Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Honestly, I thought I’d already posted this. I have been using St. Thomas Creation’s Richmond Pedestal Lavatory – large and small models – for years. YEARS. But it wasn’t until I came across the sink in the fine print of Domino Magazine today that I realized that I had not, in fact, spread the gospel …
All by Benjamin Moore: OC-17 White Dove.A little grey, good with cool colors. OC-39 Timid White.A little creamy, good with warm colors. HC-27 Monterey White.A little taupe-y, good with rich, darker colors. Oh, and Super White for most bathroom trim. I tend to use a semi-gloss finish for trim, both because it cleans easily and …
These clients had a perfectly fine master bath, but it looked pretty shabby after a dramatic renovation to the attached bedroom. The new bedroom has miles of mahogany built-ins, so we started with a custom-built mahogany vanity base in the same style. Then we had to choose the rest of the materials. The husband wanted …
Here’s what’s in the restroom of a DC restaurant called Proof. Check out this shiny metallic wallpaper. How amazing is it that the geometric pattern of the wallpaper is imitated in the mosaic tile below it? And when you really get close, you see that the wallpaper Xs are actually women’s legs, in fishnets and …
Blue is back. Gray-blue is better. For a sophisticated greyish-blue that’s deep but not depressing, check out Benjamin Moore‘s HC-146 Wedgewood Gray. I’ve used it in several baths and bedrooms, but I’m dying to try it in a dining room. It’s so versatile it’s almost a neutral.
…and my husband doesn’t mind. Tile installation can make or break a project. Inexpensive tile painstakingly installed will look elegant, and a sloppy job will make the most expensive tile look cheap cheap cheap. Not the look you’re going for. When you combine lovely tile with expert installation, this is what can happen: When I …
I was wandering around Chapel Hill, NC this weekend, and I popped into the Carolina Inn. It’s a lovely place, decorated exactly as you would expect: floral upholstery, formal drapes with swags, needlepoint rugs, antique reproductions…all in all, a tasteful if predictable scheme for a “historic” inn (it was built in 1924). As I rounded …