How to Make Your Kitchen Look Like a Nancy Meyers Movie
Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon
When considering a kitchen update big or small, it’s best to come prepared with inspiration photos. Maybe you’ve bookmarked a few projects from designers, saved a space on social media, or even ripped out a few pages from magazines. But if you want to save time, and potentially watch a few movies in the name of research, just type Nancy Meyers’s name into your search bar.
As the director of beloved films like The Parent Trap and The Holiday, Meyers is an expert at blending immersive plotlines with enviable settings, creating an aesthetic that’s as recognizable as some of the lines in her scripts. And if there’s one space where Meyers gets mentioned frequently, it’s in the kitchen. From the all-white wonder that’s the Something’s Gotta Give set to the more rustic locale of It’s Complicated, saying that you’d like a “Nancy Meyers kitchen” is really just another way of saying that you’re seeking timeless, cozy, and casually cool surroundings.
