Murals Your Way Featured on HGTV’s Renovation Resort Showdown
About HGTV’s Renovation Resort Showdown
Renovation Resort Showdown is an HGTV competition series where professional contractor-designer duos transform vacation properties into high-end, rental-ready retreats. The series is hosted and judged by real estate expert Scott McGillivray (Vacation House Rules) and master builder Bryan Baeumler (Renovation Island), who guide the teams through intense weekly design challenges.
Murals Your Way wall murals were featured on HGTV’s Renovation Resort Showdown during Season 2, bringing immersive design to riverfront vacation rental spaces.
Season 2 Design Team: Melissa Herriott & Shannon Evans
Melissa Herriott and Shannon Evans competed as a contractor-designer duo on Season 2 of the HGTV competition series. The Charlotte-based team, known for their bold and “extra” design style, transformed blank riverfront vacation spaces into high-end rental properties designed to stand out.
Throughout the renovation process, custom wall murals from Murals Your Way helped bring their immersive design vision to life — turning blank walls into statement-making focal points that elevated each space.
“The goal for our vacation house was to create a VIBE. We didn’t want you to walk into a place that felt like your house at home. We wanted it to be ‘extra.’ To make you feel like you were worlds away from your everyday. We hoped you’d stop and smile… then pause to snap a picture with your loved ones."
~ Melissa Herriott
From Canvas to Feature Wall: The Design Story Behind the Murals
A key creative highlight of their designs is Melissa's ability to transform her original abstract paintings into custom, large scale wallcoverings from Murals Your Way. By digitizing her hand-painted canvases for the entry, laundry room and bathrooms, she created signature feature walls for her team; a bold move that helped her and partner Shannon Evans secure a win for "The Party House".
The Entry: This Must Be The Place
Seeking to make the vacation rental feel "extra" and worlds away from the everyday, Melissa transformed her own original abstract paintings into custom wallpaper, creating a "bold vibe" for her team's entry on HGTV's Renovation Resort Showdown. She lined the walls with the custom wallpaper and paired it with functional elements like a storage bench and a neon “This Must Be The Place” sign to instantly signal to guests they had arrived at a unique retreat. This signature process of converting her personal canvases into custom wallpaper allows Herriott to infuse her renovation projects with a one-of-a-kind artistic identity that bridges the gap between fine art and interior styling.
The Bathrooms: Truly Bespoke Spaces
In the bathrooms of the Renovation Resort Showdown, Melissa utilized her background as an abstract artist to create a truly bespoke environment, converting her original paintings into high-end, custom-printed wallpaper. For the luxe ensuite bathroom and guest bathrooms, she selected vibrant artwork that featured custom ink blot patterns using rich jewel tones to create a "moody" vacation vibe.
The Laundry Room: Energized & Unexpected
In the laundry room of the Renovation Resort Showdown property, Melissa and Shannon aimed to transform a "thankless chore" into a more enjoyable experience by applying a fun and energetic custom wallpaper from Murals Your Way based on Melissa’s original artwork.
For this high-traffic utility space, the design was carefully curated to stay true to the jewel tone color palette established throughout the home, ensuring the laundry room felt like a seamless, artistic extension of the vacation rental rather than an overlooked corner. Melissa and Shannon were able to provide the room with a unique, whimsical personality that standard retail wallpapers could not replicate.
The Power of Customization
Experience the same "extra" design energy seen on screen by bringing your own immersive vision to life. Whether you are digitizing your own artwork like Melissa Herriott or choosing from a vast gallery of curated designs, Murals Your Way provides the high-quality, custom-sized solutions needed to turn any room into a high-end retreat. Get ready to start crafting a "wow" statement that is uniquely yours!
This project highlights what makes custom wall murals so powerful: flexibility. A single inspiration element — in this case, framed art — became the foundation for multiple large-scale murals, each tailored in color and mood to suit its specific room.
With Murals Your Way, patterns can be adjusted, recolored, and scaled to fit your exact wall dimensions — allowing designers to maintain continuity across spaces while still creating distinct visual experiences.
Inspired by the HGTV Look?
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