Designer’s Corner
Heather Torres, the founder of Porch Pumpkins, is known for transforming Dallas front porches with artfully layered displays of pumpkins and gourds.
Behind some of this fall’s most anticipated home launches is a simple idea: collaboration. Interior designers, artists and heritage brands are joining forces to create collections that range from statement furniture and artisan lighting to custom drapery and handcrafted crystal.
The smartest warm-weather interiors aren’t about turning your house into a beach resort. No bowls of seashells, cabana stripes or sudden obsession with rattan required. A few strategic changes can make home feel lighter, fresher and far more inviting when it’s anything but outside.
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.
