About Kelly Hohla Interiors
Kelly Hohla Interiors is a San Francisco–based luxury residential interior design studio specializing in full-service design for high-end private residences. Founded in 2011, the firm is known for creating layered, timeless homes that balance contemporary clarity with traditional elegance. We serve clients throughout the Bay Area and Northern California, including the Lake Tahoe region, Wine Country, and the Monterey Peninsula, as well as nationally.
Our portfolio includes historic San Francisco residences, transitional estates, and modern architectural homes. Rather than adhering to a singular aesthetic, we respond to each home’s architectural context by honoring original detailing while introducing a refined, contemporary perspective. This dialogue between classic craftsmanship and modern livability allows our interiors to feel both enduring and distinctly current.
At the core of our philosophy is the art of layering. We consider proportion, materiality, light, texture, and composition to create environments that are harmonious, sophisticated, and deeply personal. By blending contemporary furnishings with traditional elements or integrating heritage pieces into modern spaces, we design homes that transcend trend and reflect the individuality of our clients. We are particularly known for our nuanced use of color, pattern, form, and scale, shaping interiors that elevate the essential into the elegant and the everyday into the remarkable.
Kelly Hohla Interiors provides comprehensive luxury residential interior design services, collaborating closely with architects, builders, and artisans from initial concept through construction and installation. Guided by our experience in creating timeless homes, we believe that at the heart of great design lies the magic of composition and the chemistry between client, designer, and space. Our process is both highly creative and meticulously managed, ensuring that every detail, from architectural millwork and custom cabinetry to bespoke furnishings, is executed with precision.
While based in San Francisco, our work extends nationally, with completed and ongoing residential projects in Montana, Wyoming, Hawaii, Washington, New York, and beyond. Designing across varied architectural styles and regional landscapes deepens our understanding of context, climate, and materiality, enriching each interior with a refined sense of place.
The studio’s work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, House Beautiful, California Home + Design, and Luxe Interiors + Design, where it has been recognized on the Gold List and House Beautiful Next Wave. Kelly Hohla Interiors is also included in the Architectural Digest AD PRO Directory.
Through thoughtful design and architectural fluency, we are artful engineers shaping homes that are balanced and harmonious while creating refined residential interiors that balance contemporary clarity with traditional elegance. Our work results in homes that are layered, livable, and timeless.
Kelly Hohla - Principal
Schooled in the visual arts, Kelly Hohla channels her innate understanding of balance, scale, symmetry and proportion and her keen understanding of people, into creating spaces grounded in equilibrium and comfort. With a solutions, schema-centric and team-oriented practice, she successfully integrates a range of styles, skillfully weaving them into harmonious and welcoming spaces that reflect and support her clients’ lives.
After graduating from UC San Diego, Kelly began her career as a young designer in San Francisco in 2001. She spent her formative years working at The Wiseman Group, where she learned the importance of quality and craftsmanship, love of antiques and architecture, while absorbing the business integrity that TWG is so well known for into her own practice. Later, she brought these skills to bear on her work as the Design Principal of Jeffers Design Group, contributing to the growth of the studio and leading a highly organized and well-trained team in a wide array of inspiring and high-profile design projects before founding her own eponymous design studio in 2011.
Thoughtful, knowledgeable and energetic, Hohla has successfully woven together her design experience, project management expertise and visual acuity into an interior design career that has produced projects featured in publications ranging from Architectural Digest and Elle Decor to House Beautiful and California Home + Design.
OUR DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
We are artful engineers dedicated to creating timeless homes, driven by the belief that at the heart of great design is the magic of composition and the chemistry between client, designer and space. We are dedicated to contributing to the innovative spirit of San Francisco, going beyond current design thinking to design spaces with sensitivity to nuance of equilibrium. At Kelly Hohla Interiors, we strive to understand our client’s unique lives, personalities and experiences, while utilizing the power of layering to achieve their story with balance and harmony.
OUR COMMITMENT
Kelly Hohla Interiors is committed to designing layered homes with depth of imagination and balance.
We are committed to supporting our creative community of artists and artisans, contemporary galleries and antiques showrooms curating and collecting to add richness of interest in our clients’ lives.
We are dedicated to sharing our design knowledge and unique management expertise, leading highly organized and well-trained teams for the successful completion of projects across scope and scale.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Do you design both contemporary and traditional homes?
Yes. Kelly Hohla Interiors specializes in luxury residential interiors that balance contemporary and traditional influences. Our work spans historic homes, transitional residences, and modern architectural builds.
Where are you based?
We are based in San Francisco, California, and serve clients in the Bay Area, throughout California, and nationally.
Do you work outside of California?
Yes. In addition to our San Francisco and Northern California projects, Kelly Hohla Interiors has completed and ongoing luxury residential interior design work in Southern California, including San Diego and Orange County, as well as in Montana, Wyoming, Hawaii, Washington, and New York.
Explore our full project locations and regions we serve on our locations page.
What types of projects do you specialize in?
We focus exclusively on high-end residential interior design, including full-home renovations, ground-up construction, and large-scale furnishing projects.