Portia's Season 5 Bedroom and Bathroom on Search Party
Portia and Dory in bed
Even though every season Portia’s apartment gets a redesign on Search Party, we don’t actually see her bedroom every season and we’ve only seen a glimpse of the bathroom once.
But this season we were doing both a bedroom AND a bathroom! Bed, Bath, and Beyond!
Portia and Dory in the bathroom
For the bedroom, Maggie Ruder the Production Designer, wanted to keep the look close what we did for the rest of her apartment but with a different color palette and from the same reference books we were consulting for the rest of Portia’s apartment found this photo:
So we basically copied it as best we could with the budget we were working with.
Maggie giving directions of what was happening on that opposite wall which we NEVER see. I must note this was before we fixed the hem of the sheers.
For the bathroom Maggie said she wanted to do a wallpaper and…you know me I LOVE WALLPAPER.
…the one hitch was the producers wanted us to find a wallpaper design where the company/designer would sign off clearance on the design (a first for me) which made the search slightly more challenging.
But we did find something I loved that met the necessary criteria.
Here’s Maggie’s design file for the bathroom
Ok not Dory’s finest moment but this shot lets you see our great bathtub hardware, and the hallway you don’t really see otherwise.
LOVE Portia’s fabulous robe in this bathroom scene
while we are still working on the set I sort of love this photo and it shows off our cute little sink that you never see on screen.
I was taking this photo to show the set dressers something, but I love how the mirror’s shape lines up so nicely with the design of the wallpaper, which you also never see on screen.
Ok you might notice in the photo above that that bar soap looks WAY too new and like it was just taken out of the plastic wrapping.
So in order to age it I brought it over to the nearest bathroom to wash it down and at least soften the hard edges to look a little more used, aged, and lived in.
Well, while I was doing that Katie our Assistant Set Decorator came into the bathroom and stood in the doorway so we could do one of our daily recaps and touching of base on what we still needed to do for our upcoming sets.
It seemed normal enough as a way to use time effectively, but at a certain point I realized how absurd this set up was, and I was like hold on I need to take a photo of this moment.
There it is, me with the soap I’m washing down and Katie with her notebook.
That’s it for Bed, Bath, and Beyond Portia’s Season 5 Apartment on Search Party!
To see more photos of Search Party Season 5 sets, click here for the portfolio.