Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Do you remember reading my post about wall-to-wall carpeting a few months back? About how it's making a comeback?
Well if you didn't, now you won't have to! The AP interviewed me last week for a story about it, and it hit the papers - and the web-waves - yesterday. Newsday and The Washington Post lead the list....
Boy, did I need that. Three days out of town, with our little nuclear family and dear friends, doing pretty much nothing. It was perfect.
Even more perfect was this: the tremendous calm I felt upon walking into a house that had been repainted, modestly renovated, and stripped of extraneous art and tchochkes.
It felt peaceful....
Hello, Gentle Readers! I do love updates.
When we last spoke, I was debating whether the trim in this bedroom -- needed to be painted a deeper cream to match the ceiling (on which we used OC-9 Ballet White). That was the conundrum that led to 7 sanity-restoring rules about trim color. You remember....
Here's the result!
Over the weekend, the fabulous Rita Konig (you know, of Domino Magazine fame) had a snappy article in the Wall Street Journal called, "Not Your Grandma's Patterned Carpet: It's time to reconsider wall-to-wall."
Super fun. Here's my favorite part:...
With all the Restoration Hardware bashing I've been doing recently, I'm feeling the need to be a bit, how shall I say?, nice.
So I opened my new Pottery Barn catalog determined to find something nice to say.
And guess what? It wasn't that hard!
In addition to a few items that weren't bad, such as these block-print linens at right,...
When we first moved into this house, our twin daughters were 6 months old.
(They're fraternal, not identical, but they go through stages of looking very, very similar. Age 6 months was one of those times; try as I might, I have no idea who this kid is.)
We decided to keep the girls in the same room as long as we could - heck, they shared a CRIB for several months when they were first born, so sharing a room was a no-brainer....
Well, well, well. A new attitude for a new year: I, bossy color the open-minded, am heartily endorsing a piece of Pottery Barn furniture.
You know that my relationship with Pottery Barn has been a tortured one, reaching its nadir with the arrival of a certain "Thanksgiving" Pottery Barn catalog. I shudder just thinking about that....