Interior Design
Visionary design takes a lot of inspiration, and a fair degree of risk. Playing the middle ground usually makes for unimpressive spaces. Dallas interior designer Sherry Hayslip, ASID, IIDA, brings 30-plus years of inspiration to her work, and creates marvelous residential and commercial spaces. She knows how to walk that fine line of risk for extraordinary results. “Being…
An unlikely path led Traci Connell to great success as a Dallas interior designer. Connell earned her degree in education and was an elementary school teacher. She enjoyed the job, but says she hadn’t found her passion. “What I really loved about teaching was the creativity and structure of the classroom,” she said. “The big…
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There’s a new design term percolating over from Europe called “broken concept.” I think of it as open concept 2.0. If the point of open concept is to remove all dividing walls to combine multiple rooms, Broken Concept is about achieving openness while retaining some separation. Think of it as a halfway point between individual…
The phrase “to the trade only” means interior designers can purchase lots of fabulous things regular folks can’t. Many stores and showrooms in the Dallas Design District and around the city are “to the trade only,” so you can look, but you can’t buy, unless you’ve got a designer on speed dial to meet you there. Dallas…
