Sam and Dean’s Bedrooms
Are you still blown away by the season 9 premiere? Cas is not an angel, Sam is an angel, Ezekiel is a hidden angel, Hael is a mad angel, and there are plenty of dangerous, scary, treacherous angels walking the earth. Dean is tortured by the choice he had to makeā¦againā¦and Death got cheatedā¦again! So much angst. So much hurt. So much emotional drama, and we are back to waiting for our boys to work out this whole messā¦again!
Letās do something together to help get our minds off the unbearable waiting and wondering. I considered writing something thought provoking about season 9, maybe something related to the characters or the plot, so you could analyze, debate, predict and theorize. Then I thought, no, letās give the bromotions a rest and use the less serious side of our brains for a while (is there a side that doesnāt constantly think about this show??). What is the most calming, non-controversial, light-hearted thing we can discuss? I know! Wallpaper! Not just any wallpaper, though. No. Letās look at the wallpaper in Sam and Deanās bedrooms! (Well, I donāt know if that will get our minds off of the boys at all, but at least weāll be thinking about something different for a while).
We have seen Deanās bedroom in the MOL bunker with its weapons and photos. Season 9 will hopefully treat us to a look at Samās new bedroom, too, so I tried to imagine what Samās room would look like. He doesnāt have any hobbies that I can think of. He has no real memories of his mother, and few good memories of his father, his girlfriends or his extended family, so pictures seem unlikely. Exactly what will he use to make the room his own? That got me thinking about the room decorations in all of the boysā previous bedrooms. In the picture shown above from the premiere, Dean and Ezekiel admire Deanās attempt to spruce up Sammyās current accommodations. After all, we all know that hospital walls can be drab and uninspiring. Most of the time, though, our boys stay in some pretty exotic places. Letās face it – the dĆ©cor in some of their motel rooms would wake the dead (if youāll pardon the expression)! So what were the craziest motel rooms that had the honor of housing Sam and Dean Winchester?
When rating motel rooms, I decided to look solely at their wallpaper. Yes, there were great room dividers, outrageous tile, loud bed spreads and really ugly curtains, but really, the wallpaper theyāve endured truly deserves some recognition all its own. I looked at motel rooms from all eight prior seasons, but limited my collection to what was on the walls of the temporary lodgings where the boys slept. I eliminated permanent homes, homes in dreams and rooms in alternate universes that might have given the creative team more latitude in their designs. It was hard to narrow it down, but here is my view of the top 15 craziest wallpapers that ever shared a room with our boys.
Honorable Mention – City Centre Motor Hotel (3.03)
Poor Sammy. Left behind again while Dean goes out and does all the exciting stuff. Takes being a āwall flowerā to a whole new level. Well, at least he is in good company in this room! Flowers gone wild is a recurring theme in so many of the rooms where Sam and Dean have stayed. Killer flowersā¦flowers climbing wallsā¦I wonder if there is a metaphor there somewhereā¦
#15 The Kingpin Motel (1.18)
The boys got used to tacky accommodations at a very early age. No wonder they grew up with childhood issuesā¦
#14 Day-Z Motel (5.08)
Boys, you think this wallpaper is loud? Just wait until you see what the Tricksterās motel room looks like!
#13 Unknown Motel (5.13)
I actually think I could get used to this one. It looks like a bubble machine went wild, but if you donāt stare at it too longā¦
#12 Regent Motel (5.01)
Sam, you picked this room, so donāt get mad at Dean for the green kissing lips all over the walls!
#11 The Aardvark Motel (2.07)
Sorry, but male and female anatomy comes to mind whenever I look at this design. Wonder what youāre supposed to think of when you look at it…
#10 Unknown Motel (1.21)
School is callingā¦they say some kid left his Geometry project taped up to the walls of this room. He wants it back.
#9 Tiki Motel (7.14)
Palm trees, hula dancers and tiki huts. Well, I donāt blame you boys for choosing this room. It just might be the closest youāll ever get to an island vacation! Sam, Iād watch out for the creepy mask in the bathroom, though. Its eyes seem to be watching youā¦
#8 The Starburst Motel (3.14)
Dean, buddy, we all make mistakes! Yes, when you opened the door to this motel room you should have closed the door and kept driving, but donāt let it get you down!
#7 The Astoria (4.01)
We canāt believe it either, Dean! It seems the decorator for this hotel used to be a hunter too, only their prey was skinned and mounted on your walls!
#6 Diamond Jackās (5.14)
Dean, are you aware that right behind you a red superball is bouncing back and forth, up and down, over and over and overā¦
#5 Unknown Motel (2.11)
Cāmon. Youāre two of the best hunters around and you donāt think these look like eyeballs?
#4 Cicero Motel (5.07)
Sam, Look Out! You are standing next to several inter-dimensional portals that are slowly stretching open until they swallow you whole!
#3 The Boogie Inn (1.19)
The black and white endlessly repeating pattern isnāt that bad by itself. Itās the cumulative effect of trying to look at a whole wall of it at once! Seizure, anyone? Blinkā¦.just blinkā¦
#2 The Blue Rose Motel (2.10)
Avaās had enough! First, visions of Sam dying and now these remnants of someoneās psychedelic acid trip!
#1 The Aviary Hotel (3.10)
Boys, Iād keep an eye on those birds if I were you! You never know when one of them is going to jump off that wall and eat you for dinner!
So there you have it. Sixteen of the wildest, loudest, craziest room decors ever! Not too many from seasons 7 and 8 because as the boys matured, it seems so did their choice in motels. Still, there were so many more that I didnāt include. Flowers and flocks, dancing animals and animal heads…maybe Iāll have to do Round 2. I suppose that will depend on the emotional trauma we are all subjected to during the remaining 22 episodes in season 9. Now back to our regularly scheduled angst-analyzing reviewsā¦.
Thanks so much to Home of the Nutty, Supernatural Wiki, and Ash48 for their help with some of these great scenes.
Great job nightsky! This is pretty funny. š We all know they put a lot of thought into creating these motel rooms for the boys and it is like a little mystery each week to see what they come up with next. I loved the disco one when both the boys stop, look, and then go “uh” before walking in.
Trucklady, So happy it made you laugh! There were so many more wallpapers I wanted to include! I just kept adding more. This started out as a top 10, and I had to cut it off at 16!
LOL! Can you imagine the job posting or interview for the art department?
Wanted: person to search for most disgusting/absurd/artistically-unpleasing wallpaper in history. Weekly.
OK now, sir, can you tell me what makes you think you are most qualified for this position?
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ETA: Thanks nightsky for the fun article! (And break from the Bromotions! š )
nightsky: It never fails to amuse me how incredibly creative SPN fans can be. The fact that you came up with this idea for an article – and that it was so much fun to read – clearly demonstrates how addicted to SPN we all truly are!
But on a more serious note, thank you for highlighting what an outstanding job the crews do in creating such variety in the never ending motel rooms that form the backdrop to so much SPN action. It is obvious that they enjoy their jobs and I love noticing how much fun they have creating truly wacky motel room designs.
I also think that your homage to wallpaper would not be complete until we discuss what is (for me) the most brilliant use of wallpaper as background that has ever been featured during the entire series. That is the wallpaper featured during “Dream a Little Dream of Me”. Notice how seamlessly the action moves from Dean running through the forest and morphs in to Dean standing in that long hallway and then slides perfectly in to Dean entering the motel room that he and Sam were sharing when they took the dream root.
At the time when I first saw that episode, I was completely blown away by [b]how much[/b] the [i]wallpaper[/i] added to the overall dream quality of this episode. IMO the selection of that wallpaper design was pure genius.
Nice! I always check the set decorations of any tv shows, but the SPN motels are the ones I enjoy the most.
I believe one of the guys said that Jerry Waneck is the designer of the motels, but I will like to know where they start looking for (or find) the wallpaper. š
Wow. I just KNEW you were going to include Southern Comfort in this one! lol! This was cool. Thanks for being so creative. š
It was a lot of fun to put together! I already have a list of so many more I want to include (many from s8) that I think I will have to do a sequel!
Hee! Great list! Those wallpapers are really… interesting, aren’t they? All of them! I’m sure the art department people really have fun choosing those horrific designs! š
I just hope they continue creating those wonderful sets, even though the boys now have a home in the MoL bunker. But hey, they’ll still be on the road a lot, won’t they?
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