ByNicky Rampley-Clarke

ByNicky Rampley-Clarke,

Contributor.

Stepping into this beach house is like being given a warm embrace by Nancy Meyers herself. Not that it’s owned by the iconic filmmaker behind classics like Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday and It’s Complicated. But it certainly has the same hallmarks of the equally iconic houses in her movies—wonderfully layered, British-cottage-by-way-of-American-coastal and irresistibly cozy.

Indeed, you can imagine convivial gatherings with the likes of Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda and the late Diane Keaton—all linen shirts, popped collars and statement jewelry—around the marble-topped kitchen island. There’d be golden-hued Chardonnay swirling in oversized goblets from Pottery Barn, generous platters of farm-to-table produce on covetable serveware and a summery twist on a roast chicken cooking away in the Viking oven, naturally. You can almost smell the scented candles burning, too.