Brian and Mika Kleinschmidt’s Best Design Ideas for Every Room

Watching the geniuses of HGTV’s 100 Day Dream Home wrangle their time-sensitive projects and emerge victorious is a master class and a big-game pep talk all at once. Take their inspirational, all-time greatest moves and run with them.

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Shows: Rock the Block and 100 Day Dream Home

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Mika and Brian’s Fast, Fancy Footwork

Mika and Brian Kleinschmidt are the Olympic trainers of the HGTV family. On 100 Day Dream Home, the fleet-footed couple has perfected the art of designing and executing their clients’ personal visions while sticking to a schedule that would make fellow professionals blanch. She’s a realtor who envisions the finish line. He’s a developer with the skills to coach each home through its transformation — and the spaces they create together are unbeatable. This highlight reel of their very best is sure to put a spring in your step.

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In the Kitchen: Cabinetry As a Focal Wall

Contrast plays a starring role in this clever kitchen from 100 Day Dream Home’s second season, where the Kleinschmidts paired a tall, sleek bank of dark-stained cabinets with tone-on-tone contemporary hex tiles to create a dimensional backsplash. A pale, waterfall-edge island runs parallel to those cabinets, facilitating foot traffic in and around this gracious space. Variegated tones on the wood flooring contribute a note of organic warmth. Less-is-more pendants, in turn, spotlight the island without adding visual clutter.

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In the Kitchen: Spectacular Stone

This contemporary St. Petersburg, Florida, kitchen from Season 3 of 100 Day Dream Home combines sleek, minimalistic silhouettes and showstopping, natural grandeur. Get a load of the gorgeous waterfall edge on that extra-long island and the crisp contrast between the white upper cabinets above the range and the black, floor-to-ceiling installations framing them. The dramatically veined panda marble slabs they used for that island and backsplash add movement to the room and render accessories superfluous. Why embellish perfection?

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In the Kitchen: Sweeping, Floor-to-Ceiling Cabinetry

The Kleinschmidts were crowned the winners of Rock the Block’s second season. Given the magnificence of the kitchen they designed as the heart of their Atlanta-area Southern Craftsman, it’s easy to see why. Crisp, custom cabinets offset the brilliant blue island, provide all the storage a lively family could need and conceal the doorway to a pantry that offers even more functionality. That stone-topped island boasts a pair of dishwashers that facilitate both weekday cleanup and hosting larger get-togethers, while vinyl plank flooring delivers style that can stand up to heavy use.

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In the Breakfast Nook: Bringing the Outdoors In

This easy, breezy eat-in space is all about capitalizing on outdoor atmosphere and indoor amenities. Gauzy window treatments frame and filter without blocking any of the sunlight streaming in from two walls of magnificent windows. An eclectic pairing of upholstered dining chairs and a pillow-accented bench create a feel of casual intimacy at the table. It’s easy to imagine perching here to sip a cup of coffee on a bright, quiet morning. The Kleinschmidts have a knack for creating coziness, and it shows.

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In the Dining Room: Brilliant Backyard Views

To draw the eye out to this spacious Florida backyard, the Kleinschmidts swathed this dining room in creamy neutrals. Barely-there accessories — a pair of soothing abstract canvases, a trio of ceramic vessels and an understated contemporary chandelier — layer the design. Nubbly linen on the dining chairs and heathered yarn on the area rug make the space feel plush. This is the ideal spot for a laid-back family dinner with the windows wide open.

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In the Dining Room: Leafy Greens

Architectural fronds inform the luxe, subtropical feel of this sophisticated dining space in St. Petersburg, Florida, where a lush paradise palm’s silhouette repeats itself on the area rug and a pair of opulent velvet dining chairs share its rich tone. Mika chose a glass-topped dining table and a many-stemmed stick pendant as a nod to industrial touches in the rest of the home. Then she grounded the table with a textural moss centerpiece.

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In the Living Room: An Ingenious Ceiling and Stacked Stone

Brian and Mika didn’t let a pesky detail like comparatively low ceilings cramp their style when it came to tricking out their living room on Rock the Block. They made the most of their 9 feet of clearance by installing decorative trim — complete with a herringbone-inset medallion that draws the eye and adds interest without gobbling up space. For the feature wall, they splurged on a fire box they framed with textural stacked stone. Flanked by crisp cabinets and floating shelves against moody blue paint, it’s an instant classic.

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In the Living Room: Open-Plan Entertaining

The Kleinschmidts prepped this versatile living room for the ultimate party with a massive sectional, versatile tables that can relocate as needed and a generous floor plan that lets the festivities carry right into the kitchen, bar and dining space. A graphic area rug helps break all that square footage into functional areas, while horizontal charcoal molding doubles down on the geometry Brian and Mika introduced with ceiling-spanning beams. This is a home that goes on forever and offers a warm welcome.

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In the Living Room: Sun and Symmetry

Transforming this living room was all about bringing body to its beautiful bones. The Kleinschmidts added warm, textural beams along and perpendicular to the spine of that graceful vaulted ceiling. Then they carried that balance down to floor level with pairs of wall-mounted sculptures, ivory sofas, end tables and lamps to emphasize the windows’ symmetry. Organic accents, glinting gold and regal washes of indigo layer and complete the look.

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In the Great Room: Touchable Texture

Brian and Mika stick the landing between spacious and gracious once again in this all-in-one great room. They celebrated the room’s scale with green-gray paint that carries from the hearth all the way up to the ceiling, then made that scale approachable by placing a sculptural fan at the center of the slanted ceiling. Its bold black line repeats in triplicate above the waterfall-edge dining island in the kitchen area, where three elegant pendants with warm, gilded interiors concentrate light. Meanwhile, the sitting area is all about texture: A high-pile, abstracted-leopard rug anchors a caramel-colored leather sofa and luxe, moss-green velvet barrel chairs.

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In the Bedroom: The Ultimate Retreat

Brian and Mika channeled coastal Southern charm in their Rock the Block home’s primary suite. With a feature wall of textural grasscloth and a sculptural nod to Georgia’s swaying palms, the bedroom has a laid-back sense of understated elegance. Opulent but unfussy neutral textiles like the tufted wingback headboard, the nailhead-trimmed armchair and the distressed area rug offer a standing invitation to get comfortable and stay a while.

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In the Bedroom: Bold Blue Decor

The Kleinschmidts took big swings in this small bedroom, where a graphic, oversized floral mural seems to send flowers spiraling from the window across the wall. Indigo-dyed curtains extend the room’s mood, while layered blue textiles give the twin bed a look fit for a queen.

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In the Bathroom: Intricate Accents

The Kleinschmidts outdid themselves in this principal bath by combining modern luxuries (like a double-headed walk-in shower and a soaking tub with a dazzling waterfront view) with evocative rustic touches (like the shiplap on the pony wall framing that epic shower, intricate floor-to-ceiling tilework on its rear wall and herringbone floor tiles designed to resemble weathered wood). Best of all are the accessories: Oil-rubbed bronze hardware crowns the tub and shower, a trio of handmade baskets layer the design, and an antique tobacco basket is mounted on the wall as an art object.

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In the Bathroom: The Luxury of Space

Brian and Mika courted appraisers’ favor in their Rock the Block bath suite by sacrificing a walk-in closet to create this jaw-dropping, wall-to-wall shower chamber with a pair of rain heads. Beyond that spectacular space, a sculptural soaking tub sits beneath an angular chandelier. An expansive double vanity provides another seemingly-endless expanse. This isn’t a spa-inspired bath — this is a bath that actually boasts a spa’s high-end design and amenities.

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In the Bathroom: Impeccable Tailoring

In close quarters, every design decision has importance, and in this high-contrast bath, every one of the Kleinschmidt’s moves had an exponential effect. Geometric black tiles carry the eye up from the shower to a well-placed skylight. Beyond the tub at the vanity, a massive, mirrored panel doubles the abstract canvases on the wall. The countertop features veining that plays beautifully with those canvas brushstrokes.

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In the Bathroom: Advanced Geometry

Dimensional, faceted tile and a sculptural ceiling-mounted shower head steal the show in this contemporary en suite, where the Kleinschmidts mounted a light fixture in the massive mirror panel — a signature move of theirs — and chose matte black gooseneck faucets and cabinet hardware to create contrast with the pale marble-topped double vanity. Frameless glass panels on the shower door make the shower and vanity areas feel like a single, uninterrupted space.

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In the Playroom: All Things Disney

Brian and Mika commemorated Walt Disney World’s 50th anniversary — and made three little girls’ wishes come true — by creating a Magic Kingdom-inspired playroom in their clients’ dream home. With a color scheme inspired by Cinderella Castle (reproduced in miniature on the girls’ play table), the space features a gallery wall composed of family photos from a trip to the Orlando resort, a decked-out daybed version of Cinderella’s coach, a chandelier fit for princesses and a colorful, ornate area rug.

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In the Office: Work-Life Balance

With shelving, spare seating and a sleek desk that boasts both a view and soft task lighting, this home office is ready for service as a WFH HQ. With Mika’s charismatic combination of versatile elements like natural materials, textural greenery and plush surfaces, it’s also easily converted to a guest bedroom or a play space — because the ultimate dream-home feature is flexibility.

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In the Backyard: Party Central

This is indoor-outdoor living at its dreamiest — and it’s Mika and Brian’s own family home! The Kleinschmidts installed massive glass doors to create a seamless transition from the interior of their house to the flagstone-paved lanai, where a pair of armchairs and a sofa invite visitors to kick back and enjoy the magnificent view. When they’re ready for a swim, they can splash into the screened waterfront pool — a special request from their daughter.

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In the Backyard: Movie Night Every Night

Drive-in movies or screenings at the local park can be fun, but what if you decide you want a different snack, or your slippers? That’s where this clever curtained cabana — featuring a three-tiered, upholstered array of lounging spots — comes in. After dark, this private outdoor theater has the best seats in the house.

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