Hip Interior Designs

10/12/2026

Who doesn’t love a good BEFORE & AFTER? 🤍

Great design brings beauty and functionality together, but what makes a room truly special is how it reflects the person who lives there.

Every detail can be customized to create a space that feels uniquely yours, from the layout and materials to the colors, finishes, and thoughtful touches that make a room feel like home.

Custom design allows us to create spaces that are beautiful, functional, and tailored to the way you live, with room to evolve and feel at home for years to come.

10/02/2026

09/30/2026

Imagine walking into your kitchen every morning and feeling like the space finally works the way you want it to.

That was the goal for this retired Los Altos couple.

This wasn’t a complete kitchen remodel. It was a thoughtful refresh design designed around the way they actually live, from quiet mornings together over coffee to weekends spent with children and grandchildren.

We gave their existing cabinets a fresh start with a color. They already loved, sage, green, then added new countertops and backsplash to completely change the feel of the kitchen.

In the adjoining breakfast room, we created a cozy place to linger over morning coffee with a custom storage bench and ticking stripe cushion. New cabinetry created a dedicated coffee bar and gave everything that had been living on the countertops and piled on the floors a place to go.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

We extended the Peninsula to create a spot for the grandchildren to pull up a store when family comes to visit. Open shelving gives the clients a place to display the things they love, while vertical shiplap, soft, mushroom, shades, and vintage Drexel dining chairs, bring warmth, and character to the space.

We even incorporated their existing dining table, because not everything needs to be new to make a room feel completely transformed.

The difference wasn’t simply how the kitchen looked.

It was how it felt to walk into it.

More welcoming. More personal. More functional. A place to start the morning together, gather with family, make coffee, share a meal, and enjoy the everyday moments that make a house feel like home.

Good design doesn’t always mean starting over. Sometimes it means seeing the potential and what you already have and thoughtfully changing what isn’t working.

That’s what makes a refresh feel like a full transformation.

09/21/2026

We love designing kid spaces. The opportunities for color, pattern, personality, and a little whimsy are endless.

But before we start scheming up all the fun details, we focus on what matters most: storage.

The best kids’ rooms aren’t designed only for who they are today. They’re designed to evolve with them.

For this 8-year-old boy’s bedroom, we wanted to capture his love of baseball while creating a space that could grow with him through his teenage years and beyond.

We maximized every inch with custom built-ins featuring a window seat, open shelving, a built-in desk, and plenty of concealed storage. We also replaced the existing mirrored closet doors with a custom closet system, adding even more drawers, cabinets, hanging space, and shelving.

The result is a room that has space for baseball cards and childhood treasures today, school supplies and a growing wardrobe tomorrow, and everything in between.

Because thoughtful design isn’t just about how a room looks. It’s about how well it works for the people living in it.

08/28/2026

People who fall in love with Spanish-style homes aren’t just looking for a house.

They’re looking for history.
Architecture.
Character.
The details that make the home unlike anything else on the block.

And that’s exactly what makes renovating them so rewarding.

The goal isn’t to make an older Spanish-style home look brand new. It’s to thoughtfully modernize it for the way you live today while preserving the character and architectural details that made you fall in love with it in the first place.

We know what to update, what to improve, and what to leave beautifully imperfect.

Because you can modernize a home without stripping away its soul.

That’s the kind of renovation we love.

08/26/2026

The difference between renovating your home and transforming it? Having one team lead the entire vision.

Our Complete Home Transformation service is designed for homeowners who want more than a beautiful room—they want the entire home to feel cohesive, intentional, and completely finished.

We lead the process from concept and design through renovation, procurement, and final installation, coordinating the many moving pieces so you don’t have to.

Because a successful renovation isn’t only about choosing beautiful finishes. It’s about having a thoughtful plan, experienced oversight, and a clear vision from the very beginning.

If you’re considering a whole-home renovation or transformation, start here.

Complete our inquiry form and we’ll send you our Process & Investment Guide with everything you need to know about working with Hip Interior Designs, including our approach, services, investment, and next steps.

→ Inquire through the link in our bio.

08/25/2026

Not every project needs the same level of design support.

That’s why we offer three distinct service services, each design around where you are in your project:

Complete Home Transformation
For large scale, renovations, and second homes, bringing renovation planning, interior design, project management, and full home furnishings together under one cohesive vision.

Furnishing & Decorating
For transforming your home without a renovation through a fully curated furnishing and styling experience.

Renovation Design & Management
For kitchens, bathrooms, and other renovation, focused projects where you need comprehensive design and project management from concept through comp completion

Whatever the scope, our approach remain remains the same: thoughtful design, clear, communication, and experienced leadership throughout the process.

If you are considering a renovation or furnishing project, complete the inquiry form on our website to receive our Investment & Process Guide and learn more about working with our studio.

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08/14/2026

We don’t design for resale.

That doesn’t mean we don’t care about your homes value. It means we don’t design your home around what a future buyer might want.

We design for you.

Your lifestyle. Your routines. The way you entertain. The things you love. The way you want your home to feel.

The homes we create are highly personalized and distinctive because we believe your home should reflect the people who live there, not appeal to the White as possible audience.

Some of our clients plan to live in their homes for decades. Others hope to eventually pass them down to their children or grandchildren.

Either way, we’re designing for the life happening inside the home today and for the memories that will be created there for years to come.

We designed distinctive homes, Taylor to the lives that live within them

08/06/2026

Not every project is the right fit—and that’s a good thing.

Here are three reasons we may decide we’re not the right studio for a project:

1. The timeline requires us to rush.
Thoughtful design takes time. So does planning, sourcing, construction, procurement, and installation. When a project needs to be finished “yesterday,” decisions become pressured, details get missed, and compromises are made that can lead to regret later.

We’d rather set a realistic timeline from the beginning and give your home the attention it deserves.

2. The rapport isn’t there.
This one matters more than people might think. We work closely with our clients for many months—and sometimes years. We’re navigating big decisions, construction challenges, budgets, deadlines, and a lot of time together.

The client experience is incredibly important to us, and we believe the best projects happen when there is mutual trust, respect, and yes… we genuinely enjoy working together.

3. The investment doesn’t align with the scope.
A smaller budget isn’t automatically a dealbreaker. But providing the level of service, quality, and finished result our studio is known for requires a significant investment.

We’d rather be transparent about that from the start than promise an outcome that isn’t realistic for the scope and budget.

And if we’re not the right fit? That doesn’t mean your project isn’t a great one. There are talented designers and design studios working at many different investment levels, and when we know someone who may be better suited to your project, we’re always happy to make a recommendation.

Because finding the right designer is just as important as finding a designer.

08/05/2026

There’s a reason why we love custom cabinetry…and it’s not just because it looks beautiful.

It gives us the freedom to design around the way you actually live.

For this pantry, that meant thinking through everything from where the small appliances would live to specifying the exact depth of the open shelves to accommodate the storage jars without sacrificing a comfortable walkway.

These are small details but together they’re what make a space feel intuitive, functional and completely considered.

Because your home should be designed around you.