The US Big Brother House is a television set at Studio City California which is used for only one show. The exact building is CBS studio stage 18, the entire complex is 14000 sqft, 100’X140’X24′ high. The inside is laid out like a large house with bathrooms (YES the main bathroom stall has a camera in it), pool, kitchen, laundry, bedrooms, living room, dining room, hot tub and back yard (Fake Grass). Some years there is a sauna, have nots room, and Weight room. The part of the house you see Julie Chen in is nothing but a wall dressed up to look like a house.
There is a investing article by LINDA HOLMES from NPR about her experiences exploring the house during Big Brother 12
Rough Sketch up to the Big Brother House. Structurally they never change the layout of the house. Every Season they stick to just change the interior design to coincide with that seasons theme.
Floor Plans and Rooms
The floor plan isn’t 100% to scale but it’s close enough to give you an Idea where everything is. During our Live Feed Updates we’ll refer to the rooms in the house sometimes using the names the houseguests give other times making them up ourselves. For example during the BB13 season there was the candy room, BB12 had the Cabana and Taj and BB11 had the pool room. Rooms or places in the house whose names stay relatively static are HOH, Backyard, Kitchen, Bathroom, HOH Bathroom, Living Room, Pool table, Pool, Chessboard, Laundry machines and Dining room.
One room which was left out of the diagram is the Pandora’s Box Room. The room is attached to the HOH room on the right.
Big Brother House Location
4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, California 91604
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Each year the House themes changes. The Theme of the house usually is tied into a Twist or has something to do with a late game competition. During BB13 the Lounge room had a fortune teller in it which would tell hilarious fortunes to the houseguests throughout the night. The players were then asked questions about these fortunes for a late game POV.
BB2 House
The first year that Studio 18 housed the Big Brother set. No real theme to this house.
BB7 House
BB8 House
Theme was Alice in Wonderland theme, BB9 was a outdoors theme, BB11 was recycling and BB12 was a beach theme.
BB9 House
BB10 House
BB11 House
Big Brother 12 House
Big Brother 13 House
Big Brother 14 House
During BB13 we found out about the house on June 28th, it’s expected that it’ll be the same for the 2012 Big Brother season. For the full offical release of the house pictures use this link
You forgot “Pandora’s Box” on the sketch.
opps.. thanks Kassi
The beddroom set-up looks weird. Did the lirary room get modified to the have Nots room?
1-Chrome room, 2-Katy Perry/ice cream room, 3-Library room, 4(?) Have nots room?
You have it wrong. BB2 wasn’t in the studio where it is now. Seasons 1- 5 were filmed in a separate building compound in a parking lot area to the north of studio 18. It has since been demolished. They moved to the sound stage where they are now in 2005 for Season 6.
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This is true. From 2000 to 2004, Big Brother used a compound that was kind of based off of the first season of Big Brother in the Netherlands in 1999. This compound was inside of Stage 8 of the CBSSC (CBS Studio Center). They decided to move to Stage 18 with a bigger compound and a two-story house.
Does the backyard have a retractable roof to let the sunshine in?
Nope. Last year we had a shot of the wall that surround the building.
Unfortunately, Big Brother 22 will be cancelled until the summer of 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic that’s still going on globally, to tell you the truth
Your prediction was off! ?
Your prediction was off! 🙂
Thank you so much for this
This isn’t a good floor plan map at all. There is now a weight room and the Have Nots bedroom must be upstairs. the downstairs bedrooms are all nice, the SeaGlass room, the Yacht room and the Reef room. ..and on the live feed it showed a group coming out of the have not room through a tiny hallway with doors on each end. So, how is the upstairs laid out?? scodishman@gmail.com
Hey Scott, the floor up is about 10 years old and needs. I’ve forgotten about this post. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
It’s very old! We need a new one! Like a REAL BLUEPRINT preferably! (for all us architects out there) would love to know how the doors open, if there are any secret rooms, etc! Even maybe where ALL THE microphones or cameras are!? There are supposed to be hundreds, but WHERE? In EACH single corner? Are they huge like once BBplayer referenced (“ that thing sounds and looks like freaking R2D2, it’s so loud and creepy!!!”) haha