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Get the Look: Carrie Bradshaw's Creative Crib, the Lighting

CasaSugar — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:04:36 -0700

You're not an expert just yet on how to get the look of Carrie Bradshaw's creative crib. Here is a lesson on the leading lady's lighting.

The Lighting:
Carrie's lighting choices are functional more than anything else. She puts her lamps exactly where she needs them, and nowhere else. In her living room, C chose two wooden, mid-century floor lamps with drum shades to brighten up the living room when she's reading in Aidan's chair or writing at her desk. A dainty lamp on the entry hall console table leads her in when she comes home late, a basic bedside lamp lets her read herself to sleep, and under-cabinet lighting in the kitchen is a remnant of an old NYC rental.

Maybe you don't read Vogue or shop at Barney's, but you can still get the Carrie look if you embrace your clutter. Find a way to make your dusty stacks of periodicals look intentional. Don't just go out and buy furniture that looks like the ones you've seen here. Collect mid-century-like pieces of similar wood finishes or colors that you love, slowly over time from flea markets, and choose a few, soft colors of the same hue to paint your walls. The best way to channel Carrie is to be yourself, whether you're a person who wears bold brights or simple khaki colors.

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Get the Look: Carrie Bradshaw's Creative Crib, the Accents

CasaSugar — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:59:12 -0700

You're not an expert just yet on how to get the look of Carrie Bradshaw's creative crib. Here is a lesson on the leading lady's accents.

The Accents:
Ms. Bradshaw is a fashion fiend, so be sure to subscribe to all the girly glossies and use them as coffee table reading. She’s a writer, so hoarding periodicals is a part of her job. Everywhere you look, high and low, there should be stacks of mags, books, and archives of the newspaper you write for. I don’t endorse smoking, but C’s a smoker so a butt-brimmed ashtray is a must. Hang shopping bags from all the high-end NYC shops (Barney’s, Bergdorf’s, Bendel’s, Jimmy Choo) on the backs of doorknobs to use as storage for all the "stuff" that amasses living in a big city. Choose a super plush mattress, and anything from Calvin Klein's bedding collection will get the look.

Adorn your bathroom sink and bathtub with beauty products (Kiehls moisturizer, Bobbi Brown brushes, your boyfriend’s Rogaine). Stock the kitchen with an assortment of stemware you wind up with after late nights out. Plaster the fridge with magnets and family photos so you feel at home. There’s no use in trying to make your jam-packed walk-in closet look neat; think of it as “organized chaos.” Mat and frame abstract sepia and black-and-white photographs, and hang them above your bed, or prop them on a console table. Be sure to have curtains made from the Marimekko fabric Carrie used.

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Get the Look: Carrie Bradshaw's Creative Crib, the Furniture

CasaSugar — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:20:33 -0700

You're not an expert just yet on how to get the look of Carrie Bradshaw's creative crib. Here is a lesson on the leading lady's furniture.

The Furniture:
Carrie’s small apartment is packed with mismatched tables and chairs and dressed with weathered fabrics, and her walls are far from fresh. Everything in it has a flea market feel, so I suggest scouring local second-hand stores, flea markets, and ebay or craigslist. Although her furniture is a mix of different styles, mid-century definitely represents. In her living room area, the main elements are the “Aidan Chair” and the heavy round coffee table. If you’ve got a furniture designer boyfriend, maybe you can snag the chair, which Aidan made from slightly stained and ripped leather from an old Pullman car.

Otherwise, you should look for a “mission style” chair with bentwood/bow arms that’s low to the ground and has plush leather upholstery. Conway couldn’t find the table he was envisioning, one that would be ideal for the SATC ladies to sit around and chat at, so he built it himself. The table is very similar to the three-pronged ones by Vladimir Kagan, except that it has a wooden, not glass, top. Antoine Proulx also makes similar heavy, round, and low to the ground coffee tables that instill the cozy feeling Conway had in mind. Carrie also uses a mid-century credenza with sliding doors to hide her clutter and prop up framed artwork. She stores hundreds of back-issues of fashion glossies on large shelves in her foyer, which nearly reach the ceiling, and she stashes her keys on a low console table next to her front door. She also made her radiator into a bedside table by topping it with a piece of plywood.

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Get the Look: Carrie Bradshaw's Creative Crib, the Palette

CasaSugar — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:06:46 -0700

Last week I showed you how to get the Miranda Hobbes look in your home, and FabSugar showed us how to get the Carrie Bradshaw look for Halloween. It’s only fitting now that you learn to be 100% Carrie by also getting her look in your home. I’ve always been a fan of the “lived in” look of Carrie’s apartment. Like many NYC apartments, it's small, so she has to make room for her creative clutter wherever she can find it. Although Carrie’s not a decorator (she’s a fashionista/writer), her apartment is still stylish and looks put together, even though it’s full of flea market finds. Charlotte, on the other hand, is a decorator and fought to the death with her mother-in-law, Bunny, to take charge of her décor.

To learn how to get the Carrie Bradshaw look in your home, read more

The Palette:
Definitely go for a soft color scheme, but with more of a gray hint than Miranda’s. Carrie’s walls are a soft shade of celery green washed with a lavender iridescent glaze. SATC Production Designer Jeremy Conway said, “We employed a particular color theory for each of them that helped in identifying character and personality. The idea is to be able to look at a room and say, ‘Now that’s very Carrie.’” Although there actually isn’t too much color in Carrie’s apartment, the color scheme is very ‘her’ because it serves as a base for her bold wardrobe.

Most of her furniture is wooden, and any upholstered pieces she has are leather or brown or gray-ish fabrics, and her closet is painted sort of a hyacinth gray. The lesson here is to choose soft colors that don’t fight with a colorful, patterned wardrobe, but don’t go all white because that’s just not creative. Bonus question: Can you name the paint color of Carrie's kitchen cabinets? Answer below.

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Midday Muse: Cashmere Colors

CasaSugar — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:00:19 -0800

I have to admit, I am loving the color palette of Mia's (Lucy Liu) Manhattan apartment on Cashmere Mafia (yes, I am lame). It sneakingly recalls the home of a character on yet another television show about a foursome of power women in NYC - yes, Carrie Bradshaw's creative crib. It has the same soft hues, the near-gray lavender iridescence, and a familiar celery tone in the foyer. It's nice to see the calm color palette working in both Mia's "decorated" formal grounds and Carrie's casual digs. While Patricia Fields, famed SATC costume designer, does style Cashmere Mafia as well, it was production designer Jeremy Conway who was responsible for Carrie's palette. Cashmere Mafia production designer Stephen Hendrickson and Conway must be kindred spirits then, huh?

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Found It! SATC Furniture

CasaSugar — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:42 -0700

In anticipation of the Sex and the City movie, I figured I'd revisit the girls' apartments and show you how to steal their looks to get your own digs into true SATC form. Check out this slideshow to see some furniture that'll help you emulate your favorite character, from Carrie's creative crib to Miranda's slick UWS home, Charlotte's Park Ave. pad, or Sam's sultry downtown digs. Source

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Nice and New: Room & Board Bradshaw Table

CasaSugar — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:06:16 -0800

One of Room & Board's 2008 collection highlights is their new Bradshaw Cocktail Table ($849), a table inspired by Carrie Bradshaw's coffee table in Sex and the City. If you remember my Get the Look: Carrie's Creative Crib, the table featured in the show was actually created by Production Designer Jeremy Conway because he couldn't find the table he was envisioning. The result was a low table with a thick wooden top and Danish modern lines, ideal for the ladies to sit around and chat. Although the Room & Board version isn't exactly the same as the original, it's nice to know there's a close second.

Best of 2007: Get the Looks

CasaSugar — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:38:22 -0800

This year, I showed you how to get a laundry list of looks in your homes. Some were inspired by TV shows and films, and others by a destination or a specific style. You seemed to enjoy the Get the Looks, since you commented like crazy!

Here are some of my favorite Get the Look posts this year:

I showed you how to live like a true Sex and the City gal in Carrie's creative crib and Miranda's slick Upper West Side home.
You learned to live like Men in Trees in Marin's rumpled cabin.
I channeled Sofia Coppola with my modern Marie Antoinette maison.
I guided you to Holly Golightly's glam quarters.
I went kitschy camping indoors.
And last but not least, I took you on a voyage to Morocco.

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Get the Look: Miranda Hobbes' Slick Upper West Side Home Part II

CasaSugar — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:59:33 -0700

If you read my first post on Miranda Hobbes' home, you're probably aching for more of that successful lawyer style. I'll show you how to get the look of the accents and lighting in her pad, when you read more

The Accents:
Pick some light, girly accents to add a feminine touch to the straight lines of the furniture. Miranda kept antique perfume bottles on her dresser, and chose sheer, airy curtains to let light into her big, pre-War apartment. Make sure to pick up a Starburst Mirror for above your mantle that's hard, sharp, and unusual like Miranda. Leave other decorative touches to a minimum, maybe just some vases, a bedside childhood portrait, and candles. Hang abstract black and white photo prints that are intriguing and sexy. Install clean and classical crown moldings. Purchase a Tibetan-inspired, somewhat mystical painting to hang in the dining room, and lay down a muted toned brocade rug.

The Lighting:
Let the light in with sheer curtains, so you cast soft shadows into the room. Pick a geometric lamp for your bedside table lamp, and put a tall, textured wooden floor lamp and a crystal sphere table lamp next to the couch. Hang boxy, rectangular white pendants over the dining room table-nothing fussy, it doubles as a workspace, remember?

Whatever you do, think conservative. Choose proportion over embellishment, and neatness over clutter like Carrie's creative crib. Choose products that are lean, simple, understated, and very well-made. This is, after all, the Upper West Side.

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