Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Hi Annie,I’ll be a medical student next year and have finally rented a place where the landlord will let me paint the walls and decorate as I wish….I have no idea where to start! I was trying to think of what would go well with [the black kitchen counters and my tan couch, similar to …
Thanks, Washington Post, for including a bossy color nugget in today’s article about decorating first apartments (or houses). Can you guess which advice is bossy color’s? Oh, all right. I’ll just tell you. After thinking way back to when I first graduated and was renting a beautiful (and back then, affordable) place in the Kennedy-Warren, …
Be sure and pick up the May issue of Washington Woman Magazine. Bossy color is quoted extensively in the the “Cottage Living” article, which focuses on smaller spaces. Thanks, Washington Woman!
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 …
Aaaaahhhh. That’s the sound of me decompressing after the Design House hubbub. Actually, the hubbub starts this week, with the press preview and official opening party on Thursday night, then the bossy color bash next Friday… In the midst of all of the pre-hubbub hubbub the last few weeks, I finally had a professional photographer, …
Help! Can you help us organize our foyer without making it look like a mudroom? Our house, a 1968 two-story colonial, originally had a coat closet in the foyer. The previous owners took it out, which makes the area much more spacious. This is a plus.However, as a result there’s no easily accessible area for coats, shoes…keys …
Last night I dreamed that my Design House rug clashed with the wall-to-wall carpet beneath it. It was more of a nightmare, really. I know there could be worse things, but at the moment nothing springs to mind… The sleepless night is unwarranted, though: things are going great, knock wood. Got the excellent news that …