Home sweet home
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
The Cooper's have a house! Wendy (Jacquie Nairn), Murray (Matt Chamberlain), Bella (Amelia Reid), Evan (Tyler Read) and Jasmine (Pearl McGlashan) have been on the show for over a year, but it's only now that Shorty fans will be able to see where they reside.
We talked to
Shortland Street Head of Art
Department, Ana Miskell about how they came up with look of the
Cooper family home, and where all the bits and
pieces were sourced.
"We wanted to give the Cooper house a 'lived in' feel, so we
used a majority of second hand and recycled materials," says
Miskell.
"The reasons everything was sourced second hand and recycled were
three-fold - reusing and recycling resources is always preferable,
it saved a lot of money and very importantly, it meant that the
dressing had a used feel - as this is a family house we wanted the
dressing to reflect this."
Here's what we used:
The wall flats (sides) and ceiling are 90% reused flats left over
from old commercial shoots, we bought a little bit of ply and
framing but the majority was recycled
Timber for weatherboards was from the old McKay House set,cut to size and routered to form a weatherboard shape.
Windows are all from demo yards and TradeMe purchases.
Doors are from demo yards, the Recycling Centre (the dump) and TradeMe.
The entire kitchen was a TradeMe purchase that we modified to fit.
The fridge is from an old set.
Laundry wallpaper was from a second-hand shop.
A lot of the paint was recycled and remixed from our paint stocks.
Curtains and blinds were new purchases, sheers were recycled from our supplies, small curtain was from second-hand shop.
All furniture was all from TradeMe and from our stocks (mostly from second-hand shops).
Floor coverings were from our stocks
All exterior materials (corrugated plastic and timber) was from demo yards and TradeMe.
Fireplace from TradeMe.
Wall mounted shelving from a second-hand shop.
Screen in the back hallway was from a demo yard.
All practical wall lights and switches were from demo yards.
Lamps were from our stocks (from previous sets - just with shades and bases changed around)
Small appliances, heaters were from second-hand shops and our stocks.
Art work was all from second-hand shops and markets.
All dressing from second-hand shops, markets and our
stocks.
Bamboo wallpaper in the living area was kindly supplied by Pacific
Wallcoverings.
Make sure you 'visit' with the Coopers in their family
home, weeknights 7pm on TV2.
