Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
It's COLD here. I don't know exactly when it happened, but fall seems like a distant memory now.
It's the perfect time to tell you about a recent fireplace makeover.
Before my clients moved into this house, the family room fireplace wall looked like this...
I'm a fan of Design Within Reach's Cubitec shelving, as you know. I've used it in my daughter's bedroom - twice, in fact - and I've recommended it for clients' offices, family rooms, and TV rooms.
But here's the thing. It's not dirt cheap. Not if you want more than six boxes, which is what constitutes one kit...
Enter Ikea's Expedit. It's enormous. And it's $199 for aaalllll those little boxes....
This is the final installment in the "How to create the perfect art wall" series.
I believe my living room art wall will be my last obsessive personal project in 2010. Even though (spoiler alert) it might not even be finished.
But to review. Recently, we talked about what to hang on an art wall. Framing. And different ways to hang the art - in a grid, randomly, etc.
Even armed with all of that information, though, there's that je ne sais quoi that tells you whether an art wall is successful or not....
Now that I have a living room I LOVE - or almost love: Mitchell Gold's Mona Sofette is on its way, and someday I'll eradicate the orange on those darn chairs -
I have to repaint the dining room.
I know, I know. WHERE DOES IT ALL END?? Well, I've assured my long-suffering husband that it ends after the DR is painted. But I might have been lying.
Anyway, you can see the problem, looking from one room into the other....
Part deux in a trois-part series. Part un was “What to Hang.”
Now that you’ve ransacked your closets, shopped online, and sneaked things out of your grandmother’s house, you have to frame the goods.
We know that having some unifying element on an art wall is a good idea....
As we approach the holiday season, I'm sure that at some point I'll write a post about house-related gift ideas. (And you will see it for what it is: my own thinly disguised shopping list.)
But here's another gift idea: the book, "Can I Just Say Something?" by Sheila Hagar....
"Art walls" have been on my mind for weeks.
Sort of a clunky term, but it's descriptive. "Salon grouping" is more elegant, and I seem to remember the phrases, "masterpiece hanging" and "gallery hanging" from graduate school...but I could be making those up....