In February, I received a challenge from a fellow stalker named Jill who wanted to know about the home belonging to Melissa Burke (Melissa Joan Hart) on the ABC Family sitcom Melissa & Joey. The residence looked familiar to her and she was fairly certain that it had been used previously in another series. She was not alone in that belief. One quick Google search of “Melissa & Joey house, same as” led me to several message boards in which commenters queried about where they had seen the property before. I had never actually watched an episode of Melissa & Joey, but was immediately intrigued, so I streamed the show on Netflix. The Burke residence did not look at all familiar, though. Thus began the mystery of the Melissa & Joey house. And y’all know how much I love myself a good mystery! Fellow stalker Geoff, of the 90210Locations website, did manage to track the dwelling down shortly after Jill posted her challenge and while I ran right out to stalk it, I have yet to figure out why the place looks so familiar to so many viewers.
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Several of the message boards I came across featured commenters asking if the Melissa & Joey house was the same property used in Reba, Step by Step or Boy Meets World. As you can see in the collage pictured below, though, the Melissa & Joey residence bears virtually no resemblance to the Reba or Boy Meets World house. And while it does look similar to the Step by Step house, they are clearly not one and the same.
To me, the Melissa & Joey house is reminiscent of both the Mama’s Family and Old School homes, but, again, is obviously not either one.
So I will put it out there to my fellow stalkers. Do any of you recognize the home from another production?
Melissa & Joey is set in Toledo, Ohio, but the Burke residence can actually be found in Hancock Park. Of the property, series’ executive producer Boy Young said, “Her house is a house here in Los Angeles that we selected because it’s architecturally believable from Toledo. Our production designer basically surveyed architectural styles of Toledo and tried to find something here in L.A. that resembled that.”
In real life, the picturesque, two-story dwelling, which was originally built in 1914, features four bedrooms, three baths, 3,005 square feet of interior space, and a 0.22-acre plot of land. It last sold in April 2008 for $1.795 million.
Several message board commenters also stated their beliefs that the interior set – which exists inside of a soundstage at CBS Studio Center in Studio City – was recycled from another series, as well, although it does not look at all familiar to me. So I will once again put it out there to my fellow stalkers – does anyone recognize the interior of the Melissa & Joey house from another production?
On a side-note – I am BEYOND excited to announce that I wrote a small article about the Double Indemnity house for the April 2014 issue of Los Angeles magazine, which is on newsstands now.
That’s me buying out the Palm Desert Barnes & Noble of every copy of the magazine that they had on Saturday.
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Big THANK YOU to Jill for challenging me to find this location and to Geoff, from the 90210Locations website, for tracking it down! 
Until next time, Happy Stalking!
Stalk It: The Melissa & Joey house is located at 102 North Norton Avenue in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles.
Exterior looks like the house from Insidious Chapter 3
I believe it’s the same house from Family Ties
I always thought the exterior looked the same as the Hogan Family home (Valerie/The Hogan Family)
Agreed
I love in toledo also and the only place I could see a house like this being is the old west end and then they would not live in a nice area as they do so I definitely have to agree with u this is not a toledo show not realistically at all
It looks the house from Charmed
The interior look the same as the one used for the show Reba, also possible Two of a Kind (staring Mary-kate and Ashley Olsen) but I’m 💯 certain it’s the same as the one from Reba especially since Melissa dad in the show also played Brock from the Reba show. Alsonkind of reminds me of Good Luck Charlie and Liv & Maddie.
Is this the interior of the house used for the series of Mary Kate and Ashley.
Two of a kind?
I live I toledo, and I’m sorry but that house isn’t something that is synonymous with toledo unless you’re well off even then it wouldn’t be in toledo
It’s the same set as Hit in Cleveland right?
I was just Googling having just discovered the show (in Australia we get a lot of things late) and thinking it reminds me internally of the set for According to Jim. Can’t find any good pics of it though so not sure if I’m remembering it wrong but that’s what it reminds me of.
The interior looks like the house from Sabrina the Teenage Witch to me
Came upon this site after feeling like the outside looked like the Step by Step house. The front stairs is where I got caught up in thinking it was the same house.
As for the kitchen. The island is very similar to the one in Melissa’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The stairs are in the same spot though they were not open in Sabrina
I’m pretty sure exterior house shot is same house as Lincoln heights.
My bad its just the steps and driveway thats the same
Charmed!?
Good Luck Charlie?
I was wondering if you’d know what the floor plan for Melissa and Joey is if it was a real house in season 2 forward. I find it odd that Joey’s lair, supposedly above the garage, is up the kitchen stairs and to the right when the garage is all the way past the dinning room out the other end of the house. I was also wondering where the door to the basement would have gone since the door behind the living room stairs are to the bathroom.
I was wondering the same things. After the remodel in Season 2 the door is gone forever..
Reba?
No – I talked about Reba in the post.
The inside set looks similar to Rebas, though it would have been changed a bit. The outsides though look nothing alike.
The interior of Melissa And Joey is largely recycled from Reba. Compare the interiors, especially the location of windows in the dining area and begin the kitchen sink.
Behind the kitchen sink *
It’s from Family Matters!
No, that house is in Chicago. https://foursquare.com/v/the-family-matters-house/4bb3a2322397b713256738b3