Kimberly Harper Interiors

To know what you want to do with your life is a good thing. To actually be doing it with a great deal of success is even better. Interior designer Kimberly Harper of Kimberly Harper Interiors in Fayetteville is doing just that. She has run a flourishing interior design business for more than ten years, and the success that she has enjoyed is a product of her hard work and dedication to her field. 

Kimberly’s interest in interior design started at a very young age when her parents began remodeling their North Little Rock home.  “I would go with them to meet the designer, and I was really interested in the wallpaper and the paint,” she says. By the time she got to high school her interest and talent had grown even more. She decided to pursue an internship with designer Georg Andersen of Georg Andersen Associates in Conway, and Georg remembers her fondly. “She was one of the most delightful people I’ve ever had on staff,” he says. “She always treated the work as if it was her own business, and her taste level was impeccable.”

After high school Kimberly went on to study interior design at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and opened Kimberly Harper Interiors in Fayetteville five years later.
She is an allied ASID member, Kimberly describes her style as a mix of contemporary and traditional with an added touch of whimsy. She finds inspiration from many different places, including her travels. “I travel a lot,” she says. “When I go somewhere like New York or Dallas, I take lots of pictures.” When designing for her clients, she always tries to recreate their taste, rather than inject her own preferences.  “It’s always the client’s style that I’m trying to emulate, and that’s what I focus on.” While Kimberly loves to work from a blank slate, she also enjoys reworking what a client already has. “It’s so fun to go into an existing space that someone doesn’t exactly know what to do with and help to make it better,” she says.

Considering Kimberly’s success, it’s no wonder that she has made the decision to expand her storefront. In August, she’s moving her studio and store from the downtown square in Fayetteville to Rogers. There she hopes to increase the store’s in-stock gift items, while still maintaining and growing the interior design side.  “I will have my design studio, fabrics and furniture in Rogers, but we will still do business in Fayetteville and throughout the area,” she says. With her passion for design and her determination to achieve her goals, Kimberly is doing just what she was meant to do, and she loves every minute of it.  “I get to do something different every day,” she says. “I simply love my job.”