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Production designer Angelic Rutherford, who has been with the franchise since 2003, talked to E! News about finding the look for the spinoff, which debuts on Aug. 4, and filmed on location in Tulum, Mexico.
"We were all really excited to shoot the show in a different location besides the Bachelor mansion," she said. "I always love designing the inside of that house, but this was a whole different show with a whole different design vibe, and this was the opportunity to give it its own design."
When it came to the look she and her team were trying to achieve, Angelic spilled, "We wanted it obviously very tropical. The location is very rustic, too, but elegant at the same time, so we wanted to go in and give it a ton of color; keep it rustic, but give a certain among of elegance to it, too, like our Bachelor shows really."
Viewers might not be able to see it, but Angelic actually used fabric to hide the hanging lanterns' wiring.
"That's one thing that drives me crazy on set, is seeing any kind of light source or wires," she explained. "So we have these lanterns, we hung these baskets everywhere, and I just wanted to make sure that we covered them. We used scraps of Mexican fabric."
Angelic estimated that the show used "about 250" Mexican blankets, all purchased in Tulum, when decorating the set.
"We ripped them up and used them as floor pillows, we made pillows out of them, and we used them as blankets and we we turned them into rugs, we were wrapping palm trees in certain areas, just bands of colors."
Production on Bachelor in Paradise began soon after The Bachelorette wrapped, not giving Angelic and her team much time to prepare for the shoot. "We had 12 days, which was crazy, considering that the location is five football fields wide, from one end to the other," she said.
While they "brought some pieces in advance," most of the furniture viewers will see, and no doubt covet, was actually built by the crew, including the gorgeous beach pieces.
"We were making a ton of furniture [in the girls' house], a ton of furniture at the beach," Angelic said of he custom-made pieces. "These big driftwood pieces, that was kind of our main inspiration for furniture, was combining these driftwood pieces we found on the beach."
While viewers will have to wait until the show premieres to see inside the cast's living quarters, Angelic teased that the women's house featured "a lot of turquoise, a lot of fuchsia," and the men's place "was more masculine in colors, as far as dark greens and dark blues."
Angelic said it was easy to find inspiration, thanks to the show's gorgeous location, Tulum. "I love just the colors, the patterns, the Mexican patterns, the Mayan patterns we actually used everywhere," she said of drawing inspiration from the town. "So I was pulling Mayan patterns from old blankets and old pottery."
And eagle-eyed fans will see those patterns pop up in unexpected places. "We were turning those into paintings on the patio on the decks. We were using a lot of those traditional Mayan designs and just making them really pop in some of these huge areas, especially around the pool."
Some of the returning contestants set to appear on Bachelor in Paradise include AshLee Frazier, Graham Bunn, Clare Crawley, Michelle Money, Robert Graham, Marquel Martin and Cody Sattler.
Premiering on Aug. 4, the show will feature a major twist: each episode will feature the arrival of two new contestants joining the cast after two are sent home without roses, alternating between two women and two men.
Yeah, this paradise may turn into a nightmare for many of these contestants!
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