FRIENDS Apartments Floorplan (Old version) by nikneuk

Supposedly, the building was supposed to be older and would have more lax laws surrounding it's construction. I just think it was because it was funnier to have them climb out of a window instead of just walking through a door.

Thank you very much.
I'm glad you like my drawings.
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The original drawings are drawn to scale but I decided not indicate the dimensions since they are oriented to fans that normally are not interested in these technical data.

Thank you very much.
I'm glad you like it.
But In fact I'm a bit ashamed with this old version so I did a new one adjusting some elements:
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I'm glad you like the drawing.
But in fact I'm a bit ashamed of some of these old drawings.
I made this drawing 5 years ago (or more) in a very small size.
As you can see in the link below the last versions (original hadmade artworks avalaible though my Etsy store) are more detailed. 
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And yes, I downloaded the full series to map the floorplan.
This is the method I use to make these floorplan.
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Hello Vickiann.
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Thank you very much for your lovely comment...
Eskerrik asko bihotz bihotzez...
I wish all my clients were so kind and patient as you...
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Kind regards.
Iñaki
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Im glad you like it...

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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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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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Yes.
I know it perfectly.
It was a joke.
A symbol to represent the incognite that was that episode...