The House

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## General Information

The House is where the characters of the novel live. Starting from the second half of Season 2 onwards, it is also where the majority of chapters take place. It is a standard three-story house in a suburban neighborhood with mahogany brick siding and a darker brown tile roof. Of course, due to taking place in a more cartoonish setting, both the exterior and interior sometimes do not match up to the official floorplan. In addition, rooms occasionally change depending on the situation.

## Layout

### Main Floor

The main floor starts with a simple living room when you enter through the front door. In here you can find a deep blue couch where many antics take place over the years. Next to it is an armchair and a coffee table sits in front. A TV is placed on the wall opposite the couch and there are storage shelves on either side. This room has a light green wall color and a faded blue carpet. Stairs can be found in the very back which lead to the second floor.

Connected to the living room is the kitchen which appears different depending on the Season. In Season 1, it was a large square room with a single round dining table in the center and counter space with cabinetry lining the walls. The wall color was red and the floor was a dirty yellow which didn't look the best. In Seasons 2 and 3, the kitchen changed to a much more suitable sitcom appearance. There's a wrap-around counter for cooking, a large round table for dining, and a staircase leading to the side character wing upstairs. Next to the table is a large sliding glass door that leads to the fenced in backyard, home to a large oak tree and a garden. Seasons 4 and 5 changed it yet again to feature an island amidst the wrap-around counter along the north wall with a small table off to the side. A smaller sliding glass door is located behind it, still leading to the same backyard. The entrance to the den is now a window flanked on either side by cabinetry and shelves for storage. An additional door in the northeast corner leads to the basement. For the remaining four Seasons, the walls are painted a light blue and the flooring is a faded tan tile. The cabinetry is mahogany wood and the countertops are a blueish-gray granite. The faded brown table is surrounded by navy blue chairs on all sides.

The final room is known as the den, but is really just a second living room that is only ever seen when the main living room is either unavailable or has already been used. A brown couch sits in front of an elegant fireplace, though sometimes the fireplace is swapped out for a TV. There are cabinets and shelves for storage as well as a small half-bathroom in the back with a toilet and a sink. The walls of this room are painted red and the carpet is a tan color.

### Second Floor

The second floor of the house, accessed by the stairs in either the living room or the kitchen, is one long hallway that contains the character's bedrooms. It is split into two sides- one for the main characters that do not change over the Seasons and one for the side characters that come and go with each year. The two halves are divided by a small book nook area that is a small room with windows, chairs and bookshelves. Due to being walled off from the rest of the hallway, it is quiet and secluded, making for a great reading spot. The main character wing houses the bedrooms of Nathan, Amber, FlamDawg, Sarah and Zack as well as a bathroom and the stairs leading back down to the living room. The side character wing has characters like Dennis, Sindr, Alex, Cat, JT, and BlueEye- all of whom have either left or been introduced later. It also has a mirrored bathroom as well as the stairs that lead up to the *Viewer Fun* studio. Next to the stairs is a window and a table to add a bit of decoration to the hallway of doors. The upstairs color scheme consists of yellow wallpaper, faded blue carpet, and brown trim. The doors are of course decorated based on the characters' individual tastes.

### Third Floor

The third floor is where the *Viewer Fun* studio is located. The entire floor is made up of a single large square room that houses anything and everything to do with *Viewer Fun*. This room is surrounded by a hallway that wraps around the entire floor and is sometimes used for quiet walks. While the room is always referred to as the *Viewer Fun* studio, it is actually just a simplistic place to broadcast from and can host any number of shows like *News For Yous* or the episodes Sarah filmed in Season 3. The layout usually consists of 1-3 sets scattered around the room for use during filming various segments, but sometimes it is split into a main stage area and a backstage area with wardrobes, equipment and the like. In the far corner of the room lies a special device that can teleport the cast and crew to a separate building where the rest of the shows on *The Sideshow* are filmed. While this is never seen, mentioned, or used, it serves as an explanation as to why the shows were filmed in a separate building for so long. The studio itself is designed to look like the inside of a barn with light brown dirt floors and darker brown walls accented with mahogany wood beams. Lights hang from above as well as the rest of the wood beams which are left exposed. The sets of course can vary depending on the show they are used for and the character hosting it.

## Character Bedrooms

In addition to the main rooms of the house, each of the characters has their own bedroom which is added to the floorplan immediately upon their debut. Likewise, when a character is removed after a Season ends, so to is their bedroom removed from the house. There are some exceptions to this, namely when there aren't enough lesser main characters to fill the five rooms. This was shown in the beginning of Season 3 when Dennis explored JT's room despite the fact that JT was no longer a part of the main character roster at the time. Below are detailed descriptions for all of the rooms that featured at some point during the novel.

### Nathan's room

Nathan's bedroom has appeared a few times during the novel, such as the time he opened the Zasplode Phone package or the time he yelled at himself in the mirror. It has faded orange wallpaper and faded blue carpet along with various furniture. Most notably, there's dresser with various curios on top including photos of his old friends and his bed which has a wooden frame, orange sheets, and a blue pillow. Within his closet lies a guava worshiping site alongside posters of kumquats- two things he was shown to be deathly afraid of in the past. The inside of his bedroom door is all scratched up from the time Alex tore out the electrocution system he had installed on it.

### Amber's room

Amber's room is very befitting of her status as a ditzy queen of sparkles. The walls are painted a calm blue and are decorated with various posters of celebrities and boy bands. Interestingly, there are a few wrestling posters as well because she has taken an interest in the sport. The flooring consists of a vibrant blue plush carpet with a round pink rug near her makeup table and shelves. There is a desk with a computer in the corner that has been the target of several characters for the secrets it presumably contains. Next to the wooden closet door is a dresser full to bursting with all sorts of cute outfits. On top lies a pink lamp and an empty photo frame that she plans to one day fill with a picture of her as a pop idol. Her bed has an ornate white frame and the sheets are pink with matching pillows. More often than not, heart-shaped pillows adorn the front. While her closet is usually just as full of clothes as her dresser, Dennis once found an illegal immigrant tied up inside amongst a pile of bones. If that wasn't sinister enough, there are switches on the wall, one of which flips part of it around to reveal chains and other various torture equipment.

### FlamDawg's room

FlamDawg's room is best described as "what the inside of a Hot Wheels store would look like". The walls are red, the trim is orange, and the carpet is a bright blue. His dresser and bed both share the same color scheme with the dresser being dark red with blue drawers and orange knobs, and his bed having red sheets with a flame pattern on them. Near the middle of the room is a wooden table where FlamDawg works on all sorts of different projects. Atop the dresser is where he keeps his various cooking trophies and on the wall above are his diplomas, blue ribbons, and certificates. The wall next to his bed juts out, forming an outward corner instead of the usual inward. On this extended wall, he has a few shelves containing several knickknacks as well as his prized piggy bank which Zack once stole. Much like the other rooms, he has a closet with a sliding wooden door and inside are the costumes for his various alter egos, most notably Little Bang, Swift, Govert, and Itchi Bunni. Later iterations of his room have changed the trim to be more of a flame design and a poster of Elee was seen on his wall towards the end of Season 3.

### Zack's room

Zack's room is very plain which is quite odd for someone of his status. The walls are a dull yellow, the carpet is a faded blue, and there's not much aside from a simple bed, a nightstand with a lamp next to it, and a dresser along the east wall that has a few average things on top. In Season 2, he installed a shelf above this dresser which upset the others greatly. A door in the back of the room was also added, leading out onto a patio that seems to defy all logic because it sits upon the roof and overlooks the town despite the fact that his room is on the second floor and the town can't be seen from the roof anyway. His closet was shown to be some sort of garage in Season 2 that housed a large submarine which the others hijacked while hunting for the Zack Respawner, a miracle machine that can bring Zack back to life when he dies. In Season 3, Dennis found a portal to the underworld within the closet when he went snooping around. As for the Zack Respawner, one was hidden in his room, visibly sticking out from the west wall where JT and BlueEye found it and promptly destroyed it. While this all might seem pretty boring, Hacks have been used over the years to give his room a bit of a boost in certain chapters. In Season 4, his room was transformed into a massive cave that led to a beautiful, otherworldly dimension on the other side. During the Christmas chapter that same year, it was a huge maze of traps and other dangerous things while also containing the machine that powered his Hacks. In Season 5, his closet changed yet again to become a large, museum-like room that housed all of the pants he had stolen over the year. In the back was a vault as well as another door that led to another gorgeous mansion room that contained all of the vehicles he had used over the years like his monster truck and UFO.

### Sarah's room

Sarah's room is similarly plain like Zack's. Instead of hiding deep secrets or transforming over the years, however, it's just plain because she doesn't have the time to decorate. This keeps it easy to clean though, which is a win in her book. The walls are a faded red and the carpet is blue, but she opted to trade the carpet for hardwood in Season 4 so that it would be easier to manage. She has the standard layout with a bed beneath a window, a nightstand with an elegant lamp next to it, and a dresser next to her closet door. In the southeast corner lies a large bookshelf brimming with all sorts of charming reads from action to romance to educational. A chair sits adjacent to the shelf with a standing lamp next to it so she can read in comfort even into the wee hours of the morning. Near the middle of the room lies a sofa which sits in front of a TV so she can watch her shows in peace without having to deal with the chaos of the living room downstairs. Her closet contains a Harry Potter worshiping shrine, a box full of colorful tasers, and the various outfits she has donned over the years. One of the walls in her room is also reversible, hiding a large weapons panel on the other side.

### Zoey's room

Zoey's room was only ever seen once during *Attack of the Taser Lady* in Season 3. It has gray walls and purple carpet befitting her rather sullen personality. Her bed sits between two windows, though the black curtains are always drawn. They match the bedsheets with are also black with a heart pattern on them, indicating that she loves but in a dark sort of way. There is a dresser along the wall sporting purple drawers and silver knobs that contains all of her dark goth clothes. Atop it is a black lamp and a picture frame featuring a photo of her looking so totally bored. She also has a few posters of rock bands hanging up around the room. In the closet lies her biggest secret- a room of neon pink that is so blindingly happy and cute that one cannot even hope to look without the aid of sunglasses.

## Trivia

* The layout of the living room looks awfully similar to the living rooms of a few different shows, namely *American Dad!* and *The Amazing World of Gumball,* but I try my best to make it as unique as possible. In truth, it's just a fairly common room layout for the floorplan.
* The layout of the kitchen during Seasons 2 & 3 is based on the layout seen in *George Lopez*.
* The *Viewer Fun* studio being based on a barn is because the first show that started *The Sideshow, Viewer Mail*, was inspired by a similar segment seen in *Back at the Barnyard.*
* Each of the main rooms in the house reflect the four main colors: Red (den), Yellow (hallway), Green (living room) and Blue (kitchen).

## Gallery

A shot of the house from the side, showing Bob's house next door.The house seen as part of the distorted reality of the Glitch Show.A shot of the front yard.The characters building a catapult in the front yard.Nathan being kicked out onto the patio.A shot of the living room.FlamDawg punching the TV in the living room.FlamDawg rewiring a lamp in the living room.Nathan sitting on the couch in the living room.A shot of Nathan and FlamDawg on the couch in the living room.Amber relaxing in the living room armchair.A fuller view of the kitchen.A different angle of the kitchen.A shot of the kitchen's counter area.A different angle of the kitchen with a much wider doorway.Nathan eating breakfast at the kitchen table.A shot of the area near the stairs in the kitchen.Sarah floating down the stairway in the kitchen.A shot of the area near the fridge in the kitchen.Nathan opening the fridge in the kitchen.FlamDawg in the kitchen.Amber running from the backyard into the kitchen.Sarah making soup in the kitchen which has a slightly different layout.The characters eating dinner in a dining hall version of the kitchen.Nathan and Amber sitting at the kitchen table.A shot of Amber gardening in the backyard.A shot of the den seen through a window.Nathan in his bedroom.Nathan and Cat in Amber's room.FlamDawg in his room.A shot of FlamDawg's room from Season 2.Zack spying on FlamDawg from the hallway.Sarah standing near Zack's bedroom door.The patio attached to Zack's room.A shot of the hidden tracking room seen in Season 3.The characters seen in the Viewer Fun studio.Zack emerging in the Viewer Fun studio while a stage is set up.A shot of the backstage area sometimes used in the Viewer Fun studio.A higher shot of the backstage area sometimes used in the Viewer Fun studio.An image of the doorway dividing the two halves of the Viewer Fun studio.