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Kelly Hoppen, multi-award-winning designer and TV personality, shares her essential style solutions that will transform your home.
Kelly knows what works, and here she shows you how to do it by bringing together creative ideas and inspiration alongside a wealth of professional know-how, practical advice and cost-effective style solutions that can work for every home, big or small.
Whether you are a young professional renting a flat, a first-time homebuyer or an experienced homeowner who wants to give your home a dash of Kelly Hoppen glamour, this book will help you create a beautiful, functional and relaxing home that suits your individual needs and reflects your personality.
With over 200 images, carefully selected and curated by a world-renowned design guru with over 40 years’ experience, Kelly Hoppen’s Essential Style Solutions for Every Home gives you: Clear and easy-to-follow advice on the first principles of style including tones and colour, texture, light and finishing touches.The lowdown on practicalities, budgeting and prioritizing from Kelly’s expert perspective.Tried-and-tested tricks of the trade that show you how to use colour and tones that will make your rooms feel bigger and brighter.Tips on how to dress and accessorise rooms for maximum impact.Room-by-room case studies focus on the main spaces in the home as well as dead space such as corridors, addressing the feeling you are aiming to create, and setting out the core elements and top styling tips to allow you to achieve this.
Where applicable, Kelly makes cost-cutting suggestions for saving money by choosing less-expensive materials, advising what it’s worth splashing out on and where you can afford to spend less, as well as ideas for making quick-and-easy seasonal updates to inexpensively refresh your rooms on a regular basis.
Get the luxe look for less with Kelly Hoppen’s Essential Style Solutions for Every Home.
From the Publisher
Kelly Hoppen, multi-award-winning designer and TV personality, shares her essential style solutions that will transform your home.
Introduction
I’ve been designing homes, as well as other spaces, for more than 40 years now. Early on in my career I was given some great advice by a life coach: the one thing that helps you learn and grow in business is to share your knowledge. I’ve never forgotten that, and it’s why I wanted to write this book. I truly believe that anyone can create a home that is both beautiful and practical, whatever size budget and space they’re working with. There’s no real mystery to it, but you do need to do the groundwork and plan carefully to avoid making expensive mistakes. Over the following pages I’ll share my top tips and my tried-and-tested design techniques to help you make your ideas come to life and create the home you’ve only dared to dream about.
An eclectic mix of furniture, vintage and new, defines this living space, with the layout echoing the architectural grid of the gallery balcony and tall steel-framed Crittall windows. Tones, textures and form are all in perfect balance.
First Principles of Style
However ambitious or modest your project, you can’t go far wrong if you give due thought to the essential elements that ultimately work together to create a successful interior, one that is welcoming, comfortable, practical and stylish. These are tone and colour – a palette of hues that harmonize and complement each other; texture – a rich mix of materials and finishes that play off one another; light – for both function and ambience; and finishing touches – the interiors equivalent to accessorizing an outfit, the details that add a wow factor and elevate the mood. All these elements should be considered in their own right and in relation to one another, as they are the different layers that are put together to create something amazing.
In this off-white space, the ribbed upholstery, wool carpet and curtain, with its geometric cut-out design, add layers of interest and ensure the effect isn’t flat.
Room by Room
Now is the time to put those design principles into action to create the home you want to live in. Drawing all the different components together, you now have the tools to tailor each room in your home to suit your practical needs, your way of life and your personal style. Every room in the home has a unique set of requirements and considerations, and the following pages will help you to approach each space with confidence. Decorating a home, especially if it involves a major redesign, can be a daunting prospect, but if you have planned it well, and have researched your suppliers and workforce carefully, it can also be extremely rewarding. There is nothing more exciting than seeing your ideas starting to take shape.
The entrance of my London home is bold, graphic and glamorous, with the design grid much in evidence through the black-and-white marble floor, pivoting lacquered shutters, panel of specialist plaster, tall double doors and trio of pendant lights.
BE YOUR OWN INTERIOR DESIGNER
When I design for clients, not only do I need to get to know the space I’m going to be working with, but I also have to get into their heads. I need to discover their likes and dislikes, their needs, wants and priorities, their hopes and dreams – and what their lifestyle is like. Only then can I create a home that both looks great and works for them on every level. There’s no point in designing a state-of-the-art kitchen for someone who dislikes cooking, or a wonderful bathroom with a bathtub as the star piece when everyone prefers showers.
This vast living area epitomizes balance, with the seating areas arranged symmetrically around the central column. Understated differences enliven the echoing elements, while textural and tonal contrasts bring vitality to the off-white and wood scheme.
Ask yourself the following questions: What will the room be used for? List all the activities that will need to take place here. What time – or times – of day will you mostly be using the space? How much natural light does the room get and what do the windows look out on? What are the key pieces of furniture you will need here? How much storage will you need in this room and what type?
CORRIDORS Give the connecting areas in your home the same design consideration as any other space.
The skirting board in this hallway was replaced with a light baffle, bathing the dark wood floor in a warm glow. Ceiling spots highlight the Peter Beard artwork and the Christian Liaigre banquettes.
A series of dark oak doorframes along the length of this monochrome corridor defines the grid and draws the eye.
White walls, displaying a collection of black-and-white photography, taupe oak flooring and lighting that washes both surfaces in warm light create a calm connecting area.
Shiny surfaces, including waxed-plaster walls, a marble floor runner that continues from the entrance hall, glass and accents of brass reflect and maximize natural light.
WHERE TO BEGIN
Creating a design board for the living room will help your ideas take shape, and I always start the process by laying down lots of fabric samples in textures and tones that I like. I avoid thinking about what I’ll use each of them for and just begin to build up a tonal palette that will set the mood. Make the design board as detailed as possible – include every element, down to the last detail – and don’t rush it. Leave it in the room so you can refer to it and tweak it if necessary. Consider the elements in the following order:
Fabrics Create the tonal/textural palette.
Furniture Look at form and texture.
Details Introduce contrast – door panels, trims, inlays, cushion buttons and bands.
Star pieces Art, collections, furniture.
Window treatments Shutters, blinds, sheer curtains or heavy drapes.
Floors and walls These must complement the rest of the scheme, not compete with it.
Lighting Plan this key component once the other design decisions have been made.
Publisher : Frances Lincoln (August 3, 2021)
Language : English
Paperback : 208 pages
ISBN-10 : 0711262306
ISBN-13 : 978-0711262300
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6.65 x 0.8 x 9.45 inches