Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Hi Annie, I love your blog and read it religiously since discovering it via Washingpost.com. I have a question I’m hoping you can answer. I moved into a relatively new house about a year ago (it was built in 2003), and while the master bath is very spacious, it has very generic “builders beige” tile …
You can’t teach taste. Yes, you can teach basic design principles, and color theory, and how to light a room…but really, when it comes to taste, you either have it or you don’t. My friend does. That and an excellent sense of how to put things together. This is her apartment, with its fantastic wall …
Fast-breaking news story: California decorator Michael S. Smith has been tapped as the Obamas’ choice for White House decorator. Creds are all in order – celebrity clients, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, blah blah – and he’s written a few books, but I especially love the fact that he studied decorative arts at the V&A. He’s …
One day last spring, I was at Timothy Paul’s on 14th Street scouting out rugs and accessories for a favorite client. I turned around, and there it was: the fabric of my dreams. It’s called Birds, and it’s hand blocked in Philadelphia by pattern geniuses Galbraith and Paul. The snowy white heavy linen, the saturated …
Hi Annie,Since I sold my wonderful bossy color designed condo in DC and moved into a rental in a far away state I’ve come up with a few design dilemmas. Here is one I’m really struggling with…..a rug question. I purchased a really affordable white flokati rug for my bedroom. It is super soft and …
I fear faux painting. Maybe it’s a hangover from the ’80s, when “rag painting” was so popular… But to be honest, when you have a zillion people working on a project – the contractor, the floor guy, electrician, plumber, team of painters, drapery installer, chirpy decorator (that would be me) – the last thing I …
Q: What suggestions do you have for sliding doors? I have some new ones in a combination bedroom/ sitting room at the front of a house with a front deck which we will make semi private. We want it to be totally open with the doors open in the daytime but very private at night …