The 2025 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas is a buffet of sumptuous fabrics, glossy lacquer and works of art spanning centuries and mediums — and it opens to the public for tours this Friday. The annual event, now in its sixth year in Dallas, brings together top design talent from across the world to transform a single home (or, in this case, an office building once slated to be a luxury hotel) into a stunning display of daring design. “It is definitely a feast for the eyes,” says Dallas-based participating designer Doniphan Moore.

The show house returns to the same location as last year, 2999 Turtle Creek Blvd. But if you’re planning a repeat visit, don’t expect to see anything familiar. Each space has been fully reimagined for the new show.

The 26 participating designers — including multiple from D-FW — had less than two months to conceive and install their designs. The experience is a rare one, Moore says: the fully blank canvas of the space, the total creative license, the compressed time frame to execute your vision and a supportive environment “where the world wants to help you get that done.”

The local artists and vendors and firms who contributed to the finished products are too many to name, but you can explore details as you tour the house. And yes, some things are for sale. Don’t be afraid to ask.

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The show house event will run from Nov. 7-23. Tickets are $50 in advance online or $60 at the door, subject to availability. You can also buy 10 or more tickets online for $45 each.

Whet your appetite for the feast with these tidbits from a few of the North Texas-based firms.

Sees Designs’ grand entry hall:

Sees Design's show house space, "Made to Measure," was inspired by legendary designer Bill...View Gallery

There’s an Easter egg waiting just inside the show house door for “design geeks,” who will certainly recognize the homage to legendary fashion designer Bill Blass’ Sutton Place apartment in New York City. Principal Corbin See lists himself among the design geeks and enjoyed the challenge of channeling Blass while infusing the look with Sees touches: the “left turns” of the aesthetic he and his brother now bring to the firm their father founded.

The team outfitted a bar for a prior Kips Bay home, but this space “feels like a real return to our residential selves,” says associate principal Sara See.

Joshua Bernard Design’s bathroom and hallway:

Dallas-based Joshua Bernard Design turned a hallway and bathroom into a striking space, with...View Gallery

McKinney native Joshua Bernard, just 31 years old, has been working as a designer for nine years, the last three of those full-time. He was delighted to be assigned a bathroom in the Kips Bay home and knocked out his plan in a matter of days. From the customized Artistic Tile floor to the quartzite wainscoting, it’s a place in which he’d love to get ready.

And then he found out he had a hallway to transform, too — with not one, but two corners to turn. Bernard dubbed his installation “The Long View,” because “you really don’t know what’s around the corner.”

It’s a fitting statement on his own development, too. Participating in the show house allowed him to work alongside designers he has long revered. “I’m a peer now, I’m not just admiring them,” he says. The realization was emotional. “I cried,” he admits. “I sat in my car and cried.”

Shannon Bowers Designs’ dining room:

Bowers sourced antique and new pieces and paired them together to give the room a sense of...View Gallery

Shannon Bowers started her show house dining room the same way she starts all her spaces, with a large focal point. Or focal points, in this case: The room began with a pair of massive Persian chandeliers she found months before the event. “Oftentimes I’ll fall in love with a piece and think, ‘Oh, my goodness, where can that live?’” Bowers says.

The show house provided the perfect place for such a bold design element. The fixtures are so big that the team installing them first hung 150-pound weights from the ceiling and left those in place overnight, to be sure the chandeliers weren’t going to come crashing down once they were hung.

“Once you have your scale, you’ve got to have warmth,” Bowers says. Time restrictions for the show house forced her to bypass her original plan for a mural by a local artist. Instead, she draped the entire space in yard after yard of painter’s canvas, “which is a little out there,” she admits.

The clients she imagined for the space are a young family restoring a massive chateau. They’re filling their decidedly French home with modern pieces and opening it to friends immediately for instant gratification. Maybe the draped canvas will stay, maybe it won’t.

Doniphan Moore’s poker room:

In "The River Room," Moore rejects the typical idea of a dimly lit smoking den for a light,...View Gallery

Moore is one of several local designers participating in the show house for a second time. When Moore participated in the 2020 inaugural show house, he wore multiple hats. “I was the contractor, architect, designer,” Moore says, laughing. A lot has changed since then, including the opening of his studio and the growth of his team.

His design plan started with wallpaper that he first saw in June. “The moment I saw it, I was like, ‘This would make a gorgeous Kips Bay room,’” Moore says. The paper provides the lush backdrop for his poker salon, dubbed “The River Room,” which has elements of art deco and French influences. Moore wanted to push back on the prototypical dimly lit masculine room and create a space that embraces the theater and psychology of the game.

See the rest of the rooms in this year’s show house:

The 2025 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas:

Austin-based designer Avery Cox named this room "Blue in Green" after a Miles Davis number,...View Gallery

The 26 designers with work featured in the 2025 Dallas show house are:

Avery Cox Design Bureau Interior Architecture | Design Christopher Architecture & Interiors Design by Tula Doniphan Moore InteriorsEllerslie Interiors Fleming Peters J.D. Ireland Interior Architecture & Design Jean Liu DesignJoshua Bernard Design Katharine Pooley Lisa & Leroy Mohon Interiors Mrs. Paranjape Design + Interiors Nicole Gordon Studio Nicole Zarr Paloma Contreras Design Samantha Fisher Interior Design Sarah Stacey Interior Design Sees Design Shane & Pierce Shannon Bowers DesignsStudio Eckström Studio Thomas James Tracery Interiors Yates Desygn

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