The iconic TV shows to inspire your next home makeover

Inspiration can come from almost anywhere when it comes to decorating and styling our homes.

We can spend endless hours scrolling Instagram #homedecor posts, pinning to our Pinterest boards and flipping the pages of our favourite design magazines, but another source of interior inspo can come from our favourite TV shows – I for one loved every house that Nina from Offspring lived in.

A UK service website that connects home owners with local tradespeople, known as MyJobQuote, used a search analytics tool to find out which iconic TV show homes are Googled most for inspiration.

A variation of searches were made for each program to see which ones people take most interest in, and inspiration from. The different searches for each were totalled for their average monthly volumes.

Here’s what came out on top:

Friends

The iconic program that first aired in 1994 topped the list with 28,230 monthly searches about the show’s interiors. Monica’s abode garnered the most interest with 3200 searches specifically.

Who could forget that two-bedroom open-plan apartment – sprawling by New York standards – with its lavender living room walls, blue kitchen and what looks a lot like Millennial pink in Monica’s bedroom (so ahead of the trends)?

The Simpsons

Everyone’s favourite cartoon family came in second with 25,200 views and, of those, 1600 were interested in the floor plan of the famous four-bedroom home at 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield.

Do I spy more Millennial pink? And a floor lamp. Hallelujah! The Block judge Neale Whitaker would love this if he were critiquing the living room.

Sex and the City

Coming in third with 11,800 monthly views is Sex and the City.  Each of the main characters – Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda – lived in an apartment that reflected their personalities.

Over 9000 of the total searches were for Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment, the classic brownstone on the Upper East Side with a walk-in wardrobe lined with designer finds. As fans of the show would know, Carrie upgraded to a much bigger and better home (and walk-in wardrobe) when she moved in with Big in the Sex and the City movies.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The sitcom starring Will Smith first aired in 1990 and saw Smith move from West Philadelphia to a sprawling mansion in Bel Air.

Opulence was on show with a sweeping staircase, a large family room, dining room and kitchen, french doors and arch windows featuring in the five-bedroom pad.

Modern Family

Rounding out the top five of most searched TV shows is the family-friendly Modern Family, with 7699 searches. Of those, 869 were for the Dunphy family home.

The Dunphys lived in a quintessential American family pad split over two levels, with kitchen, living and dining on the ground floor and bedrooms up that infamous staircase with the broken step.

In sixth and seventh spot was Drake and Josh and Gilmore Girls with 6950 and 6700 monthly searches respectively.

Gossip Girl came in at eighth position with 6700 searches for people wanting to look at “the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite”, and the interiors of the characters’ homes.

Featuring plenty of gorgeous penthouses and luxurious apartments, the privileged Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, Chuck Bass and Nate Archibald lived the high-life in their stylish homes. In contrast to these exclusive addresses, but no less stylish, was the Brooklyn loft where Rufus, Dan and Jenny Humphrey lived.

Stranger Things and Desperate Housewives rounded out the top 10 with 4330 and 3780 searches respectively.