Design Course is the definitive home-decorating guide from Kelly Hoppen, offering invaluable professional advice on both the practical and aesthetic aspects to interior design. Kelly shares her trade secrets and expert knowledge to help you ensure that your decorating project, however big or small in scale, runs smoothly, comes in on time and within budget, and achieves a functional, flexible interior that suits the way you live. Alongside inspiring photographs and room schemes of some of her latest projects, Kelly offers expert guidance on how to use scale and proportion, colour, texture, lighting, furniture, art and other decorative elements to create a comfortable and elegant home that looks the way you want it to. She also discusses the challenges and solutions commonly faced when designing different spaces in the home — from kitchens, living rooms bedrooms and bathrooms to media rooms and home offices, gyms and spas — and offers helpful hints on all aspects of decorating and furnishing each one. An exhaustive reference for both interior designers and home decorators, Design Course also includes essential advice on practical matters, such as budgeting, scheduling, drawing up floor plans, creating room boards, briefing professionals and managing the work.

Kelly Hoppen Home is the ultimate decorating book, offering the chance to learn from the world-renowed designer's chic modern design philosophy. From the conception of an idea, through prepartion and decision making, to implementing plans and achieving a reality, Hoppen shares insider secrets and reveals how to get the most from a living space.