Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
I don’t have to tell you, Gentle Readers, that buying a sofa is a BIG DEAL. Unless you have a wonderful interior designer to guide you (ahem), it may be helpful to know a few things about what kind of sofa will look best in your space. The most important thing when purchasing a sofa …
I don’t know about you, Gentle Readers, but I am SO ready for the school year to be over! Trying to keep track of 2 sets of graduation-related events and two post-COVID-infection teenagers making up for lost socializing time…it’s exhausting. (We’re all fine now, by the way – thank you for your well wishes!) On …
I know, Gentle Readers: “mixed materials” isn’t entirely new. We’re used to seeing lucite with glass, metal with wood, mirror and wood… And two-toned desks certainly have been around for a while. This one is wood and vellum, with a touch of brass on the pulls: And here’s a deskd in wood and marble with …
Oh, Gentle Readers. What are we, 7 months into this pandemic? I hope you’re holding up ok. At first, working from home was novel. If you didn’t have a dedicated home office, you set up where you could: kitchen table, lap desk in the living room, wherever. And that was ok. But then we realized …
Thank you, Gentle Readers, for tuning into my House Beautiful live tour last week! If you missed it, you can still see it on this page. I’m so grateful for your support! I’m in more of a picture mood than a word mood today, so I thought I’d bring out some before and after pictures …
High Point. That’s all you have to say in the interior design world and everyone knows what you mean: the semi-annual, 5-day, 2,000-manufacturer, 12-million-square-foot, 75,000-attendee furniture market for trade professionals. In High Point, North Carolina. I love High Point. We generally go in the fall (we just got back), but I’m thinking we may have …
I have to tell you, I have never wanted to dye my hair black more than I did at High Point this year. I’d say 80% of the people there were blonde. Crazy! There’s a sociology thesis in there somewhere… When I wasn’t seeing myself coming or going, my fellow Bossettes and I noted three …
