If you’re like me, you love Nancy Meyers films for their charming characters, timeless stories, and AMAZING houses. Although not all of us can have a Nancy Meyers-type coastal mansion, you can make your kitchen both homey and chic with the finds I’m sharing with you today!
This post is all about how to recreate a stunning Nancy Meyers kitchen in your own home!
Nancy Meyers Interiors
Nancy Meyers produces romantic comedies that often center around middle aged women. If you’re reading this, the chances that you have watched and love at least one Nancy Meyers movie are high. Her films feel breezy, chic, and nostalgic. If you’ve ever heard of the phrase “comfort movie” that is what Nancy Meyers movies are for so many of us. You could watch it 100 times and still feel hopeful, inspired, and happy every time. What’s not to love about a fabulous female lead falling in love? Oh, plus her incredible home.
Many of Nancy Meyers’s movies feature breathtaking homes, from the 1998 Parent Trap to It’s Complicated. The sprawling Spanish-influenced wine estate of Nick Parker and Jane Adler’s ranch style home are perfect examples of luxury feeling livable. If after watching The Holiday, you haven’t thought about selling everything and moving to a cottage in the English countryside, you’re kidding yourself.
That is a key theme in all of the sets and homes used in Nancy Meyers films: they feel approachable and so realistic. From bowls of fruit to copper pots to fresh flowers, the understated “clutter”, particularly in the kitchens make it feel like you are right there IN the movie, at home with the characters. Perhaps why we’re all so drawn to Nancy Meyers movies is because they give us what we all really want: true love and a home that feels like an extension of our heart. Shallow? I don’t think so.
Nancy Meyers Kitchen Aesthetic
If you’re dreaming of a Nancy Meyers feeling kitchen, but you don’t know where to start, here’s a roundup of elements to incorporate to achieve a lived-in classic kitchen:
- Copper. Everything from copper pots to copper teakettles to copper measuring spoons. Copper is both timeless and very functional.
- Mixed metals. Lean into a collected vibe – everything doesn’t have to feel matchy matchy!
- Fresh flowers and herbs. Live flowers are beautiful and fresh herbs are functional and aesthetic. Learn more about starting your own kitchen herb garden here!
- Fruit bowls. Make countertop displays feel pretty and practical.
- Stoneware. Incorporate pottery, crocks, or natural stone accents.
- Art and cookbooks. Display your favorite art pieces or show off your collection of well-loved cookbooks.
Something’s Gotta Give Kitchen
Something’s Gotta Give is set at a beach house in the Hamptons aka every coastal granddaughter’s dream. Creamy white cabinetry, black counter tops, a farmhouse sink, and the perfect accessories characterize the kitchen. The entire home is still timeless and chic even though the movie was filmed 20 years ago
It’s Complicated Kitchen
The kitchen in It’s Complicated is stunning. It has the open-air quality of a chefs kitchen while still feeling incredibly warm. What stands out are the open shelves, the island with exposed storage, and the pot rack over the stove that is doing the absolute most. This kitchen truly feels like a place you’d want to gather with friends and family. I personally would never eat out again!
The Holiday Cottage Kitchen
The English cottage, Rosehill, in The Holiday, is a perfect mix of functional and quaint. Although the kitchen is a fraction of the size of the kitchens in Something’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated, the kitchen in Rosehill Cottage is a dream come true. From the wood burning fireplace to the painted stone walls to the robin egg blue cabinets, it feels like you could curl up and never want to leave.
Nancy Meyers Kitchen Decor
So how exactly can you make your kitchen feel like it’s from a Nancy Meyers movie without having your very own vacation home in the Hamptons or California dream home? Easy, accessorize! Take away all the fabulous touches in the movie kitchens we adore and they would be half as amazing. Whether you have your dream kitchen or you are in your first apartment, here are several kitchen accessories inspired by Nancy Meyers:
Copper tea kettle | Copper saucepan | Copper jam pot | Cake stand with lid | Faux mini hydrangeas | Copper measuring cups and spoons | Dish brush | Blue and white serving bowl | Better Homes and Gardens coobook | The Tucci Cookbook | Woven fruit basket | Crock with blue crest | Le Creuset crock | Rectangle scalloped board | Round scalloped board | Wooden board
I hope you enjoyed this post all about Nancy Meyers kitchen inspirations!
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