Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
During a recent bossy basic, my lovely client showed me her dining room table and chairs. One of the reasons she had called me, in fact was to get suggestions on replacing her dining room table.
The table was fine, she said, but the chairs? A little...strange....
"Cheerful" and "gray" don't sound like they belong in the same sentence, do they? But look:
Thanks to painted wainscoting that covers a third of the walls, a dramatic curved window, and a coral rug, gray is anything but dreary in this D.C. dining room....
Annie – I have been reading your blog over the past month and have learned a great deal. Love your writing and your sense of style. This is my dining room. The rest of my home is in lovely warm colors, yellow, golds, orange coral and red. I have this rug and look what I …
Gentle Readers, a lively discussion resulted from last week’s question about the Kiwi green kitchen – and Chloe was kind enough to follow up with us today! I thought it would be easier to see her pictures if I did this as a separate post. Here’s her note: Thanks so much for the help Annie! …
Hi Annie- I love your blog and I’m hoping you can help with my color dilemma. We remodeled our kitchen and painted the walls [Benjamin Moore’s] kiwi 544 with the trim forest hills green 433. So far so good. Then we decided to repaint the dining room (connected to the kitchen) and the living room …
Help! living in a 150 year old home that was redecorated in the early 70’s. 10 years ago, I got most of it to a livable condition – dining room gold shag pulled up, wallpaper down. Have a husband that doesn’t want to change a thing. But this dining room drives me crazy. Should I …
Hello! We just added some built in bookcases and window seat to our dining room. We love them and now we are on to the painting stage – this is my problem. I am a fan of white. Not so with my husband. My husband would like to do something other than white – but …