life would be perfect if i lived in that house

how on earth have i never done a post like this before when i literally spend a good quarter of my life daydreaming about fake movie and TV houses?! better later than never. here we go!

alice's apartment in how to be single

completely, totally unrealistic and completely, totally the embodiment of the NYC apartment you daydream about living in when you're a teenager. just me? that window seat, tho!

zeke and camille braverman's house in parenthood

i just realized that this kitchen might be the reason i am dead-set on having a kitchen with teal/blue/green cabinetry someday. cozy berkeley craftsman gorgeousness.

ally's apartment in what's your number?

i was particularly attached to this one because the movie is set in boston, but it's also just very my shit in every way: shabby chic/vintage vibes, exposed brick painted white, tall windows, columns...all those quaint, historic details that i am aaaall about. 

kathleen's apartment in you've got mail

i rewatched this last week and between the bookcases and the bookstores and the coffee shops and meg ryan's chunky sweaters, it's basically autumnal softcore p*rn. her apartment remains amazingly un-dated and adorable!

iona's apartment in pretty in pink

annie potts' character was my idol as a middle schooler and still is today, tbh? her apartment seemed like a hot new-wave, retro mess in the best way possible. not apartment-related, but never forget my favorite of her incredible hairstyles in the movie:

milly's loft in because i said so

so, sidenote, i fucking LOVE this movie and have probably seen it at least 20 times, and it is insane to me that it has a 4%(!!!!!) critical rating on rotten tomatoes. what the actual FUCK?? i mean, i guess i shouldn't be surprised since i'm just built different when it comes to naturally, genuinely loving things people generally seem to hate and it's always been this way; never intentionally! it is just impossible for me to be a snob about anything if it brings me warm fuzziness and joy. and this movie is pure warm, silly, joyful fuzziness a la garry marshall's valentine's day/new year's eve, etc. etc.: there's mandy moore wearing adorable polka dot dresses and baking cakes and souffles, her overbearing mother (played by diane keaton) bumbling around in equally amazing outfits, tom everett scott as a douchebag architect, gabriel macht as a bad-boy musician with hand tats, a relatably awkward scene that involves diane keaton in a scarf making out with the now-disgraced dad from 7th heaven....you just gotta watch it, folks. or not, whatever.

sorry, anyway, the apartment! milly obv. lives in a gorgeous LA loft because on a lowly caterer's salary, why wouldn't she? this one is up there with the parenthood abode in terms of my house vibe goals.

alice's house in home again

*nancy meyers has entered the chat.* i'm a new englander at heart, but i loooove me a beautiful spanish-style home. and this one checks all the boxes: a stunning, sunny living room? yup. a gorgeous outdoor space with ample bougainvillea? mmhmm. a guest house where three dashing, young aspiring screenwriters end up crashing for months and you get your cougar on and bang one of them on the sly because you're going through a divorce? you betcha!

the friends apartment

it's no big secret that i strongly dislike friends (to the degree that i would literally not go on a second date with a man who preferred it to seinfeld because it represents a huge, fundamental, unresolvable disparity in our personalities), buuuuut i simply cannot dislike this apartment. it's perfect. iconic, even. more blue cabinets!

the practical magic house

the perfect victorian in which to make midnight margs, cast spells, and bury evil ex-lovers in the garden.

it's complicated

sorry that this is basically turning into a nancy meyers movie house appreciation post, but it is what it is. i would do unforgivable things to live in this house (even with alec baldwin, if it came to that).

iris' cottage in the holiday

and one more nance house to finish things off. i would take this little rustic, adorable cottage any day over amanda woods' (cameron diaz's character) sterile, contemporary LA mansion. colored cabinet mania!