or because of their relevance in the series or film. And The Simpsons has been on the air for decades, their house is very recognizable. In order to carry out the two-dimensional recreation of the Simpson family home, Aliste had to undertake a deep investigation. This began, logically, with the conscientious viewing of the series, of more than 630 chapters. Simultaneously, he proceeded to make sketches and take notes of specific details as a reference to complete measurements and proportions until obtaining a final plan. "I have worked for many years as an interior designer and let's say I have developed my ability to visualize spaces and capture them in the form of a plan." "I fill the plan with another number of notes and screenshots, to have located the pieces of furniture, props and so on," he explains. Ground floor of the house of 'The Simpsons' in the plan of Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde.
In the background on the right, the 'rumpus room', which has only appeared fleetingly in two or three episodes and has broken the coconut for fans of the series. When it comes to series like The Simpsons, the interior designer faces an added challenge: unlike the sets built on sets, the spaces invented by cartoonists tend to be altered at the demand of the plot. “In animation series, backgrounds are continually changed. Sometimes a wall appears to be two meters, and other times four. You only have to remember those Hanna-Barbera series in which a cat chased a mouse and the background was always passing with the same chair, the same lamp, the same sideboard. Those apartments seemed to be kilometers long, "he points out. Plan of the upper floor of the house of 'The Simpsons', according to the architect Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde.