Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Happy New Year, Gentle Readers! This morning, I was reading The Washington Post’s annual LIST of what’s in and what’s out for the coming year. I had the actual newspaper in my hands, but really, I should have read the article online to click through to all the references I didn’t get. Instead, I just …
Ah, Gentle Readers. Another year is drawing to a close. How was 2023 for you? I hope you not only survived but thrived. If you undertook a renovation, chances are you’re content with survival. Renovations are hard to live through, aren’t they? On the off-chance that you’ve been pondering a kitchen renovation but just can’t …
Call it impending empty nest syndrome or simply a reminder to self that my house is my laboratory, and it is here that I should take risks. I have a galley kitchen. The backsplash on the stove wall is AMAZING. As well it should be, since it was a journey to end all journeys until …
Gentle Readers, I, like you, have had it. I am SO TIRED of this pandemic, not seeing my friends, not going to restaurants, and a million other things. But I’m also so, so tired of my house. (I may have found my foyer wallpaper, though! I’m going to keep you in suspense, but remember my …
Thank you, Jennifer Sergent of the amazing blog, DC By Design! Jen invited me to do a guest post about my kitchen backsplash saga from start to (yay!) finish, and it went live today. When Jen learned that my original backsplash had arrived from China in roughly 700 pieces, she called me immediately. “Oh my gosh …
Now THAT’s a sentence I never thought I’d write! I was so happy to be included in the New York Times article, “Telling a Story Through Tiles,” by the fantastic Steven Kurutz. Thank you! The online edition is up now, and I believe it will be in print this Thursday, 3.8. The focus of the article is …
Gentle Readers, the journey is over. And what a journey it’s been. This blog post was the last time I could bear to write about the nightmare that had become my dream of a gorgeous, gigantic, hand-painted Chinoiserie backsplash. You remember, the one that arrived in about a million pieces. I bounced back pretty quickly, I …
