So my first proper post! Perhaps a big one to start on, but until
recently i had only seen the odd few episodes of Sex And The City so i begun watching it
from the start. I have watched all of season 1 and 2 so far and i like it. The girl’s
group dynamics is similar to me and my friends, and they live a lifestyle I’m
sure me and my friends would love, all the meals, parties, shopping, money,
living in NY, the apartment, maybe not the men bit as much though! [NOTE: I can
only base this on what i have watched so far.]
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| Artist Inaki Aliste Lizarralde's floor plan of Carrie Bradshaw's apartment [Click here to see more] |
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| Cluttered but well lived-in bedroom, the bed is a central thing. [Image source : HBO website] | |
So Carrie’s apartment ... I think the flat really is true to
the character of Carrie. She can seem a bit all over the place at times and her
cluttered apartment reflects this. Her
and her outfits can sometimes be a little crazy, and her apartment with her
belongings and her furniture shows her personality. When she’s not rushing
round getting dressed for dates and going out with the girls she can be chilled
out, mainly when she is writing her column, and her apartment can exude a
relaxed feeling. There is also an edgy and quirky side to her. I think again
this side of her is shown through the furniture and the roles they play; the
way she mixes vintage finds with her designer bits. The differently designed
chairs, which she pushes together when the girls are round, shows this side as
they don’t match or have proper places, but this i guess still shows this ‘all
over the place’ side too. She spends lots of time on her bed, it’s quite a
central piece in the series so the open planned apartment suits this. The fact
it is a one-room apartment fits well with her bachelorette life (when she’s not
with Mr Big), while Samantha’s, Charlotte's and Miranda’s apartments seem almost more ‘grown
up’. In the films after her apartment gets done up it is clutter free and this
just doesn’t reflect her character as much.
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| Carrie's apartment [images various sources through Google search] |
It is located in the Upper East Side fictionally, but is
actually on Perry Street, Greenwich. Personally her apartment is what i would
like to imagine all New York apartments to look like, with the large front windows,
quite small but open plan, even the kitchen is how i imagine all NY kitchens to
be – though she doesn’t spend much time in there does she! I like how her
apartment reflects her personality with what is inside it. I like the books and
magazines everywhere, the dressers and chunky oval wooden table (all again
cluttered) and the non-matching chairs, and what girl wouldn’t like a large
walk in wardrobe!
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| The miss-match chairs in her living room - I think its quirky! |
