Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Thank you for your patience, Gentle Readers! I apologize for the hiatus. Work got a little hectic for a minute ;) A dear friend has moved into a new apartment, and she asked me an excellent question: Can I hang art on wallpaper? If so, how? I haven’t seen the new place (because it’s, um, …
I am LOVING Season 3 of “Only Murders In the Building,” Gentle Readers! I confess I lost steam in Season 2. I never quite believed the Selena Gomez/Cara Delevingne thing, for one. Anyhoo, finishing Season 2 does not seem to be a prerequisite for beginning Season 3, so here we are! The set design in …
Gentle Readers! I apologize for falling off the blog track for a few weeks. Life overtook me ;) Thank you for your patience! First things first: we are accepting new projects for the fall! Please head over to this page if you’re rarin’ to redecorate. I’d love to work with you! For inspiration, I thought …
My dining room was just fine, Gentle Readers. It really was. But I was sick of our table. That’s how it started. We bought our dining table 19 years ago, when we moved into this house. It wasn’t expensive. It was newly made from reclaimed walnut, and the legs were painted in a blue/black milk …
Our wonderful Schumacher rep Kate came to visit us the other day, Gentle Readers, and something became extremely clear. Large-scale patterns — on fabric, on wallpaper — are IN! And they are glorious! I felt a bit validated, to tell you the truth. I’ve been looking for large-scale stuff recently, mostly because I’ve had big …
Please note, Gentle Readers, that I did not say renovate. Or even remodel. No, I said update. Renovating a bathroom (which, as you know, I have just survived) is a messy, inconvenient, time-consuming, and expensive undertaking. We’re not always up for it. Sometimes, a client has a bathroom or powder room that is outdated and …
(Not “Narnia” as I first thought!) Gentle Readers, I have not been holding out on you. With our bathroom renovation taking place on the 3rd floor, I thought it wise to wait until all the bumping and thumping up and down the stairs subsided before papering the foyer walls. I was away for several weeks …
