Color + paint color

Miami’s Royal Palm hotel, white and serene, is now a distant memory

Annie Elliott | January 24, 2012

We returned from Miami to freezing temps and aspirational snow on the ground. Sad any way you look at it.

As I Tweeted, the hotel itself, the Royal Palm, was lovely. A page out of old Miami: a tidy and tasteful room (I'm not a believer in big bedrooms, let alone big hotel rooms) and a sweeping view.

For this color-obsessed design maven, the white walls, drapes and bedding - and I mean WHITE, not ivory, cream, light taupe, or gray - made a big impression....

» Bedroom, Color + paint color

Ringin’ in the new year with metallic paint. (Also, Nina Campbell wallpaper = Merry Christmas to me)

Annie Elliott | January 3, 2012

What did YOU do over the holidays?

Really? Fun!

Me? Oh, the usual...ate too much...drove too much...got a little jiggy with metallic paint...

Let me back up. I haven't yet confessed to you that I went on a bit of a decorating bender at the end of 2011....

» Color + paint color, Wallpaper

Pantone’s color of the year 2012: 17-1463 Tangerine Tango

Annie Elliott | December 13, 2011

Kristie at The Decorologist broke the news to me first. Pantone's color of the year for 2012 is a dark reddish orange called Tangerine Tango.
Sigh. Was it too much to hope for a nice, grassy green?

Leatrice Eisman describes Tangerine Tango thus...

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Imaginary friends: Foolproof paint colors for a bachelor pad

Annie Elliott | December 6, 2011

I mean, why not? I can't work with every single person who contacts bossy color, tragically. But some fairly universal paint color challenges do exist, so I thought if I came up with some foolproof paint colors...
THE IMAGINARY FRIEND: a youngish bachelor.

THE IMAGINARY HOME: a one-bedroom apartment in the city....

» Bedroom, Color + paint color, Kitchen + bath

Happy summer (and some of bossy color’s favorite blog posts)

Annie Elliott | July 14, 2011

Dear Gentle Readers,

I apologize. I didn't intend to get out of the posting groove, but as you can see, it happened anyway. Rather than continuing to disappoint you every time you rush to your computer in excited anticipation of bossy color blog's next installment (I hope the gentle sarcasm is coming through), I am going to declare, officially, that bossy color blog is on hiatus this summer...

» Color + paint color, Lighting

Color Outlook is here!

Annie Elliott | July 10, 2011

I want to tell you about a new project. I'm really excited about it!

Color Outlook is a quarterly series of 1-hour podcasts about color trends. Six color experts talk about which colors we're working with right now and which we believe will gain in popularity in the months to come. It's color forecasting on an immediate scale, unlike annual color pronouncements from on high....

» Color + paint color

Colors that match vs. complement vs. just plain work. (Bonus: an unexpectedly fabulous color combo!)

Annie Elliott | May 24, 2011

We all know that when you're decorating a room from scratch, my advice is to start with the rug.

One of my most loyal, blog-reading, bossy-bossing clients is moving into a darling bungalow, and she took this advice to heart. (Advice, gentle suggestion, command...tomato, tomahto, tomuto.)

Remember how I said recently that blue dining rooms are all the rage? In part because they pull the blues from Oriental rugs so beautifully - blues MATCH well? That was the case here. This client's bungalow dining room was a "before" in the blue dining room post....

» Color + paint color, Dining room