Designer’s Corner
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.
Mother’s Day usually comes with the expected — brunch reservations and a well-timed bouquet. Here, it looks more like shared calendars, job sites, and profit-and-loss statements.
