Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Gentle Readers, in the past few months, several people have called our office in a panic. They’d purchased a house, they were 80% finished with the renovations, and the deadline for finish selections was yesterday. Adding to the panic was the callers’ belief that they also had to make decisions now about window treatments, rugs, …
Happy New Year, Gentle Readers! A hearty ta-ta to 2020! Good riddance! Over the holiday break, my mind kept wandering back to Pantone’s Colors of the Year for 2021. So disappointing. If *I* were to name a color of the year for 2021, it would be green. Aside from the obvious associations for this particular …
I was sitting on our back porch this eerily warm weekend when my teenage daughter Ruthie came out. Ruthie: Whatcha doing? Me: Writing about Pantone’s Colors Of the Year for 2021. Without much success, I’m afraid. R: Oh! What’s the color? Me: No, what are they. They did two colors this year. R: Can they …
“Read This Before You Pick a Paint Color,” reads the title of Kathryn O’Shea Evans’ excellent article in the September/October issue of This Old House Magazine. Putting aside the fact that I participated, (thank you, Kathryn and This Old House!), the article is chock full of helpful tips. As you know, Gentle Readers, painting a …
I hope you saw us in The Wall Street Journal on Saturday! Thank you, WSJ Off Duty and Kathryn O’Shea Evans, for featuring one of our recent projects in the House Tours column. The article, “How Color Made a Routine Condo Special,” went online last week, but it wasn’t until I saw the article in …
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably given a thought or two to paint sometime in your life. So you won’t want to miss Steven Kurutz‘s excellent article in The New York Times today about two companies (founded by millennials, natch) that are disrupting the paint industry by selling paint by mail. Thanks so much for …
THANK YOU, Pantone! If ever we needed a lift, it’s now. Kudos to you for selecting an optimistic, playful, happy — almost giddy! — color for 2019: Living Coral. What a relief. I’m serious: I lose sleep over this stuff. As much as I’d like to deny it, Pantone’s Color of the Year seeps into …
