One of my favorite parts of a recent post, Classic NYC Pads on TV: How Realistic Are Your Favorite Shows?, were the comments, with people saying things like, "Thank goodness these apartments are just as expensive/unrealistic as I always thought they were!" Now, thanks to a talented artist, we can fully appreciate how vast Carrie Bradshaw's apartment was ... and how much I want to move in with the Golden Girls.
I admit it: I love floorplans! I love seeing how spaces fit together, probably because I have difficulties fitting them together in my head. The set-up of Carrie's apartment is particularly ingenious, as it seemed like a fairly compact space. I would still love to get square footage estimates for all these famous homes, but the sneak peek into the layout is plenty of fun for now. Lizarralde has also done the Friends apartments, Lucy and Ricky's home (in black and white, appropriately), and the Gilmore Girls' house! I always wondered what was upstairs- it's a big ground floor, but they only ever mentioned Lorelai's bedroom being upstairs. I must quibble, however: in the episode in which the Independence Inn burned down, Lorelai lets guests stay in her room, Rory's room, and on the couch, forcing Lorelai to stay at Luke's (!!) and Rory at Lane's. However, this floorplan shows a second bedroom upstairs, and I am a nerd.
One of the commenters on Design Taxi put forth that the bathrooms on Will & Grace would have actually been next to each other to allow them to be combined into one big bathroom- any other points of contention in the other floorplans? Any other fictional homes you'd love to see done?
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I would love to see the floor plan from the Brady Brunch!
I love these floor plans -- so much fun! Anyone interested in more, should look for Mark Bennett's work. He did floor plans for Bewitched, Brady Bunch, Addams Family, Gilligan's Island, the Jetsons etc. Very cool.
This simply confirms my suspicion that I want to live in Carl & Ellie's house from "Up!"
That's really cool but the Golden Girls floor doesn't seem right to me. There is a bedroom sharing the one wall with the kitchen in the drawn floor plan but that is where the girls used to enter and exit from outside the house in many episodes. Also the bedrooms split up like that doesn't seem to match how all four of them used the same hallway to go to and from their bedrooms.
I'm pretty sure her floor plan of Sheldon & Leonard's apartment from TBBT is incorrect. Their bedrooms are next to each other as witnessed in the episode where Sheldon climbs out of his window and into Leonard's.
I have wanted a Golden Girls floor plan to hang on my wall FOR YEARS. This. Is. Awesome.
(Also, I don't think there is an ideal way to draw it. Knowing what the outside looked like simply doesn't match the way they used it on the show. The artist acknowledges this and I think has done a good job of marrying the two)
Didn't Little Ricky have his own bedroom?
Pretty cool...but wasnt there a door in Carries apartment right next to her bed?
Here is another link with all the floorplans from SATC, Mad Men, Desperate Housewives...
you need to pay to get one but you still can take a lokk at it for free :)
oops...forgot the link ;)
http://www.fantasyfloorplans.com/Fantasy-Floorplan-for-Sex-and-the-City-Apartment-of-Carrie-Bradshaw-and-Mr-Big-19x13-Archival-BluePrint.html
The apartment shown in the drawing for the Ricardos is unit 4A which was their first at 623 E. 68th St. It wasn't until they moved into apartment 3D that they gained the extra bedroom for Little Ricky.
I think the extra bedroom in the Gilmore Girl's house is Rory's Bedroom at her Grandmother's house. It looks like that. Why wouldn't Loralai take that one and Rory take Loralai's if that is how the space was set up.
I'm obsessed with GG & SATC. I have every season of both on DVD. I would love to have these floor plans printed and framed. Thank you for posting this!
Yeah, the Carrie Bradshaw one is way flawed. Her bed was near the front door, and her writing desk was at a window near the bed. Still fun - but needs more verisimilitude.
This just shows how House of Leaves TV floorplans are. I kind of wish they would put more effort into making the exteriors and interiors match.
I've seen these but in blueprints format. On GMA I think http://www.fantasyfloorplans.com/
I placed Blanche's bedroom is to te left of the living room (as appears in the pìlot episode), the lanai ix a mixture of many versions appeared trough the serees and I made some changes in Rose's bedroom to fit the rest of the rooms.
The situation of the bedrooms in the show is a nonsense.
In the pilot the bedoom of Blanche is placed to the left of the living room (as in my floorplanb) and to the right is placed the hallway.
This hallway contains 4 doors:
- Common Bathroom in the door to the left
- Sophia´s bedroom in the first door to the right
- Dorothy's bedroom in the second door to the right
- Rose's bedroom in the door at the bottom of the hallway.
But in the rest of the episodes the bedroom of Blanche is placed in the hallway with the others bedrooms.
But the hallway stll have only 4 doors !!!
The result of this mistake is the continuous switch of the bedrooms through the show...
You can buy a handmade original drawing on my Etsy store:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TVFLOORPLANSandMORE
The drawing of "S&TC" is correct...
I don't know what series have you seen to say that her bed was near the front door...
http://www.hbo.com/sex-and-the-city/index.html#/sex-and-the-city/cast-and-crew/carrie-bradshaw/slideshow/carries-apartment.html/eNrjcmbOYM5nLtQsy0xJzXfMS8ypLMlMds7PK0mtKFHPz0mBCQUkpqf6JeamcjIyskknlpbkF+QkVtqWFJWmsjGyMQIAWCcXOA==
About this fllorplan:
The entire first floor of the home is built to scale in a studio but the first floorplan sceens were filmed in removable sets.
When Lorelai's bedroom appears for the first time in the episode 1X02 apparently the first fllorplan only contains her bedroom at one side (above the living room) and a bathroom in the other side.
But, what happens with all the rest of the space in this floor above kitchen and Rory's bedroom ???
In fact an image of the other side of the fake building was shown to situate the action in Lorelai's bedroom:
http://emilyandbrad.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/dsc07069.jpg
But this side of the building creates contradictions with the distribution of the sets.
In fact this image situates the bedroom in the backside but in the episode 6.02 we can see Lorelai's bedroom in a travelling through a big hole in the wall.
So the windows in Lorelai's bedroom are placed looking to this side of the house.
Three windows in a flat wall, another contradiction.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-leL_FxHEF5E/TvutEdyVKFI/AAAAAAAALsE/ZJworGFp4as/s1600/House+1.jpg
In the epissode 6.06 we attend to the makeover and in the next episodes the new bedroom is presented.
In theory this new bedroom is situated in the same place as the old one but the access to this new bedroom it's through a long corridor wich creates another contradiction with the situation of the stairs.
So finally I decided to make my own theory:
The old bedroom was reconstructed and used now as guest bedroom. The new bedroom was created in the unused space above kitchen and Rory's bedroom extending the original bathroom on upper floor to create the ensuite bathroom.
I adapted the stairs to fit the old bedroom with the ground floor and to create a long corridor to the new bedroom.
I don't know why (maybe cause all these changes creates confussion) but the producers never shows the upper part of the exterior of the house in the rest of episodes.
The interiors and exteriors usually don't much...
But this is not my fault, they are mistakes made by the producers and creators of the series...
Can you tell me where is the terrace in the exterior of the building from "Friends" by example ???
i don't remember a door next to the bed; but a doorway into the closet, yes.