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It makes sense when you think about Albers' color tests: a gray green is opposite on the color wheel from rosy caucasian skintones, so it makes the skin look warmer and less sallow.

Years ago, I read an article about Carrie's apartment (most likely on a HBO/Sex &.. website); I remember that the "apartment" is painted with two layers: a sort of sage green and a lavender. All so the paint doesn’t look so flat.

What I would really like is a closer look at Alexander Petrovsky's loft.... Now THAT's an apartment

I always thought Carrie's apartment color was pretty drab, and didn't match her character. Later in the series the wall behind her bed was a pale pink, I thought it was a good change. And I too would love a tour of Petrovsky's loft...it was awesome.

Sepitts, that was Miranda's place which had the green with the lavendar glaze overlay.

I agree with SarahinATX. Carrie's apartment seems so depressing. I wouldn't want to live there.

Green is my fav color, but I wouldn't put most shades on the wall. The pea green with some grey is "drab"/"safe"/"Serene" enough for Carrie to escape the crazy city outside. Besides, if you have all that action outside your window wouldn't you want something different inside. Besides, Carrie isn't a beige girl, none of them are...the only one closetest would be Charlotte - but even she's more pearl pink than beige. So pea soup is a beige with some color. Especially if you want to shoes and clothes to pop more than the wall.

Big had a red wall, and it really had an impact to the space and scenes...if they did that in Carrie's place it would have felt wrong.

Just a nitpick. It's actually Sex and the City, not "in." I'm a big fan. I had to.

Glad you said it miz K, I was about to make the same comment.

I always thought that Carrie's apartment was painted gray (i didn't really think of it as green) because it helped create a downtown/bohemian/'tough'-new york look that would make Carrie seem cool and urban to the mostly non-new yorker viewers of the show.

Nope, Sepitts is right--it is Carrie's place that has the green and lavender glaze: "soft shade of celery green washed with a lavender iridescent glaze ("it looks better on screen - it has a glow about it," Conway explains)." It's all here: http://www.hbo.com/city/interiors/carrie.shtml

My bedroom is that color. Inherited it. Dislike looking at it... but it does flatter my rosy complexion.

Carries apartment was definately drab and rather dark which served as a perfect foil to the character's M.O.; sex, writing and fashion.

I thought it was kind of shadowy without being dark. It almost looked like if her walls were white but never hit directly with light, a vague murky color. I think set design is fascinating in general. I think there's a color theory as to how the apartment was painted and lit, and another social/psychological theory as to how to make the apartment look likely to be hers without looking like she lived in a big kooky outfit. It also resembled a real apartment in angle and height more than say, a stage set, like Friends' purple painted "Monica" apartment with turquoise kitchen and consistent bright overhead lighting. Carrie had windows and lamps and all directions, and didn't have to be overemphasized. It had enough information to look like it was her apartment without distracting.

I don't know what purpose green serves, but it was also a popular color in the world (still is), and I think blue or yellow or pink would say something different than they wanted to say. Those colors are all a lot happier than green.

Carries apartment is functional. It supports her lifestyle. The understated color is serene which supports her working (writing) there. The furniture is somewhat spare and definitely unconventional. It reveals her devotion to fashion that she would rather have a wall of bookshelves for fashion magazines, than a sofa or two for lounging, entertaining. I don’t think she owned a television. Her closet is so large, and ideally compartmentalized, that she doesn’t need so much in the bedroom. Her small vanity always surprised me. The kitchen has very little of use in it, because she only uses it to store take out.

Carrie’s place is simple because she needs it to be a retreat from all the full-bore energy outside. It is simple because she is all about what’s going on outside that apartment. And it is simple because she is an average New York City renter of modest means. If she hadn’t lucked into rent control, there’d be more people in that pad or she would located in Washington Heights.

Speaking of SATC, does anyone know where Miranda's bedsheets are from? (the pale pink ones)

Being from Melbourne Australia, I always thought it was a New York thing. I drew this conclusion from watching SATC, Seinfeld and Friends. (Lucky I'm not a scientist) All the walls seem to be a variation on grey... So I guess it's not a NY thing then?

The color is about photography and setting off the actors against it.

But one thing I haven't see anyone mention: That big bookcase that is by Carrie's front door, they used to have at ABC Carpet & Home. It was $2400, and didn't come apart into pieces, and there is no way in hell that that bookcase could ever have been brought into a walkup apartment, like the one she lived in.

Ah but the NEW carrie's apartment - painted BRIGHT royal BLUE (if I recall correctly) saw it last night :)

Okay, this is only on-topic if the topic is what flatters people's complexions, but I've always thought Samantha looked terrible as a blonde! It doesn't work with her skin at all. She always looked so pretty as a brunette, but I guess they were going for the whole "blonde bombshell" thing.

I would love to know what paint color they used for Carrie's apartment in the movie - love that blue!

In case anyone else is interested, I found an article that gives the paint color! It's Benjamin Moore Electric Blue. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/home/chi-sex_city_set_screen_0601jun01,0,553371.story

I NEED that mirrored vanity that Carrie has in her apartment after she redecorates. I have been searching and searching. Please, does anyone know where I can find it? I MUST have it! :) Thanks!

It's all about the women and their escapades which is where the color and sparkle delight us. If you care that much about the decor, you miss the entire purpose of the show to entertain and give us a laugh or two. The fashion statements that Carrie makes with her wardrobe is what compliments the story line about the City and its life. That is from the absurdity of trends to the vacuous pursuit of love.

Charlotte is the only character that is really concerned with decorating her home in any serious way. Could those folks here blabbing about wall colors just get a life?