Based on the TARDIS interior debate going on over in “What is your most controversial opinion,” what sort of TARDIS would you most like to live in? Not your favorite one, but the one that’s most “you.” You could pick one from the show, or design your own! How cluttered is the console? Are there any decorations that are a must have for you? Any specific sort of lighting? A general aesthetic? I’m terrible at visualizing things, but I tend to think about this from time to time.
(I did a topic search and couldn’t find anything like this, but if there’s already a thread let me know)
I love how cozy Eight’s looks, so I’m taking that, but I’m going to add a lot more light. I will not stumble about in the half-dark the entire time, I would be so bruised from stumbling into stuff
I think Twelve’s is probably the most “me”, though I’d definitely want to make it not quite so dark, and maybe add a few plants (the TARDIS can keep them alive for me, right?). I love the bookshelves and the blue and gold aesthetic. I can definitely see myself spending many many hours in there.
Well, while aesthetic-wise, something late classic or the Fugitive Doctors would suit me, if I’m actually living in it and spending a bunch of time in it, the movie one looked pretty comfy. I mean, seriously, look at this:
A desk to write on, comfy chair and table and lamp, bookshelf full of books, music playing…
Second choice is probably 12 or 15, but 15 doesn’t have any chairs. He really should have kept that comfy looking one…
Oh, and I’m keeping 4’s swimming pool, and all the various rooms attached to the console room, bedrooms and wardrobes and such. I’ll keep that whole area with clothes that 10 got his outfit from, too.
I think about this question quite a bit, I think for a general style my TARDIS would look similar to 11’s 2nd console. I adore the multi-level layout of the TARDIS, I would keep the main console the same (why change perfection) though perhaps with a few more empty mugs sitting on the console, waiting to fall to the ground when the action starts.
While the console layer would be pretty clean and tidy, downstairs is where the magic happens, desk absolutely covered in bits and bobs, random old tech shoved into a corner (does a circular TARDIS console room even have corners???), maybe a random Christmas tree I can’t be bothered putting away so I just shove it out of sight until the next Christmas. Generally, the downstairs plays double act as a workshop/office, and that one closet you shove everything into and have given up hope of ever organising.
Now behind the console on the layer above I would have a platform, and on this platform would a round table that acts as a hologram projector like those from Star Wars, where it would display a projection of the universe or spiral politic or something. I imagine while you have the pilots down below around the console, you’d have the captain or something using the map to plot the next destination, then giving orders to those below. I always imagine the TARDIS as a scientific/military vessel first, and I think the console should reflect that, but has been retrofitted into a more hospitable room for long term living.
Books! Books everywhere, and comfy chairs, and a log fireplace, and a well-stocked kitchen, and… I realise I’m just describing my ideal house…
But seriously, while I DO like the TARDIS to feel lived-in, I also love when the TARDIS is just plain weird. I want there to be more bizarre sci-fi thingies in there—stuff that we as an audience have no idea what it is. That’s cool!
I’m not sure, honestly. I’m not good at interior design; even when I play The Sims, the houses I make are always pretty sparse. I have aesthetics I like to see in pictures and whatnot, but I don’t know if they’re “me”.
Mine would probably be a mix of a few of my favourite things from each modern TARDIS using the current set as the base, I would probably keep the current console as is because it probably my favourite modern console but I would add a few more controls and an orange light on the hole that goes around the edge of the console, I do like the potential of the new set but mine would be way smaller. I like the rings above the console on the Toyota (Smith’s 2nd interior and Capaldi’s interior). For the time rotor itself I would choose either something like Smith’s first interior or a modified version of the Toyota’s with elongated rgb crystals instead of orange light bars. The auxiliary panels seen in the Toyota would make a return with a similar design to the main console as well. The railings would have a similar shape to the ones seen in the Series 6 TARDIS.
I would have furniture such as blackboards around the place, maybe a puff or two laying around the main platform. I would also have books laying around,The entrance would be similar to Jodie’s with the full Police Box walls.
The lower floor would have a central column divided into 4 main sections, a Sonic Screwdriver section, a library section, a laboratory section and a workshop section. The lower floor would also have a little holographic fire with more puffs around it, and a green carpet imitating grass all over the floor. I would probably have a mirror, a Snoopy-looking dog house for K9 or a real dog to one side and a picnic table to the other with a food procesor. From the upper platform a string of brightly multicoloured lights would hang down, the main platform would also have clear sections like the 11th’s Doctor glass floor instead of grey sections.
I’m not sure if I would change the color of the walls, I’m not particularly fond of the nuclear white but I don’t know if I would change it. Probably I’d choose a more greyish color, or maybe a more greenish look like the one seen on the original TARDIS console from 1963.
And to finish it all, my exterior would be the first Brachacki TARDIS but with the Capaldi’s box finish and a more clear greenish blue, yellow windows, yellow Police Box signs, the current top lamp design and maybe the black Pull To Open sign.
I think I go for Eight’s (technically also Seven’s!), it’s just really cozy and the right amount of homely in its Vibes, simply adore it! 12’s is a close Second honestly, again very cozy, which I always like!
I’m a sucker for anything chromed so the console room would have lots of silver polished chrome panels, but I’d like some retrofuturistic elemets on it as well.
Think of it as a mix of this interpretation of the TARDIS from Harnois75 and the works of Shusei Nagaoka (the artist from the ELO and Deep Purple album covers)
Lights would be dimmed with a colder tone. Something like the Fugitive Doctor’s console room.
Also I’d try to spend more time in other rooms apart from the main console room for a change. I would totally have a room with a billiard table and a bowling alley!
At first, I thought about the TARDIS from the movie. But all in all, it’s a bit too cluttered for my liking. Still, it comes in as a close second.
It shares second place with the Thirteenth Doctor’s TARDIS. I kind of forgot about it, but after looking at some of the interiors, it would fit very well with my personal style.(https://youtu.be/veaKVEa-ycA?feature=shared&t=992)
Out of the existing TARDISes, I’d want to live in Eight’s but my ideal TARDIS would have an old library aesthetic going on, all wood panelling and stacks of books lying around.
