Pat & Pran's Houses

Pat & Pran's houses, Episode 12

> ***Note*:** While family names are not typically used to distinguish families apart in Thai, they are used here on this page for ease of reading in English.
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   The **Jindapat Household** (**Pat** and **Ming's** family) and the **Siridechawat Household** (**Pran** and **Dissaya's** family) are two neighboring houses that are next door to each other. Sometime shortly after Pat and Pran's birth, a short pink line was drawn by Ming between the trashcans outside of both of their houses. There is a telephone pole along with two security cameras between the outside of their houses.
The houses are settings in Episodes 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 11, and 12, usually when Pat and Pran go home to visit their families during or after the semester. They also appear in flashbacks in Episode 2. Their houses are relatively close to **South Tech University**, as Pa regularly drove back and forth to help do Pat's laundry when she was still in high school.

   P'Aof and the rest of the crew had searched all over Bangkok for two houses close enough to each other that Pat could sneak into Pran's room easily, even as a young child. In the original Bad Buddy trailer, their houses were originally set to be across the street from each other.

## The Jindapat Household

   The Jindapat's house is housing unit **159**.

### Exterior

    Between the pink lines, the Jindapat household has a red trash can, and is on the left side when facing the front of Pat and Pran's houses. It has grey fencing, and a large wooden double door swing gate that leads into a single driveway. Pat parks his car in front of his dad's in the driveway during Episode 8. His family also has a hose, and his father typically washes his car in the driveway.

They have a grey metal mailbox attached to the fencing on the left side when facing the front of the house. A small sitting area can be seen on the front lawn, with a seating area and a patio swing bench. Greenery lines the fences, as well as around the house and in the front lawn. The house has a light yellow plaster, with a brown terracotta roof.

There is a balcony, which is attached to Pat's Bedroom.

Despite having a stone archway, Pat and his family use the glass side door as the main entrance, which leads into their living room.

All the interior rooms of the Jindapat's house have white plaster.

### Entryway & Living Room

    The living room in Pat and Ming's house is seen in Episodes 10, 11, and 12. The house is close enough that if Pat and Ming fight in the living room with their door open, it can be heard from the house next door. The entrance to the house and the living room is a large clear sliding door with wooden frames. The door doubles as a window. It has white curtains, which are typically pulled back. This opens into the living room, with a chest of drawers, two cushioned chairs, and a large oval vanity. There is an air conditioner over the vanity. The ceiling dips in and has 3 wooden slats. The chest of drawers has four colorful statue decorations.
Beside it is a large vase full of straw.(?)

    This leads into the living room, which has a heavily framed painting of Paris hanging as a centerpiece. The family has a large light grey sofa with an L-shaped sectional on the left. There are about four or five pillows on the couch, all a distinct and solid red. As it is implied that Pat's family is Thai-Chinese throughout the show, the red could signify the common Chinese decoration practice of having a lot of red, for protection and warding off evil spirits. There is also a brown rectangular coffee table with a lower part that usually has a stack of books or two. In every shot the coffee table is shown, there is also a black-and-white patterned tea tray. On the far right is a red lantern. There are two narrow windows on each side behind the couch, usually with the curtain rolled up during the day, but let down to cover the window at night.

Near the family room is also a dresser with glass casing, containing a picture of Ming and his wife, as well as a couple of porcelain cows and a stuffed cow as well. This suggests that Pat and his family are Buddhist, as cows are considered a sacred animal in Buddhism.

Very little lighting is apparent in the living room aside from natural lighting, giving it a bright appearance during the day but remarkably dim in the evening.

Both the entry and the living room have light marble flooring. The living room has a large bright red rug beneath the coffee table.

It is unknown where they keep their outside shoes. Ming and his wife usually wear slippers inside the house, while Pat and Pa more typically go barefoot.

### Dining Room

    The dining room shows up in Episode 1 and 12. It is on the first floor of the house along with the living room, shown to have similar narrow windows, through which greenery is visible, similar to the greenery outside of the house. A four-shelf glass display cabinet with decorations, including different porcelain cows, sits inside it. Two paintings reminiscent of East Asian style art hang from scrolls on the walls. A red lamp similar to the red lamp in the living room stands upright within a walkway on the side.

In the middle of the dining room is a small stone chandelier with a larger light in the center of it. Two wall scones in a similar stone style are at the back of the dining room. Against the wall is a display table, with a photo of two people(who?) and a gold-ish paper circle fan visible.

Behind the dining room—and, notably, behind where Ming sits—is a framed white scroll with 合想 (hé xiǎng) written in black calligraphy and listed vertically. It is visible both in Episode 1 and in Episode 12. 合想 is synonymous with 如意 (Chinese), both of which are in the phrase 萬事合想 (Thai Chinese)/萬事如意 (Chinese)[1], which is a common Chinese phrase wishing prosperity and happiness in all areas of life. It is likely that the calligraphy is meant to bring prosperity and happiness to the household, and suggests that Pat's family is Thai Chinese.

The dining table is brown wood with five chairs with white cushion seats; two on either side and one at the end of the table, for Ming. There is a white table runner with red embroidery in the middle. Pat typically sits on his Ming's left, and his mother sits on Ming's right. Pa has sat at the chair both next to her mother and next to her brother. The dishware is white, with a simple floral design.

The dining room has polished wood flooring.

## The Siridechawat Household

The Siridechawat's house is housing unit **158**.

### Exterior

    Between the pink line, the Siridechawat household has a yellow trash can, and is on the right side when facing the front of Pat and Pran's houses. It has a red mailbox attached to the fencing on the left side when facing the front of the house; more distinctly, the mailbox is close to the centerpiece between Pat and Pran's houses. It is implied that occasionally their mail gets misdelivered to the Jindapat household. It has a grey fence similar to the one next door, and a black gate with gold square-pyramidal tipping. The gate can open non-manually, and leads into the driveway and open garage. From the front of the driveway is a small stone pathway lined by decorative plants and large trees, leading to the front door on the far right side.

    The house is modern, with a light yellow exterior and brown planes on the roof, possibly clay, along with white fascias. The driveway is inside the gate, along with a stone walkway surrounded by trees and shrubbery that lead up to the front door.

The front door is a large arched double-door. This is only visible in the interior, not the exterior, likely due to being the same shooting location as Pat's house.

One wall inside the house is noticeably grey-stone brick, lining the living room and the dining room.

### Entryway

    The entrance to Pran's house is a large arch-shaped wooden double door, with light tan bricks protruding from the outside. To the left of the door (interior) is a light metal and wood console table with decorations. A framed traditional(?) painting of a tree hangs above it. There is a large potted plant beside it. To the right of the door is a large black glass(?) and the staircase. Pran and his parents typically take off and leave their shoes between the door and the staircase.

The entryway opens up into the dining room. The floor is a muted brown marble. It is mostly only visible in Episode 10.

### Living Room

    The living room appears in Episode 11 and 12. It is on the far end on the first level of the house, further down from the dining room. It has a large floor-to-ceiling window, usually partially shrouded by a decorative gold curtain. The far wall is grey stone-brick, adjoining from the dining room. There are two small decorative light brown wooden shelves on the wall, the upper left being a potted plant with a pink flower in a white pot, and the lower right being a picture of Dissaya holding Pran as an infant.
The living room has two not quite matching couches. The larger one is pressed up against the stone-brick wall, and is white and simple with three back cushions and two large seating cushions. The second couch is slightly smaller in width and depth, and appears more like a cushioned bench. It is white and light grey, and usually has two messy black and white striped decorative pillows on it. Across from the larger couch is a television against one of the archway divider pillars, surrounded by two red decorative lamps, all atop a television console. There are at least two framed photos on one end of the console.

    In the middle is a large square coffee table, with a dark wood surface and white decorative legs and frames. There is a lower shelf on the coffee table with several thick books. The centerpiece of the coffee table is a small decorative statue of four white stone birds in various posing, held together by a thick wood base.

On the sides of the larger couch are end tables with fake flower bouquet decorations, the left being all white roses and orchids, along with a short lamp, and the right being mostly light blue roses, with a few pink and white ones. On the right end table, along with the bouquet of blue flowers, is a framed photo of Dissaya while she was pregnant, holding her belly.

The living room appears to be carpeted.

### Dining Room

    The dining room appears in Episode 1, 6, 11, and 12. It opens up on the right of the house, a little past the entryway. It, as well as the living room, is lined on the open end by white columns with arches from the ceiling. Being attached to the living room, it has the same stone-brick wall aligning the side. The end table with the blue flowers from the living room sometimes doubles as an end table for the dining room as well, particularly when Pran's dad wants to listen to music while the family eats, in which case he will set his Bluetooth speakers on the end table. The decorative shelves from the living room are visible from the dining room, as well as three other shelves of a similar variety: an empty one on the upper left (center of all the shelves), a lower one with an indistinguishable picture frame, and another high shelf on the far right with a decorative piece.

The dining table is round, with a white lace tablecloth. The family has four wooden chairs with white cushions. The fourth chair only ever gets used in the Episode 11 flashback fantasy, being occupied by Pat. Much of the dishware is heavy, colored a solid muted grey-blue, with some larger white dishes.

### Study Room

    The study room only appears in Episode 10, when Pat and Pran are looking for clues on their parents' relationship. It opens from a light brown door from the inside, and also has a light brown double door with slits and windows on either side, that appear to lead outside.

The study room has a globe wine bar, a wooden desk with paper trays, and a wooden cushioned chair. The desk has a keyboard drawer with a variety of documents and stationary. Behind the chair and facing the desk is a large white shelf embedded into the wall, with four levels and three large cabinets aligning the bottom. Various books, decorations, and filing bins can be seen on the shelf. Pran's student book from his childhood is found on the lowest left shelf. Pat and Pran end up finding Dissaya's beauty queen contestant certificate in one of the lower cabinets. The study room floor appears to be polished wood.

Pat and Pran are able to hear the front door from the study room and successfully sneak Pat out from Pran's room, although it is unknown where the study room is in relation to the rest of the house.

## Trivia

* The settings for their houses were shot at Mason Studio, located at โครงการ 6, เลขที่ 55/159, Ek Charoen 10 Alley, Lak Hok, Mueang Pathum Thani District, Pathum Thani 12000, Thailand.
* Mason Studio has a pool; however, neither Pat's nor Pran's family or houses have suggested that either own a pool.
* The house used for the exterior shot of Pat's house is actually used for the interior shots for Pat *and* Pran's house.

## References

1. ↑ See File:Both Ext2.png and File:Both Ext3.png, where the pink line is not present when Pat's mom and Dissaya are giving their offerings to the monks, but is present when they are nursing
2. ↑ Episode 12, pt 3/4
3. ↑ Episode 1, 2, 4, 5
4. ↑ RECAP [ENG/CH/JP SUB] แค่เพื่อนครับเพื่อน BAD BUDDY SERIES EP.12 | ศูนย์วิจารณ์ EP.26.2; timestamp 4:41
5. ↑ link og bad buddy trailer here
6. ↑ See File:Ji Ext Mail.png
7. ↑ See File:Both Ext 4.png
8. ↑ See File:Ji\_Ext\_1.png
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 See File:Ji Ext Drive 1.png
10. ↑ See File:Pats Car 1.png
11. ↑ See File:Ji\_Int\_Ent\_1.png and File:Ji\_Int\_Ent-LR\_1.png
12. ↑ Feel like there's probably cultural context here but I don't want to put anything that I can't verify myself at the moment
13. ↑ See thumbnail and also File:Ji Int LR 4.png
14. ↑ See File:Ji Int LR 3.png
15. ↑ https://twitter.com/midnighinparis/status/1318800123661438976?s=20
16. ↑ https://twitter.com/midnighinparis/status/1318439881748566016?s=20
17. ↑ See File:Si Ext Mail.png
18. ↑ See File:Si Int Ent 3.png
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 See File:Si Int DR 3.png
20. ↑ As it is not on a tilt the way a typical globe would be