How To Make Your Home Look Like a Luxury Hotel

Shinola, the Detroit-based retail brand best known for its fine watches, bicycles, and leather goods, recently opened its first hotel, and it’s positively dripping with the brand’s effortlessly cool aesthetic.

The company’s first foray into hospitality is just the latest step in its evolution into a full-fledged lifestyle brand, which already makes everything from home stereo equipment to limited-edition surfboards, and has been credited with bringing manufacturing back to Detroit.

We consulted Shinola Creative Director Daniel Caudill, who helped curate the interiors of the new hotel, to glean some basic interior design rules worth keeping in mind when upgrading your own living space.

Here are his five simple rules to style your home like a design pro, accompanied, of course, by visual examples from the Shinola Hotel.

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