Kimba Hills

I just worked with Kimba redecorating my NY apartment and my LA house. It was time for a completely new look and I am so happy with the results. Kimba was a delight to work with. She was able to use much of the furniture that I already owned to keep the price down. We recovered several chairs with fabric that completely changed the look of the spaces. In addition,all of the new furniture that I bought with Kimba will be pieces that will be passed down to my kids. I have spent too many years buying piece after piece of furniture that looks good but has no value. The new pieces are great investments that will last forever. I also want to say how easy it was to work with Kimba. I have worked with decorators who really don't care about what the client thinks. This was not my experience. Kimba was able make suggestions but also took into account my ideas and we were able to work together harmoniously. I cannot recommend Kimba enough. She made what I consider to be a big challenge into a really fabulous experience.

I can't say enough good things about Kimba Hills and her staff at Rumba. I was stymied trying to figure out what to do with my blah living room and for literally years I just couldn't make up my mind how to proceed. A friend recommeded Kimba and her speed design process. I met with Kimba and the team a couple of times, looked through idea books and fabric samples so we could define my likes and dislikes. We talked about my current furniture and flagged the existing items I loved and others I would be happy to see go. Then one day, while I was at work, Kimba and her team came and moved out the old furniture and brought in all new stuff. She kept the few existing pieces I loved, re-hung some of my own Art and brought in a nice big painting for over the new custom made sofa. Voila! A whole new room. Kimba works with all the artisans and does the shopping and just takes care of it all. Many of the "new" pieces of furniture were vintage which kept the price down and also created a lovely eclectic vibe which looks like it evolved over time, rather than having been decorated. It's been a couple of years now and I still feel wonderful when I walk into my living room. We are currently in the midst of a re-design of my dining area and as before, it has been a real joy working with Kimba and crew. Can't wait to see my newly re-finished vintage Knoll dining table in place. Thank you thank you thank you!

I loved working with Kimba Hills from Rumba! Kimba has fantastic style and great taste!! Besides being incredibly talented, she is fun to work with. ...warm, flexible, easy going, inspired and interesting, And her staff is terrific. Kim and Rebecca are equally talented and warm....they all work together very well...its’ like a family (a family with fabulous taste and talent!) Kimba’s “Speed Design” process was just what the doctor ordered for me . When it comes to design and purchasing decisions , I am a bit of an indecisive commitment phobe, so working with Kimba and speed design was perfect. I loved that I was able to keep furniture and art for a week or two and live with it in my space before making a final commitment. For me, that was extremely helpful . Kimba continued to work with me, and move things around until we got it right. What a gift!

I first stumbled into Kimba's Santa Monica shop shortly after I moved to LA, but too soon for me to appreciate it! Over a year later, I found myself in a new home trying to blend the furniture from our Brooklyn brownstone with various acquisitions and come up with some kind of new vibe. Lucky for me, I found my way back to Kimba. Her "Speed Design" services transformed an unused sitting room into our new Library. Kimba used pieces we owned in fresh ways and worked in some fabulous new finds like a Knoll coffee table, a gorgeous Hekman desk and she designed a custom wall unit. Our teenage daughter needed to upgrade her PB Teen bedroom into something more sophisticated, and Kimba answered the call with a vintage vanity, groovy swivel chairs, a vintage white lacquer desk that calls out for homework and an original photo of our daughter's favorite animal -- an owl. And still there's more -- our groovy Thonet dining table and orange leather chairs and Widdicomb nighttables for our bedroom. I loved Kimba's taste, her easy demeanor and her whip smart team. She knows her stuff and has no problem working in flea market finds with Eames. Thanks to Kimba, our great house has grown into the home we love.

Kimba and her team did a fantastic job decorating my apartment. After looking at the space and getting sense of my basic taste, budget, and specific pieces I was looking for she went to work. Over the next few weeks she sent pictures of a few pieces for me to choose from but within a month she came over with her team and had the whole place redone in a day. Besides changing out a few small pieces everything was perfect and I can't recommend her highly enough. Awesome experience.

Had a fabulous and fun experience when I hired Kimba to do one of her famous quick redesigns. She brought in the perfect pieces, the right small touches, had genius ideas for colors. She is really talented and her staff made the whole experience easy and painless. Her style is bold and modern/mid-century but so very cozy and warm. I was most impressed by how she could combine furniture from different eras into such a perfect combination, how she knew exactly how to pull a room together with a few significant changes.

Kimba created a gorgeous environment where there was none in an amazingly short time. She listened to our needs, which amounted to creating an office/living space out of a garage. Everything was taken care of, from top to bottom. And so fast! great fabrics, colors, cool chairs, perfect table..We like better than our house!

Kimba worked wonders with our existing furniture, rugs and art to create cohesion in our slightly chaotic house. She brought in pieces to try out, and we bought the ones that worked the best. It was a great way for us to see new things in our space with minimum effort on our part. Kimba has a sophisticated eye, and has made our full house with three kids look elegant -- no small feat! I also really appreciated her sense of humor and relaxed nature, and of course her support staff. I knew what I wanted, I just couldn't get there on my own. Thanks to Kimba for pulling it all together!

Kimba was referred to me by a close friend and she is not only a fantastic designer, but a great person. She listened to what I wanted and the pieces she put together with her keen eye was beyond my wildest dreams. My house looks like it came straight out of Mad Men (but with a modern flare). I have never been happier in my home before and I can't recommend Kimba enough. Anyone who wants to redo their house needs to hire this artist who makes interior design look easy (it isn't).

I met Kimba at her wonderful store Rumba, I had just move to Santa Monica from San Diego and my place looked like a furniture warehouse instead of a home. I hired Kimba to use her SpeedDesign service to put my place together, move my furniture around, brought in some new items, hanged my art collection, put objects together that made sense and could tell a story. I cried when she finished because she made it was my home, I loved it. Kimba is so very talented, and a nicer person you could ever met.

I could not have been more pleased with Kimba's speed design. Everyone who has seen my house has been amazed at how quickly and affordably she made this my home. The result was exactly what I wanted!