Kelly Hoppen Interiors

A full-color room-by-room guide to some of the designer's best interiors--which draw on neutral colors and feminine forms--also includes checklists and expert advice for approaching interior design no matter what the room or the challenge.

Kelly Hoppen offers a wealth of experience and advice on achieving your signature style, making this a definitive master class in home design. This book is a must for any home decorator wanting to give their home a touch of Kelly Hoppen's distinctive style, the perfect combination of luxury with simplicity. Here, she reveals her trade secrets and shares her expert knowledge to ensure that your decorating project, however big or small in scale, runs smoothly, stays within budget, and achieves the look you want. In The Groundwork, part one of the book, she advises on basics, setting out the design process and weighing the choices, analyzing space, and working out what to do to improve the ergonomics of a home. She also identifies personal requirements and personal style. Getting Started looks at each room or key area in the home in detail, offering advice and ideas, highlighting the key issues and fundamental design principles applicable to each space, and providing helpful hints and guidelines on all aspects of decorating and furnishing that room. Ending with an invaluable address book of some of Hoppen's favorite sources, and with space to add the reader's own contacts and recommendations, this book is an essential companion to any home decorating project.

This is the definitive home-decorating guide from Kelly Hoppen, offering invaluable professional advice on both the practical and aesthetic aspects to interior design.

Kelly Hoppen's Essential Style Solutions for Every Home presents Kelly’s tried-and-tested techniques for creating a beautiful, functional and relaxing home that suits your individual needs and reflects your personality.

Kelly Hoppen is an avatar of hip, high-end interior design, celebrated in the pages of Architectural Digest, In Style, and the New York Times. Her cool, modernist aesthetic is at once timeless and at the cutting-edge of style today and KELLY HOPPEN HOME offers readers a chance to learn from the world-renowned British designer's chic design philosophy. Giving a clear picture of her approach at every stage---from the conception of an idea, through preparation and decision making, to implementing plans and achieving a reality---Kelly shares her insider secrets and reveals how to get the most from a living space. Kelly's skill in understanding how a home works is illustrated in a portfolio of projects from the UK, United States, Israel, and Switzerland. Architectural plans and drawings, alongside stunning photographs of her latest work, help explain how to reconfigure a space by transforming ideas into workable schemes. Insightful text, practical tips, and information from expert consultants help explain how readers can become their own interior designer.

Kelly Hoppen Home is the ultimate decorating book, offering the chance to learn from the world-renowned designer's chic, modern design philosophy. From an idea's conception, through initial preparation and decision-making, to action planning and its eventual fruition, Kelly Hoppen shares insider secrets and reveals how to get the most from a living space. In Home, Kelly explores the entire process of creating a home that meets all your needs -one that is as functional and versatile as it is beautiful and nurturing. Kelly's skill in understanding how a home works and what gives it its individual look is illustrated by a portfolio of projects from the UK, USA, Israel and Switzerland. Beginning with her personal story of redesigning her own home, Kelly explains how to become your own interior designer. She divides the book into five parts, each focusing on a different element of interior design: the design process; design and decoration; furniture and furnishings; feeding the senses; and finishing with a room-by-room overview. Providing architectural plans and drawings alongside Vincent Knapp's stunning photographs, Hoppen's Home is a genuine treasure-trove of tips and techniques on how to become your own interior designer.

This text advises on how to mix colours, textures and objects from different cultures in your own setting. It illustrates ideas for windows and walls, furnishings and floors, tabletops and mantlepieces. Celebrating the handcrafted, influences are taken from China, India and Africa.

With Kelly Hoppen Style, Kelly lays out her golden rules of decorating. Inspirational room shots are combined with simple text explaining each room design together with specific advice on suitable lighting, fabrics and accessories to create a feeling of calm and balance. Drawing upon her fabulous portfolio of projects, Kelly begins by addressing the potential space of a room, and how other key aspects such as light, scale and mood, symmetry and balance all need consideration - and then offers her inspired design solutions. Kelly provides a checklist of golden rules for each subject to help you make an accurate assessment of how to design the most beautiful and useful room, and explains the importance of fundamental elements such as surfaces, materials, equipment and lighting. The first chapter, 'Hallmark Style', focuses on the influences and inspirations that are inherent in Kelly's design work, and shows how organic materials and shapes can add drama and visual impact to an interior. From here, each subsequent chapter focuses on building up the layers of decoration: 'Colour and Texture', in which Kelly uses examples of her own decorative schemes to demonstrate how you can visualise a scheme with the aid of fabric and paint swatches; 'Lighting Schemes' offers ideas of how to balance the lighting in a room, and 'Decorative Lighting' describes the different ways in which light fittings can enhance a space with glamour or decadence. The final chapter, 'Room Details', brings together the decorative touches that make a home, and Kelly covers the essentials from cabinetry to soft furnishings, accessories and display. She also provides a comprehensive list of suppliers, ranging from soft furnishings and paint manufacturers to picture framers and lighting specialists. Armed with Kelly Hoppen's Golden Rules of Design, turning your home into a sanctuary of style and sophistication has never been easier.