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Heather KW Styles

Interior Designer & Ceramic artist based in Southern California

08/19/2026

Everyone asks how to take a wall down. In this Long Beach home, we added one.

Shipway came to us with two living rooms stacked back to back — and the downstairs one had quietly become the path to the pool. Gorgeous square footage doing the job of a hallway.

So instead of opening things up, we built in. An 11-foot custom bar with a slat wall now does the dividing: a real entertaining surface, a home for every bar tool and bottle, and two distinct zones that still read as one connected space.

Every piece of furniture got re-oriented around the new layout, so both rooms finally work as gathering spaces with their own purpose. For a family that loves to host, that’s the whole point.

Sometimes the answer isn’t less walls. It’s the right wall.

Photography Charlotte Lea Bailey
Design Heather Knight-Willcock | Interior Designer & Stylist
Photoshoot Styling LE MO

**Project Shipway — Long Beach**

08/11/2026

Two showerheads. Zero arguing about who gets the hot water first. 🚿 🚿

This San Clemente bathroom is one shared by two sisters, so every decision had to work twice. Green zellige running up the shower walls and across the floor. Warm white oak cabinetry with little flower k***s that make me smile every time. Brass everywhere it counts.

Here’s what you can’t see in the photo: my client loved this zellige, and I loved it too — but zellige has sharp edges. It’s part of how it’s made. Beautiful on a wall, not so beautiful under bare feet on a shower floor.

So we had the tile installer grind back every corner. It reads as part of the natural fabrication of the tile, which is exactly the look we wanted, and now it’s soft enough for little feet standing on it every single day.

That’s the part of my job people don’t always see. It can’t just be pretty. It has to work and function for the families who trust me to design their homes. Form and function can meet beautifully and that’s a non negotiable for us! ✨

Project Los Alamos.
Photography Charlotte Lea Bailey
Design Heather Knight-Willcock | Interior Designer & Stylist
Photoshoot Styling LE MO

08/02/2026

Consider this interior designer crowd sourcing ….

Three-ish years ago we put clouds on these walls at Project Clark in Long Beach. He was little then. He’s a tween now, and the clouds have run their course.

Fair enough. I was also copper blonde when this home renovation went down - something I’d probably never do again.

So I’m back in a room I designed a while ago, which is honestly one of my favorite parts of this job. You don’t usually get to see how a space grows up with someone. The bones are still right — layout works and the foundation is there.

But if you wanted to update this wallpaper what would you choose - Something with some personality that won’t need replacing again in a few years.

Tell me what you’d put in here. I’m collecting ideas before I pull anything — moody geometric? A big scenic? Something with texture instead of pattern?

Drop it below, I’m actually reading these.

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07/29/2026

And for the dog, perhaps a sink so big you could swim in it?

Or perhaps a basement bathroom and laundry room remodel in one?

Before this, the basement at Project Leri had an oversized laundry storage room sitting next to a bathroom so small you basically had to enter sideways. Two cramped rooms doing two jobs badly. So we took the wall out and made it one room that does everything: full shower, real laundry sink, storage for all the stuff a basement quietly accumulates, and a heavy dose of vibes.

Bowie’s review: five stars, would swim again.
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Photography: Charlotte Lea Bailey
Interior Design: Heather Knight-Willcock | Interior Designer & Stylist
Photoshoot Styling: LE MO
Location: Long Beach, California

07/23/2026

I owe you two weeks. So instead of pretending last week didn’t happen, you’re getting all 14 slides at once — the camera roll version of what’s actually been going on around here. Job sites, the studio, things I keep screenshotting for no reason other than they’re good. This is where the b-roll comes to live permanently instead disappearing with my stories.

07/21/2026

Square rooms get a bad rap. Everyone wants long, open, sprawling — but a square room, dressed properly, feels like a hug. And this basement might be my favorite proof from any of our Long Beach interior design projects yet.

For years, this space was the kid zone slash forgotten space. You know the one. The room where toys go to multiply and parents try to avoid. Our clients didn’t want to take it away from the kids — they just wanted to actually want to be down here too.

So we layered it. Texture on texture, lighting that doesn’t scream “basement,” and furniture that works as hard for movie nights as it does for hosting friends. The real hero? Storage. We re-integrated a ton of it right into the room, so every bit of kid stuff has a hidden home. Ten minutes to reset from playroom to grown-up space — that’s the whole game.

A room doesn’t have to choose between the kids and the parents. It just needs a plan.

Swipe through to the end for the befores — because you really have to see where this room started to appreciate the hug it gives now. 🤍

Design Heather Knight-Willcock | Interior Designer & Stylist
Photography Charlotte Lea Bailey
Shoot Stylist LE MO

07/13/2026

This San Clemente primary bathroom remodel is proof that the risk is always worth it. When my clients said HELL YES to this green marble checkered tile, I knew this space was going to be something special — and it is.

A custom vanity ground the space, but when we couldn’t find a mirror anywhere that fit our exact specs? We had one made. That’s the difference between filling a space and finishing one.

Add in a freestanding tub, art that actually says something, and light that makes the whole room glow — and you’ve got a spa. Except it’s yours, and it’s ten steps from your bed.

To my clients who trusted the vision on this one: this room exists because you were brave with it.

Swipe through to see me in the shower making sure we got the shot just right! ✨

07/09/2026

A Christmas flood is not how anyone plans to start a renovation. But when water took out this Long Beach family’s basement, we saw an opportunity hiding in the damage.

Before: a dated bonus room with a 90’s mini bar that had one job — slime production. (The kids were the only ones using it, and definitely not for cocktails.)

We reworked the floor plan, combining a cramped bathroom and laundry area into one larger, far more functional space (reveal coming soon). Then we tackled the thing every family with young kids battles: storage. The answer was a full built-in entertainment center — tons of hidden storage, a proper home for the TV, and one very clever design solution behind the scenes. When we opened the walls, we found plumbing running right where the built-in needed to go. Instead of moving it (and blowing the budget), we designed around it. More on that in the next post. 👀

Furnished and finished, this basement finally matches the family who lives here — creative, fun, and up for anything.

Swipe to see it all and the befores. ✨

Photography: Charlotte Lea Bailey
Design & Styling: Heather Knight-Willcock | Interior Designer & Stylist
Photoshoot styling: LE MO

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