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In 1995 Wearstler opened Kelly Wearstler Interior Design, her own design firm.<ref name="weeUnplugged"/> The following year she was introduced to [[real estate developer]] Brad Korzen, who hired her to design his house in the [[Hollywood Hills]]<ref name="NewYorker1"/> and several residential properties owned by Korzen's company Kor Realty Group.<ref name="ElleDecor"/><ref name="weeUnplugged"/> The first of the residences was the Avalon hotel in Beverly Hills,<ref name="NYT1"/> which re-opened in 1999 with a style described in the press as "a playful take on mid-century modernism."<ref name="NewYorker1"/> With apartments filled with pieces from modernist artists such as [[Arne Jacobsen]], [[Eero Saarinen]] and [[George Nelson (designer)|George Nelson]],<ref name="welgard"/> ''[[The New York Times]]'' would write a decade later that "her playful, elegantly over-the-top designs for the Avalon Beverly Hills changed the look of boutique hotels around the world."<ref name="NYT2"/> In 2000, she designed the small Maison 140 hotel in Beverly Hills.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Maison 140 Hotel redesigned by Kelly Wearstler {{!}} Los Angeles Homes|url=https://www.losangeleshomes.eu/trending-now/maison-140-hotel-redesigned-by-kelly-wearstler/|access-date=2021-10-30|website=www.losangeleshomes.eu}}</ref>
Her work on the Avalon and the Maison 140 led to a commission designing Viceroy Hotels and Resorts, a new chain of [[boutique hotel]]s,<ref name="NYT1"/> which she gave an "almost theatrical" [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] aesthetic.<ref name="weeUnplugged"/> The Viceroy in [[Palm Springs]] became "her most accomplished work" in 2001,<ref name="weeUnplugged"/> and the design of the Viceroy that opened a year later in [[Santa Monica]] also earning praise in the press. By that time she was also working on the Viceroy Miami,<ref name="wedcurbed"/> and other notable designs include Viceroy Anguilla on the island of [[Anguilla]]<ref name="fvogueviceory"/> and The Tides Hotel South Beach in [[Miami]].<ref name="gpowerhousecurbed"/> ''[[Elle Decor]]'' would later write that "her luxury hotel interiors" featured "elegant [[bergère]] chairs, unexpected lacquer finishes (glistening lemon yellows, Amazon parrot greens) and old-style stately wallpapers."<ref name="ElleDecor"/> As of 2002 she had also completed design projects for clients such as [[Mercury Records]], [[Ben Stiller]], and [[Jeanne Tripplehorn]].<ref name="welgard"/> In 2006 Wearstler designed the restaurant and lounge, BG Restaurant, at the Manhattan [[Bergdorf Goodman]] department store.<ref name="AllTheBest"/><ref name="sassy"/>
===First books and ''Top Design'' (2004-2008)===
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