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This handmade floorplan represents the apartments of Monica-Rachel and Chandler-Joey from the TV show "Friends".
Is an original hand drawed plan, in scale, coloured with colour pens and with full details of furniture and complements ...
The design is made according with the "real" apartments respecting the spaces, proportions, furniture and objets presents in the studio.
Some sets have changed throughout the different seasons and this floorplan is a mixture of various of them.
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If you want to buy an original drawing, especially handmade for you, contact me at ializar@hotmail.com or visit my ETSY store.

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you are so incredibly brilliant. how do you even do this? you must watch the shows a lot to get an idea of the floorplan...
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:iconnikneuk:
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Thank you very much for your comment.
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Normally I downloaded the entire series or the movie.
I prefer it the closed series to have available all about them.
In the sitcoms the principal set (normally the living room placed in front of the audience) appears in all the episodes.
The problem is usually locate the secondary sets as the bedrooms and bathrooms.
Normally moveable sets that changes continously and contradictory with the central sets cause are built in other place of the studio.
That is the problem with the multicamera series.
In fact they are like a theatrical sets...
In series as "Sex & the City", filmed as movies (not recorded in front of an audience) the sets are closed and more logical and coherent.
Just as real apartments...

In a couple of hours I can locate all that I need using the forward button of the player.
I revised the episodes several times and pointed the ones in which appears everything that I need.
Meanwhile I'm creating a first basic layout that I refined and developed with notes of aid.
When I made a composition of place I started a second layout (using the anotations of the first rude layout) to fit the final dimensions, proportions, to place furniture and to complete the final shape of the drawing.
Finally I started the third and definitive floorplan that I made more carefully.
To complete the final drawing I revised all my anotations to find timber tones, the colors of the materials, the fabrics and all the details that I need to make an accurated floorplan.
In total I need from 30 to 40 hours (or more, In fact I've never counted) to complete one floorplan from zero to the final uploaded result.

I think that I spend so much time locating everything that I need.
Time that is multiplied when it's a log runnig series with many seasons.
Time that doubles when the sets of the series change throughout the seasons and/or when they are full of contradictios.
That is usually the norm ...

It's more easy to fix the proportions, dimensions, furniture, etc when the drawing is from a movie or a miniseries.
Principally cause the length of the series or movie are minor.
The problem with a miniseries or a movie is that they are few miniseries or movies that it shows all the houses or apartments.
Normally we can see only a portion of the houses (the living room, kitchen and bedroom only) and thy are few movies that shows completily a house or an apartment.
The apartment of Holly Golightly from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was a good example of a full set.

When I made handmade floorplans (that I made by order and sell in my ETSY store) I need only from 10 to 15 hours to replicate one of the originals depending of the complexity and size of the purchased drawing.

I use with cardboards (with high gramage), ink, markers and colour pencils to make the drawings.
It's a technic that I know how to use and offers my... comfort.
For my work used watercolors when I made large representations and currently I use 3D software design that allows me to easily change the elements of a real project.
But for these floorplans I was looking for something more artistic and less technical, to transmit the personality of the houses with the warmth and unperfection of a handmade drawing.
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~nagi235 Mar 18, 2013  New member
The Bathroom in Monica's and Rachels Apartment is a bit off, the Bathtub is on the left side of the room, opposed to the door:
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apart from that great! my new Wallpaper :)
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:iconnikneuk:
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As you can read in some posts the secondary sets have changed many times trough the seasons.
The most usual distribution for the bathroom of the girls is the distribution that I've represented.
You can see this distribution in episodes like this:
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And in other episodes as the one in with Phoebe and Rachel discovers the pregnancy test or the other one in wich Joey changes the tiles of the floor (but I remembre that in this episode the toilet is placed behind the window).
Usually the window is right in front of the door, the toilet and the sink to the right side and the bathttub to the left as you can see in these episodes and in my floorplan.
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:iconmyshinyboy:
Mood: Love ~MyShinyBoy Mar 10, 2013  Student Interface Designer
Gracias ♥
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:iconnikneuk:
De nada...
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:iconcristianer:
I really like it!!
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:iconlemonik6:
Mood: Joy ~lemonik6 Mar 6, 2013  Student Artist
it's fun ;p
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:iconsilvermoonstar3:
That question mark is Monica's locked closet of junk. They open it in a single episode.
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:iconnikneuk:
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Yes.
I know it perfectly.
It was a joke.
A symbol to represent the incognite that was that episode...
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