Elaine Raffel
Elaine Raffel left the corporate world to become a freelance creative focused on real estate and design in Dallas.
Most builders spend their careers creating homes for other families. This Father’s Day, Paul Moss is celebrating one he built himself.
As America turns 250, cities across Texas and beyond are going well beyond the standard fireworks-and-hot-dogs formula with drone shows, luxury resort weekends, historic reenactments, riverfront festivals, symphony performances, and small-town parades that feel pulled from another era.
A wall-sized mural that transports you to another place and time. A custom wallcovering inspired by family travels and personal memories. A closet or dressing room transformed into a private retreat. Increasingly, designers are treating wallcoverings less as decoration and more as artwork, architecture, and storytelling.
Kellie Sirna has spent the last decade and a half designing some of the hospitality industry’s most visually arresting spaces — from luxury resorts and boutique hotels to restaurants, music venues, residences, and immersive lifestyle concepts that blur the line between interiors, branding, art, and experience.
If the last decade was defined by white walls and safe interiors, today’s design world is embracing something far more expressive. Wallpaper is back — bolder, moodier, and more immersive than ever.
