But can you see the 'ugly naked guy'? Artists sketch fascinating floorplans of Friends apartments and other famous TV shows

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Cast of Friends: The floorplan details the neighbouring apartments where the Friends characters, pictured, built their close bond

Sometimes it feels like we know the homes in our favourite TV shows better than our own.
These three artists certainly do, having spent years sketching out the living spaces of America's most beloved sitcoms.
From the neighbouring New York City apartments where Friends characters Chandler and Joey and Monica and Rachel struck up their memorable bond, to the studio pad where Carrie Bradshaw penned her controversial sex columns in Sex and The City, these 15 floorplans show where we watched our favourite episodes take place.

A sketch of the famous apartment in sitcom Friends, that saw emotional highs and lows throughout the years. The dining table where many of the scenes were set can be seen in the centre of the picture

In painstaking detail, the drawings, by artists Inaki Aliste Lizarralde, Mike Bennett and Brandi Roberts - all of whom are self-confessed TV geeks - span seven decades of American popular culture.

Artist Inaki Aliste Lizarralde's floor plan of Carrie Bradshaw's intimate apartment from the show Sex and the City. For fans of the TV series, it will bring back memories of her tribulations

Roberts' floor plans include Mad Men from today, The Sopranos from the naughties, Fraiser from the 1990's, The Golden Girls from the 1980's, The Brady Bunch from the 1970's, Bewitched from the 1960s and I Love Lucy from the 1950's.
'My floorplans are great conversation pieces,' she says. 'They generate a lot of interesting dialogue when people get in front of them.'

How it looks from the outside: The home of Carrie Bradshaw in Perry Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, as featured in Sex and the City

A more upmarket apartment befitting a wealthy psychiatrist, this is the home of Dr Crane Frasier, star of the comedy that ran for more than a decade

Frasier in the episode Goodnight Seattle is caught up in yet another situation in the kitchen of his apartment. The same stove on a corner unit can be seen in the plans by the artist

Roommates Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper lived in this apartment for the sitcom Big Bang Theory

Laurie Metcalf as Mary Cooper, Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper and Johnny Galecki as Leonard Hofstadter relax in their lounge in the The Big Nag Theory TV show

The South Carolina-based artist says she has created more than 100 floorplans from her favourite TV shows over the years, which she sells for around $50 each.
Tennessee-born artist Mark Bennett describes his works as 'pleasingly nostalgic and vaguely disconcerting' in their premonition of a society obsessed by television and celebrity.
The purely imaginary floorplans are grounded by the dry format of an architect's design, he says.

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson lived in Wayne Manor, Gotham City, in the iconic Batman film. Here, there residence of the millionaire who transformed into the superhero of is penned out for fans to admire

Meanwhile Spanish artist, Inaki Aliste Lizarralde injects additional life into his fictional TV apartments with bright colours and decorative furniture.
The fabulous floorplans are also available for programs such as Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Happy Days, The Flintstones and The Big Bang Theory among dozens of others.
And Roberts for one isn't about to stop, explaining that when she's not drawing she likes watching television or 'conducting research.'

Christian Bale, left, as Bruce Wayne and Batman and Michael Caine, right, as Alfred inside the millionaire's 'Wayne Manor' for the the film Batman Begins in 2005

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