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Since the very first episode of this much-missed show, it was clear a new era in fashion was upon us. Now, four years after its exit from prime time television, we’re still talking about and dissecting what made these four women who they were and why we loved them so much. Perhaps it was that we could relate to something in each character’s personality or maybe, with their many dating trials and tribulations, we were living out what we saw on screen every week?
Or perhaps, even more likely, we simply envied them for all they had; the clothes, the shoes, the restaurants, the jobs…and the apartments. What each character wore, how they wore it and what it said about their personality has been exhausted from top to bottom, but what about their homes?
One’s personal decorating style can say so much about who they are and with the Sex and the City movie upon us, I think it’s time for a little refresher course on Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda; our girls and the apartments that love them.
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Strong, independent, beautiful yet plain and slightly selfish; all words that best describe Miranda Hobbs the lawyer…and quite clearly her bedroom too. For five and a half seasons Miranda’s apartment was not really a place for her to call home. Sure, she ate there sometimes, watched some television when she wasn’t out with the girls and slept there, but in all those years we never really got the sense that she truly lived there.
While she spent most of her time attempting to convince everyone around her that she was happy in her own world, no men need apply, it wasn’t until she married Steve and moved out of her apartment into a house, that she really opened up and let herself start to live…and love.
This bedroom façade may be unoriginal, devoid of personal touches and empty, but just like the emotional façade Miranda put up for so long, that isn’t Miranda and this is not her home.
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Neat, clean, pristine, not too much space for one, but definitely made for two; this is the life and apartment of Charlotte York. An Upper East Side princess born and bred into a good family, with good genes, good looks and a good education…a good husband couldn’t be far off, right?
As we all know, Charlotte spent the majority of her time on the show searching high and low for a man to marry. Everything she did was as a means to that end, especially in the bedroom.
This bedroom is perfectly symmetrical, slightly feminine but mostly gender neutral, and features the double nightstands, both begging to be used. In her perfect world, Charlotte was waiting for her prince, but when she finally came back down to reality, she found the beast to her beauty. Harry wasn’t tall, dark and handsome, and he didn’t fit neatly in her delightfully packaged, sweetly scented world…but he loved her and isn’t that what she was looking for all along?
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Samantha Jones is fearless, opinionated and sassy, and she won’t let you forget it. Just as her clothing choices echo her personality, so too does her apartment. Well, her bedroom anyway.
Being bold and upfront lands Sam her PR conquests by day and her male conquests at night (sometimes one and the same), and she’s certainly not shy about it. Of all the girls, Samantha is by far the most sexually free, which is mirrored in the open concept of her apartment. The main attraction? Her large, crimson covered bed. Who needs anything else?
Just like Miranda and Charlotte, however, there’s more to Samantha than meets the eye. She spent the better part of six years convincing her friends and us that words like ‘boyfriend’ and ‘love’ were dirty, and that men were a dime a dozen. Who knew all it would take was a younger man to make Sam grow up?
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Probably the most complicated of them all, Carrie Bradshaw brings a little of each of her friends’ personalities into one, making her the pivotal character and the most relatable ‘every woman’. Smart, funny, immature, sensitive, strong and on and on, Carrie brings it all to the table…and so does her apartment.
Perhaps slightly more immature than her friends’ places, Carrie’s apartment is a messy jumble of creative energy and an interesting combination of every aspect of her personality and character. She seems to be the only character who actually lives in her apartment and it sees her through some of the best and worst moments of her life. She even tries to leave it, but in the end she can’t.
Carrie spends six seasons in pain, confusion and anguish searching for something, always trying to be someone that she isn’t and always wanting something more. How fitting that Big, the cause of her biggest moments of all three, would end up being her happy ending.
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Which apartment do you prefer?
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