Hotel Chic at Home

Hotels are wonderful places to look not only for great design ideas, but for real-life design solutions. Even the chicest hotels have the same issues as we all do--awkward spaces, ho-hum architecture, lackluster views, or dark rooms. The difference is that hoteliers have figured out how to use design to solve those dilemmas--after all, they have to book every room, every night. Hotel Chic at Home breaks down those clever ideas that offer real answers for our own homes--how to maximize a teeny room with a smart layout; how to enhance a dark space with pattern, color, and lighting; or how to jazz up cookie-cutter architecture with unique details. Hotel Chic at Home is the first book to showcase how hotel design can inspire and transform home design. Hotel Chic at Home has accessible ideas for all budgets. Obsessed with the cool contemporary art at the Hotel Pulitzer in Barcelona? Hotel Chic will show how to copy the look for less than $100. Revive a vintage chair with color-blocked upholstery like at The Dorset in London, or transform a blah piece of furniture with a jolt of bright paint color inspired by the Pantone Hotel in Brussels. Hotel style can be reinterpreted at all price points. Chapters are divided by room, so a reader looking for inspiration for their kitchen, child's room, or terrace can turn to the appropriate chapter. In the chapter on foyers, for example, Hotel Chic at Home not only walks readers through how to recreate the graphic black-and-white, striped floors of The Mark Hotel with paint, but also advises on how to customize the palette to their own favorite hues. From cool color schemes to clever furniture layouts to intriguing global design ideas, Hotel Chic at Home is packed with innovative design.