Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Here's my final push for wallpaper.
If, after all my eloquent, experience-based research, you're still unsure about wallcovering, let me confess something. Whereas I have VERY mixed feelings about The Accent Wall when it comes to paint, wallpaper accent walls are another story....
Hello, Gentle Readers! It's taken seven years, but I believe I've finally cracked the code on my living room.
I mean, why rush?
Laugh if you must (guffaw, even), but I maintain that it's infinitely easier to work on other people's houses than your own. Especially when you're getting paid to work for others and not for yourself. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Anyway, here's the finished (you heard right, darling husband: I actually said, "finished!") living room...
I'm one of those people who thinks it should be illegal even to THINK about Christmas before Thanksgiving.
Usually.
But ever since my highly organized sister-in-law asked me what I wanted this year (dessert plates and Steve Jobs' biography, if anyone's listening), Christmas has been on my mind...
Hello, Gentle Readers! I missed you!...I hope you had a wonderful summer and that you're now frolicking in big piles of yellow leaves...
So what's shaking? Over here in bossyland I'm excited to have a new colleague to brag about...
Gentle Readers, I am alive. When your parents inquire after your health because, well, "it's been quite a while since you've posted," you know you've pushed the boundaries of politeness. I apologize....
...EVERYONE seems to be looking for the perfect side table these days. (Well, at least three of my clients. That's everyone to me.) So my eyes are magnetically drawn to interesting ones...
There's a reason Candice Olson is famous.
I mean, thanks to reality tv, a lot of people are famous these days, even if they're less than brilliant or less than talented. But - traditionalists take heart - some people still earn fame by knowing what the heck they're talking about. (Oh, all right: maybe also because they're really really pretty.)
Ms. Olson is one of those....
Dear Annie,
We moved from our first house in Nashville after it flooded in May into an amazing 100-year old bungalow in a historic neighborhood.
The last thing on my immediate design list is paint color for the living room. I am leaning toward a grayish blue to pick up on the blues in the LR rug and the gray in the throw pillows....