TV's Best Designs Time Out Chicago Home Decor Issue

This week's Time Out is the annual Home Decor issue. Front and center: the best interiors from t.v. Including I Love Lucy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Sex & The City, How I Met Your Mother, Friends, The Brady Bunch, and Gossip Girl, the editors break down how to achieve each set's particular style today. We're particularly smitten with Lucy and her place for many, many reasons...

...classic 1950s NYC, a sense of simple style and everdayness, leaving lots of room for hilarity.

Where to find it: These vintage table lamps (1) and kitchenware (2) (lamps, $165–$225; mixing bowl, $68, Ravenswood Antique Mart) are authentic blasts from the past, while the subtly tufted, flannel Baxter sofa from Jayson Home & Garden (3) ($2,195) offers an updated version of the standard ’50s sofa.

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Comments (15)

My mom recieved a set of those Pyrex tulip bowls as a wedding present...
...sadly, they were put in the dishwasher too many times and the tulips all washed off.

Look at that pic of the Ricardos' apartment. Ashtray on the desk by Ricky, ashtray on the coffee table, ashtray on the mantle, cig in Lucille's right hand.... (yeah, I know who their sponsor was).... !!!

What? No mention of the Ugly Betty sets?

btoddster - Sorry to burst the bubble but I think a lot of shows were filled with ashtrays and smoking. It's just how it things were done on TV then.

My favorite TV show set has always been the Dick Van Dyke Show. I am CONVINCED that the sofa called "Petrie" from Crate and Barrell is named after Van Dyke's character on the show ("Rob Petrie"). And since their house was supposed to be in New Rochelle, I feel confident that the sofa called "Rochelle" is also inspired by the show. Has anyone else come to this conclusion, or am I the only 1960s television obsessed design looky lou?

Does anyone remember the episode where Lucy had to tell the truth for a day? Carolyn Appleby asks what she thinks about her Chinoisery filled apartment and Lucy says "It looks like a bad dream you'd have after eating too much Chinese food." I loved Carolyn Appleby's apartment and I just realized that I watched WAY too much tv as a child.

Likey: Yes, I thought the same about Crate and Barrel's sofas. And, yes, I thought The Dick Van Dyke show had the best livingroom set, too!

Oh, I remember, Marla Mischief. ;-)

I remember cigarette commercials, too.

I've only seen these two in the last few years, but....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eql0cdh_EJQ

Without a doubt, the TV interior I'd most like to call my own was Sidney Bristow's apartment on "Alias".

Mad Men has some great interior design of course and so does One Tree Hill. On How I Met Your Mother a couple weeks ago, the gang was at Stella's house in NJ and the interior design was so great, colorful and cozy. I wish I could find some pics.

Wasn't Ron Radziner's house, which is featured in the October '08 issue of UK Elle Decoration, a set on Californicatioin? Karen's fiancée's house?

In any case, it has a very cool Neutra/Schindler/Brady Bunch sort of vibe (but way cooler than the Brady Bunch house).

I'm wracking my brain to think of my favourite set, but all I can come up with are movie sets -- the best being Trois Hommes et un Couffin

http://www.allocine.fr/film/galerievignette_gen_cfilm=641&cmediafichier=18462213.html