I’ve all the time liked the comfortable timeless houses featured in Nancy Meyers motion pictures akin to Father of the Bride and One thing’s Gotta Give and It’s Sophisticated.
More and more I’ve been receiving messages on social media from folks saying they noticed my new kitchen in a number of on-line “inspiration” movies and Pinterest boards that folks have labeled because the “Nancy Meyers Aesthetic.” Two extra exhibiting my kitchen have been messaged to me simply as we speak, so evidently I’ve inadvertently captured a trending “Nancy Meyers” type in my own residence. I do love this basic look and all the time have. I’m completely satisfied to listen to that folks love a timeless look as a lot as I do (however after all I want folks would not less than credit score my images after they characteristic them.)
I do know it helps to interrupt components of a room down so you possibly can see what it’s that achieves a sure type, in order that’s what we’ll do right here as we speak!
The true magic behind “Nancy Meyers” type in lots of of those motion pictures is that her kitchens are all the time really feel so heat and welcoming. Don’t you agree? They really feel like a spot the place folks need to collect and make recollections. Every kitchen is totally different, however there are some widespread threads that make these areas really feel like house to so many individuals.
Select acceptable architectural components
If a kitchen renovation is on the horizon for you, I believe one of many keys to getting this “are available and make your self at house” type is in choosing a mixture of basic, attention-grabbing components which are additionally acceptable for the house.
In every Nancy Meyers film, you possibly can sense the sensation of being welcomed into the house as you go from room to room and into the kitchen. If the kitchen type didn’t make any sense with the remainder of the house, you’d really feel such as you walked onto a unique set! To get that very same feeling in an actual house, the weather chosen for a kitchen ought to make sense inside the type and context of the remainder of the house.
The type of my own residence was influenced by conventional cottages on Nantucket. We carried this identical type by way of to our kitchen with decisions that can make our house really feel cohesive and welcoming for years to come back.
Structure is a spot the place you will get inventive in a renovation, however you actually need to choose components that can make you are feeling at house there years from now, too. We’re nonetheless speaking about Nancy Meyers film kitchens a long time later!
Incorporate components that aren’t pretentious
Nancy Meyers kitchens are very good, however they by no means really feel pretentious!
No matter your type you need to add a mixture of components that can really feel heat and alluring so that they really feel lived in.
For our new kitchen, we selected timeless components akin to honed Carrara marble and soapstone. A nickel faucet. Tongue and groove paneling. Creamy white cupboards in a conventional type. Timeless components can really feel elegant but unpretentious. They all the time really feel like a house that has been round awhile, reasonably than one designed across the latest seems to be from a designer present room.
It’s true that natural finishes akin to marble or soapstone will present the patina of age. Whereas many individuals worry these indicators of life, I embrace them as a result of to me patina from each day use feels extra welcoming and unpretentious. I needed our personal kitchen to really feel prefer it has been in our household for years. These indicators of life will merely be proof that our kitchen is loved and has been a gathering place for household. (I wrote extra about our countertop resolution on this submit.)
Embody an inviting heart island
You sense {that a} Nancy Meyers kitchen is a gathering place. Whether or not it’s giant or small, or in-built or free standing, heart islands supply a way of invitation. Islands are a vacation spot the place folks can collect round to assist in the kitchen or speak in regards to the occasions of the day.
Add nooks for show
Nancy Meyers kitchens really feel lived in by actual folks! Constructed ins or free standing furnishings akin to a bit nooks or cabinets, a bar cart, bookcase, plate rack or china hutch will carry a way of persona, heat and character which is crucial within the “Nancy Meyers” kitchen aesthetic.
We added a number of guide nooks in our renovation so we are able to have our assortment of books and cookbooks, artwork and different fairly items inside attain and so as to add type by way of the ever-evolving seasons.
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Strive Touchable Textures
Quite a lot of touchable textures assist create extra curiosity in a kitchen. Search for methods to usher in softness, shade and persona by way of materials, curtains or rugs. In our kitchen we added rugs, pillows on the close by banquette bench, in addition to cafe curtains on our “stool area of interest” and window. We additionally incorporate a wide range of different textures that add to the “touch-ability issue” akin to akin to a mixture of marble, bamboo, rattan, soapstone, and wooden.
Usher in vegetation and flowers
Flowers and vegetation carry a way of life to a kitchen which creates a extra welcoming environment. Put them into collected vases, pitchers and pots for a further sense of character.
Set out bowls of fruit and greens
A bowl of fruit or greens provides to the easy allure of a lived in kitchen. Whether or not they’re actual or not, they make you are feeling like that is kitchen the place folks prepare dinner and eat actual meals!
Enhance with plates
Plates are a basic ingredient that can be utilized for greater than only a meal! Cling them on the wall, stack them on a shelf or a plate rack to offer it that charming “we dwell right here” Nancy Meyers’ kitchen temper.
Associated Put up: How I Cling Plates, Platters, and Bowls on the Wall
Put every single day on show
A Nancy Meyers kitchen doesn’t really feel cluttered or messy, however a glimpse into the every single day lives of the individuals who work in that area makes it really feel a lot extra like house. Conceal what isn’t enticing but when your toaster is fairly, don’t hesitate to depart it out! In the event you use your stand mixer typically, let it sit on the counter.
Incorporating glass entrance cupboards for fairly gadgets you don’t use as typically will assist gadgets keep clear however nonetheless lets you take pleasure in them as a part of your decor.
Place cooking or serving instruments into trendy crocks, baskets or different containers. This provides type and but additionally group and practicality the place all the pieces wanted is inside attain.
And no must worry of all the pieces getting dusty. Objects keep cleaner once you use and wash them typically so if mud is a priority, reserve show for every single day gadgets!
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Invite in lighting
Pendants over islands, wall sconces or lamps on a counter are a chance so as to add persona in addition to make a kitchen really feel heat and welcoming even at night time.
Paint cupboards
A mushy or creamy white cupboard by no means goes out of fashion. You see them in a number of of Nancy Meyers motion pictures. Her personal actual life kitchen is a mushy white, so much like the One thing’s Gotta Give kitchen! We selected a mushy creamy white for our English Tudor kitchen years in the past and I nonetheless love that basic look as we speak so we selected it once more in our present kitchen!
Paint is a “easy” technique to replace any kitchen. Not all the time low cost or straightforward, however a lot less complicated than a renovation.
White isn’t the one choice for a Nancy Meyers look, strive a shade you like. Or combine in conventional wooden tones for cupboards or islands!
Somebody had messaged me years in the past after seeing “The Intern” film as a result of the kitchen cupboard shade and subway tile reminded her of my very own kitchen on the time. My kitchen had been up to date earlier than the film ever got here out. Darkish painted cupboards weren’t but trending on the time of my renovation, however I simply felt like that darker shade contrasted with basic white subway tile is what my builder grade kitchen wanted. The e-mail sender was satisfied my kitchen impressed Nancy’s film kitchen! Wouldn’t that be humorous? Maybe it did. The ability of Pinterest …. and basic kitchens.
My cupboard and wall paint shade is Traditional Gentle Buff by Sherwin Williams.
Preserve it basic
I’ve liked designing all of my kitchens with basic components and I really like all of them nonetheless! Over the previous 17 or so years I’ve been messaged about ALL of my kitchens at one time or one other feeling like a Nancy Meyers kitchen. We positively share a love of basic kitchens! (Take a tour of my final kitchen right here, and the kitchen earlier than that right here)
The reality is {that a} Nancy Meyers kitchen incorporates the weather of so many basic kitchens which have been round for ages, lengthy earlier than the flicks got here out. But it’s so enjoyable that we are able to all watch and rewatch these motion pictures and fall in love with them time and again. They’re timeless so they may proceed to be liked by so many! These kitchens have captured our hearts and the longing all of us have for our houses to be heat and welcoming.
I hope you might be impressed by all of the methods you possibly can create a kitchen you like by incorporating basic components discovered within the Nancy Meyers aesthetic.
Sources:
White Lamp with Scalloped Shade (a number of shade choices and a pair of dimension choices)
Patterned Rug (washable)
Brass Hanging Bells
Bamboo Roman Shades (see images of those in our house right here)
Spode Blue and White Sugar Bowl
Blue and White Striped Linen Napkins
Stoneware Crock
Wooden Salt and Pepper Mills
Cookbook
Wooden Chopping Board
White and Wooden Kitchen Island (Freestanding)
Tea Kettle (many shade choices)
Panorama Art work
Woven Scalloped Bowl
Pendant Lights (much like mine)
Fake Boxwood Topiary
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