To modernize this Hamptons home, designer Ariel Okin turns up the dial on whimsical and infuses it with color, pattern and a playful disposition.

Joan Maureen Collins, a Scottsdale, Arizona artist, explores the natural world in her abstract acrylic paintings by using everyday items.

Designer Amy Carman adds Parisian glamor and earthy colors to transform a 1930s Wisconsin Tudor into a home fit for contemporary living.

Chicago designer Carly Moeller uses the owners’ art collection and travel as jumping-off point for this Parisian-inspired apartment.

For a Brooklyn brownstone renovation, designer Rebecca Amir layers interesting furnishings, saturated tones and classic design elements.

AZ painter Abbey Messmer uses pool photographs as inspiration to create dreamy abstract works rendering aquatic distortions of the world.

Chicago artist Hale Ekinci uses domestic textiles and family photographs to explore the place women’s work holds in the fine art world.

Chicago artist Griffin Goodman uses whimsical cartoons and pop culture references to express political messages and shrewd social commentary.