Nancy Meyers directed movie sets meets Martha Stewart. Basically life and style in The Hamptons. So…yes, been around for a very long time.

I also think it is charming @Jilly ! My grandmother lived in Fort Meyers and her house was full of fabulous rattan, wicker, and loads of coral-colored accessories. She had a swoony bar cart that I wish I had - have to have something for those 3pm G&T's...

…And I meant the social media (TikTok)“influencer” term is ridiculous, not the style.

I just saw an article on the internet, maybe the same one as mentioned as above. I can get on board with that style!!

I think I have "rent-controlled apartment full of stuff that didn't make it to Florida grandmother" style.

I’m not a grandma yet, but i aspire to be as cute and sassy as typeandrun.

My DD has let me know: this is the only type of grandmother I’m going to get to be ….

Maybe the OP has left the building BTW I am in my late 70s a great grandmother and have never thought of a style of house that was grandmother style . I happen to have a very contemporsy house and my grandkids think that is a grandmother style .

Patricia, it’s not so literal … just a new name for a certain mixture of styles. I think the OP was just trying to get a fun thread going. I wish she had just posted it on Home Decorating, and not tagged Design Dilemma. The former is more conducive to discussions like this.

I like seeing the younger generations interested in decorating, and especially something other than modern. I‘ll bet some of it is a nostalgia thing, too.

(I just became a great aunt yesterday!) :)

Coastal grandmother chic! The key components of a 'coastal grandmother' living room include linens, natural materials and fresh flowers, as seen above

I don't know what the term "grandmother" has to do with good taste and a nice budget to achieve these looks. Anyone can do it, not just Granny!

I think Granny is just a moniker the young’uns are using because there’s a lot of vintage mixed in. :)

That just looks like Ballard Designs.

It's pleasantly inoffensive?

So Nancy Meyers movies and Oprah (per the article)? That isn't so much grandma as it is RICH.

I don’t consider Celery’s photo an example of this style at all.

It’s coastal style, yes, but not really what’s being discussed here. It’s missing mixing in eclectic vintage.

JP L, doesn’t have to be ”rich”. It’s mixing and matching hand-me-downs, vintage finds, used things, and such. Those articles and Oprah certainly aren’t representative of the whole style.

I am 100% East coast, Cape Cod coastal and old enough to be a grandma. (Wish I were.)

We do our own thing. Newbies to the area? They build huge homes on waterfront property, valued in the multi-millions. Those homes, as done up as they are, will never, ever meet our Cape Cod standard.

My dining/kitchen area 1830 Cape

Gorgeous, Judianna! Omg, your floors! 😍

Genuinely curious — what is Cape Cod standard?

(I’ve visited there many times. Absolutely love it. I just invited myself to your house.) :D

@elcieg That is stunning!

Judianna20, your home and decor are stunning but that is not the “Coastal Grandma” look that is trending, particularly your interior.

As I said we kind of do our own thing...so that 's my coastal grandma style. I do wear lots of cashmere (nothing better to wear in a cold coastal Winter area), own linen shirts and pants, l walk the dog on the beach, wear my Helen Kaminski straw hat and sip (lots) of white wine and sitting on the porch.

Ikloes, do you want me to remove my post?

Jinx, the house was built in 1830. It is a half Cape and all is original. I kept the beams dark. I just couldn't stain them white. The floors, also original, are wide pine planks. I had them refinished as they were showing their age. What's our style? Year 'rounders, especially if the house is an antique, just stay with the style of the house. We have lots of Capes, lots of Greek Revival and old farmhouses. There are only two main roads leading on/off the island. One is a state highway; the other the first "highway", (ha,ha, the speed limit 35 MPH). That is called Old King's Highway. The homes, one after the other, are all antiques.

Summer folks go more beachy in their decor.

A good example, there is a huge old barn antique shop with everything imaginable. There is not one piece of mid-century furniture in the mix. It doesn't sell. Doesn't mean we don't mix and match. It is more like 1790 mixed with 1890.

@elcieg

Beautiful, just beautiful. Love the charm. I would give up all I have to have a home like yours.

By the way, I am joining @Jinx for tea at your home :-)

Ahhh, my kind of decor. I’d love to go to that antique shop (and tour your house in person!). The times I’ve been were day trips, I really hope to stay longer someday, and explore more.

DH had a relative with a house there, but it was sold long ago, before I met him.

If you ever find yourself on Cape, here is the place I would recommend you stay. It is absolutely

perfect!

https://www.expedia.com/Orleans-Hotels-A-Little-Inn-On-Pleasant-Bay.h11223063.Hotel-Information?semcid=US.UB.GOOGLE.PT-DSA-c-EN.HOTEL&semdtl=a112059360138.b1117039041220.r1.g1dsa-975432163333.i137877782503.d1494290247469.e1c.j19002126.k1.f1.n1.l1g.h1.m1

Judianna, your home is warm, inviting and radiates harmony! & the details you shared swept me up, I could hear the gulls, feel the surf spray…The dream crashed when I showed this “Coastal Grandma” thread to my daughter. She took one look and told me my vibe is more Midwest Cougar.

Midwest Cougar 😂

But I do have the wine thing right :)

Midwest Cougar Style: shapewear, a drink blender and whatever furniture you got in the divorce.

I remember very clearly asking you not to post my bedroom here. And you AGREED.

Now I get a notification and it’s this!

I’ve since lowered the art, before everyone freaks out.

Jinx I am laughing so hard!!!

Love this post. Happy and fun. Good start to my day.

My home is not on ocean coast. But it is on a lake. And I am a Grandma.

So pretty, April, very inviting! I want that rug. And the patterned chair. And omg — natural, unpainted, unRomabio’ed stone! 😍

@elcieg … thank you so much for that link! Saving it. :)

Jinx. Thank you so much. Want my guests to feel at home. We tell them that we will get their first drink. After that, feel free to search the kitchen.

@Jilly I'm choking on my coffee from your bedroom post!

@april That's the same approach I take with wanting my guests to feel welcome in my home.

Judianna20, as I said above, your home is lovely. It’s just not Coastal Grandma. Please don’t read more into my comment. In no way was it offensive. In fact, I started it with a compliment about your beautiful home. 😀

@Jilly

@Mama Cita

Belly laugh over here .....coffee is running out of my nose!

The headboard’s mirrored now BTW. Can’t wait for somebody to ask what it reflects.

@jinx @mama cita

Dying over here. Needs a wine fridge full of Kendall Jackson Chardonnay next to the bed.

Patricia……have a Snickers bar

BTW please know that I am not really a cougar… my 4-yo neighbor asked to marry me and it’s led to much silly banter here.

Well for what it’s worth, I'm a nearly 40something married gay man living in the Detroit burbs, so I am 100% a cougar. 💅🏼

What *is* coastal grandma, and why in the world would it be hip?

hbeing - ever seen Golden Girls?

Oh my, it’s not golden girls at all. Google,it!

Love coastal grandma! 😍

Y’all need to stop confusing everyone with a style that isn’t MCM, modern, or Hygge!

😄

The term "coastal grandmother" is a bit tongue in cheek. As posted up thread the Nancy Myer movies probably epitomized the look - especially the kitchens in the large homes often set in the Hamptons or equivalent. Large white kitchens with glass uppers and they resemble the standard "white" tract home kitchen just as much as the gray kitchens resemble Martha Stewart's original gray kitchen.

I don't know why certain posters feel a need to deride current terms for style trends. It is shorthand to describe a certain aesthete. I believe the same poster recently questioned another current stylstic trend.

The reality is that most people on houzz understand what "coastal grandmother" is or it can easily be googled if someone is totally clueless. While there might be quibbles about certain aspects, the reality is that if you talked to a knowledgable designer and told them you wanted "coastal grandmother" they would be able to produce a design board which contained the appropriate element.

Ironically there was a recent New York Magazine piece on "coastal grandmother" as a more encompassing life style look - clothing and hair etc.

Coastal Grandmother

An excerpt

Do you long to quit everything and make big salads by the ocean? Do you find great appeal in putting on a white turtleneck and sitting barefoot in the sand? Does the idea of drinking white wine while sighing wistfully into the middle distance make you … a little horny? Great news, sweetie. You are a coastal grandmother.

The aesthetic — which doesn’t actually require you to be a grandparent or live by an ocean — has been gaining popularity on TikTok with people showing off their fancy cookware, giving tours of their grandparents’ beachy homes, and displaying their collection of striped button-downs. “Coastal grandmother is a lifestyle and aesthetic that embodies elements of coastal living and homemaking,” TikToker Lex Nicoleta, who takes credit for the term, tells the Cut over email. Nicoleta is responsible for some of the most popular videos under the hashtag #coastalgrandmother, giving movie recs, outfit ideas, and kitchen inspo to fellow aspiring coastal grandmas. If you, too, would like to wrap yourself in lightweight sweaters by a beach, here is a guide to embracing your inner coastal grandmother.

Judianna, your home is really lovely. Thanks for giving us a peek!