This summer, be sure to cash in on a growing trend – the artist-designed hotel room. Boutique hotels are popping up everywhere right now and more and more of them are paying artists to deck their walls with original creations. I’m not going to enter into the contentious debate on who started the trend, and where – that’s a bear trap if I’ve ever seen one – but I will gladly point out a few of the more compelling cases in the U.S.

Ace Hotel: Now in Portland, Seattle, Palm Springs and New York, the Ace might just take the cake for the most stylish boho haunt around. Artists are integrally involved in all of their design choices, but for the sake of brevity I’ll just focus on the New York location. The owners brought in emerging NYC artists to outfit the rooms with murals and some individual flare. The result – a relatively affordable, infinitely hip place to lay your head in the city.

Hotel des Arts: San Francisco’s art hotel also focuses on emerging artists, but with more of a street art/graffiti bent (and an AOL era website). The roster is pretty impressive, with rooms done by Shepard Fairey, David Choe, Maya Hayuk and Jeremy Fish. An onsite gallery also hosts shows, and the location is close to many downtown galleries and artist studio buildings.

21c Museum Hotel: The name of this southern home-away-from-home for art buffs is not a turn of phrase: it’s both a museum and a hotel. Located on Louisville, Kentucky’s Museum Row, it’s in the thick of it when it comes to cultural offerings. The 9000 square feet of gallery space is free and open to the public 24/7, but for the more intimate experience, book one of its adjoining 90 rooms.

That’s hardly the end of the options for art loving travelers. Soon, you’ll be able to catch your z’s under a masterpiece in almost every major city in the country. For now, finding a destination boutique hotel within your destination can still be a bit of a challenge, but one that’s well worth the effort.