HAYES LITTLE
STUDIO
NON-CONFORMIST CREATURE COMFORTS
Elegant and avant-garde, Hayes Little brings a holistic, personal and artistic approach to its inspired studio of interiors, delivering a broad range of modern and eclectic environments.
Our work has been featured by Architectural Digest, Clever, Domino, and more. Explore a select edit of projects below and join the studio newsletter for mixtapes and mood boards.
Equal parts polished and punchy, this house reads like a garden of Warhol flowers.
Chromatic tile and animated wall-coverings set the tempo—botanicals wrapping stairs and corridors, graphic scenes appearing with confidence in all the right places. Tailored painted millwork keeps everything crisp, while warm wood floors and cane-front details introduce an easy structure. In baths and thresholds, glaze and grout trade banter: checks, stripes, and tidy ceramic grids that feel both hardworking and unbuttoned. Layered with stone, metal, sculptural lighting, and an edited family of furniture, the result is an interior that’s richly patterned yet fully livable—straight-laced where it counts, with just enough spunk to keep it memorable.
Bergamot
Atlanta, Georgia
Named for the citrus note, Bergamot reflects the balance of freshness and depth that defines this home. Bright yet grounded, the name speaks to an interior that feels invigorating on first impression and increasingly layered over time.
This home unfolds with the confidence of a beautifully composed perfume—layered, restrained, and emotionally resonant. A nature-inflected palette of blue-greens, inky navy, warm stone, and richly grained wood establishes a sense of calm sophistication, while aged brass and hand-finished details introduce depth and patina. Much like a classic Jo Malone scent, the interiors reveal themselves gradually: crisp and fresh at first glance, then grounded by texture, contrast, and materiality. Paneling, millwork, and classic forms provide structure and rhythm, allowing the materials to lead without excess.
Julep
Atlanta, Georgia
Both buttoned-up and irreverent, our Julep residence takes the home’s traditional architecture and gives it a fresh jolt of personality. Like its namesake cocktail, it’s equal parts polished and punchy—refreshing, a little sweet, and never shy about a garnish. Think tailored millwork and classical proportions—but doused in color and garden-party patterns.
Throughout, we let bold paint do the talking: clay and peach tones soften the living spaces, while celadon greens and inky blues sharpen the edges, turning trim and doorways into punctuation. Botanical and scenic wall-coverings push the narrative further—romantic, immersive, and a little theatrical—like stepping into a painting you can actually pour a drink in. The furnishings are a studied mix: clean-lined upholstery, sculptural silhouettes, and collectible art layered against vintage accents and warm wood floors. Nothing feels too precious, but everything feels intentional. The result is modern tradition with a twist—bright, layered, confident, and wild at heart.
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Darien
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“For her own family home, this Atlanta designer discovered her inner earthy maximalist where floor-to-ceiling stripes and Surrealist wallpapers rule.”
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Elegantly punk rock, our Derian residence in Atlanta’s Lake Claire neighborhood, is the home of our founder, Kate Hayes. Bursting at the seams with bold pattern, bright colors, and playful pieces of collectible art and design, the interior is a testament to our studio’s kaleidoscopic way of seeing.
Spoleto
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As Shelia Lam put it for Architectural Digest, “this modernist Atlanta home is cheeky with a little edge...”
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A pseudo-surrealist dream set in 1970s California. That’s the aesthetic nutshell of our Spoleto project, also known as our co-principle Krista’s home. From walls papered in palm fronds to flying pickup trucks, there’s no shortage of personality in this eclectic interior.
Huron
Middle of nowhere, Georgia
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A residential project in the middle of nowhere, Huron is a warm and reflective family cabin in the Northeastern Georgia woods. Situated on the banks of the picturesque Soque River, this earthy, 70s-inspired home was designed in rhythm with the landscape that surrounds it, with its homeowevers giving us the brief of “more outside, less inside.”
Yves
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First mixed by French artist Yves Klein in the 1950s, International Klein Blue is moody, saturated, and layered - much like our East Atlanta loft project which we've lovingly dubbed Yves. Its interior is a melodic mix of materiality, unexpected motifs, and jolts of artful influence.
Equally fluent in new builds, residential renovations, and commercial projects, founders Kate Hayes and Krista Little’s design process is explorative, collaborative and oftentimes thematic, with an intentional focus on creating evocative spaces focused on eliciting a particular feeling in time.
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