About

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DESIGNER – AUTHOR – EDUCATOR

While still in elementary school, Moorea Hoffman was surrounded by a marriage of food and design. She remembers visiting construction sites with her contractor father and helping out in her mother’s catering company, Decadent Dining, as early as the age of seven.

While studying at Scripps College, Moorea began her apprenticeship in design with her godfather, Donald Silvers, a retired chef and Principal of Kitchen Design with Cooking in Mind. During her junior year, Moorea lived in Aix-en-Provence, France where her interest in cooking developed into a passion. She took cooking classes with the renowned chef, Bruno Ungaro of L’Amphytrion restaurant. It was during this experience that her love of cooking and interest in design coalesced into the desire to follow in her godfather’s footsteps as a kitchen designer.

After completing her Bachelors degree in English Literature, Moorea went to work for Expo Design Center selling grills. She quickly moved to appliances and from there went to countertops, cabinetry, and after only fourteen months became a designer.

During the years she worked in retail, she continued to train one-on-one with Don Silvers, CKD. Her extensive appliance experience was an integral part of the revision of his book Kitchen Design with Cooking in Mind.

Moorea then went to work for The Great Indoors as a kitchen and bath designer. In 2004, she joined Don as a principal at Kitchen Design with Cooking in Mind, where she co-authored Kitchen Appliances 101: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why, a ground-breaking textbook for homeowners and the design community alike, now being used as a curriculum accredited by the Interior Design Education Council.

Moorea founded Kitcheneering in 2008 to bring the “Design with Cooking in Mind” philosophy to her home community of Orange County. She currently lives in San Clemente, CA and practices design in Orange County, San Diego and Los Angeles. She is working on a new design book.