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endgame(this is why it's a very, very bad idea for me to get my hands on HQ screencaps of Sherlock)
Introduction
In discussing some of the contents of Sherlock's flat with other fans, I was starting to get annoyed at the lack of good images showing the layout of Sherlock and John's flat. So, I made a quick mock-up of the flat in Sketch-updefinitely the normal thing to do, right?
I would caution that my 3D model is nowhere near in scale and the proportions of the rooms themselves are inaccurate. Additionally, as the placement of furniture varies from scene to scene, I've generalised. There are also some parts of the flat that we haven't seen (for example, the ceiling of the living room--it's probably non-existent for lighting purposes) so I ignored those.)
It's also worth nothing that this is a completely different set from the pilot. The furniture and arrangement of the furniture is very similar, but there are notable differences: wall colour, the arched wall above the fireplace in the pilot, and part of the flat is a step up from the rest in the pilot (you see a good view of this when Sherlock falls on the floor while drugged, if you're curious).
Letters correspond to 'view' headings.
There are two entrances to the flat from the stair landing: one door enters into the living room, the other into the kitchen.
The living room and kitchen are separated by glass sliding doors.We've never seen them closed, but you can see the handles. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_t_220 has pointed out that we see them closed during The Great Game. She uploaded a screencap here
Based on Ms. Hudson's comments, I'd guess that the two doors by the kitchen lead to Sherlock's room and to a bathroom and John's room is up another flight of stairs (I only drew in one flight of stairs, leading downstairs. The up-stairs would be next to them)
The living room floor is panelled with grey-ish wood, though most of the floor is covered by a very large red carpet, which reaches from the fireplace to the main door. The kitchen looks like mottled-blue linoleum and also has a rug, underneath the table. This picture has a good shot of it.
There are two overhead lights in this flat. One is a fluorescent light in the kitchen, the other in the small room behind the kitchen (also the chandelier on the stair landing). The key light in the flat is the light from the two big windows, though the light through these is still heavily limited by the curtains. Most of the light in the flat comes from smaller floor lamps that are generally pointed at walls, which means light from very odd angles--leading to a very shadowy flat. This is not the case in the pilot, where there is a very warm fill light from overhead.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5
(er, I should note that the number of the reference picture does not correspond to the numbering below)
This is probably the best known wall of the flat. It has very distinctive wallpaper, plus the smiley face and bullet holes.
1. This is a black and white portrait. It's too bad of an angle to tell whether it's a man or a woman. The angle of the 3D rendering wasn't well chosen, but if you look at the pictures, you can see that the wall also has a frosted window pane and a small picture of a city in a circular frame.
2. Skull poster. No idea where it's from, but here is the skull.
3. I'm not going to embarrass myself trying to describe furniture, because I'm completely clueless when it comes to terminology. This has a blanket with diamond patterns in neutral/olive-y colours draped over it (the same blanket is on the sofa in the pilot) and a blue pillow.
4/5 Lamp with square, mirrored base. It looks like there's a speaker to the left of it, with a stereo on the table.
6. Sturdy wood coffee table. Has the yellow spray paint can on it :)
7. Leather sofa. Rather low. (different leather sofa than the pilot, btw, though they are similar)
8. The smiley face and bullet holes (holes are in the eyes of the face and where the nose would be)
9. Discussion about this lamp can be found here
10. There are huge amounts of bookshelves in this flat. More pictures of this shelf in view B.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
This wall is has a subtle green slanted stripe pattern. Not sure the origin of the wallpaper.
1. The bookshelf seen in A10. Also where he keeps his music stand. Above the bookshelf is a map of the UK (this map would be my best guess, though it's hard to tell).
2. This is a square table shoved against a reading desk. It has craploads of stuff on it, including two metal lamps, a penholder with the J/Q/K/A of spades on it, and the wireless router. Mostly just books and papers and Sherlock/John's laptops
3. ...that just looks like a large uterus. Um. It's a animal skull of some kind, not sure which (yeah, I fail at being from the Midwest). Looks kinda like a wildebeest, but the shape still looks wrong. There's a pair of headphones over his skull, which is what that cord dangling down belongs to. There's a small portrait of somebody to the right and a large portrait of somebody in profile to the left.
4. These are single hung sash windows, I believe, 3 panes x 4 panes. The valance (the thing at the top of the curtains) is flat, with a semi-circular shape cut out of the bottom. The curtains themselves are made of a heavy, yellow material with a diamond pattern. They generally hang straight down, though in The Great Game they were clipped back after the explosion. There's also a decorative lace curtain with a swirly pattern on it that hangs in the middle of the window. This is not present in the final scene of The Blind Banker, though it is present in the rest of the episode.
The windows do not reach the floor and the window sill is pretty deep, so it's used as a shelf for books.
I believe these windows would have been facing west had the series been filmed at 221B Baker Street, but on North Gower Street, they're facing east (please correct me if I'm wrong--my knowledge of London geography is non-existent. I can find my way to Chelsea-Westminster Hospital and to Heathrow. That's it.) Based on the direction of light alone, I'd guess that these windows were east facing, but obviously the bright light in the series comes from lighting instruments, not the sun :)
5. Another bookshelf, this time with a mirrored back. This one has more interesting contents--a insect collections. On top of the bookshelf are an old metal fan and a drawing of something I can't make out.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Another wallpaper pattern, I have a cleaned up (though not colour-accurate) image here:
1. Le Corbusier - LC2 (thanks tounovis) Grey leather arm chair with a metal frame.
2. Red armchair with some sort of grey pattern on it. Has a green/white/red plaid blanket draped over the top and a cushion with the union jack on it.
3. These book shelves are fairly tall, I would guess a foot shorter than the top of the window valance and a foot taller than the door to the kitchen. The wallpapered wall panels presumably reaches the ceiling (the wall colour behind the bookshelves is the same greenish colour as the wall to the left). The bottom two feet or so of the bookshelf is cabinet. This particular bookshelf just has books. There's a floor lamp and a chess set (in the pilot, at least, the pieces weren't arranged for a game, just set haphazardly on the board) in front of it.
4. The mirror over the mantel piece is not present in Study in Pink and gets covered in evidence during The Blind Banker. The decorations on the mantel piece also change from episode to episode. The knife that Sherlock stabs into it in Study in Pink stays there. Other decorations include the skull, what looks like a small replica of a terra cotta warrior, and the one of the insect collections from B5.
5. This book shelf contains the TV from episode 2 onwards. In episode 1, that shelf contains the large portrait from B3. In front of the book shelf is a small circular table containing a lamp and their landline. In some scenes, there's also a smaller octagonal table (close-up in ref pic #14).
6. We get exactly no good views of this picture, but were I forced to guess, I would say a map of London. There's a lighter streak that could be the Thames. Sherlock had a map that looked like this/this in the pilot.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6
This wall is a weird grassy-green sort of pattern. The main feature on this wall are two shelving units. They're empty in Study in Pink, so perhaps some of it is John's crap. They are glass-backed--the glass has a tortoise-shell pattern and is tinted yellow. The left one has a printer(?) and what I think is a keyboard.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6
The far wall is a unevenly sponged green. The ceiling of this room is panelled white with a fluorescent light hanging down in the centre.
1. The fridge. Tall and narrow, with a curved front.
2. Not entirely sure what's up with this window. It is an exterior window, but I'm not sure what it looks out onto. My guess is it's a double hung window, though the blinds make it hard to tell.
3. Laminated wood table where Sherlock conducts his experiments.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4
The 3D model is so inaccurate it's not funny. Anyway.
The wall is multi-coloured brick shaped/sized tile. The colours range from dark to light green and the tiles are arranged in a running pattern.
1. Shelving, tilting down for easy access, I guess. This is where the mugs and such are stored. (those are parts of a shoe drying in some of the pictures, by the way)
2. There weren't many good pictures of this part of the wall. What it looks like is there's shelving running high, by the ceiling. There's nothing over the range, but on the far right, by the wall, there's more shelving, which contains chemicals.
3. I have no idea what that machine on the counter is. It looks like of like the love child of a toaster oven, a rice cooker, and a hot water bath you'd use in lab. Is it a British thing?
4. The sink unit. Also where the drying rack is.
5. The stove/oven (that is a tiny oven.)
6. More drawers/storage space. There are gaps in the counter, but I can't see what's underneath them. Anybody have any ideas?
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4
This flat has the craziest wall treatments. This wall has small blue/green tile in a running brick pattern. It's worth noting that the tile only reaches to the top of the bookself. The wall above that is two-toned. I'm not sure what the long glass thing above the tile is. Anybody have any idea?
1. Oh look, another bookshelf. This one seems to have less books and more notes--the boxes also look like they would contain protocols or something.
2. Tall circular table; top is some sort of laminate, I think. Sherlock tends to use this for experiments, it usually has his microscope on it (the microscope is on the counter in the picture with John and Sarah)
Reference Pictures: 1
Sorry, not many good pictures of the far room. It's pretty small, with blue striped wallpaper and two doors. It has overhead lighting and white trim, so it's much lighter looking than the rest of the flat.
If anybody's interested in the Sketch Up model, I can upload it. I would warn that it's very, very sloppily done (the floor is on a slight slant, for example....)
If you have better reference pictures of anything, corrections, or other things to add, please let me know!
Screencaps bypotthead and sgmajorshipper
Introduction
In discussing some of the contents of Sherlock's flat with other fans, I was starting to get annoyed at the lack of good images showing the layout of Sherlock and John's flat. So, I made a quick mock-up of the flat in Sketch-up
I would caution that my 3D model is nowhere near in scale and the proportions of the rooms themselves are inaccurate. Additionally, as the placement of furniture varies from scene to scene, I've generalised. There are also some parts of the flat that we haven't seen (for example, the ceiling of the living room--it's probably non-existent for lighting purposes) so I ignored those.)
It's also worth nothing that this is a completely different set from the pilot. The furniture and arrangement of the furniture is very similar, but there are notable differences: wall colour, the arched wall above the fireplace in the pilot, and part of the flat is a step up from the rest in the pilot (you see a good view of this when Sherlock falls on the floor while drugged, if you're curious).
Floorplan
Letters correspond to 'view' headings.
Entrances
There are two entrances to the flat from the stair landing: one door enters into the living room, the other into the kitchen.
The living room and kitchen are separated by glass sliding doors.
lady_t_220 has pointed out that we see them closed during The Great Game. She uploaded a screencap hereBased on Ms. Hudson's comments, I'd guess that the two doors by the kitchen lead to Sherlock's room and to a bathroom and John's room is up another flight of stairs (I only drew in one flight of stairs, leading downstairs. The up-stairs would be next to them)
Floors
The living room floor is panelled with grey-ish wood, though most of the floor is covered by a very large red carpet, which reaches from the fireplace to the main door. The kitchen looks like mottled-blue linoleum and also has a rug, underneath the table. This picture has a good shot of it.
Lighting
There are two overhead lights in this flat. One is a fluorescent light in the kitchen, the other in the small room behind the kitchen (also the chandelier on the stair landing). The key light in the flat is the light from the two big windows, though the light through these is still heavily limited by the curtains. Most of the light in the flat comes from smaller floor lamps that are generally pointed at walls, which means light from very odd angles--leading to a very shadowy flat. This is not the case in the pilot, where there is a very warm fill light from overhead.
View A
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5
(er, I should note that the number of the reference picture does not correspond to the numbering below)
This is probably the best known wall of the flat. It has very distinctive wallpaper, plus the smiley face and bullet holes.
1. This is a black and white portrait. It's too bad of an angle to tell whether it's a man or a woman. The angle of the 3D rendering wasn't well chosen, but if you look at the pictures, you can see that the wall also has a frosted window pane and a small picture of a city in a circular frame.
2. Skull poster. No idea where it's from, but here is the skull.
3. I'm not going to embarrass myself trying to describe furniture, because I'm completely clueless when it comes to terminology. This has a blanket with diamond patterns in neutral/olive-y colours draped over it (the same blanket is on the sofa in the pilot) and a blue pillow.
4/5 Lamp with square, mirrored base. It looks like there's a speaker to the left of it, with a stereo on the table.
6. Sturdy wood coffee table. Has the yellow spray paint can on it :)
7. Leather sofa. Rather low. (different leather sofa than the pilot, btw, though they are similar)
8. The smiley face and bullet holes (holes are in the eyes of the face and where the nose would be)
9. Discussion about this lamp can be found here
10. There are huge amounts of bookshelves in this flat. More pictures of this shelf in view B.
View B
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
This wall is has a subtle green slanted stripe pattern. Not sure the origin of the wallpaper.
1. The bookshelf seen in A10. Also where he keeps his music stand. Above the bookshelf is a map of the UK (this map would be my best guess, though it's hard to tell).
2. This is a square table shoved against a reading desk. It has craploads of stuff on it, including two metal lamps, a penholder with the J/Q/K/A of spades on it, and the wireless router. Mostly just books and papers and Sherlock/John's laptops
3. ...that just looks like a large uterus. Um. It's a animal skull of some kind, not sure which (yeah, I fail at being from the Midwest). Looks kinda like a wildebeest, but the shape still looks wrong. There's a pair of headphones over his skull, which is what that cord dangling down belongs to. There's a small portrait of somebody to the right and a large portrait of somebody in profile to the left.
4. These are single hung sash windows, I believe, 3 panes x 4 panes. The valance (the thing at the top of the curtains) is flat, with a semi-circular shape cut out of the bottom. The curtains themselves are made of a heavy, yellow material with a diamond pattern. They generally hang straight down, though in The Great Game they were clipped back after the explosion. There's also a decorative lace curtain with a swirly pattern on it that hangs in the middle of the window. This is not present in the final scene of The Blind Banker, though it is present in the rest of the episode.
The windows do not reach the floor and the window sill is pretty deep, so it's used as a shelf for books.
I believe these windows would have been facing west had the series been filmed at 221B Baker Street, but on North Gower Street, they're facing east (please correct me if I'm wrong--my knowledge of London geography is non-existent. I can find my way to Chelsea-Westminster Hospital and to Heathrow. That's it.) Based on the direction of light alone, I'd guess that these windows were east facing, but obviously the bright light in the series comes from lighting instruments, not the sun :)
5. Another bookshelf, this time with a mirrored back. This one has more interesting contents--a insect collections. On top of the bookshelf are an old metal fan and a drawing of something I can't make out.
View C
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Another wallpaper pattern, I have a cleaned up (though not colour-accurate) image here:
1. Le Corbusier - LC2 (thanks to
unovis) Grey leather arm chair with a metal frame. 2. Red armchair with some sort of grey pattern on it. Has a green/white/red plaid blanket draped over the top and a cushion with the union jack on it.
3. These book shelves are fairly tall, I would guess a foot shorter than the top of the window valance and a foot taller than the door to the kitchen. The wallpapered wall panels presumably reaches the ceiling (the wall colour behind the bookshelves is the same greenish colour as the wall to the left). The bottom two feet or so of the bookshelf is cabinet. This particular bookshelf just has books. There's a floor lamp and a chess set (in the pilot, at least, the pieces weren't arranged for a game, just set haphazardly on the board) in front of it.
4. The mirror over the mantel piece is not present in Study in Pink and gets covered in evidence during The Blind Banker. The decorations on the mantel piece also change from episode to episode. The knife that Sherlock stabs into it in Study in Pink stays there. Other decorations include the skull, what looks like a small replica of a terra cotta warrior, and the one of the insect collections from B5.
5. This book shelf contains the TV from episode 2 onwards. In episode 1, that shelf contains the large portrait from B3. In front of the book shelf is a small circular table containing a lamp and their landline. In some scenes, there's also a smaller octagonal table (close-up in ref pic #14).
6. We get exactly no good views of this picture, but were I forced to guess, I would say a map of London. There's a lighter streak that could be the Thames. Sherlock had a map that looked like this/this in the pilot.
View D.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6
This wall is a weird grassy-green sort of pattern. The main feature on this wall are two shelving units. They're empty in Study in Pink, so perhaps some of it is John's crap. They are glass-backed--the glass has a tortoise-shell pattern and is tinted yellow. The left one has a printer(?) and what I think is a keyboard.
View E.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4 5 6
The far wall is a unevenly sponged green. The ceiling of this room is panelled white with a fluorescent light hanging down in the centre.
1. The fridge. Tall and narrow, with a curved front.
2. Not entirely sure what's up with this window. It is an exterior window, but I'm not sure what it looks out onto. My guess is it's a double hung window, though the blinds make it hard to tell.
3. Laminated wood table where Sherlock conducts his experiments.
View F.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4
The 3D model is so inaccurate it's not funny. Anyway.
The wall is multi-coloured brick shaped/sized tile. The colours range from dark to light green and the tiles are arranged in a running pattern.
1. Shelving, tilting down for easy access, I guess. This is where the mugs and such are stored. (those are parts of a shoe drying in some of the pictures, by the way)
2. There weren't many good pictures of this part of the wall. What it looks like is there's shelving running high, by the ceiling. There's nothing over the range, but on the far right, by the wall, there's more shelving, which contains chemicals.
3. I have no idea what that machine on the counter is. It looks like of like the love child of a toaster oven, a rice cooker, and a hot water bath you'd use in lab. Is it a British thing?
4. The sink unit. Also where the drying rack is.
5. The stove/oven (that is a tiny oven.)
6. More drawers/storage space. There are gaps in the counter, but I can't see what's underneath them. Anybody have any ideas?
View G.
Reference Pictures: 1 2 3 4
This flat has the craziest wall treatments. This wall has small blue/green tile in a running brick pattern. It's worth noting that the tile only reaches to the top of the bookself. The wall above that is two-toned. I'm not sure what the long glass thing above the tile is. Anybody have any idea?
1. Oh look, another bookshelf. This one seems to have less books and more notes--the boxes also look like they would contain protocols or something.
2. Tall circular table; top is some sort of laminate, I think. Sherlock tends to use this for experiments, it usually has his microscope on it (the microscope is on the counter in the picture with John and Sarah)
View H.
Reference Pictures: 1
Sorry, not many good pictures of the far room. It's pretty small, with blue striped wallpaper and two doors. It has overhead lighting and white trim, so it's much lighter looking than the rest of the flat.
If anybody's interested in the Sketch Up model, I can upload it. I would warn that it's very, very sloppily done (the floor is on a slight slant, for example....)
If you have better reference pictures of anything, corrections, or other things to add, please let me know!
Screencaps by
potthead and sgmajorshipper
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