By Mallory Mattingly
Home reno legend Joanna Gaines took a page out of HGTV star Erin Napier’s book to revamp Magnolia Silos with a welcoming mural.
Gaines shared a video on Instagram of the mural getting painted on a building in Waco, Texas. It reads, “Meet me at the Silos.”
“New to town,” Gaines wrote in the caption. “Thank you @cheracreative for painting the coolest mural of the Silos right across the street from @thehotel1928! Your process is so fun to watch I’ve got this video on repeat…”
Chera, the artist who painted the mural, detailed her process on Instagram.
“Magnolia mural reveal 🎨🙌🏻 Back in January, while setting goals for the year, I made a list of dream companies I’d love to work with and Magnolia was right at the top,” Chera wrote. “Just a month later, I got an email from their team about a mural project! I immediately called my family and squealed for a solid day, they all knew how much I’ve always loved Magnolia. This mural was such a fun and meaningful opportunity, definitely one for the books.”
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Napier is known for using murals to “breathe new life into small towns.”
Her strategically placed murals appear all over Laurel, Mississippi, where she and husband Ben film HOME TOWN. The art pieces were all part of her plan to beautify her beloved city.
“When we all came home from college — Mallorie and Jim Rasberry, Emily and Josh Nowell, Ben, and me — we were the only people who lived downtown,” Napier told Southern Living as to why she and her husband, Ben, wanted to include murals. “It was just us and the feral cats. For the six of us, all in our twenties, it was like a game: How can we make downtown Laurel feel alive again?”
“We all did what we could,” she added. “Josh had done some real estate development. He had a bird’s-eye view. Ben and I were the storytellers. I would take photos of a corner downtown that people might overlook. I kept a journal online, and I mocked up some murals in Photoshop. We put some lights in the trees and had these potluck parties and invited our friends from Hattiesburg. We were just like, ‘Yeah, Laurel’s a cool place — you didn’t know?’”
Fans of Napier and Gaines will have to visit these colorful photo ops that bring even more life to their favorite places.
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