Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Happy New Year, Gentle Readers! 2026 is going to be OUR YEAR! It’s going to be amazing! As the kids say, We’re manifesting that [stuff]! As we approach the end of January, I’m feeling extremely grateful for the clients and projects we have right now. We’re working on renovations of historic houses (below, the lighting …
It’s that time of year, Gentle Readers! The fall edition of High Point Furniture Market, a 5-day extravaganza during during which 75,000 interior designers from around the world visit 2,000 exhibitors in a small town in North Carolina. It’s nuts. High Point makes it easy to spot interior design trends for the coming year. Here’s …
Pantone’s color of the year for 2024 left me so uninspired that I didn’t even blog about it, Gentle Readers. That’s sayin’ somethin’. There were a few people who, upon learning of my apathy, asked, “But isn’t that the color of your living room?” “Um, NO, thank you very much,” I would answer. “My living …
I thought it might have started during COVID, Gentle Readers. You know, when isolation was de rigueur. The slow appearance of that double line – or sometimes even the onset of a sniffle – would result in banishment, the offending spouse sent to live in the guest room…or basement, or home office with a pull-out …
I always look forward to the High Point (NC) Furniture Market, Gentle Readers, but this year was especially rewarding. My colleague Amy and I were STRATEGIC! We did not mess around. With surgical precision we visited the showrooms on our list and kept our eyes peeled for new resources. We cracked the code on our …
Wrapping up this series, Gentle Readers! Our first five trends were: light wood, natural materials, curved furniture, bouclé upholstery, and 1980s revival (heaven help us). Here’s the final interior design trend we just can’t ignore, much as we’d like to. Trend #6: Pastels, especially mauve There’s still a lot of white and gray out there …
Quick review! Trends we’ve seen so far are: light wood, natural materials, curved furniture, and bouclé upholstery. Here’s Trend #5 of 6! Trend #5: 1980s revival Describing the interior design style of the late 1970s/early ’80s is difficult, but to paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, you know it when you see it. First, there …
