Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
I have these awesome clients. (I know I say that a lot, but I LOVE my clients. If I didn't, I wouldn't work with them.)
So I have these awesome clients. We're embarking on a major project: we're moving them from their gorgeous Victorian red brick house into a gorgeous 1920s house, to which we are doing MAJOR work.
The new house requires a new kitchen....
Some conversations are so much fun you're glad they're being recorded.
Walla Walla Union Bulletin logoThat's how I felt talking with Jeremy Gonzalez and Sheila Hagar on their gem of an audio series, "Almost Your Mother."...
They call the series, "Almost Your Mother" because Sheila has a son named Jeremy (but not this Jeremy), and Jeremy's mother's name is Sheila (but not this Sheila)....
Given that the temperature in D.C. dipped to 5 degrees last night - that's FIVE degrees, people; a single digit - Miami seems like a distant memory.
Nonetheless, I have a few more pictures of the Mondrian to show you, so I'll make this long on visuals, short on words....
When someone says, "Mondrian," what do you think of?
Me, too
But that couldn't be farther from Marcel Wanders' design for the Mondrian hotel in South Beach. You saw the white-on-white lobby in my last post - remember the overscale columns and the black staircase? Nary a grid nor a primary color in sight.
Apart from the fact that designing a hotel like a Mondrian painting* would be well, kind of dreadful, the designer gives us the Dutch connection - and a wink and a nod - in another way....
Gentle Readers, while I'm on vacation, I'd like to direct your attention to some earlier posts - slightly revised and updated - that you may find interesting. Have a wonderful New Year!
When should you hire a carpenter for customized built-ins, and when is buying freestanding shelves the better option? ...
In my last post, thoughtful Gentle Reader Shirley encouraged me to paint the radiator in my dining room:
I hope you don’t mind me suggesting you also paint the radiator in the same colour [as the walls] so it doesn’t stand out so much.
Then Paul Clark weighed in with this:
If you look at the design of the steam register, it is meant to be highlighted as it gives the room character....
Let’s see where we are with the St. Michael’s kitchen renovation, shall we? We have a rough idea of our budget: $25,000. If this were in a city, I might scoff at that number, but out here, it just might be possible. (And we’re not buying new appliances, installing new flooring, or doing a tile …
