Happy New Year, Gentle Readers! I hope you had a wonderful, healthy holiday season.
We’ve been thinking about our 2014 goals here in bossyland. It may not be world peace, but we have our own modest aspirations.
In 2014, bossy color will leave no pillow untrimmed.
Trimming a pillow makes such a difference! A flange, a fringe, a ribbon…dare I say, a tassel…it just makes a pillow look finished. If you’re going to all of the trouble (and expense) of having pillows made, just add some trim. Skip the ruffles, though: a tiny contrasting cording, flange or tape is more modern.
Bossy color will be adventurous with tile.
On backsplashes, floors, and walls, we will be daring! The tile doesn’t even have to be expensive if you’re creative with placement.
Bossy color will give every powder room the wallpaper it so richly deserves.
No explanation necessary. There’s no better place to be bold.
Bossy color will use ever-edgier color combinations.
More bossy color by bossy color, you ask? Indeed! I’ve always had a mental block about navy with black, for example. But recently, it revealed itself as the ideal solution for a super hip music room.
We’re in good company, evidently.
I wouldn’t normally pair mustard with coral, and yet…
Same goes for cobalt and teal:
And then there’s aqua and olive (ok, that one I’ve already used. But I could use it MORE!):
If I do more purple, will you be magnanimous and give me Radiant Orchid points?
Bossy color will search the globe* for new sources.
(*Or at least the mid-Atlantic region.) This is where you can help me, Gentle Readers. We all have our tried and true resources, don’t we? The goods are interesting, the salespeople know us, the service is outstanding. But we could branch out a little bit. Shake things up. New sources for a new year.
So send me your favorites, will you? Especially bricks-and-mortar shops in major metropolitan areas that I can visit in person. And please hold my feet to the fire on the other goals: accountability in 2014! Onward!
Quoted recently in The Wall Street Journal and on Washingtonian.com, Annie Elliott is an expert in curated interiors, brilliant color palettes, and telling people what to do in the nicest way possible.