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S2:13 Design Tips to make your Nancy Meyers Dream Home

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 Have you ever fallen in love with a home in a movie and daydreamed about living there ever since? Now, I know you can't see me, but both of my hands are raised now for the three of us. Specifically. Time and time again, we have fallen in love with the homes in Nancy Meyers films. Now, if you don't know her name, I bet you know some of her movies, or at least the homes from the movies.

Think "Something's Gotta Give", "It's Complicated" (Lord, that kitchen), "The Holiday". Yes, honey! Show me where I can sign up to stay in those homes. Well, in today's podcast, we discuss what's known as the Nancy Meyer style and how it's more of a feeling than a style and in simple ways that you can bring that warm, lived in effortless, elegant vibe to your own space no matter where you live.

And let's get to it because my head is already in the kitchen from its complicated. And Lord, now all I want is some homemade sourdough toast. 

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Have you ever fallen in love with a home in a movie and daydreamed about living there ever since? Now, I know you can't see me, but both of my hands are raised now for the three of us. Specifically. Time and time again, we have fallen in love with the homes in Nancy Meyers films. Now, if you don't know her name, I bet you know some of her movies, or at least the homes from the movies. Let's think. Something's Gotta Give. It's complicated, Lord, that kitchen, the holiday. Yes, honey. Show me where I can sign up to stay in those homes. Well, in today's podcast, we discuss what's known as the Nancy Meyer style and how it's more of a feeling than a style and in simple ways that you can bring that warm, lived in effortless, elegant vibe to your own space no matter where you live. And let's get to it because my head is already in the kitchen from its complicated. And Lord, now all I want is some homemade sourdough toast. All right, let's get to it.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Welcome back guys. We have been away for a few weeks. We've had, we've had some, um, listeners, we've

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Well, some of us have been away, some of us have not.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

not. Well, no, we, we haven't been in the podcast. We had some technical issues with a couple of episodes, so those weren't able to be released. And then, you know, it's the summer, so we're, you know, traveling and we had a couple of things come up except for Stewart.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah, the only thing that came up for me is watching this damn store while y'all were gallivanting around the world.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Ooh, what, what you people don't know is we were pulled into the meeting with Stewart, uh, chastising us and saying

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

saying

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

everybody can't ever be gone again. Stewart said Jeremy was gone and Dwayne was gone, and Joe was gone, and Toy was gone, and Kim was gone, and I had to do it all. I had to make two bows and four flower arrangements.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and answer every question that you guys could help field on a daily basis.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah, I, I, I have

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

It takes.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

of you are gone, and it is incredibly difficult. It it, it is. I mean, I'm thankful. I mean, again, we're

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and notice I didn't bother either one of you.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

nope. No, I, no thank you. No. Yeah.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

there we go.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Very thankful.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I just, I just drank more at night.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

where did you go, Dwayne?

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

We went back to our favorite place in the world and took the kids and the boyfriend, uh, we went to Siesta Key,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

You,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

um,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

took one of your children's boyfriends, not your boyfriend, right?

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

well,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

said We took the

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I've got some news for you. No, but yeah, I took one of the children's boyfriend,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Uh, okay.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

you. Whoever thought,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

thought that,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I was just adding a comma in your sentence.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

happy pride month y'all.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I don't know. Whatever you wanna say. I don't, I don't,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I don't,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I I actually, I'm gonna pivot just very quickly from that. I was with the illustrious Deborah Zel yesterday. Right. And they've sold their townhouse and they've got a little place they're moving to, so I'm gonna help her.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

her.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Kind of. So, but it's been traumatic truthfully because, you know,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

know,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

you know, when you, you change your life and all this kind.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

those kind of things. So we're working through some things, we're talking

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

There's, uh, somebody on a YouTube or something, uh, or podcast, I dunno where it's truthfully, but it's on the interwebs but her

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but her

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

catchphrase is,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

is,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I don't care. Right? And so Deborah, she said, I'm kind of there. She said, I don't care. And I was like, you know what? We all in not a

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

a

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

way. Need to be, be, I don't care. So what I'm telling you about is I don't care what you think about me.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

me,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Right. You know, if you're in my world, in my orbit, you know, I'm pretty good and you'll like me, but if you don't, I don't care. Right. And that, that's, that's a good place to be in my world. I don't know if everybody else sees it that way, but

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

we're all comparing ourselves to each other and we're always worried about what everybody else does. And I.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I've actually dropped off,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Just for my mental health, off doing any postings of me personally or anything because I felt like it was taking the energy away from

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

from

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

the, the beautiful positive things I do.'cause I love what I do, but I felt obligated to have to post things and tell my story. And it started evolving into, it became a job and maybe it should be, but it was draining me. And I've just had, I've just taken off the last six months and I actually

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

actually

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

now had a little bit more peace and I.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and I'm like,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Basically, I don't care.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

You know, that is so, uh, not anything probably what we're gonna talk about today. However, I. On my way in, you know,'cause I listen to NPRA lot. I heard this quote that kind of goes along with what you're saying and it says, it was holding a grudge is like drinking poison, but expecting the other person to die.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Oh yeah.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

yeah,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

So,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

yeah.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

so I don't care. Just let it go

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it go. Let it go. Yeah.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and I have to say, um.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

All of us are getting older. Right. Uh, and I know that, um,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

um,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I'm, I'm, I'm as crazy as I ever was.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Uh, I don't know if I've, I've gotten much wiser, truthfully, um,'cause I still feel like I spout off and I still think I go into meetings and say things that,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

um, the red pen has to come out and I get, uh, uh, dirty looks from, uh.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I think of the three of us, I look at it, the person that has the most growth, truthfully, in a beautiful way,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

way.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

is actually you, Stewart. You seem to be in a

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

in a

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

much better, much more relaxed place in your life. And I truly, and that this is not a negative. My, there's a joy there. I, I, I

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

always

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

like.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

like

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

You were, I don't know if you were trying to prove something or you felt like you had to prove something or,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

or,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I don't know. I don't wanna get too deep into it,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

but what I do know is I just feel like

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

like

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

you're lighter, and I love that for you once it's all said and done.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

all

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Well thank you.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

you.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Well,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

No, I truly do mean that. I mean that.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that. I don't mean that.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Yeah. Okay. So anyway, vacations, the thing that I'm not,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

not,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I am lighter. I am lighter. Uh, we, uh, we made a one day road trip up to, uh, the Magic Kingdom for the day.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

day.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Okay.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Okay.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

And Kathy said, uh, we're gonna eat in the park. We want this to be experienced. We haven't been there for a very, very long time and it's going to be expensive to eat in this park'cause it's a special place. We're gonna, we're gonna don with the beast

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

beast.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

from Beauty and the Beast. Okay, so long story is.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

night.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Yeah, well there you go. Uh, but then somewhere at 11 o'clock they made reservations for lunch and I was like, oh, you just don't get a hamburger or a pretzel. Since we're gonna eat

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

to eat

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

big, fancy dinner, Lord knows what it's gonna cost me.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

me.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

The long story is that lunch was$300. Okay, the dinner was$700. I spent$1,000 on food at Disney World. Now look, I ain't cheap,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

you,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

but I was like,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

like,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

are you kidding me?

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

me?

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Anyway, I just, you know, I just

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

just

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

gave him a credit card and moved on. But if you ain't made out a goal, you better not walk in that place. I can tell you that.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

you that

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I think maybe that I, anyway, we had a good time. We made memories. Yes, we did.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I bet

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Yes.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

uh, went with my husband's family, went to the outer banks. It was the first time we'd ever been there. And, um, you know, we, had a really good time. I. Uh, it's always good to get away and just spend time with them and, and, and things like that well, I mean with, with my in-laws and my niece and my sister-in-laws and all that, you know, we, we had a good time. It's, it's a lot more about being together.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Um,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

part of that

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

vacation or part of that trip, I don't even wanna call it vacation, but I guess it was, you know, it was fun. Um,'cause for, listen for me, if I go lay on the beach for a week, that's a vacation. This was not that, but, you know, um. But, so one of the things that we experienced is what actually kind of brought on today's episode from what D Dwayne had emailed a while ago. But the other thing I, it, I. Alyssa, it's a, it's a

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

A.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

little place now. I much like how areas like Pigeon Forge and, um, you know, a lot of places that once they start to become popular, they become very commercialized. There were definitely aspects of this area that had had that, but where we stayed, it was not, um. So I, I appreciated that it was more out kind of, I don't know. It was, it was out. I guess we'll say it that way. Um, but one of the things that we did while we were there guys, was we went to the Wright Brothers Monument. Because this is where the Bright Brothers had their,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Huh?

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

first flight.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

And, uh, it was my in-laws that were really the ones that wanted to go there and we were gonna go do other things. And um, so we were just gonna stop there first. And it was a fascinating There's, there's not a ton there, but it's so interesting. So this is what I, what

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

to, to tell you about'cause it's, it's, it's a fascinating little thing.'cause I thought they had a really fun little story. So the first. Like a successful flight that they had. They had four on

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

One day

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

uh, which is what we considered kinda like the record. And that's what this monument's for here. they have the spot where the, the plane took off from the first spot and it took off from the same, spot it off for the first four flights. And there's so many fun little details of this, and I'm not gonna bore you with all of them, but, um, they have a, a, a, a big. or a big rock at each of these. And I mean, when I say big, it's like six feet tall. Um, at each of these places where all of'em took off. And then where the first one, second one, third one, and then where the fourth one landed? The fourth one landed. I can't remember. It was the furthest away and it was almost up for two minutes. Okay. Fascinating. Right, but here's the really, like, this is the parts that I really thought was really fascinating. The reason why they did it on the day that they did it they were under pressure and they'd promised their dad they'd be home for Christmas. So they had to do it. They

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Do it on that day because they were down there.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and they had to get back to

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Ohio

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

to go see him. thought that was fascinating. The main supporter and the biggest pusher they had was their sister. I. She

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

always the

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that kept pushing them and telling them to go. And I,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

one's

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

gets any of the, the credit now. I thought that was

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

the.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

fascinating. But, um, the, the coolest thing I thought was, and something I never thought about, about something like this, it's like in history was

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

But two brother.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

the, the morning that they were doing it, they did a coin toss'cause it was only a single person. Manned thing, right? So they did a coin toss, the guy lost, so then the other brother went. Then when he would try to do the first one, it totally didn't, nothing happened. So then the other guy got the first chance, right? So the other brother, so brother number two, don't remember which one, he was actually successful. And then every time they did it, they, they did more Well in the

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Monument.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

This is the only federal

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Monument

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that exists that was

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

dedicated.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

with the person still being alive. So they were actually able to be there. Now, well one of the brothers,'cause one of'em had already died. But the brother that was there when the monument was done, there's pictures of like all the people that were there, and Amelia Earhart was there because this was shortly after she had done her transatlantic flight.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

So one of the brothers died

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

not

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

too long.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it happened. But the

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

The other brother

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

uh, Orville, he

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

was

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

to live. He died in 48, I think it was. Um, so the first flights were in 1903 in his lifetime. This is the cool part I thought he got to see

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

commercial.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

airline. came out After that, he was able to see Lindbergh do his solo trans-Atlantic flight. Amelia Earhart do her, solo transatlantic flight, the first jet engine in the plane. He got to see all the planes and how if it was effective and, and what it did in World War ii. also got to see the person break the sound barrier the year before he died. I thought,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Huh. That's interesting,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

for something that you worked on? And they worked hard on this, but to see how it changed the world. And

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

right?

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

said, I thought that was so cool.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

So not to nerd out this morning, but um, if you get down there, just stop by and

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

It,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

the, uh, the docents

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

the,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that they give the little tours or the talks. They are, they are the biggest aviation nerd you'll ever meet,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but they have so many details and so

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

many

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

many stories and

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

You know,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it's

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

just one of those

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

we take, we take flying for granted so easily now. Oh, the other cool

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

thing was in the

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

uh, in the

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

first,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

manned Well, the, what's going. I

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

she.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

know. But

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

That's, that's okay. You can take time when we talk about my vacation.'cause there wasn't one. Go ahead.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Um, okay, so the fir they had their first flight,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Uh,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

in that, in that thing. And they have a reproduction in the, the place that's there. And then, and, um, so when they had the first manned lunar landing, they had pieces of the fabric and a piece of wood from the original plane that flew on that flight to the, to the moon. And

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

wow.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

And I

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Okay.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

think that, I mean,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

It's just that it's huge,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

symbolic,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I'm

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it always has.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

you have to look back, like you can't forget where you came from and, and, and, and

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

You never know what one small little thing,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

even though it wasn't a small thing, then, uh, one thing will, you know, affect later on. So, but very cool. Very, uh, so I highly suggest, yeah.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but the.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

thing that, and then this has to do with today's podcast is that it reinforced my love. Of cedar shake, shingles, homes, and roofs. And, there were a lot of these beautiful houses. And we did this wild horse tour. And as we're driving down the sandy dunes and I've got the sand on one hand, one side with big dunes and grass, and I've got the beautiful, uh, blue, gray ocean on the right and I've got, it's a gray hazy day. was like, my total zen moment, like my sister-in-law looked at me and she's like, are you okay? I'm like, oh yeah. I'm good. Like this is like if we're, and I could feel my shoulders like, you know, lower down. Um, but what it instantly made me think of when I saw, like one of the first houses that we came to was, it made me think of Nancy Meyers and all of her books that are in movies that she's done. Like, uh, something's gotta give. It's complicated. And all these homes a lot of times, um, are coastal or they're, they're close to it. And I'm, it's always a house that I just like. I wanna live in that house. I don't have anybody be around me. And it's just beautiful. And I

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I know,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I am not the only one who shares this obsession with Nancy Meyer Holmes because there's a whole thing out there about people trying to figure out how to add, add Nancy Meyer's style to their home.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

right? Right.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Stop there

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

there.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

and give a, a kind of a general explanation for those who don't know what you're talking about or who you don't know. When you're talking about Nancy Myers, who this person is to give a background.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

So, because I have a couple fun factoid for her too, but she is a writer, producer, um, and

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

director been involved with.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

chances are, you know, some of these movies Private, Benjamin Baby Boom, uh, father of the Bride, which I think everybody, it's one of my favorite movies of all, like going back, father of the Bride Two, uh, the Parent Trap, not the original, but the second one, uh, with, uh, Lindsay Lohan, uh, what Women Want. And then here's the ones that. Like for me really are when I like chimed in with her, something's gotta give.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

um, oh, whatever the name are. I can't come right now.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Kate wins one of them.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and, uh, yeah. And

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Complicated.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

with Diane Keaton

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Mm-hmm.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

wait,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that's, uh, that's Meryl

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Meryl St. Street.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Alec Baldwin.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and then she also did the intern. So a lot of high profile movies that you know, but she had a reputation of making sure that she

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Wanted.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

the sets or the, where it was if the house was as big of a character as the story that she wanted it to be as big as the story. So like, specifically like with, um, the holiday, it's complicated and something's gotta give those three houses. Or four houses, really. Right. Um, they were huge characters in those

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Right.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

there's something about them that just people just wanna stay, just to stay in them all the time. Now, two interesting little factoids about her. She surpassed Penny Marshall as the highest grossing female director. I. So that's impressive.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Wow.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

didn't

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

been around

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

know.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and then she had two daughters and when she did the parent trap, uh, with Lindsey Han, she changed the character's names to Annie and Halle, which are her, her two daughter's names. I thought that was kind of fun. Wow.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

But

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

in, uh, preparing

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

for today when

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I was

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I was like, it's a style that's

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

kind of hard.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

to pin down because it's got a lot of contradictions in it, in it. Um, but I, somebody had written a blog post and I read it and I thought it was so funny.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Good.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

She said,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Um, it's like,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

us

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

look, I'm rich, but humble and yes, I hired a decorator, but I want people to think

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

did it myself. And then the other was

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I mean, that's perfect though.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Absolutely. and I thought that was so like, kind of spot on.'cause it's, it, it is more about admitting a feeling than it is about a specific style.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

But there's elements that,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

then create that

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

right,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

right, because,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Well,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

well.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and like you were saying, with those movies and stuff, especially Diane Keaton movies, I'm always like, Ooh, I wanna see what kitchen she's in

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Right. The

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

because I love every kitchen of every movie she's in. And they all relate back to this particular lady, Nancy Meyers. You know? And like you said,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

like you said,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

style is, um, the style is its own. I think because there are.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

traditional

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

of furniture with a coastal undertone and maybe a landscape piece of art, maybe,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah. It's,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

you know? Yeah. Very collective, but very clean. Never cluttered, but

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I see the opposite. Isn't that funny? I see it as layered and, uh.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

layered, but it's simple layers. Well, it's not

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

17 curio cabinets full of stuff,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

right?

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

see it's like, it's a collected, like it's

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

See it, you say that, I see it as more

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

houses are more full than not, and it's more curated than not. Uh, so when you say that, I was like, no, I saw the opposite way that it, it doesn't mean cluttered, but it's definitely lush. There's a, there's layers to it.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

you can also just walk in and sit down.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Oh yeah, yeah. No, no. The opposite.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

comfortable.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

it's, I think the layers, I think the layers is what makes you wanna sit down,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

down.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

right? If you have a house that's a little too

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Too

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

edited or too perfect and doesn't have a little quirkiness to it,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

it doesn't have a soul to it. Once it's all said and done. And it always goes back to, um, working with the clients and, um.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

um,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

You know, those who've listened to our podcast, this is just a broken record that I, I'll fight back every time. It's like,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

like,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I don't want to finish your house. And it goes back to, maybe it is, Nancy Myers has a

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

a,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

more of a, an impact on me than not. And it's like, I want you to end up finishing the house.'cause I don't want it to feel like some decorator came and did it.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

did it. Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Truthfully

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

that I wanted to,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

to,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

you put your final touches on it, your final stamps on it,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

and I'm gonna leave a blank wall and I'm gonna have you find your

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

your

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

piece of art or whatever it is so that you finish it up.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it up.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

And I feel like that's how her houses are, that it feels like,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

like,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

uh, all of them are very evolved and all these things are found when Jeremy. Proposed this idea. I, I didn't say much to him. I just said, oh, I do like that idea. And I just

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

just

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

of left it alone.'cause we were busy. But Jeremy, you don't understand how much you've honed in on how much I really, really love her aesthetic. Especially, uh, something's gotta give when I think that's the, the house that most people would equate to

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

and the absolute home run anyway. So I'm not, not, it's not a far stretch for me to

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

to

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

love like many other people do. But what.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

the house. about to

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Is if I'm not told what to do and I get to do anything I want, I generally love a.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

a very

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Soft palette and I feel like that house is soft. It's

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

creamy and warm and textural. And I'm okay with just all white trim work and warm walls. And

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I don't even know if this house has any blue in it or not, but it has that, I mean, it, it does have blue. I don't know about blue walls'cause

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

because

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

do

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

do it for

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

for different,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

you know.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

you know, there's blue,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Blue furniture in there and that

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

whole powdery blue, uh, fog blue kind of color. And I am always searching for that. And like there's a new color and I'm gonna butcher this Jeremy, so you help me'cause I think you speak Spanish and read Spanish a little bit, right? It's um, bla azo like fog blue is what it means.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Huh ne. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I can't do it. My twain, so. Yeah. Well, I mean, that, that was just coming out. I didn't mean to put any accent on if I did, as I say, when I learned Spanish, I sound like a redneck trying to speak Spanish.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Well, that's okay. At least you can speak Spanish. I can't. I can't even do it. Well, it's a new, one of my new favorite colors, and I'm like using it for, um, the ceilings on porches, for example. You know, and if people don't know what this is,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

is,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

the terminology is paint blue where you paint your porch like a light blue color, and there's lots of variations of what that color is. There's not a.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

not a

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

True blue, right? It can be a little blue green, it can be a little bluer, but it's in that cloudy blue color. Anyway, this is my new obsession. Is that, uh, that Say it again for me, Jeremy.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

me, Jeremy. I think it's Blato.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Yeah. We'll, we'll post the colors, the Sherwin Williams color. So that's my new obsession. And then I've fallen into, uh, have y'all used the Color Creamy by Sherwin Williams?

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

No.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

No,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

no,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

look. Yum, yum. So only reason I bring it up, those colors are just the quintessential feel of what that house is. Once it's all said and done that,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

that coastal warmness and sal and texture and

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

white linen sofas, and yum. Gosh, it's so.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

So be so beautiful. Yeah. Uh, I think when you look at the overreaching a lot, like a lot of the homes and like this doesn't go back to the parent trap, this doesn't go back to, uh, father of the bride because even, although father of the bride, the house was as big of a character in the movie as, uh, the ones later on, the identity of that house was, I mean, it was definitely of the era. but I will say like her later films, all of the,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Was it coastal and

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

not a

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

a beachy. Feel right.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Right.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

can get really

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Completely different. Yes.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah. And

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

as

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

As were on.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that, um, WildHorse tour, um, by the way, if you go on one of these, there's a company I suggest you take. I'll put it in the show notes'cause I saw the other companies that were there the difference in how they were driving you around in these sun, these, uh, Sandy Dunes was like, you were either in like a seat with a seatbelt or you were slapped on a bench in the back of some. S 10 truck and they were driving you around, you were being jerked to death and thought you were gonna die in the ocean. So I'll, I'll let you know which one looked like it was. It was the much safer one to do. But yeah, so they were, they were much more neutral, more creamy, white. It was, it was

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

The.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

of the bee. That was what I found. Like you've got the, the whites and the creams, and then you got a little bit of the blue and you got a little bit of the green. You got a little bit of warm gray in it, and it was just very, um, soft. But I do also love, like, if you're wanting to add this kind of feel to your home, if that's the home, you think every time you think of it, movie like, oh, this is where I wanna live. It had a, a, a traditional undertone to it. So there were, there were. Trim details, right? We had wall trim details, floor

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

length curtain.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

And it doesn't mean they were fancy, A lot of times they were just linen,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Right. But they like

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

pinch pleat, right?

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

kind of classic

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

She loved to use, uh,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

contrast

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

dark

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

furniture for.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

authentic, like, um, uh, well, and she, it was a mixture. So she, she used that a little bit of everything, but it didn't feel all new. I think that was always. It felt very curated. Like she had an old antique table or something that, you know, her grandparents had out in the shed that they used, that she now used as a sign table. But then there was a antique brass, um, really formal looking like little lamp

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

So

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

on it with a crystal bowl with something like it. It was just very found with them like rocks from the, the ocean in it. Right. So it was like very collected

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

goes back to our conversation about loving marble if it gets a little stain. Okay? And if the wood table has a little scratch or a little, uh.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

uh,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Um, little mark on it.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Okay. That's what gives it the wrinkle. That's what gives it personality, right? Everything doesn't need to be perfect. Our kitchen table, um, Kathy's, um, grandmother came down and they make, uh, apple pies and literally the apples are off the farm and they cut'em up and I mean, it's this whole, uh, little hair house in prairie kind of moment, right? And we had had a glass top on this wooden top and it had broken somehow. Uh, so that, you know, so Kathy was always used to the glass over there and it protected the wood top. Well, it had broken. And so they made the apple pies and they took them over there and I guess they were still hot or warm, and they set'em on the wood table and it left white rings, you know, or white hot places, uh, on a couple of them.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

them.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

And, uh, she looked at that and she said, I need to fix that. And she kind of stopped and she said, no, I don't. That's a memory.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I love that. Right? So now we have the glass top and we have two or three white marks under that. And people's like, oh, can you fix that? Yeah, but we're not going to, because every time we look at that, we think of granny's pies and in that beautiful day.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

So I keep coming back to wrinkles in your house. Wrinkles in your life are okay. And Nancy Meyer brought wrinkles into her aesthetic of that house.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

It's a found object that gave it a new purpose. Boy, that was deep and hokey, but that's the true story.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

he's full. He's full of

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

He

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Uh.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

It's the truth. Uh, another thing that I think that she was really, that a lot of the, the details in some of these movies that made this feel were slip covered furniture. Um, soft fabrics, linen layered, soft fabrics, things like that. I think that that was all very, again, neutral white cream, you know? One of those kind of softer colors or you can do a lighter color. I think it just wasn't very dramatic. Um, but, you know, pillows that were on there, or layered pillows and throws, and so it felt very lived in, it wasn't sterile. It really felt like the character would be typing on her desk that was full of books. Things that inspired her in picture frames of people in stacks of paper. And then she would get up and if she was tired of working, she would go sit at the little club chair that was there, put her foot up on an ottoman that didn't match, put, throw over a wool throw, and literally live there with the reading light and look out the window. Like it felt like it was part of the story. Right.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Right.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

And I think that may be one of the reasons why people. Connect with them so much because the homes felt real. And so I think that says, what that says to me is if you want your home to emit that, you need to live in your home. Decorate it. So how that you live in it, not just so that it's a pretty show piece. Right. And ultimately that's our goal anyway. Right? Like we don't want it just to be pretty, we want it to be functional. That's always our number one goal.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

So as I.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

thinking of this coming into this, I kept. Thinking, well, you know, the things that we say to do or that we would suggest for someone to do if they wanted to have a ni Nancy Meyers home. I'm like, these are the things we suggest for people to do anyway. Like this is kind of like, it, it is innate in, um, what we, we would suggest. So I think she's really, even if, if it wasn't meant to or we didn't realize it, it affects what,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

How we.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

how we mix things together. you know, I love that. And it's, but she loved the layer lighting. I mean, lots of lamps. Um, and you know, I'll

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

turn an overhead light on, never you're in the kitchen. You gotta see. But, um, you know, lots of lighting, lots of little moody, little cozy little spaces. Um, I always loved that. I, I always loved their use of lamps and lights'cause there were always floor lamps. Um, and it was a good, a good mixture of, um, those things. There's also a lot of windows a lot of the time, so, I mean, if you don't live with having a lot of windows, you just have to deal with it. But, But you know, the other thing that I always loved about her kitchens was that it wasn't just a showstopper, right? It had bowls of fruit, it had bowls of vegetables, it had canisters full of flour and, uh, grain and like those

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

It, it was lived in, right? It was lived in like the

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

So you see.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

You

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

All these houses and you're see on magazines and they're literally the void of any appliance, any canister, anything. It just looks like it's just a new kitchen and somebody's getting ready to move in.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

in.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Now we're starting to see it evolve and, and people are starting to layer back in things, but you still see a lot of very sterile kitchens and what you just honed in on, uh, Jeremy and Stewart reiterated it.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

It's like

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

When, um, we have like right now these beautiful old Crocs, uh, that are creamy color, and there was a set of three of them and they came from, uh, the, the listeners who out there were, don't know, but, but here in Lexington, uh, it was the dish barn. You guys remember that place?

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Oh Lord, the dish barn. Yes.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

it's out toward Nicola. Anyway, it was,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Oh yeah.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

yeah. Yeah.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

It is. No more. But

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Yeah, yeah. But literally those Crocs came from there. The, you know, these, these, you know, they're creamy and crackled. And now that everything I own, like me is broken in, in a thousand years old, but I still have them in, like Kathy bought bags of lemons and I put the bags of lemons in there, and then she got some baking potatoes, and I put the,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

the,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

instead of putting the baking potatoes under the sink or in the basement or in storage, I put the baking potatoes in the bowls and they're sitting on the counter and it's that.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

'cause literally that

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I can pull from that.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

At the heart of it,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I think we,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

we,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

I don't know if you are, but

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but at

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

of it, I love things very fixed and very tailored, but I also like very functional and so like if the lemon's setting on the bowl next to the water pitcher, I. Sitting on a cutting board, I can go, I will be more apt to go use that lemon.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

the potatoes are sitting there, it reminds me, oh, let's have loaded baked potatoes tonight instead of hiding in the way. And that becomes a texture. And so therefore there's more on the countertops in a way than

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

than

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

what you think that, but it's lush and layered and life for me. And so I love, I love exactly what you're saying,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

and it's the, it's the sickness that you have, Jeremy. Don't know that anybody's quite as bad as you. You have the 21 beautiful cutting boards, but like I have a layer of cutting boards next to the stove and we're literally pulled from it. But there's a butcher block one that's big and then there's a marble one that came from the store and there's one that was a gift and there's one that came from, uh, that we picked up that we went to an art fair that's like a little paddle one.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

one.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

So all these beautiful textures, the cutting boards are all just

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

just

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

laying on top of each other and leaning, and

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

they're artistic,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

literally. Whatever size that you need, you'll pull from, or whatever you're trying to get across, it's at your fingertips. And we have the world's largest rock. Uh, literally it, it,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

it, guys, I'll tell you this,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

this,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

it is a, it's where we put all of our utensils in and so, and so instead of putting all the utensils in drawers, which we've got a thousand up

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

of

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

this vessel, it is actually a pot that you put plants in.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

in.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Okay. And I took it in many years ago and I spray painted it white now, but it has these really cool, interesting words on it in, in Italian and see, you see it,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

but I bet it has 50, um, utensils in it, of wooden spoons and tongs and it's all sitting there and it's all there because we cook a lot. Right. And we're pulling from it.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

And I have this one favorite spoon that was, um, made.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

in

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Bea, like a wooden spoon. It was cart and it's got the date on it and the guy's initials on it.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

And that's our favorite even goes down to

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

to.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

having your favorite wooden spoon that you bought at a craft fair 25 years ago. That sounds crazy, but that's, that's just how we live. And I look at that goofy spoon and I go, Hmm, I love you spoon. I really do.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

You know, side note, what is it about wooden utensils? Like we, you know, we have some silicone, we have some metal, we have my number. One thing that I always reach for is a wooden spoon, or a wooden little, like, a little, another thing that looks like it's angled. But, um, I, there's something about the textile part of it and then like using it in the pan. And I just, I love it.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I have a, I got

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Yeah.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

pull that I always, instead of using like a uh,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

uh,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

mit, it's a wooden pull that you like, hook on the little rack of the

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Did we sell those here?

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and you pull it out to pull

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Yeah,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

out.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

yeah,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

It's like, I use it every time I can try

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

yeah. Yeah.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

a little toy. It is like a little toy. I am like, Ooh, I get my hot oven toy.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Well, the another thing that, uh, since we're on the, the discussion of, of, um. with her, you know, a lot of them Now listen, this is where you have to know you, right? So I know that I can't have stacks of, we eat at home probably three nights a week, maybe four nights a week. The rest of it is either we're out, you know, dinner with friends, you know, something like that. So we don't go through a ton of dishes, right? I cannot do open shelving. With plates and cups and bowls, because we won't go through them often enough to be able to keep them clean. They will just get there and then they'll get, so you have to clean it out, you know, constantly, every time. But she always had mixing bowls stacked somewhere, right? They were always there. And I loved how of course, you know, these kitchens that they had were not small gall kitchens, right? These were all kind of big, grandiose hearts of the home. but their use. Of copper pots and pot racks that were, you know, truly functional, but were used as pieces of art. Now those are great to use. You can't put those in every kitchen.'cause if you don't have the ceiling high, you know, you, you just can't do that. But maybe there's another way you can approach it. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, if you have an eight foot ceiling, please God, don't put up a, a. A pot rack over your island, you bang your head every day. Um, but that texture of the copper, uh, and, and all that in there, it, it, it just really felt like an old, old slash new, like old English kitchen right.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Hmm.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

like that, that, that, that fun feel to, it was like you never could really, uh, pinpoint it. I just love those. I just want

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Well.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it and make a croissant

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Like our, our everyday dishes that we use every day

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

day.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

are behind glass doors. So, but they're arranged in there when they come outta the dishwasher to go in a certain order.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it's like, that's the ones we use every single day

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

mm-hmm.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and you know,'cause

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

know,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

the only closed storage we have, that's where the food is.'cause we don't have a pantry. as big as that place is, there's no walk-in pantry, you know, so we have to use like the five closed cabinets to hide food. So that's not behind the glass door,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

door,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

but it is, it is a display. Every time you put dishes back from dishwasher, which I think is kind

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Yeah, no, I, that's in the basement. When I, uh, finished it, I have, um, two glass cabinetry and that's where all the dishes go. And it's the same thing I, I worried about is it gonna be maintenance to maintain that. But because they get used by mom and dad, it's just fine. It's worked out. And if it is one bowl's a little different over here. Again, that's the wrinkle for me. Uh, but it really hasn't proved to be an issue at all. You know, guys, um, the thing is this a true story and I'll go back to the broken record. Uh, something's gotta give. She collected seashells, right

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Rocks,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

that one.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

was it

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah. I think it

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Was it rocks? Was it rocks? Okay. So, so from us, and this is not a.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

not a,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

is

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

new thing, but you know, when you go to the beach, people a lot of times will collect seashells. So what we've done through the years is I'll collect the seashells and we'll put it in a glass bowl and I'll, I'll write a little note and I'll tuck it on the bottom in and, and

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

and

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

when the date was and where we went, and like a little note and who was there. And the seashells it tells. So one day when I'm dead and gone. Somebody will have those seashells and they may throw'em away, but they also may not throw'em away and they see there's a person and a life and a story behind these seashells. And now, um, because I don't need to buy anything else. I don't need to even buy another glass bowl. Right.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

when you want to buy things and create experiences, so last year Kathy and I,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

went to

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Virginia, which is.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

is,

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Um, not too far from where my parents, uh, and her parents live. Uh, and we went to, uh, a theater and kind of for a long weekend and we went to an antique store and they had these little covered glass dishes and they were nearly nothing.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

And

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

And I said, let's buy one of these dishes, and this is what we'll put our next collection of seashells yet.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

in. Hmm.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

So I create a memory on top of a memory. And so we've had, um, so we were supposed to go into Siesta, uh, last fall, but the hurricane hit and so therefore it got put off.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

This

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

we've had this dish for almost a year empty. Ready for those seashells. So I got the little note when we bought the dish and, uh, where it came from and all those details. And I, one of the, the joys was bringing home those seashells and cleaning them and digging out that dish and writing my note who and where and how, and putting those seashells on it and adding that. So I clean off the coffee table in our former leaving room. And dig out all the bowls of seashells and bring'em all together and create this collection of seashells for the rest of the summer. And it's that moment of collecting things and telling your story and it's a little piece of history. So

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

So

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

that's a beautiful, layered way to remind you of where you've been and what you've done. And, uh, tell your story just by collecting something you love.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Mm. Love that.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Well, and you know, I love Daddy Bill, but he must have loved golf balls and roofing nails.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Oh, a straight man in his toys.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Lord have mercy. Two. Filing cabinets full of golf balls, all labeled bags. One said, uh, trash, which I don't know why he kept them. Others said

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

said

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

chipping balls. Other said favorites. Others said, uh, fairway. listen different balls I guess he was gonna use when he was golfing at different points of time.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

time.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Like hundreds of them. One of the guys working

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Okay, so I look at you, Stuart, and say to you, how do you take that and turn that into an art installation, you know, instantly instead of it being in a file, can you are creative, turn that into an art piece. I think that can be just fascinating.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I, I have been

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

have been saving

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Pieces and parts of things to make something, and when I, when I feel I have enough, I will, but those particular golf balls, with the exception of two,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

two,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

one of the guys working is like, I'd like to have damn golf balls out there. I said, well, you just put'em in your trunk because you like to, you like to golf and he would be happy that you're using them. So, but there will be a, a, a bill collage at some point,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

point. Mm, well, We've talked about, like, uh, some of those are higher price point things, details that you can add to the home, but they're

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

also.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

easy ones. They're almost always were flowers, right? They almost

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

always were hydrated.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

You can, it

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Feels very,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

upstate. New York feels very, you know, Hamptons just a collection of

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it also feels very

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

right? Just, you can't go wrong with that. Um,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

And then

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

there were always. That's the other.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I know that sounds like the craziest thing, but

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it's easy Little things that you can add in that just makes it feel like it's really real and lived in. So hopefully maybe the listeners, they can gain how to, add some Nancy Meyers love to their house. And remember, again, it's more

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

About

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

a feeling.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

right.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

an actual exact style. So it's about making you feel like it's there. And I had one more quote from another blog person about her style. So you can think of this if you're trying to inspire you how to use it in your house. it says decorate your house like you're the

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Person.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

who eats pan toasted sourdough with the smear of plum preserves every morning for breakfast. A wash of the soft glow morning light.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Wow. Wow.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

that

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Paint

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

picture for you

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

like, okay, this person,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

is who they are. They're comfortable,

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

yeah.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

small details, they appreciate the, the, the, the things and the comforts of, of home in life and they enjoy them every day. And I think that that's, that was pretty spot on. I

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Yeah,

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I don't know if the

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

it is.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

you know, hey.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Well, what I walk away from it, it is about the detail. It's about the most minute, pretty simple detail, and that's what makes a home different, and that makes it, that's what makes it yours.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

I would al, I would even go probably a step further. It's about the minute personal detail. I think

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

Right.

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

person.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

right? The

squadcaster-57bc_1_06-12-2025_100603:

Fair enough. Fair enough. Yep.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

yeah. Yeah. So, all right. Well, listeners, I hope you enjoyed us being back in the swing of things today. All the things that we mentioned will be on in the show notes, so you can check'em out there. As always, don't forget that we have. Our hotline and you can call us and text us and tell us what your favorite things are about your Nancy Meyers home or movie. That phone number is(859) 412-1572. Also listed down in the show notes, if you have not downloaded our mobile shopping app, house floral, please be sure to do that. We've taken a temporary break from our live sales, but we'll be back. Same with lots of fun things, especially as we're getting into, uh, later in the summer and third and fourth quarter. And it's a beautiful, sunny day and I'm ready to enjoy it and start it guys. So, uh, until next week, we will see you then.

stuart-host861_1_06-12-2025_100602:

All right. See you later. Bye.

jeremy-guest246_1_06-12-2025_100602:

bye.

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