How do you make the San Fernando Valley in summer look like New England in the fall? In this clip from my Decorating Pages interview for Rooster, we talk about the production design details that sold the transformation: wet downs, dead leaves, fake leaves, tree dressing, greens work, and the collaboration between the art department and effects teams. It is one of those details viewers may not consciously notice, but it completely changes how the world feels on screen. Watch the full Rooster interview on the Decorating Pages YouTube channel to see more of the sets, locations, and design work behind the series. Production Designer: Cabot McMullen Art Director: Raf Lydon Set Decoration Buyer: Susan Chooljian For Your Emmy Consideration Outstanding Production Design for a Half-Hour Program Keywords: Rooster production design, Rooster interview, Cabot McMullen, Raf Lydon, Susan Chooljian, Decorating Pages, set decoration, TV production design, Emmy FYC, art department, greens department, New England fall, San Fernando Valley filming, television design, behind the scenes TV

Production Designer Cabot McMullen, Art Director Raf Lydon, and Set Decoration Buyer Susan Chooljian join Decorating Pages Podcast to talk about the production design of HBO’s Rooster. In this interview, Cabot discusses his long creative relationship with Bill Lawrence, going back to Spin City and Scrubs, and how that history helped shape the world of Rooster. The team breaks down the design of Ludlow College, the massive Warner Bros. stage builds, the neo-Gothic architecture, the Elizabeth Stoddard Student Center, Walt’s office, the diner, the bar, the steam room, and the challenge of making California feel like an East Coast college town in the fall. We also talk about designing comedy with authenticity, building sets that support character and movement, sourcing East Coast furniture and artwork, creating layered aging, and why production design in a half-hour show can still have the scale and detail of a feature film. For Your Emmy Consideration: Rooster Outstanding Production Design for a Half-Hour Program Production Designer: Cabot McMullen Art Director: Raf Lydon Set Decoration Buyer: Susan Chooljian Subscribe to Decorating Pages Podcast for more interviews with Production Designers, Set Decorators, Art Directors, and the creative teams behind film and television sets. SUBSCRIBE: to the Decorating Pages podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decorating-pages/id1387136186 SHOP THE SETS ON MY ONLINE AMAZON STORE! https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-ecaef66e 🎬 Hello and welcome to Decorating Pages! I’m Kim Wannop, your host, diving deep into the world of film and TV set design. Each episode of the Decorating Pages podcast brings you exclusive interviews with Hollywood's top Set Decorators, Production Designers, Directors, and Actors who craft the stunning visuals that bring stories to life. Discover the behind-the-scenes magic that takes designs from script to screen. Don't miss out—subscribe now and join our community of design enthusiasts! Well Hello There!! Website: https://www.decoratingpagespodcast.com Blog: https://www.decoratingpagespodcast.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/618875801838692/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/decoratingpages/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/decoratingpagespodcast/ SHOP! https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-ecaef66e

Production Designer Cabot McMullen, Art Director Raf Lydon, and Set Decoration Buyer Susan Chooljian join Decorating Pages Podcast to discuss the production design of HBO’s Rooster. Host Kim Wannop talks with the team about designing Ludlow College, creating an East Coast campus world in California, and building half-hour comedy sets with scale, texture, history, and character. Cabot shares his long creative history with Bill Lawrence, from Spin City and Scrubs to Shrinking and Rooster, and explains how authenticity drives the design of the show. The conversation covers the Warner Bros. stage builds, University of the Pacific exteriors, neo-Gothic architecture, the Elizabeth Stoddard Student Center, Walt’s office, the diner, the bar, the steam room, custom wallpaper, aging, plaster work, sourcing, graphics, and the layered design details that make Rooster feel like a real college town. For Your Emmy Consideration: RoosterOutstanding Production Design for a Half-Hour Program Production Designer: Cabot McMullenArt Director: Raf LydonSet Decoration Buyer: Susan Chooljian Listen to Decorating Pages Podcast for behind-the-scenes interviews with Production Designers, Set Decorators, Art Directors, and the creative teams behind the sets of film and television. 👉 Get the FREE Quick Reference Set Decorating Template: www.decoratingpagespodcast.com Discover the Art of TV & Film Design with Decorating Pages Podcast Hosted by Emmy-winning Set Decorator Kim Wannop, this podcast takes you behind the scenes of your favorite shows and movies. Each episode features in-depth conversations with the industry’s top production designers, set decorators, prop masters, and art department professionals, offering rare insight into the creative process of visual storytelling. Whether you’re a film and TV fan, aspiring designer, or entertainment industry pro, Decorating Pages Podcast is your backstage pass to the world of production design. Learn how sets are built, stories are shaped visually, and characters come to life—one episode at a time. 🔔 Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio so you never miss an episode. 📲 Follow for daily design content Instagram: @decoratingpages (https://www.instagram.com/decoratingpages) TikTok: @decoratingpagespodcast YouTube: Decorating Pages Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@DecoratingPagesPodcast)

How Half Man Used Wallpaper to Tell Story Half Man Production Design: The Bedroom Wallpaper Detail Emer O’Sullivan on Designing Lived-In Bedrooms for Half Man The Discontinued Wallpaper That Helped Shape Half Man Description: In this clip from Decorating Pages, Half Man Production Designer Emer O’Sullivan talks about one of those perfect production design finds: the wallpaper behind Niall’s bed. The wallpaper was already there in the location, a discontinued blown vinyl with raised texture, and Emer used a taupe color to wash the room down without removing all the warmth. The result is a bedroom that feels lived-in, faded, emotional, and completely specific to the world of Half Man. Kim Wannop and Emer also discuss Laurie’s bedroom, pattern, feminine detail, and how built sets can still feel deeply real when the textures are right. Presented by HBO Max | For Your Consideration – HALF MAN – Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Watch the full Emmy FYC conversation with Emer O’Sullivan on Decorating Pages. Approved trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkRy1U94tA @HBOMax #HalfMan #ProductionDesign #SetDecoration #ArtDirection #EmmyFYC #DecoratingPages #EmerOSullivan #HBOMax #TVProductionDesign #BehindTheScenes #WallpaperDesign #SetDesign #RichardGadd #JamieBell

How do you turn a gritty warehouse into a finished set in only 8 days? In this clip from Decorating Pages, Half Man Production Designer Emer O’Sullivan talks about the transformation from location photo to sketch, rendering, construction, paint, flooring, suspended ceiling, lighting, and set dressing. Kim Wannop reacts to the scale of the work, and Emer reveals that the team completed the full transformation in just 8 days — including construction, paint, dressing, flooring, ceiling, and getting lighting integrated into the space. This is the kind of production design work that makes the world feel real on screen, even when the audience has no idea how fast it had to happen. Presented by HBO Max | For Your Consideration – HALF MAN – Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Watch the full Emmy FYC conversation with Emer O’Sullivan on Decorating Pages. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkRy1U94tA @HBOMax #HalfMan #ProductionDesign #SetDecoration #ArtDirection #EmmyFYC #DecoratingPages #EmerOSullivan #HBOMax #TVProductionDesign #BehindTheScenes #ProductionDesigner #SetDesign #RichardGadd #JamieBell

Presented by HBO Max | For Your Consideration – HALF MAN – Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Production Designer Emer O’Sullivan joins Decorating Pages to discuss the production design of the HBO/BBC limited series Half Man, created by Emmy-winning Richard Gadd and starring Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell. In this Emmy FYC conversation, Emer breaks down how she designed the emotional world of Half Man, from Scottish council houses and Glasgow architecture to Laurie’s house, the boys’ bedroom, the hospital room, the prison visiting room, and the wedding locations. Emer talks about her research process, including social realism photography, fashion photography, mood boards, hand drawings, color palettes, and the responsibility of portraying working-class homes with warmth, pride, and specificity — not as gray, derelict spaces, but as lived-in homes full of texture, pattern, and memory. We discuss Laurie’s house and the idea of “cozy claustrophobic” design, the pistachio and pink palette, wallpaper choices, the kitchen updates across time, the bedroom set build, and how technology and small domestic changes helped mark different eras of the story. Emer also takes us inside the transformation of a rough location into a major built set in just eight days, the prison visiting room built inside a territorial army hall, the brutalist architecture references, the emotional hospital room, the use of Glasgow’s municipal buildings, and the wedding sequence that was created across multiple locations but designed to feel like one cohesive place. This conversation is a deep dive into production design, set decoration, location work, Scottish architecture, character-driven interiors, and how sets can carry trauma, memory, family, and time. Half Man is now streaming on HBO Max. Watch the approved official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkRy1U94tA Guest: Emer O’Sullivan, Production Designer Host: Kim Wannop Podcast: Decorating Pages Presented by: HBO Max For Your Consideration: HALF MAN — Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) @HBOMax #HalfMan #ProductionDesign #SetDecoration #ArtDirection #EmmyFYC #Emmys2026 #DecoratingPages #EmerOSullivan #RichardGadd #JamieBell #HBO #HBOMax #TVProductionDesign #BehindTheScenes #Glasgow #ScottishTV #LimitedSeries #ProductionDesigner SUBSCRIBE: to the Decorating Pages podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decorating-pages/id1387136186 SHOP THE SETS ON MY ONLINE AMAZON STORE! https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-ecaef66e 🎬 Hello and welcome to Decorating Pages! I’m Kim Wannop, your host, diving deep into the world of film and TV set design. Each episode of the Decorating Pages podcast brings you exclusive interviews with Hollywood's top Set Decorators, Production Designers, Directors, and Actors who craft the stunning visuals that bring stories to life. Discover the behind-the-scenes magic that takes designs from script to screen. Don't miss out—subscribe now and join our community of design enthusiasts! Well Hello There!! Website: https://www.decoratingpagespodcast.com Blog: https://www.decoratingpagespodcast.com/blog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/618875801838692/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/decoratingpages/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/decoratingpagespodcast/ SHOP! https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-ecaef66e

Presented by HBO Max | For Your Consideration – HALF MAN – Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Production Designer Emer O’Sullivan joins Decorating Pages to discuss the production design of the HBO/BBC limited series Half Man, created by Emmy-winning Richard Gadd and starring Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell. Emer breaks down the design of Half Man, including Laurie’s house, the boys’ bedroom, the kitchen, the hospital room, the prison visiting room, the wedding locations, and the Glasgow architecture that grounds the story across multiple decades. In this conversation, Emer talks about using social realism photography, fashion photography, mood boards, hand drawings, wallpaper, pattern, color, and Scottish municipal architecture to create a world that feels emotionally truthful. She also discusses the responsibility of portraying working-class homes with warmth, pride, and specificity, rather than reducing them to gray or downtrodden spaces. Kim and Emer also discuss the “cozy claustrophobic” design of Laurie’s house, the pistachio and pink palette, how domestic spaces change over time, building the upstairs of the house, transforming a rough location into a major set in eight days, and designing the prison visiting room with glass, brutalist influence, and controlled discomfort. This episode is a must-listen for fans of Half Man, Richard Gadd, Jamie Bell, HBO dramas, production design, set decoration, Scottish television, character-driven interiors, and anyone interested in how sets carry emotion, memory, trauma, and story. Half Man is now streaming on HBO Max. For Your Consideration: HALF MAN — Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) 👉 Get the FREE Quick Reference Set Decorating Template: www.decoratingpagespodcast.com Discover the Art of TV & Film Design with Decorating Pages Podcast Hosted by Emmy-winning Set Decorator Kim Wannop, this podcast takes you behind the scenes of your favorite shows and movies. Each episode features in-depth conversations with the industry’s top production designers, set decorators, prop masters, and art department professionals, offering rare insight into the creative process of visual storytelling. Whether you’re a film and TV fan, aspiring designer, or entertainment industry pro, Decorating Pages Podcast is your backstage pass to the world of production design. Learn how sets are built, stories are shaped visually, and characters come to life—one episode at a time. 🔔 Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio so you never miss an episode. 📲 Follow for daily design content Instagram: @decoratingpages (https://www.instagram.com/decoratingpages) TikTok: @decoratingpagespodcast YouTube: Decorating Pages Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@DecoratingPagesPodcast)

Presented by HBO Max | For Your Consideration – HALF MAN – Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) Production Designer Emer O’Sullivan joins Decorating Pages to discuss the production design of the HBO/BBC limited series Half Man, created by Emmy-winning Richard Gadd and starring Richard Gadd and Jamie Bell. Emer breaks down the design of Half Man, including Laurie’s house, the boys’ bedroom, the kitchen, the hospital room, the prison visiting room, the wedding locations, and the Glasgow architecture that grounds the story across multiple decades. In this conversation, Emer talks about using social realism photography, fashion photography, mood boards, hand drawings, wallpaper, pattern, color, and Scottish municipal architecture to create a world that feels emotionally truthful. She also discusses the responsibility of portraying working-class homes with warmth, pride, and specificity, rather than reducing them to gray or downtrodden spaces. Kim and Emer also discuss the “cozy claustrophobic” design of Laurie’s house, the pistachio and pink palette, how domestic spaces change over time, building the upstairs of the house, transforming a rough location into a major set in eight days, and designing the prison visiting room with glass, brutalist influence, and controlled discomfort. This episode is a must-listen for fans of Half Man, Richard Gadd, Jamie Bell, HBO dramas, production design, set decoration, Scottish television, character-driven interiors, and anyone interested in how sets carry emotion, memory, trauma, and story. Half Man is now streaming on HBO Max. For Your Consideration: HALF MAN — Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (One Hour or More) 👉 Get the FREE Quick Reference Set Decorating Template: www.decoratingpagespodcast.com Discover the Art of TV & Film Design with Decorating Pages Podcast Hosted by Emmy-winning Set Decorator Kim Wannop, this podcast takes you behind the scenes of your favorite shows and movies. Each episode features in-depth conversations with the industry’s top production designers, set decorators, prop masters, and art department professionals, offering rare insight into the creative process of visual storytelling. Whether you’re a film and TV fan, aspiring designer, or entertainment industry pro, Decorating Pages Podcast is your backstage pass to the world of production design. Learn how sets are built, stories are shaped visually, and characters come to life—one episode at a time. 🔔 Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio so you never miss an episode. 📲 Follow for daily design content Instagram: @decoratingpages (https://www.instagram.com/decoratingpages) TikTok: @decoratingpagespodcast YouTube: Decorating Pages Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@DecoratingPagesPodcast)

The eccentric director’s mansion in Wonder Man is a perfect example of character-driven production design. In this clip from Decorating Pages, the team talks about how they pushed the location further by adding drapery, selected furniture, the study, mood boards, and the blue room with chairs. The result is a grand Hollywood mansion that feels theatrical, strange, and completely specific to the character. Presented by Disney/Marvel For Your Consideration — Wonder Man Outstanding Production Design For A Narrative Program — Half-Hour @MarvelStudios @DisneyPlus @WonderMan #WonderMan #MarvelStudios #EmmyFYC #ProductionDesign #SetDecoration