This year's Emmys have been wildly celebrated, but if you ask us real estate pros, the real winners are the set designers. Between the coastal creak of Widow's Bay, the eerie quiet of Pluribus, and the full-volume glam of Palm Royale, this year's nominees brought some of the most distinct interiors we've seen on television in a while. We picked eight of our favorite sets and broke down exactly how to bring each look home — no writers' room required.
Widow's Bay: Coastal, Not Coastal Grandma
Weathered wood, faded blues, windows doing most of the decorating for you, this is coastal without a hint of coastal grandma. Fitting, since the show just broke the all-time Emmy record for comedy wins (14 trophies, including Production Design for "Lodging," the haunted Captain's Suite episode). Keep the palette tight, lean on texture (rope, linen, worn wood) over nautical props, and reach for something genuinely old instead of anything distressed-to-look-old.
Your Friends and Neighbors: Quiet Luxury, Suburban Edition
This is old-money-next-door done right: tailored, restrained, nothing shouting for attention because it doesn't have to. Bring it home with warm neutrals, natural materials (think unlacquered brass, honed stone, linen everything), and furniture that looks like it's been there for a decade even if it arrived last week.
Pluribus: Moody Minimalism
Clean lines, low light, just enough emptiness to feel intentional rather than unfinished. It's a set that earns its calm, and it won this year's Emmy for Production Design on a Contemporary Program (the "Grenade" episode). Translate it at home with a tight, mostly-neutral palette, a few statement pieces instead of many small ones, and lighting you can actually control.
The Gilded Age: Opulence, on Purpose
There’s nothing subtle here, and that's the point. Layered patterns, rich jewel tones, gilt frames, furniture that wants to be looked at. Borrow it in doses: one opulent room (a dining room, a powder bath) does more for a home than trying to gild the whole thing.
The Diplomat: Formal, But Lived-In
Embassy-residence elegance: traditional furniture, rich wood tones, and enough formality to host a head of state, but with actual signs of life scattered around so it doesn't read like a museum. Get the look with classic silhouettes (think wingback, camelback, real wood over anything laminate), a restrained palette, and one deliberately imperfect touch, a stack of books, a worn rug, per room.
Hacks: Vegas, Unapologetically
Deborah Vance does not do restraint, and neither should this room. Mirrored surfaces, saturated color, glam finishes, furniture that's a little too much on purpose. This is the one room in the house allowed to be extra: a bar cart, a statement chandelier, velvet in a color you'd normally talk yourself out of.
Palm Royale: 1960s Palm Beach, Full Volume
Pink, gold, and completely unbothered, Palm Royale's world is the retro-glam moment everyone in design has been chasing for the last two years. Lean into color you'd normally talk yourself out of, add curved furniture and a little shine, and let one room feel like a vacation.
Only Murders in the Building: Eclectic, Collected, a Little Nosy
The Arconia works because it looks like decades of different lives stacked on top of each other, nothing matches on purpose. This one's for the room where you display things: vintage finds, art that doesn't coordinate with anything else, furniture with a story attached.