What Threw Me Badly and Bothered Me the Most

Was the interior of Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane. The outside looked similar, and the interior would be expected to be run down after twenty years of a World War followed by an economic slump, but how could the rooms have actually shrunk? This went WAY beyond the cliché of returning as an adult to your childhood home and finding it smaller. What happened to the huge entry hall with the massive pillars? The stairs looked similar except for the railing, which strangely enough was more rather than less decorative, and a little of the entryway floor was the same. Was Michael Banks, strapped for cash, supposed to have put walls across half the entryway, taken out the pillars, walled off half the living room, and let out the other half as apartments or something? If so, there would be no exterior windows on the side of the room where the wall was built. I strived to make the whole thing make sense but couldn't relate to it as the same place at all and it was a huge distraction.

Since we can't post pictures here you'll just have to resort to Google images to see what I mean.