These Tulips Are Fake, But You Would Never Know It

A few months back, Nancy Meyers posted a photo of her den with a vase filled with beautiful tulips and it completely stopped me in my tracks. How stunning is this entire room?

source: nancy meyers’s ig

I’m sure they are real and expensive and they look so perfect just sitting there in her drool-worthy den. Color me inspired! I had been wanting something for the dresser in our bedroom, just a little something to make it look finished. We have a lamp and some books, but it needed some greenery, as every room does. The only problem is our room is so dark and never gets direct sunlight, so real plants aren’t really an option in there.

After a quick search on Amazon, I found these fake tulips for under $20 and I am in love. Don’t they look so real? I through them in a vase we already had while PJ put a little water in it and separated and bent the tulips to make them look even more real (a trick he taught me!).

So there you have it! The cheapest, best looking fake tulips out there.

Nancy Meyers’s Home in Architectural Digest

Design lovers! We have been fed!

After years of swooning over her movie houses, like Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday, and The Intern, I have always wondered what the inside of iconic filmmaker Nancy Meyers’s home actually looks like (we only get glimpses from her Instagram and an old feature in a magazine over a decade ago), Architectural Digest has just published a tour of her beautiful, casual L.A. home and it does not disappoint.

It’s giving It’s Complicated more than any of her other movies, and I love her use of white and various shades of beige and cream, which has become her signature style in so many of her films. Everything looks so put together, like it has a place and a purpose. It’s all so dreamy and is getting me excited for when Holiday House is finished. I want it to look and feel just like Nancy’s house.

Then again, don’t we all wish our home looked like one of Nancy’s? You can click here to tour her whole house and see the rest of the photos.

(All photos by Amy Neunsinger via Architectural Digest)

A Tour of the New Beach House

It’s small and needs a lot of work, but we absolutely love it (maybe even more than the first one?).

The new(er) beach house has a decidedly California-cool, breezy vibe to it. The wood plank walls that cover the entire inside are in great condition and give the house a vintage vibe, elevating an otherwise dated interior. With all the wood on the walls, it’s extremely dark in the house, and not helping, of course, is the fact that all the windows were covered with curtains and blinds when we toured it.

Once those are gone, I feel like the house will be bursting with light!

How cute is the little arched doorway leading into the hall?

The bedrooms are itty-bitty, but they’re cozy. And I love how the wood panels on the walls are carried to the ceilings as well. Soooo charming!!!

The kitchen is actually a really cute size. I weirdly love the old (probably original) cabinets, too. They’re charming, too, aren’t they? We’ll most likely replace everything in here and make it more functional for our family (and others who choose to stay here!), but it’s fun to appreciate the kitchen as it is in its current state for a while.

The house currently doesn’t have a stove, so that’s something we’ll be addressing sooner rather than later. I’m already envisioning more of a small galley kitchen, with the stove and fridge wall directly across from the sink wall.

So there you have it! Not much to it, is there? We are keeping all of the wood as is and will be brightening the house up with lighter curtains and furniture/art. We really want to lean into the breezy, beachy vibe this house already has (without getting theme-y), and just want to make a few changes so that it brings it up to the 21st century a little bit.

We can’t wait to get started and to officially call it ours!!

PS: click here to watch the tour in video form