A library living room with floor-to-ceiling walnut bookshelves built around large windows, a leather club chair with a Union Jack pillow, a velvet chesterfield sofa, brass lamps on a wood writing table, and layered vintage rugs, designed by Kristin Keyes Interiors

Belmont-Hillsboro — Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville · Full-service interior design

Nashville’s secondhand‑first design studio

This isn’t traditional interior design, and we don’t want it to be. We make magazine-worthy rooms with preloved pieces. We start with what you have, edit what’s not working, and layer in secondhand finds to create artful, comfortable spaces.

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The model

There are two ways to make a room.

The traditional model

  • Everything is new, ordered from the same manufacturers.
  • The markup-based model rewards your designer for selling you more expensive things.
  • Items are manufactured, packaged, and shipped across the world before they reach you.
  • Your old furniture is hauled to the landfill to make room.
  • The finished room looks like the showroom floor.

The KKI model

  • Almost everything is secondhand, vintage, or antique.
  • We succeed when we find the right piece, not when you spend more.
  • Our supply chain is a van and a Facebook Marketplace find across town.
  • Your cool stuff is the starting point, not the castoff.
  • The finished room could only belong to you.

Case Study

How it worked in Belmont-Hillsboro

Here’s what the family brought, what we found secondhand, and the makers we hired with the money we didn’t spend on new furniture.

A charcoal velvet chesterfield sofa with a custom blush cushion, flanked by black horse lamps on vintage side tables, beneath a large abstract painting on striped wallpaper, with leather club chairs and a vintage rug
Belmont-Hillsboro — Nashville, Tennessee

What they had

The family arrived with rugs, art, and books they loved and hoped to use, along with wallpaper left over from their previous home, and a few rolls they sourced secondhand. We said yes to all of it, and built the rooms to show their pieces off.

What we found secondhand

Our team sourced nearly everything in the photo above secondhand. The Anthropologie Chesterfield was a $600 Facebook Marketplace find, professionally cleaned, joined with the vintage horse lamps, side tables, and coffee table.

Who we worked with

We brought in a carpenter to build the custom library wall at the top of this page. The lamp pros repaired the horse lamps and fitted them with linen shades. Our upholsterer sewed custom covers for the sofa cushions, and our installer hung every roll of that wallpaper.

And the living room was just the start. We took our approach to the rest of the house: the dining room’s vintage oak set and brushstroke wallpaper, the bedroom’s burl headboard and hare-and-turtle print, and beyond.

A dining room with a bold black-and-cream brushstroke wallpaper wall, a vintage oak dining set with plaid-upholstered chairs, a branching porcelain chandelier, and a vintage rug
A bedroom with hare-and-turtle wallpaper on slate blue walls, a burl wood headboard, a vintage lamp, and a vintage rug

See the full project: The Collector’s Townhome

Why secondhand first

Secondhand isn’t a trade-off. It’s why the rooms turn out better.

The planet

The most sustainable way to do luxury

The greenest piece of furniture is one that already exists. Every piece sourced secondhand skips the landfill and the factory. This is the conviction our studio was founded on.

The look

A room that could only be yours

Rooms built from a catalog look like the catalog. Ours start with what you already own and love, and read like they were collected over a lifetime of good taste.

The community

Sourced from your neighbors

Every find comes from a real person — a neighbor mid-move, an estate, a dealer who knows what’s worth saving — and every sale makes someone’s day.

A black front door swung open with light spilling through, framed by floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, with a magenta vintage runner leading to it

Ready?

Most rooms start around $25,000, all in. See our pricing, then let’s get started. You’ll know what your project will cost before we even talk.

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