Austin Designer Amity Worrel & Co. Designed This Guest House to Look Like a Bavarian Chalet
Every spring, the ladybugs showed up. They covered the walls of a small writing and reading room in the attic of a guest house in the Travis Heights neighborhood of Austin, Texas. So when the family hired Amity Worrel & Co to renovate the building, it only seemed suitable to let the ladybugs stay—visually, at least. “The idea just came together naturally because that ladybug shape was perfect for the pattern we had landed on,” says Amity Worrel, the firm’s owner and principal, who turned to a local artisan, Julie Rodgers, to create a custom mural inspired by them in