The dad's house in the original Parent Trap 1961 is THE aesthetic. Patios, sunken rooms, built-ins for and tons of plants for hiding behind to eavesdrop. All that vintage ranchy Santa Fe but also MCM furniture and brand new.

I think the Nancy Myers aesthetic is old money, in England old money is houses full of stuff that's been handed down through generations and are timeless and quality.

Ooof 😅 I really wish they had given credit to the person responsible for the look of those rom-com homes: Jon Hutman. He is the Production Designer for Something’s Got to Give, It’s Complicated, The Holiday, and Father of the Bride 3 ish. This might explain why Ms. Meyers’ home doesn’t quite align with the aesthetic of the featured movies.

Have you all seen Practical Magic? That house in the movie is my home decor DREAM

Nancy Myers aesthetic is expensive but real. Happy clutter, evidence of hobbies, books, knickknacks, useful additions. Yes good lighting, yes spaces to entertain and cozily hang out with others- for girl’s nights and buffet style potluck dinners. The rooms are mainly neutral with pops of colour like beautiful artwork or purple flowers, BUT the people in these rooms are the biggest pop of colour. The expensive part is floor space. In most of her movies the floor space is surreal. I would love to have a lush sofa and 4 comfy chairs around a nice coffee table as well as side tables - cuddled up around a fireplace. But if I tried that in any room of my house I’d be considered a hoarder; there would be zero path, movement, flow. Very few of us actually have that luxury of floor space . Or views from the window. is it nostalgia or is it good design? I think it is good design. I don’t crave a beautiful Victorian parlour the way I crave a Nancy Myers set. The basic bits - comfy linen sofas, good lighting, places to showcase personality AND the flow of the floor plan - good placement of furniture with lovely sight lines, all are hallmarks of good design imho.

Loved this! I'd love an episode where you each showed your favourite movie interiors and maybe tv show interiors too. They feel more personal than some celeb homes because they're meant to reveal more about the character and not just look nice.

That is not a London flat/apartment, that is an enormous multi-million pound house, only the wealthy live like that, especially in London :D

It would be so interesting to have you make up some living room inspo boards from each of your favorite movies.

The Nancy Meyer's esthetic is, she known for her kitchens in films,during the 90s, it's been described as homey.a client on the HGTV show Fixer to Fabulous asked the hosts to give her a Nancy Meyer's kitchen.

Nancy Meyers' characters in movies seem like real, actualized human beings and their homes reflect that. They don't look like a set that props department dressed. It looks lived in and is giving you some hints of the characters themselves. Writer/works in publishing = tons of books (especially in The Holiday). Practical, too (like the electronic window shades that Cameron Diaz's home has... because her character is used to doing late nights... she probably had those installed because she ended up going to be at 7am after some late night edits on movie trailers.

You all missed Father of the Bride and Baby Boom. The Nancy Myers aesthetic is money, is aspirational but also lived in and collected. It is not rich/annoying because the collected vibes give the home personality vs paying a designer. Also her films (she is the writer) feature the main characters homes as the main setting, it is not a backdrop but part of the story.

About the London appartement in "The Parent Trap", my paternal family is from Scotland and almost every single home I remember seeing during the 90's and at least the first half of the 00's had VERY colourful walls, so that is very true to the time and place.

My best friend lives in a The Holiday type English cottage and it is way too small to fit a film crew and cameras and lights in, the ceilings are low and the rooms poky, which is why they needed to build it as a set

If you’re Vanderpump Rules Fans, the restaurant Something About Her is inspired by Nancy Meyers movies. They even got Nancy’s set designer, Jon Hutman, to design their restaurant!

Yes home swaps are a real thing (not air-b&bs) - my in-laws do it a lot. We're in the UK and they've swapped with houses in Turkey, the US, France, and various places in the UK. The cottage in The Holiday, whether real or not, is SO typically English and gorgeous... and yes we've been painting floorboards for decades!

I really enjoyed this! Like you were saying, theres a clear interior difference between Nancy Meyers the visual language, and Nancy Meyers as a person. Which in large part, i think, has to do with the fact that her own home is not there to tell a narrative or give information on a character. She just has to live in it haha. Its not a story supporting tool, so it doesnt need cold sleek furnishing to emphasize how emotionally closed off the character is. etc. I wonder what my home would say about me and my "character journey" if it was a movie interior lol.

My heart is broken to realize the Cotswold cottage in The Holiday is a fake!!

It reminds me of The PotteryBarn aesthetic….warm family oriented but always modernizing itself. I love it ! Great video girls 💕

I saw the ORIGINAL 1961 The Parent Trap with Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, and Brian Keith, on TV in black and white. My family did not get a color TV until 1974. Also, I was surprised to find out that The Wizard of Oz switched to color when Dorothy landed in Oz.

My art teacher did a full exchange with an art teacher in the UK like the Holiday, Swapped jobs and houses for the year.

That apricot colour wad popular in that time frame. 2008 I bought my daughter a Fisher Price DVD player. She watched The Parent Trap and Flash Gordon so much I can till this day repeat every line from those movies 😁

Nancy Myers aesthetic is a blanket term for things like timeless, authentic, well made, lived in, comfy, curated over time, and can't be neatly slotted into one niche aesthetic. I've been calling my own aesthetic the Paige Wassel aesthetic for lack of a better term. At it's core the Nancy Myers and Paige Wassel aesthetics (in my book) are the same thing but in different fonts. It's about having a cozy home with beautiful and meaningful objects that you love. Trendy and fast furniture and decor are not allowed.

This series is my favorite!! Look forward to it every Saturday morning🫶🏻

This was a great topic! I too love these sets/houses, they remind me of my aunt’s house and her style. I’d add to the description of the overall esthetic that these are purposefully designed rooms, like a decorator was involved. Put together is another way to describe it.

I love Nancy Meyers' movies and the sets are usually cozy, even in the bigger, obviously expensive houses. I wondered why you didn't include "You've Got Mail", but I looked it up and it wasn't Nancy Meyers, but Nora Ephron. lol Meg Ryan's apartment in NY was so cozy and homey in that movie and I think it had a definite Nancy Meyers' aesthetic. ♥♥♥

Love that Nance is posing with a chunky 90s/early 2000s corded phone. I'd expect nothing less!!

I love this series so much!!!! ❤ The mix between feeling like having a chat with my girl friends plus all of your insights on this, I feel like I actually learned something. The perfect Sunday morning video 😊

Suddenly I’ve realised I’ve been trying to achieve the Nancy Myers aesthetic for years without having a name for it! 😂

Don’t think I’ve ever been this early before! It’s 1am here in New Zealand lol.

“From the workshop floor” is such a great series! Love this channel. 🥰❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Not a Nancy Meyers film but The Family Stone home is EVERYTHING to me. The clutter, the old/vintage, worn in, comfy aesthetic 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 The Parent Trap homes are also epic.

As someone who lives in Shropshire UK in a steel workers cottage built in 1744, i can confirm it would be too small to film in. (My bathroom and kitchen used to be in out buildings). Lots of film companies use Engsh Herritage properties, but they tend to be stately homes. For example, the exterior of house that Elona Holmes grew up in, in the first film is local to where I live. I love living in a heritage property despite it being small and the rules and regulations that relate to fixing things that go wrong (my house is grade II listed). I love this series and get lots of ideas from the Sorry Girls videos

What a coincidence! I just rewatched both Father of the Bride I and II last week. Father of the Bride is definitely my favorite Nancy Meyers movie.

my family used to do home exchanges back in the day! the last one we did was in 2012. they were so great, stayed in wonderful homes for our family of 5. i get people being more cautious in this age of suspicion, but i think these were a nice way to feel at home in a different country and trust your fellow humans to take care of your home as you would theirs--and i think people should take a chance more on opportunities like this

I love the buildings in the Mama Mia set, especially the daughter's room, such a beautiful light room.

I love “The Intern” movie and Becky’s description is an injustice to the movie.😂😂😂😂 Can’t believe this is my first comment. Enjoying your videos from 5 plus years ❤

I love this episode! One I didn't know I needed❤ just like the Nancy Meyers kitchen, just cozy vibes ❤

Good morning sorry girls this is awesome I will rewatch the movies and check out the scenes specifically for set decorations

You were wondering how plates stand on dressers....they usually sit in a groove along the shelf.

"So whatever you do in life, whatever your thing is, get an entire wall with white creamy bookshelves and fill it with matching accessories. Sorted" Me, looking at my white creamy bookshelves filled with matching accessories: "Check!"

Future FTWF idea…going into the ikea catalogue archives and looking at the “staging” designs using similar scorings from the AD your videos such as design, function etc. 👀

My friend used to work for a company called Trusted House Sitters, it's the air bnb thing but you take care of the person's pet too - so Danny would stay!

Thank you Thank you Thank you this fun video!!! Some of my all time favorite movies…just love the feel of these rooms. Now get the popcorn and binge watch these movies….happy Saturday 🥰

A team of women made from my own heart ❤ I am a HUGE Nancy Meyers fan. Her films radiate nostalgia and warmth for me. Great video guys!

Who is the set designer for Nancy Meyers? They should get credit.

Check out Baby Boom… a much older Nancy Myer movie, but her country home totally has this aesthetic.

i think this is really the best video i've ever seen, i haven't seen smth like that for a long time😉

"it's money but it's not like i would hate this person." rochelle is so real for that. 😅🧡

This was so much fun. I can’t remember ever thinking about the spaces in my favorite movies and I’m looking forward to digging into that and finding similarities that I might love, too.

These all sort of made me think of Frontgate and William Sonoma catalogs. Like, Coastal Upper Middle Class aesthetic.

I agree, romanticised is the ticket. I love all these movies because they give me happy/homey vibes: Neutral tones, natural materials, flowers, lamps, lamps, lamps (side lighting). P.S. there's love in The Intern - it's about friendship and working through marriage issues. Would recommend ❤

Great video topic. Really enjoying the video so far

Loved this post. I like a more traditional design so I'm on team Nancy. I'm obsessed with the silver shade lamp (smallish, with a candle look) in Something's Gotta Give.

I really enjoyed this one… is nice to analyze and learn from a different perspective and using different resources as movies, like you guys did in this episode. Really good one 😊 Sorry Girls. Thanks.

This was my favorite episode yet. Please do another round with a different movie aesthetic!

My loves were Meg Ryan movie sets! I do agree with you guys. It has the timeless, homey, collected vibe that is comforting.

I have loved all of these workshop floor episodes, but i really enjoyed this one!

I see your Nancy Meyer’s aesthetic and I raise you Norah Ephron Core!!! You should do that next 😊

I would LOVE to see you to review the styles of old Tv Series like Charmed! Their Manson is soooo stunning

Been loving this series! Feels like sitting down for a chat with some friends :)

I can really recommend Alexandra Gaylord's videos if you are interested in interior design history, she even has a video on Nancy Meyers, one on Gilmore Girls and one on why kitchen lighting has switched from warm to cold lighting!

Nancy Meyers is really well known for her kitchens. Uppers and lowers variety of tile and counter tops, a lamp on the counter... A bowl of fruit and an open shelf of dishes the character would have. Her designs have probably influenced more homes than anything in AD. And I mean that with no shade. Her homes in most movies are not a typical home scale but the palette or the individual items are recognizable. The homes feature pieces that people could have found over time. Things from their imagined past or relatives. Effortlessly blended with modern items, or items of their spouse or of their child's. - It's Complicated Meryl has an antique armoire painted shabby chic white as if she's lived in that house since the 90s and just not parted with it. But maybe when her husband moved out he took the side table ao she bought the wavy one and slip covered the sofa. Because AD is a designer showcase. These homes are empty of people's actual stuff. Celebrities put everything in storage - to generalize AD or not theyre kind of known for this. (Streisand and Stewart have or had garages and basements of rotatable collections; generally celebs have storage units and designers do their house ((Think liv tyler, custom designed home and all of her work memorabilia was just in an crawlspace attic)).) There's a stat out there about how often people sell their home after an AD tour publish, and how the photos are used. Not every one of course but enough. And so many of them mention the designer they had come in and how they hadn't even used this item yet etc. Nancy Meyers had she started in 2008 would have a line at Saks and a popular youtube. The thing is her classic sense is rooted in polished dreamy homes of old movies, homes grace kelly characters lived in which is also what people are looking for from Coastal Grandma/ Millenial Grandma. These homes are as monied/ wealthy/ extravagant as many AD homes, but I feel like someone has invited me over and their too many shoes are possibly piled at the door (& the maid will come on Wednesday and change that so dont worry) just choose some music and have a drink and stay awhile.

Love this episode of the workshop floor, I really like this type of lived-in style also I would love to see your thoughts about the apartments of the only murders in the building’s characters. 💕

love this episode!! love to see your view on fictional houses/flats or how you would re do it!

This is a departure from the typical Sorry girls content and I like it. I feel like this could have been a college course lecture/ project that makes you watch movies differently. I might need to find a writer/ director and spot the similarities of their films. This would be a great trivia idea.

Lighting I've read is important to film. It's hard they to create a room effect with over head lighting. It talk about what is required for even empty rooms or prision cells. Place usually dark.

Loved this format and deep dive. Very cool to see everyone learning from each other. The Nancy Myers style isn't for me. It didn’t read as comfy or homey but that could be because I grew up in a home that was going for this look down to the flowers and lamps. 😂

I loved this one so much! Yes, nostalgia, good old movies, perfect for Sundays. I really hope that you will give it a go with what so many others said - Practical Magic (next year we will have Practical Magic 2), Charmed. Not old money for sure, but the same level of cosy. And in a newer series, Good Witch.

Loved this deep dive into set design for movies! Perhaps the Sorry Girls could combine this idea with the tier ranking episode focusing on AD celebrity bedroom tours from a while back and tier rank your favorite movie sets or perhaps sitcom living rooms?

I haven't watched the whole video but if you don't include FATHER OF THE BRIDE I'm gonna be heartbroken! The movie is one of my all-time favorites, however - the home itself is quintessential Nancy Meyers. It's def what a childhood and young adult me (I'm a Nancy btw) pictured in my head for my adult home. (Of course then you grow up and you realize that, um, yeah - that's not normal middle class- especially in CA)

I love this thing you do on Saturdays love it love it hey it has nothing to do with your age I'm in my 70s and I love all of these!!

Her movies give you the sense of a successfully lived life. The characters are developed more because of the decors that have been cultivated through their life.

The holiday is my favorite and that cottage made me want one when I was young this one and mrs honeys from Matilda 🥰

My dream home was the house in Home Alone. I drooled over that house when that movie came out.

I absolutely love these videos ❤

When I was in high school in the late 70s (I know I'm old)? Our typing teacher traded with a British teacher for 1 year. They traded homes and jobs for 1 year. We got the mean British teacher and they got our Olivia Newton-John look alike teacher who was sweet. We broke down the British teacher near the end she became a much nicer person. We couldn't believe they were doing this, it was a special project that a lot of other Canadian teachers were doing also.

13:49 I LOVED the editing here 😂

I used to work as a set designer for live action movies (now I work with animation) and one big rule we have about the filling of the room is to clutter it up and then take out (obviously not with actual itens, we would do a mock up and then settle on the right amount of clutter, and of course if shooting on location we would always try to incorporate what was already there)

For me it’s the house/kitchen from Practical Magic! Omg with the attached green house! That’s my dream!

Nice - that kitchen in 'It's Comlicated' is up there with my top 10 favs. I think if you wind it back a little further to early 90s...Nora Ephron's aesthetic is on a similar path. I would love to see your take on these styles.

This is funny because I used to love Father of the Bride house and after looking at this video I looked it up and saw Nancy Meyers designed it. Very interesting.

Popped down here to say that Santa Clause 2 *is* my preferred Santa Clause movie. 😂 I also wanted to say that I adore the Nancy Meyers look but my husband leans too far into the "Grandad's basement" aesthetic for me to compete. Leather furniture, old tools and statues of wildlife surround me. 😅

I just saw The Intern for the first time about a month ago. It's great! I really enjoy mentorship stories. :) You should totally give it a watch.

I love Diane Keaton’s home! Especially the Kitchen.

Check out the Diane Keaton movie " Becauce I Said So"...... The homes were so, so similar, lovely ,spacious, dreamy. Even her Bakery Shop is sooo Nancy. Cute little movie too , watch, enjoy all the different areas in Calf.

that top becky is wearing is so gorgeous, she looks so good!

In "It's complicated", yes, she has money from her divorce and kept the house, but keep in mind that she is middle age and has accumulated stuff for years over time. You too will have a beautiful interior by the time you're in your 40's and 50's. The home looks well lived in and warm. She's the mom that cooks for everyone so the kitchen is well equiped and functional.

Also, the house in Father of the Bride and then in Father of the Bride 2 when he added on the nursery 🥲

Totally with Roshy on "hating this person." I'm hating all the "persons" and I can't pinpoint why.

What I realised from this is that the only Nancy Myers film I've seen is parent trap, but only once became I much prefer the 60s version - I'd live in that ranch house.

Best director that makes such a rich well done exterior and interior designs is kogonada he makes the best sets ever in my opinion

Didn’t think I’d love this video, but I did!

Kendra Gaylord did a video on this topic! It's based around the Nancy Meyers kitchens and why we love them so much, highly recommend a watch!

I love the Nancy Meyers aethetic - shoutout to some of the production and set designers on her films: Jon Hutman and Beth Rubino :)

becky went OFF with this ppt👏

Maybe Nancy Meyer's house is pared down because people with busy lives, lots of decisions to make, lots of people to interact with etc need to rest their eyes when they're home. Taking visual distractions away is regenerative.

The Intern is my favourite - it’s so feel good and I love Anne Hathaway! You all should watch it :) Home Again is also a great Nancy Meyers movie and the house is very much the same.

Y'all realize that the 1998 version is a remake of a 1961 film, right? Erich Kastner & David Swift wrote The Parent Trap. Nancy Meyers just adapted it.

i would literally exchange my house to live at that cottage house

I immediately wanted to take the chance to enrol in your course to hopefully one day decorate as beautiful spaces as you guys are...but it won't let me apply the coupon code 🥺