Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
A fellow blogger, Michele of My Notting Hill, asked if I’d weigh in on her recent post about trim color. Well, Michele, thanks for asking :) She changed the baseboard in her own living room from the standard off-white to the wall color – in this case, Benjamin Moore’s Beacon Hill Damask. In general, I …
I was extremely flattered that The Washington Post included bossy blog in its Home section today! If this is your first visit to bossy blog, welcome. As I mentioned in my very first post, this is the place to come for interior design nuggets: decorating advice, tried and true products, tales of decorating woe and …
Q: I’ve invested 14 years in creating a unique urban space. I now need to sell that house. How much “character” can I leave, and how much of what I’ve implemented needs to be beiged away to keep the realtors happy? A: I love this question, and even though I’m not a realtor, people ask …
Is there anything more festive than a pink plexiglass-topped table? Restaurant designers have all the fun. These tables are the bright spots in an industrial space – jolts of color in a sea of neutrals. This is a perfect example of something I run into all the time, though: it’s a great idea, probably not …
Q: My house is far from modern – it’s a 1919 Arts and Crafts sort-of bungalow – and inexplicably, the living room walls have picture-frame molding (and crown molding too). My question is about what to put inside those picture frames because so far … nothing! A: This little truism applies here: “Just because it’s …
I’ve got to hand it to Kelly Wearstler: the lobby of The Tides in South Beach is lovely. I’ll confess that I don’t like the central chandelier much. It’s the first thing you see when you walk in, and although it’s airy, I think it overwhelms the room. I will say that the longer I …
This past weekend, the Financial Times (which, inexplicably, I love) ran an article summarizing what it sees as the major design trends for 2008. (To clarify, a trend is movement in a certain direction – different from a flash-in-the-pan fad. It’s a subtle but important distinction.) As my job is to translate trends into practical …