Something I ponder.Why did Beaver and Wally share a bedroom? Why didn;t each boy have his own??? Usually the first

[debm55]

Floor have the same space. There were 4 rooms downstairs so there should have been 4 rooms upstairs. Gee, MrCleaver was a lawyer he could have afforded furnishing a second room for one of the boys. Fellow ponders, I watched an epicode the other day house is not curved but straight up for two stories. So what was going on that the beav and Wally shared rooms?????? Please post your suggestions

[debm55]

1. My thinking is Mr. Cleaver got himself involved in cases that were over his head and they had to rent the rooms out.

[Ocelot II]

2. It wasn't a house, it was a set. Sets are designed to promote the story line.

Having Wally and Beaver share a bedroom meant that their characters would always interact and add to the arc of the story.

[debm55]

3. Thank you Ocelot II, for your thoughts. but Wally could have gone back to his own room at night after talking with the

Beav. PS I do know it's a set.

[CrispyQ]

4. The other two rooms were a guest bedroom & a sewing room for Mrs. Cleaver.

[debm55]

6. That;s logical. Thank you for pondering with me.

[doc03]

30. The boys were at the other end of the hall, so they wouldn't hear when

Ward was a little hard on the beaver.

[CrispyQ]

33. I see what you did there. 🦫😄 -nt

[Demovictory9]

5. Dont watch the Waltons.. lol

[debm55]

7. You are talking about 6 kids vs. 2 kids. Thank you Demovictory9

[Demovictory9]

15. Only 6?

[Wiz Imp]

21. There were actually 7 Walton Children

John-Boy
Jason
Mary Ellen
Erin
Ben
Jim-Bob
Elizabeth

An eighth child, Joseph, was a twin to Jim-Bob but died at birth.

[Demovictory9]

18. Grandparents too

[rsdsharp]

8. The parent's room and the girls room were the same.

They just changed set dressing as necessary.

[debm55]

11. I never saw the parent's bedroom. Was it shown???

[rsdsharp]

12. I was responding to the post about the Waltons,

but yes, both the Walton’s and the Cleaver’s parents bedrooms were shown.

[Demovictory9]

17. Wow. I know John Boy had a solo room

[rsdsharp]

9. According to this video, there was a never seen guest room.

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I don’t think Ward’s profession was ever revealed. No way was coworker Fred Rutherford an attorney.

[debm55]

13. Something seems fishy about the artwork in the video.

[Glorfindel]

10. Interesting question.

My brother, who was 13 years older than me, would have thrown me out the window before sharing a room. I wonder more about why Sheldon Cooper had to share a room with his SISTER on "Young Sheldon."

[Demovictory9]

19. Worst parents ever were on reality show "wife swap". 4 bedroom home..3 teen boys

Parents kept 3 bedrooms for themselves.

Bedroom
Exercise room
Yoga/ meditation room

All three boys had to share one small room

[Aristus]

14. My brother and I shared a room until I was twelve.

I hated it. He was a slob, and I'm a neatnik. But the shared room was dictated by circumstance. My Dad was a career Army officer, and even officers' housing isn't especially luxurious. We only ever had three bedrooms when I was a kid, my parents', my sister's, and ours. Once my Dad was promoted from Captain to Major, we qualified for better housing, and I finally got my own room.

[debm55]

16. Yes, I shared with my sister. but if there is an empty room , why couldn't Wally use it, especially in his teen years?

As it should be if the rooms exist. There should be 4 rooms on that second floor to match the space of the first floor. Unless they had some kick ass sized bathrooms.

[Fiendish Thingy]

20. The first house I lived in had a similar set up to the Cleavers

Four rooms downstairs, but just two bedrooms and a shared bath upstairs.

I didn’t get my own room until we moved into our third (fourth if you count the apartment we lived in until the new home was built) house when I was 9.

[debm55]

22. Then the two upstairs rooms were huge or the bottom rooms were smaller, My houde I live in has 6 rooms downstairs and

two upstair bedrooms and a bath. It is a Cape Cod design or a Story and a half.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. We Live In A Cape Cod, Too!

Unusual twist for our house.
We live on a corner, so the driveway comes off the side street & curves along a retaining wall into the basement.
So, we park under the house, which means we have a direct walk out to the backyard.
The rest of that floor is finished (utilities room, store room, laundry room, & rec room.
I guess we have 2 & 1/2 floors!

[hlthe2b]

23. Honestly, I think middlle class homes of the 50s were pretty small--especially in small towns.

So, two-bedrooms kinda makes sense and they all shared a bathroom--no "on-suites" (can you imagine?)

I'm not sure it really mattered if you were upper middle class, with the exception that much nicer cars were driven...Once the 60s came, a lot of larger "ranch-style houses" or bigger two-story houses were popular--e.g., Bewitched...

[debm55]

24. Thank you hlthe2b. It was a dumb question from me. I will be takin break for awhile. It was supposed to be funny but I

guess it wasn't.

[hlthe2b]

25. Well, I may have missed the joke, but it did make me think... so there is that. LOL

[DelMar dem]

26. Eddie Haskell

Sometimes Eddie would spend the night. Maybe they kept a room open for him so that Wally and Beav didn't have to listen to him all night!

[samsingh]

27. i believe Ward was an accountant

but your point if valid

[Ninga]

29. It's a TV production thingy. Wally and the Beaver had some funny conversations in their bedroom that somehow

wouldn’t have been the same if they yelled across the hall to each other……

[TommieMommy]

31. Half the upstairs is unfinished for Christmas decoration storage. 👍

I wondered about that too and this is what I came up with. 😁

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. A lawyer?

Ward Cleaver's occupation was never specified, but it was mentioned he'd been an engineer of some sort in the Seabees in WWII. So, he likely stuck with that after the war.

Anyway, if Wally and the Beaver hadn't shared a bedroom, all their pillow talk couldn't have happened. I'd imagine that's why it was written that way.

[malthaussen]

34. Four rooms. Study for Dad, Sewing room for Mom, Master Bedroom, Boys Room.

That would be an explanation. Or one of the rooms might have been a guest room. The study or sewing room could have been on the first floor.

Of course, the real explanation is that they didn't want to have to change the set every time they went into one of the bedrooms.

-- Mal

[NNadir]

35. Mr. Cleaver had filled most of the rooms in his house with his huge collection of fashionably attired Ken dolls