Get a Room With Carson and Thom Nyc Wall Art
Fifteen years after the original Queer Center premiered on Bravo, two of its Fab 5 — Carson Kressley and Thom Filicia — are back on the network, combining their style and pattern expertise for Go a Room, a home pattern show featuring two different clients — each with very unlike budgets.
What isn't different is the undeniable chemical science and playful, sarcastic, honest rapport betwixt these two, who were friends even earlier they became function of the Fab 5. While they desire to do a great task for their blueprint clients and take those matters seriously, they also desire to have fun in the process — and there's no shortage of that. In the exclusive clip above, Kressley has second thoughts about the fabric he bought for drapes — scout to run into Filicia'due south reaction.
Kressley tells EW all most how this show came together, what it was like their start day together — over again — on set, and what sets their prove apart from all the other design shows out there. Plus, he takes a trip downwards retentivity lane, dorsum to 2003 and the original Fab 5's first EW embrace photograph shoot.
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Entertainment WEEKLY: How did this fifty-fifty happen? Were you and Thom trying to find something to exercise together or was it presented to you lot?
CARSON KRESSLEY: It was kind of serendipitous. I love everything to do with style and of course I love fashion, and kind of adjacent to that is interior blueprint. I've always been a fan of Thom's and I loved beingness kind of voyeuristic when we were making Queer Center – nosotros did a Freaky Friday episode where nosotros got to switch roles and I was similar, I totally wanna exist the interior designer. So I've always kind of, like I say in the show open, I got bit by the blueprint problems, and I was similar, "Hmmm, who could actually teach me to practice this?" And the obvious option was Thom.
And I had kinda sorta already been doing this already; he helped me practise my apartment — I did my place in Pennsylvania — so nosotros had kind of collaborated before … what well-nigh this table, etcetera. I said, let's do this a little more officially, I'd really beloved to learn the trade, and I started going to trade shows with Thom. Somebody at the aforementioned time, and I think it was serendipitous, considering Queer Center was being rebooted, they were similar, You should do this as a bear witness and we were like, "We'd love to," and it just kind of authentically arose from that. Bravo was interested and here nosotros are.
Bravo — back on the network where yous started with Queer Eye in 2003.
I know! It feels like coming dwelling house again. I'k waiting for them to transport me a cake or something.
Who came upwards with the championship?
Nosotros had dinner with the Bravo executives after nosotros made the pilot episode and I am kind of a wordsmith and I came upwards with tons of names, some of which I call back were as well racy even for Bravo. We had toyed effectually with One Night Stand, Sectional in the Metropolis, By Filicia… and Carson, and one of the ones we bandied about was Become a Room. They liked it, but I think it was kind of a collaborative moment, just me coming up with names off the top of my head.
It'south been more than x years since Queer Eye concluded, so what was that beginning 24-hour interval like filming a series again with Thom?
It was a little weird maybe for the kickoff hour when we were similar, Oh my god, we're doing this again! We both felt we so lucky and information technology was such serendipity to do it the get-go fourth dimension and then to take a 2d shot at it seems similar a greater gift. So we were but back to our old hijinks. It helps that we have been friends — we were friends earlier Queer Heart, nosotros were friends during Queer Centre, we have remained close after the show ended. The only departure is that now at that place were cameras rolling once more. And we were wearing eyebrow pencil.
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Y'all mentioned you've done pattern work in your own home, merely how nervous were you about doing this for someone else? Because nosotros practise see you kickoff off very confident in your abilities, just uncertainty creeps in at times.
That'south very real. I tend to be very confident with matters of style and if I'm dressing someone I know about 99.8 percentage of the time it's going to piece of work and look amazing. But interiors, while they are like, there's a lot more science – colors look different on a ceiling versus a wall and sometimes a fabric looks different when you're hanging it or in different environments – so there were a lot of unknowns that I was discovering on the fly, and I thought, "Wow, I'thou going to go fired in the showtime episode."
Do you lot have a newfound appreciation for how difficult Thom's job is?
Yeah! It is the virtually hard on any kind of makeover bear witness. Doing makeovers on people, you lot accept them to a store, you take them to the plumbing fixtures room, y'all try some looks on, you lot tweak, you add accessories. That comes pretty piece of cake to me and I have so much experience doing that, but working in three dimensions and with a client or several clients at once or with a large budget which tin can sometimes be in the six-figures, I did have a lot to learn and it was daunting several times. I practice have a newfound respect for Thom. Every time we would practise a makeover on Queer Eye he would be exhausted and the rest of united states were like, "This was actually fun!" And he's like, "Yep, it'southward fun, but I haven't slept for four days." So I totally get information technology now.
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In that location has been a resurgence in home blueprint shows in contempo years — what do you lot think the two of you bring to the genre that doesn't currently exist?
I'thou a lover of any kind of real estate or design prove and I binge picket all of them on every different. I think there are a couple things that make our show different: First and foremost, information technology's kind of about the journey with me and Thom and having a great fourth dimension while we're working on dissimilar projects. Nosotros want to really impress upon people that design should be fun. Yes, there are moments when it's stressful, merely overall information technology should be a joyful, artistic, celebratory process. Nosotros don't want to brand this stuffy or snobby in any mode. That being said, I think we are showing a high-end design that maybe isn't out there that much; in every episode nosotros're doing major spaces with big budgets in actually over-the-top homes, then at the same time we're doing a little fleck more approachable spaces with much smaller budgets, so nosotros're giving people, hopefully, a actually aspirational dream home and and then too spaces that are actually relatable and information they can implement in their ain homes, and live meliorate and more than stylishly. I think it's a great mix that isn't really out there correct now.
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Or five. And I own a silo.
Ted Allen recently shared a Throwback Thursday of your guys' EW Queer Eye cover from 2003. Do you have memories of that day, shooting that embrace?
Yes, I definitely remember that cover – it's hanging upwards in my all-pink bathroom in New York. Every time we had a photo shoot like that, I would style the guys, and I remember picking pinkish and white and black – I call up I did a pretty good job, I remember. Everybody looked great. I had some very wide-legged, white jeans and flip-flops on, which I'm regretting, but at the time information technology seemed reasonable. Those days were only insane though because it was 2003 and the show was actually on fire and we had the lucky circumstance to do a bunch of unlike covers, but that was but one of the all-time ones. Nosotros got to wing to Fifty.A. for it, and it was early on – I retrieve information technology was chosen Television set'south Gay Summertime Heat Wave or something, and nosotros were simply excited – I recall we had never been on the embrace of a magazine earlier, so that seemed pretty great. I was merely super excited to be styling the embrace of a mag, let alone exist featured on information technology. Those were some really fun times. Just I think we all nevertheless wait pretty halfway decent!
Go a Room with Carson & Thom premieres Friday, Oct. 18 at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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Source: https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/18/carson-kressley-thom-filicia-get-a-room-bravo-design-hijinks/
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