The Ninth Annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach has officially opened its doors, unveiling the work of 23 of the nation’s most celebrated designers. For the first time ever, designers transformed two exceptional properties: a waterfront Intracoastal House and a charming Palm Cottage, located just across the street, in the Northwood Shores neighborhood. Tickets are available for purchase here until closing day on March 24, 2026, with proceeds benefitting the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County.
“Bringing together exceptional design and a shared commitment to giving back, this event makes a lasting difference for the young people in our community,” said Daniel Quintero, Executive Director of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club. “The continued support of our sponsors, designers, and guests is instrumental in advancing the mission of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County.”
Take a look inside each showhouse space here:
Alexander Interiors | Chintz By The Sea & High Tide Hall
Chintz By The Sea is classic Palm Beach glamour with some cheeky nods to current pop culture. Nationally recognized for her elegant bathroom designs, Tori Alexander of Alexander Interiors incorporates her signature aesthetic with a timeless floral wallpaper by Schumacher in soft tones of blue, aqua, and violet, layered with Metal Leaf Square in the silver colorway by York Wallcoverings, which adds a subtle shimmer and reflective depth to the space. The color palette continues into the shower walls, with vibrant azure and aqua tile from Artistic Tile.
High Tide Hall is richly dressed in custom architectural millwork that lean into the formal elegance of neoclassicism. The detailed millwork was expertly executed by Preston Lemanski and Lemanski Construction Company in Palm Beach. A color palette refined by nature incorporates rich base color, Slate Teal 2058-20 by Benjamin Moore, and a textured wallcovering provided by Tori’s most trusted business advisor, David Finer, owner of Fabricut. Adding drama and visual interest, Tori worked closely with The Shade Store to design custom drapery in a range of blue tones.
Amy Young Designs | The Breakfast Club – After Hours
Setting the stage for a client who lives – and entertains – the way others vacation. The Breakfast Club – After Hours, reimagines the kitchen and breakfast room as a luminous jewelry box, with soft jewel tones, blush walls, and white gold-leafed artistry. The design creates an intimate, boutique hotel-like atmosphere and embodies the firm’s signature style: creating sophisticated backdrops for everyday rituals.
BAMO, Inc. | Architectural Mirage
The room unfolds as a suspended moment, where gravity loosens and time feels subtly distorted. Here, the rational world softens at its edges, and modern luxury bends to the whims of surreal imagination. Inspired by Jean Cocteau’s fluid visual language, the interior becomes an elegant paradox, meticulously composed yet intentionally unpredictable. From this foundation, the sunroom and pool deck evolve into a curated landscape of distorted elegance and tactile richness. The result is a sanctuary of stillness and wonder, where luxury is not merely seen but felt, and where surrealism becomes an immersive, lived experience rather than a fleeting gesture.
Bell Design, Inc. | Neither Fish Nor Fowl: A Landscape Architect’s Life
Bell Design, Inc. playfully notes the contradictions of a landscape architect’s life: neither architect nor gardener, landscape architects practice in the spaces between many disciplines. A landscape architect works with an unusually broad palette. Every element, whether natural or constructed, has its own materiality, its own behavior over time, and its own impact on humans and the environment. From the wonder of a child’s tree house to healthful areas for athletic exercise and recovery to the desire for comfort and indulgence in our mature years, our favorite outdoor spaces evolve as we do.
Colleen Rosar Design | Where Plans get Canceled
Colleen Rosar, along with her team, transformed one of the bungalow’s bedrooms into a flexible sitting room designed for the moment you return home and decide to stay. Inspired by travel and a collected way of living, the space adapts naturally from lounging and entertaining to hosting overnight guests.
Danielle Balanis Design | The Mame Dennis
Exuberant and divine, obviously, The Mame Dennis is fitted for your most eccentric and worldly of houseguests. Color-drenched in a masterful Lee Jofa Oscar de la Renta Jessup floral print, layered with Brunschwig & Fils textiles, this room is calming and inviting yet carbonated with zest and a libido for the fabulous. One slumber in this splendid space will “open doors for you, doors you never even dreamed existed!”
EERDMANS | Mrs. Howell’s Retreat
This living room imagines if Mrs. Thurston Howell III, known to her friends as “Lovey”, had ever been rescued from Gilligan’s Island and returned for the Palm Beach season. Here, the renowned international hostess and former Queen of the Pitted Prune Bowl would receive her guests in low-key high style. At the center, “Aquarius”, a large abstract painting by artist Margaret Kennedy, hangs over a long Louis XVI sofa (purchased at her dear friend and couturier Norman Norell’s Sotheby’s auction), and suggests that Mrs. Howell, while devoted to tradition, has her foot in the present. Everything is light, civilized, and resolutely unruffled.
Firefinish Interiors | Terra Calma & Patio do Sol
Terra Calma is a sun-washed indoor-outdoor sanctuary designed to feel like a quiet exhale. It’s a space where texture, light, and material do the talking. Soft mineral tones and tactile surfaces set a calm, grounded mood, allowing daylight to move gently across the room. Terra Calma isn’t about spectacle – it’s about how a space makes you feel. Calm but not boring. Artful but not precious.
The outdoor shower courtyard is our modern interpretation of Palm Beach – sunlit, artful, and layered with intention. The space blends modern sensibilities with a reverence for craft, pattern, and play. Yellow was introduced as a central note to evoke light, optimism, and warmth, setting an immediate emotional tone that feels both joyful and transportive.
Justin P. Moreland Interiors | Gracious Garden Entry
Step into this gracious passageway, where transitional elegance transforms a simple corridor into a quietly enchanting moment within the home. Designed to be both functional and transportive, the space unfolds as a refined vignette — one that rewards lingering glances and thoughtful detail. The corridor stands as a reminder that even the most transitional spaces deserve thoughtful attention — where beauty, function, and craftsmanship meet in perfect harmony.
Kate Ives Design | Lucinda’s Lounge
The perfect ladies’ escape, Lucinda’s Lounge is an ode to Kate’s mother — her forever muse and greatest design inspiration. This intimate sanctuary, made possible by O’Neill-Construction, is enveloped in the happiest tonal yellow stripes and grounded by boldly painted floors, both by our fabulous decorative painter, Shelly Decorative Painting.
Lisa Erdmann Interiors | The Royal Retreat
The Royal Retreat is inspired by the glamour of Mustique and one of its most famous patrons: Princess Margaret. The sitting room features an inviting sense of coastal elegance, established through Brunschwig & Fils’s vibrant Nouvelle wallcovering, which envelops the room in a tropical scene. During the evening hours, a Stark carpet doubles as a dance floor, once the window treatments, fabricated by The Shade Store, are drawn. Mustique is famous for its legendary soirees, after all!
Lopez Group Inc. | Florida Garden Rooms
Step into the Florida Garden Rooms, a series of curated outdoor spaces designed to be experienced like the rooms of a home. Each area has its own identity, offering a unique perspective from both inside and outside the house. The design encourages exploration from inside the home as well, framing views and drawing the eye outward to the garden’s distinctive spaces.
Lori Morris Design | The Gilded Palm
In The Gilded Palm, Florida’s sunlight becomes the muse. This space is an ode to warmth and allure, with creams, soft golds, and a whisper of blush layered to feel both luminous and intimate. Light dances across reflective surfaces including a mirrored television by Reflectel, which quietly dissolves into the architecture, echoing the movement of water just beyond the walls and creating a subtle shimmer that shifts throughout the day. There is a quiet drama here, elegant, sensual, and unapologetically glamorous.
LTA Interiors | The Mahjong Lounge
This glamorous gathering space celebrates the joy, friendship, and spirit of women coming together. Once a traditional social pastime and now a modern phenomenon, mahjong has become as much about togetherness as it is about style. This space celebrates the evolution in full glam. It’s a room where conversation flows, gossip glimmers, elegance reigns, and competition is served with a smile.
Pappas Miron Design | The Citron Salon
The Citron Salon is a refined respite from the Florida sunshine. It’s a place to unwind, entertain, or quietly catch up on correspondence. Equal parts elegant and inviting, the room offers a cocoon of warmth and personality. Upon entering the vestibule, guests are welcomed by a decorative panel created specifically for Kips Bay by artist Sandra Constantine. Her brushstrokes and layered palette set the tone for the experience ahead, introducing movement and color. Whether sipping Grasshoppers with friends debating the latest episode of Palm Royale, or enjoying an afternoon of reading and reflection, the Citron Salon is designed to do it all. In a destination known for its sun-drenched glamour, this room reminds us that sometimes the greatest luxury lies in retreat.
River Brook | Tiki Tent
Inspired by a Slim Aarons poolside photograph and the glamorous cabanas of 1960s Palm Beach, the Tiki Tent is our take on a space designed for entertaining. A classic cabana stripe by Schumacher sets the foundation, layered with warm sunset color, daring stone, and bold pattern to give the room its personality and character. An oversized bar anchors the tent as the social heart of the space, designed as a natural gathering point that invites guests to pull up a stool, linger, and stay awhile.
Sherrill Canet Interiors | The Primary Sanctuary
Welcome to the Primary Sanctuary, where peaceful glamour envelops the masters of the house. Soft hues and layered furnishings invite you in, rich with tactile beauty and quiet luxury.
Sire Design | The Becoming Suite
The Becoming Suite — a primary dressing room and bath — reimagines one of the earliest residential sanctuaries through a contemporary, intimate lens. Rooted in 17th–18th century tradition, the original dressing room and adjoining bath formed the first private suite: a secluded world for grooming, bathing, preparation, and the quiet act of receiving a trusted confidant. These spaces established the belief that getting ready was an art rather than a task—deserving of intention, hierarchy, and architectural reverence. This vision unfolds as a series of softly connected moments, brought to life through the craftsmanship and coordination of CH Construction, whose execution allows the space to feel fluid, calm, and considered.
Steven Walsh Design | The Botanical Hall & Marble Bath
A restrained material palette elevates the interiors, pairing the expressive tactility of tropical relief panels with the enduring luxury of marble. Plaster-inspired wall sculptures, shaped by botanical forms, lend an immersive, atmospheric quality to the space, while marble surfaces introduce a sense of quiet richness and permanence. The result is an environment that feels both sensorial and sophisticated, rooted in nature yet unmistakably modern.
Tartan & Toile | Entertainment Command Center and Powder Room
In the spirit of Marjorie Merriweather Post — businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist, and consummate hostess — the entertainment center just off the kitchen was designed for party planning, where guest lists get created, thank you notes written, and barware and linens stored.
The Lewis Gallo Design Group | The Champagne Conservatory
Once a sunroom, The Lewis Gallo Design Group’s Champagne Conservatory has been reimagined as the home’s most inviting pause — a cheerful, intimate spot designed for popping corks, swapping stories, and lingering a little longer than planned. Inspired by the playful elegance of Old Palm Beach, the room captures a spirit of ease and celebration, equally suited to afternoon light or an evening glow.
Wecselman Design | A Designer’s Retrospective
Unapologetic in vision and global in sensibility, the Great Room unfolds as Deborah Wecselman’s curated journey through intimate moments shaped by three decades as an interior designer, a collector at heart and traveler by instinct. Echoes of Paris emerge throughout the space, shaped by years spent sourcing at the city’s underground flea markets, where Wecselman acquires her antiques fresh from their original owners before entering the restoration process. This sense of wanderlust is woven throughout the room, expressed in an eclectic interplay of pattern, texture, light, and form.
Yarn Design Associates | The Gathering Place
Welcome to The Gathering Place, where every household member meets while having a bite to eat! This kitchen experience captures the sophistication of bold design with master carpentry work by Spectrum Kitchens.
Photography by Nickolas Sargent.
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