In my last post, I alluded to the gray area at the left side of Aidan Design‘s floor plan for our kitchen renovation. The gray part would be the addition to the kitchen. The place where we’ll be able to sit down and eat. You know, the main reason for wanting to do this renovation in…
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My kitchen renovation, Part 3: the layout
After our first meeting with Aidan Design‘s Nadia Subaran and her trusty team, John and I accepted the fact that if we wanted a place to eat, we would have to expand the kitchen. We were thinking along these lines anyway: a million years ago (in 2012), we were ready to go with a kitchen renovation that included an addition.…
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Renovating your kitchen? Call Aidan Design (My kitchen renovation, Part 2)
Putting aside the question of to expand or not to expand, I knew what I needed to do to get the ball rolling on our kitchen renovation. I needed to call the brilliant Nadia Subaran of Aidan Design. Now, you might be saying to yourself, “But you’re an interior designer! Why can’t you handle this?” Because, Gentle Readers, I…
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My DC kitchen renovation, at long last!
Once upon a time, there was a sad, sad kitchen, likely designed around 1980. Tragically, it was MY kitchen. It had sticky oak cabinets, salmon colored Formica countertops, and a trashed wood floor. The wall cabinets were short. The under-cabinet lighting gave up long ago. To add insult to injury, there was only 13″ between the countertops…
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Go ahead: hang art on your bookcases
I think hanging a big old painting on the front of a bookcase is one of the most elegant looks around. [photo deleted] There’s more than one way to hang art on bookcases, of course. (Notice that I didn’t say, “right or wrong way,” which shows amazing restraint.) My favorite style is layered and casual — almost…
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Behind the scenes: recent photo shoot in DC
Photo shoots are so much fun. Extraordinarily time-consuming, painstakingly detail-oriented, and exhausting, but fun. And important. As the interior designer Celerie Kemble once said (I’m paraphrasing), “If I don’t photograph a project, it’s as though it didn’t happen.” True that. So we photograph our work. If you’ve been on bossy color’s website recently, you’ve seen our new pictures of…
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Black and blue (and brass): 2014’s edgy color combo
Remember how I said that a bossy color goal for 2014 was to use ever-edgier color combinations? And I mentioned black and blue as one of those combos? Well, I’ve decided that this particular color pairing is worthy of more attention. Turns out I started using black and blue together last year without really registering…
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