The House Style We’re All Obsessed With: How to Get the Nantucket Look From The Five-Star Weekend

If you’ve started watching The Five-Star Weekend on BINGE and Foxtel, and found yourself completely distracted from the storyline by the interiors, you are not alone. Jennifer Garner plays Hollis Shaw, a grieving cookbook author and lifestyle influencer who invites four friends to her sprawling Nantucket estate for a long weekend, and from the moment you see that house, the plot almost becomes secondary. The home is warm, layered, effortlessly elegant, and so deeply liveable that it makes you want to immediately rearrange every room you own.

The series has been described as the closest thing we’ll get to a coastal-chic Nancy Meyers movie, which tells you everything you need to know about the visual register it’s operating in. But the production team were clear from the start that they wanted something distinct, something rooted specifically in the character and history of Nantucket itself.

The series leans hard into coastal New England escapism, with beaches, lighthouses, and shingled houses with bright, airy kitchens, and the interiors of Hollis’s home reflect all of that beautifully. Production designer Scott Dougan and set decorator Barbara Cassel drew deeply on their personal connection to Massachusetts and New England, channelling the patterns, colours, and textures of that classical world into every room.

The result is a home that feels genuinely lived-in and deeply personal rather than styled within an inch of its life. There’s art that means something. There are textiles that have been chosen with care. There’s a sense that the woman who lives here has collected her home over yea

Bold colour choices on the walls were central to capturing the “severity” of New England, with Farrow & Ball’s Stone Blue and Benjamin Moore’s Bainbridge Blue and Fair Isle Blue featuring prominently throughout the home. For those obsessed with the kitchen in Hollis’s Massachusetts home, those dreamy forest green cabinets are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Cedar Path, a shade worth noting immediately.

Jennifer Garner herself described the kitchen in the Nantucket home as bright and airy, opening out to the ocean with dreamy views, and the colour palette is central to achieving that feeling of openness without coldness.

Wallpaper plays a significant role in the series’ interiors and it’s one of the details that gives the home so much of its personality. Bathrooms are covered in whimsical prints including Schumacher’s Canopy Multi-Birds collaboration with Abel Macias, and Susan Hable’s Floating Lotus for Soicher Marin, while Chesapeake’s Imperial Garden Green Botanical and Leeward Sailboat in navy help make the sunroom and a guest room cheery and timeless.

These are patterns that feel genuinely joyful without being overwhelming, the kind of wallpaper that makes a bathroom feel like a destination rather than an afterthought.

Art is where this interior truly distinguishes itself, and it’s the element most worth stealing for your own home. Abstract landscapes by Massachusetts-born artist Eric Aho line the hallways, while works from Brooklyn-based Shane Neufeld punctuate the dining and mud rooms. A special Sheridan Lord work crowns Hollis’s bed, depicting the rooftop of a white house that captures the feeling of Nantucket without being literally of it.

A print of John James Audubon’s American Flamingo hangs in the game room, while a painting by Fairfield Porter, whose work captures the relationship between the plush, homey suburban world and the harshness of a windswept, sunbeaten island, adorns a mantle. The guiding principle here is that every piece should mean something, and that approach to art collecting is one worth adopting regardless of your budget.

Island-themed accessories were sourced from Nantucket gems including Nantucket Looms, Bodega, Nantucket House Antiques, and Four Winds Gifts, with sailboats, lobsters, and coastal motifs woven throughout. The overall effect is one of authenticity rather than theming, feeling like a home that truly belongs to its place.

For textiles, custom bedding, pillows, and reupholstered furniture were created using fabrics from Brunschwig & Fils, Cowtan & Tout, Clarence House, and Pindler, among others. The layering of pattern and texture is what gives the home its warmth, and it’s an approach that translates beautifully to any interior at any budget.

You don’t need a Nantucket estate to capture this aesthetic. The principles that make Hollis’s home so compelling are entirely transferable.

Start with a meaningful wall colour. Move away from flat white and toward something with personality. The series’ blues, from the softer Fair Isle Blue to the deeper Stone Blue by Farrow & Ball, are a beautiful reference point. Coastal, considered, and deeply liveable.

Choose wallpaper with joy. One whimsical, patterned wallpaper in a bathroom or a guest room transforms the entire feeling of a home. Botanical prints, bird motifs, and nautical patterns all sit comfortably within this aesthetic and are having a significant moment in Australian interiors right now.

Invest in art that means something. Hollis’s home works because every piece was chosen with intention. You don’t need expensive art, you need art that resonates with you personally. A framed vintage print, a work by a local artist, a photograph you love, these are what give a home its soul.

Layer textiles generously. Cushions, throws, custom bedding, reupholstered chairs, the richness of this interior comes from the layering of pattern and texture rather than any single statement piece. Mix prints confidently. Combine florals with stripes, solids with weaves.

Let coastal accessories earn their place. The Nantucket look at its best is not a themed collection of beach objects. It’s the quiet accumulation of things that belong to a place, a beautiful piece of driftwood, a vintage map, a ceramic in a coastal glaze. Choose pieces that feel personal rather than decorative.

Think about the kitchen. Hollis’s Nantucket kitchen was stocked with a Wolf range, Sub-Zero fridge, and Williams Sonoma dinnerware, but the element most worth replicating is the feeling of a kitchen that’s genuinely used and genuinely loved. Open shelving, good ceramics, fresh herbs on the windowsill, these cost very little and deliver an enormous amount.

If you haven’t yet read Elin Hilderbrand’s novel of the same name, it’s the perfect companion to the series and a wonderful way to extend the Nantucket daydream a little longer. The story follows recently widowed Boston food blogger Hollis Shaw, who invites four friends to her childhood home on the island for a perfectly curated long weekend, and the book captures the atmosphere of Nantucket in summer with the kind of warmth and specificity that made Hilderbrand one of the world’s most beloved beach read authors.

The Five-Star Weekend is available to stream on Binge and Foxtel now. The novel is available through Booktopia, Dymocks, and QBD.