Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Quick: you have a cute house with a less than cute kitchen. What do you do? If you’re a Santa Fe artist and member of Tete de Veau Design Collective, you rip off the cabinet doors and paint the insides green. Everything else fades away: the focus is on the green. The ordinary stuff on …
Well allllll right. My mother-in-law has decided that it's finally time to upgrade the kitchen at the family house in St. Michaels, Maryland.
She and I love fantasizing about all the things we could do to the the house if we win the lottery. (My D.C. abode is first in line, though...for one thing, it's almost time to paint the living room again.) But we're justifying this more immediate investment in the kitchen by telling ourselves...
You know that bossy color doesn’t often post about the latest and greatest HOME products, let alone developments in the fashion world. There are a zillion blogs that do that very well. However. Under the heading, “A designer is a designer is a designer…” I finally saw a picture of the much-buzzed about Vivienne Tam-designed …
I’ve now recommended this faucet to four clients and bought one for myself. It’s high time to spread the word. You can’t go wrong with the sleek but unfortunately named de’ Lux pullout kitchen faucet from Rohl. (Sometimes the number is R3830.) It’s simple. It’s not too big or overly stylized. It works with traditional …
A very nice woman called me up recently. “I’m stuck,” she said. In the 4 years she and her family had lived in their house, they had never really used the living room. She didn’t like the master bedroom. She was thinking of enclosing a porch but wasn’t sure it was a good idea… This …
I’ve updated the recent article about my daughters’ bedroom. Scroll to the bottom of that post for the reason. Sheesh.
Dear Annie,I sold Audrey that lovely Tudor in Seattle and I love your Mondrian suggestion for her fireplace! I also just recently bought this Craftsman with lots of old wood. We are trying to figure out paint colors as well as whether or not to stain the fir floors to match the trim. Can you …