The Southfork kitchen

[Snarky Oracle!]

This is what it looked like -- lovely when properly photographed (as Bradford May did it) but we can never quite tell where it was on the ranch house. It doesn't fit the architecture...




It seems logical that the kitchen would stretch across the back of the house, as the dining room and the breakfast terrace were on opposite wings, thus allowing Miss Ellie's kitchen to contain that rear fireplace and the two french door on either side. (I would also place an interior window on the wall between the breakfast area and the "rear foyer" with the sliding glass door where they come and go, kind of a Florida Room full of greenery you'd only see thru that interior window from the kitchen.

 

[pete lashmar]

I've always thought (looking at the photo above) that at the far end - on the left, the door leads to the Dining room.

 

[Karin]

I know what you mean, it's a nightmare trying to figure out how the interior design of Southfork fit with the exterior shots of the house. It simply doesn't add up and it's frustrating. Good maps you've made though.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

The real Southfork kitchen -- any preferences?

 

[lbf522]

TV shows did not put a lot of thought into their TV homes but Laramar should have put some thought into it or have one built. As for the Southfork kitchen, I would have thought it would also have a flight of stairs leading upstairs. A house like this would have two stairways in the front of the house and one in the kitchen leading upstairs. I agree that the kitchen would most likely be in the back near the dining room and the back porch.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I prefer the sad little kitchens of the first episodes:

blenders, pencil sharpeners, everything!

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

TV shows did not put a lot of thought into their TV homes but Laramar should have put some thought into it or have one built. As for the Southfork kitchen, I would have thought it would also have a flight of stairs leading upstairs. A house like this would have two stairways in the front of the house and one in the kitchen leading upstairs. I agree that the kitchen would most likely be in the back near the dining room and the back porch.

They did have a rear staircase on nuDALLAS, in fact. Of course, the real Southfork is much smaller than the one which exists in our heads.

My thinking in placing the kitchen where I do is that the main dining room and the breakfast terrace are on opposite wings of the house, so the logical location for the kitchen is on the back of the main section of the house, stretching it between both those wings.

 

[Toni]

The real Southfork kitchen -- any preferences?

Porcelain chickens but not dogs? WTF?

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Porcelain chickens but not dogs? WTF?

Miss Ellie should've made hot dogs with her famous chilli sauce.

I don't like the colour of the kitchen it's far too red and really tacky. It would look more at home on Knots Landing!

 

[Chris2]

I vaguely recall a People magazine article on Donna Reed where she was interviewed on the Southfork kitchen set, which they mentioned that “the previous Miss Ellie” helped to design.