Kelly Hoppen: How to Achieve the Home of Your Dreams

by Kelly Hoppen

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.

Genres: Interior Design, Design, Nonfiction, Coffee Table Books, Architecture

272 pages, Hardcover

First published November 21, 2013

Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This beautiful large well bound book would look great on your coffee table. It is written like a text book and explains step by step how to design a house using the method of the author and famous designer and teacher, Kelly Hopper. She gave a lot of good advice, along with many colour photos.
The house we are renovating is much smaller than the large, luxurious homes and yacht depicted in this book. However, the basics still apply, and I am glad that I was able to borrow this book through Interlibrary loan.
3.5 stars ⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️💫

[Jules · Rating 4 out of 5]

nice book

[Krisztina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having mixed feelings about this book. It gives you a couple of good piece of advice, but the pictures are very dated which makes me depressed . It would be great if Kelly had issued a new version of it with updated photos. I ordered it as a new one now.
I agree with one of the other reviews the text part is good and useful though.
It is in Kelly's signature style, black, white, grey, no colours.

[IE · Rating 3 out of 5]

This kind of reminded me of a textbook, featuring lots of taupe, grey and sand based interiors with only very occasional use of colour. Interiors are primarily high end including luxury yachts. Personally I found the decor styling to be quite predictable from page to page, with multiples of one item in repetition on a shelf or coffee table. The text content however was helpful and I would recommend this book to someone looking for ideas on layout and lighting when creating a large formal, modern interior.