I was always going to end up watching
Partners after I heard about it because of the actors involved. My biggest girl
crush is on Sophia Bush (and I will be a One Tree Hill fan always and forever)
and I also liked Mark from Ugly Betty, played by Michael Urie. He was one of my
favorite characters then and is in the main cast of Partners too. The fact the
two main characters (Louis and Joe) were architects interested me a little bit
more, so I watched the pilot and I was happy with the show. It made me laugh, I
loved the characters and the little arguments they had. While watching it, the
characters Louis and Joe reminded me of myself and my brother Scott who like
Louis is gay, and is my gay best friend as well as my brother. I have read
online that there are not as many viewers so it is already rumoured to be
cancelled, I am unsure how true this is but I would love this programme to end
up having a How I Met Your Mother status because they are slightly similar.
Also I’d personally I would love to have 8 seasons of Partners.
Because of Joe and Louis being
architects the sets have been designed well and are all pretty cool. They seem
to suit the characters well. The guy’s office is very cool yet original, I
would like my office to look slightly more like this, though my work office and
theirs do have similarities. I like their work kitchen and parts of each of
their apartments too. All of them have exposed brick walls, I’m not moaning
about this because I LOVE this simple design/material. Although it would make a
room colder I think it kind of makes rooms more homely and rustic.
I’ll start with their
office…Being architects they have their fancy nice looking Macs on top of a
nice thick wooden block desk. I am a fan of furniture made from chunky and old
pieces of wood. One of my favourite things in their room is their pedestals. I’d
like one of them with all the almost hidden compartments and open trays and
slots. It seems that in all architect
offices you always have to have shelves full of design books and of course this
office is no exception. Throughout the office they have bursts of the colour green
and their bookshelves have green side panels. Compared to my office at work theirs
looks really personal (which seems a bit daft to say since it isn’t real) but
my office almost seems pristine in comparison. I think its because they have
lamps, ornaments and a sofa with cushions, which allows it to become a personalised space. They do however have a green chair which looks like ones we
sell by Komac and very similar to ones we have in our office.
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| I love their chunky wooden desk, their pedestals and their green panelled bookcase! |
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| Comfortable and personalised looking office. |
What I like about their kitchen
at their work (other than more exposed brick) is that although it is a bit
cluttered with things which don’t necessarily belong in a kitchen, yet they
still belong in a design related office (printer and stationary etc.), it seems
more bespoke than a standard work canteen. Rather than having wall cupboards or
storing their items within base cupboards there are quite a few shelves in this
spacious kitchen that I believe makes this workspace again personalised. It is quite itsy-bitsy and has different
cupboard finishes that I usually wouldn’t like but I like it here, and
especially like the dark green-grey coloured ones.
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| A printer in the kitchen? I like the dark coloured cupboards and the different chairs. |
Louis’s kitchen is my ideal
kitchen. The dark coloured cupboards are very sleek looking. On the short wall
formed from a cupboard and shelves it actually looks like a kitchen dresser
because of it being in between nibs of the wall. BUT BUT BUT my favorite thing
though I didn’t even notice it at first is his table in the centre of the
kitchen. It again has a chunky top, but it also has wheels! Once I noticed this
Louis’s kitchen suddenly exuded an industrial sense. I like how it is quite different. It seems
Louis like.
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| I like the table in the centre :) |
My favorite thing in Joe’s
apartment, similarly to Louis’s, is the kitchen. I love the yellow toned tiled bricks
behind his oven and I always love an island within a kitchen. Joe’s apartment overall seems more masculine
in my opinion, from the furniture to the colours used compared to a more camper,
fancier Louis’s. I like the choice of chairs in his home, especially one you
can see in his kitchen, which is the Eames Molded Plywood Chair. I have
a new liking for unmatching chairs within a quite vicinity.
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| I like the mis-match of different chairs in Joe's apartment. |
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| And i like the yellow brick tiles on the wall behind the cooker. |
So yeah definitely lots of aspects of the design in Partners
that I like and long for :)
