If You Like The Idea Of Living Inside Of A Movie, You Will Deeply Want These 9 Things
Image from When Harry Met Sally | Castle Rock Entertainment
by The Candidly Team
If you can summon Sally Albright’s bedroom in When Harry Met Sally from memory, you’re going to like this article.
If you cannot summon Sally Albright’s bedroom from memory, we have a lot of other nice articles that you’ll enjoy. Perhaps we can interest you in THIS?
For us, imagining cooking in a Nancy Meyers kitchen or lounging in a Santo Loquasto living room takes up 87% of our waking lives, and as such, we try to create the feeling of living inside of a movie as much as humanly possible. Being around potentially unnecessary but beautiful things in the home is one of the reasons we continue to participate in the workforce —if you don’t feel utterly charmed and moved and inspired by your everyday surroundings, what, pray tell, is the point?
And so we’ve curated a small smattering of some of our favorite movie-feeling pieces, some small, some weird, some twee, all of which are presently lurking in our carts, and in our homes.
We could have listed 437 items here, easy. But we narrowed it down to our 13 favorites because they all feel extra cinematic.
Let’s begin.
1. A ludicrously capacious wooden serving bowl
What: Quince Handcrafted XL Wooden Serving Bowl, 17"*
An enormous bowl beckons us to make more salads. And more salads are healthier. Ergo, this bowl will save your life.
Price: $120
2. A Rug That Looks Like It Came Straight from A Nancy Meyers Movie
What: Sumi Sailor Stripe Navy Rug*
It was the classic, minimalist, Hampton beach retreat rug everyone wanted after seeing Something’s Gotta Give. Here’s a birds-eye of the rug in all its glory with another classic, Jack Nicholson, plopped on the couch:
Image: Something’s Gotta Give | Warner Bros.
Somehow Ruggable is selling a machine washable, 8x10 match for $400!?!?
3. some rose-hued nubby glasses to serve (Freshly Squeezed) orange Juice
What: Crate & Barrel Alma 10-Oz. Pink Double Old-Fashioned Glass*
We’re just now realizing that this article could also have been called “a bunch of vessels and containers to hold stuff” but that wouldn’t have been as fun. A big gulp of orange juice from this glass just “hits different” as the kids say.
Price: $8
4. A mismatched collection of bedding that Sally Albright would absolutely buy today
What: Quince European Linen Sheet Set* and Schoolhouse Stillwater Floral Quilt*
All white bedding can be cinematic when juxtaposed with a massive penthouse à la 9 1/2 weeks, but most of us prefer a cozier, homier bed-feel. And there is no bedroom in the history of film that achieves such a feeling more perfectly than this bedroom:
Images from When Harry Met Sally | Castle Rock Entertainment
Stripes! Florals! Organic materials! Mismatched everything! To that end, we adore this wildly affordable striped sheet set from Quince (their home stuff is goooood):
Price: $140 - $200
And the slightly less affordable but truly one of a kind cotton quilt, which, if we lived in movie, we would store in a slightly dust-laden old chest at the foot of the bed:
Price: $199 - $279
5. Impossibly darling & Impractical ceramic berry containers
What: Anthropologie Floral Ceramic Berry Basket* and Linnea Egg Crate*
Back to unnecessary stuff that holds other stuff, omgomgomgomg how have we lived without these ceramic berry baskets? It feels like there is LBCBB and LACBB. Are they entirely practical? No. Does their cuteness encourage us to eat more berries and therefore consume more fiber which means we just basically reduced our risk of a stroke? Yes.
Price: $16
Oh, and while we’re on ceramic holders for the fridge, we also needed for you to observe this lilac colored egg crate. That’s all.
Price: $20
6. A melting disco ball sculpture that you will either love or hate
What: Reimagine Discovery Melted Disco Ball Decor*
Have we seen this in a movie? No. But when the light hits it just right and a million twinkling fairy lights spray your walls and ceiling, does it feel instantly like you’re living inside your own movie in which you are perhaps a leggy magazine editor and an unstoppable one at that? You betcha.
Price: $50
7. An apron that inspires you to make homemade bread and perhaps smear some flour across your cheek
What: Piglet In Bed Picnic Alfresco Printed Linen Apron*
Do you know this brand? Piglet in bed? It’s our new favorite thing. And this apron has single-handedly turned us into bakers. They wear them at home in the movies, but we forget about ours—mostly because it was a gross, stained, cardboard-stiff nightmare. But this one changed everything.
Price: $75
8. A nightgown that contains multitudes
What: Petite Plume™ Women's Chloe Nightgown*
Women love wearing nightgowns in movies. Why don’t we? They’re sweet and girlish and sexy. And they’re wildly comfortable to sleep in. We’re making it our mission to bring back the nightgown this year. And there’s no brand we love more than Petite Plum.
Price: $84
9. A hallucinogenically soft & cozy blanket you can wrap around your person when dumped/crying/etc
What: Cozy Earth Cuddle Blanket*
We admit this is a splurge, but it’s one of our favorite splurges we’ve ever made. See the breathtaking depth of its pile HERE.
There is no blanket we have ever touched that’s felt like this. And when women have special blankets in their home, we are reminded of our own specialness. One might even say “main character energy.”
Use the code CANDIDLY to get 30% off.
Price: $223
At The Candidly, we try a lot of stuff so you don’t have to. We only recommend things we truly love, and that we think you’ll love, too. All products are chosen independently by our creative team, and all details reflect the price and availability of products at the time of publication. If you buy something we link to, The Candidly may earn a commission.
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