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I still love the 50's , 60's , and 70's look in a house . Maybe it's because I grew up in the 60's and 70's and even the 80's . My favorite is different kinds of light fixtures , lamps , doors , fireplaces, and stairs . My house isn't tall enough for stairs though . Not unless I could add on to my home . That's just dreaming though . I love watching these videos and I love to dream . Maybe one day those dreams will come true for me . Thank you for sharing your video .

I totally agree with you that all the new homes built are one single boring room. My house was built 42 years ago and I love all the different rooms, formal and informal. They bring drama and uniqueness and surprise the visitor. Also with walls and dividers one is able to enhance the rooms with artwork and beautiful lamps. Houses with only one wall for artwork would not work for me and many other people because I enjoy decorating each room with its own special artwork.

Wonderful. Indiscreet has been one of my all time favorites. I love that apartment. You give me so many ideas. Cannot wait to build our next house. Thank you much! I love the apartment in your design after the walls went up. It looked so much more home-y, less stark and open.

My new favorite channel! I love the way you show the differences! Well done!

I love that you included the Bringing Up Baby House! It is one of my FAVORITES! Great video! They just keep getting better and better!

Wow, another excellent video. The amount of work you put into these is incredible, and your results are amazing.

Excellent and well-produced video. You mention many of the things I appreciate about good architecture and interior design. I've never understood how popular "modern, clean" interiors are when I find them to be so boring and plain. I think wide doorways would suffice for most instances where people want to totally remove walls. They end up with plain rectangular boxes for living spaces and I find it so wanting compared to interiors like the ones you highlighted. Worth mentioning as well is the modern aversion to wallpaper. So much nicer to have pattern, texture, and multiple colors than just one shade on a wall.

Thank you for this, very interesting! All your videos give me so many cool ideas!!

I love the old movies. The architectural elements are so exciting to me boosts your spirits.

I am only just on 8.00 minutes of watching this video, and appreciate what you are doing so much. How enjoyable, thank you.

Terrific! LOVE the room dividers/screens SO much.

Great ideas ! Love your channel ❤️

Wow! This is beyond interesting, I know what I am doing tonight, binge watching your videos :) Now I know why I have such a love for interior design, I paid so much attention to all of these details when watching these movies, and still to this day, when I watch a movie I am constantly looking in the background at the design and decorating of the space. You are a very talented lady, thanks so much for sharing :)

What about the apartment in Rosemary's Baby I love that too

This was amazing!

I learned so much from this episode, I'll have to watch it several more times. Absolutely riveting, thank you!!

Thanks for taking us for a "walk-thru" of a before and after. Some of us need that visual.

Loved these ‘homes’, now I know why.

I love the house Patty Dukes character has in "Valley of the Dolls." The mid-century rancher I bought still has most of its original design features. The realtor I bought it from told me it's why they had trouble selling it. I love it including the lavender ensuite, chandeliers, massive faux firplace and genuine wood panels. Kidney shaped pool and all. It's fabulous! Thanks for posting this ! You are inspiring!

I am thoroughly enjoying your videos, Marina, I happened onto one of the TV show walk-throughs, then found myself immersed in the Cinematically Inspired series, and wow what fun! I literally live in the mid century 50's and 60's, and these videos not only cemented in my mind a lot of things I have tried to accomplish in my home, but gave me notions for doll dioramas - 1:6 scale, also all mid-century, using what was available in doll furniture then and what can be created now (room dividers, YES!). I go a step further in my home, and many would find it utterly uninhabitable, but being a bachelor, I "get by" with shortcuts. The refrigerator is a grand old Crosley from 1950 - my grandfather's - but rather than use it for contemporary edible food, it is "dressed" in fake food and filled with vintage products - plastic ham on a platter, faux Jello parfaits, unopened 1961 bottles of Dr. Pepper, condiments. Why do I not use it? Because living alone, I can hide a mini-fridge in a cupboard and stash unsightly contemporary product packaging there. The same with nearly all the cupboards and drawers. Some guests I have put up say it is much like a Twilight Zone, in that NOTHING is real, or, it is 60 years old. Imagine opening a kitchen cupboard in a middle-income suburban ranch home in 1959 and what you would see there. I think that would make a terrific video series, of actually SET DRESSING your house, with the added condition, "IF you can stand it!" I am used to the fakery and love it. Strictly vintage medicine cabinet items (snoopy guests find nothing scandalous there, unless you count birth control packets from 1960 (courtesy my mother). "Real" and necessary things can hide elsewhere. Trust me it can work! A guest bedroom made into a Bad Motel Room, circa 1958, littered with ashtrays filled with fake cigarettes (from the novelty store), period maps, matchbooks, luggage, and picnic and camping clutter everywhere underfoot. All vintage of course, and a Magic Fingers unit (busted, naturally) "wired" from the wall to the bed. Crooked lampshades and tacky 50's western art finish off the look. And of course, rolls of 60 year old toilet tissue, still wrapped, waiting by the motel soaps on the vanity. I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea! Such a series would actually be PROMOTING clutter and oh, a lot of people might hate it, but believe me, "where's there's one..." I do know a few others who have embraced this way of immersive-living as well. LIVING in a SET, practically, 24/7. YES there are ways to hide a computer, a TV, even daily junk mail that is obviously "new," and keep the place nearly Completely Artificial. I would be THRILLED to see you examine this. It's extreme, but, for those who would dig it...Thanks again for your marvelous series!!

The main reason people are not inspired by the movies that have been produced the last 30-40 years is that Old Hollywood had the world's top interior design teams and art teams and of course Hollywood created a world of fashion and astounding beauty that we do Not get today.

In addition to really enjoying your videos I am picking up a few old movies I've missed out on and need to see. ;)

Thank you.

Marina I loved the architectural elements in the movie “The Heiress” with Olivia De Havilland. I loved that Washington Square Apt or house. It was not in color but the scale and other features made up for that. The interior was magnificent. I would love to hear your take on it.

Interesting. I loved the design in the movie Pillow Talk.

Now I see what you have taught us here everywhere I look, whether it's in real life or on the screens. Have you seen the 1963 Patty Duke home? Season 1 is currently on YT and boy is the house to die for, for a simple guy like me. The deeply inset windows on the staircase, the steps leading up to the alcove under the bay windows in the living room, the archways between rooms made grand by hand carved wood trim and architectural design, the depth created by seeing beyond each room they shoot in, etc., etc....I can't unsee all this gorgeous stuff! You rock!

The Bonanza house is definitely one I’m looking out for. Same thing with the house in the movie Giant.

Sirk! Thank yooooooou!!!

I agree with open concept. After it became a thing, it dominated design for so long that it became automatic. A few years ago I read an anti-open article and it was eye-opening. I think keeping the kitchen separate is a good idea. I have an open concept ground floor, and I really hate that the entire family stuffs itself in there at Christmas and then wonders why I’m hot and frazzled trying to get all the food done at the same time while they get louder and more in the way. They inevitably demand to help and then they have to pepper me with 6 million questions and work slooooooowly. And tell me to relax. If they could go annoy each other in the living room, I could get it all done, feed them faster, take a couple of shots behind the fridge, pat the sweat off my brow and hide the piles of burned pots and emergency backup gravy jars. I am redesigning the kitchen right now and hate that I have to find ways of using space without having to look at kitchen utilitarian stuff from the living room. Doors. Doors would be nice!

This is wonderful, but honestly, it wouldn't matter to me how the house was designed if it had Bill Holden or Cary Grant in it! Thank you for those wonderful pictures!💜

What a uniquely awesome video! I came across this channel just yesterday (re: the Brady Bunch house ...check it out if you haven't already) - and wow I'm hooked. I almost wish I was a movie set designer just to work with Marina.

I love windows inside. You can use french doors for this too.

I really love your videos and I've been sharing them wherever I can. I have partially opened up a wall from my kitchen to the family room and now have two different floors, with hardwoods in the family room. My home is Spanish influenced design built in 1970 and I'd love to replace the vinyl tile with an arabesque saltillo tile. (I have arabesque shaped tile in the foyer.) I'm in the midwest so our version of Spanish is very water down version of what's in CA. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Great content.

Would love to see what you think about the look of Once Upon a Time - in Hollywood

I'm wondering if you, as an architect, could envision and design parts of the cinematic home that the viewer never sees. For instance, the backstairs and dining room mentioned in Christmas in Connecticut.

I prefer divided spaces not only for privacy but for warmth

Great video about some open space to bring more into a room, the completely open concept seems like a glorified studio apartment, you have to be too matchy matchy in all the rooms or it looks like a hodge podge mess.

What about the apartment in Rosemary's Baby

One of the reasons the marketing machines are able to push "design shows" with open concept is because they focus so much on youth. Another is because our society has a fairly large (many unhealthy and many likely to soon be unhealthy) contingent of people who do not cook or eat real food. Their diets are based completely on convenience, eating out, factory food. I cringe to see young couples discussing how the kitchen is the heart of their home and how well it will suit them to have it open all the time to every eye from every angle. I know so many trying desperately to repent and learn to deal with having to eat in ways that truly nourish the body while struggling through serious health concerns. In any case, our culture is already fairly polarized between the living in the capital styles the marketing machines push and those who want to live more grounded lives where they can heal and be peaceful. My daughter and I recently discussed how much we both like more "open-ish" designs where there are still some divisions between spaces but the rooms are not all completely closed off. And given how much I have to strictly stick to real food and make my own homemade broths and soups it is a good thing I don't feel a compulsive need for wide open warehouse spaces with no divisions! I love how what you are showing and analyzing from film helps me realize why all the architectural details of those open-ish room divisions feel so good!

One of my favorite New York City townhouse sets was in Kiss Me Goodbye with Sally Fields, Jeff Bridges, and James Caan. It flowed beautifully as an open floor plan, yet converted to private spaces spontaneously with pocket doors. Most setbound movies were based on stage plays, and this one is no different, except, in this case, it was because James Caan's character plays a dead Broadway performer. I feel restricting much of the movie to this house was a tip of the hat to stage sets. We watched it several times, each time finding something new. The house became as enjoyable as the characters. A good set designer knows a set should be a good supporting actor. They done good. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rraZeZZnrd6mlok.html