Yay, spring! Even though I barely busted out the parka this winter, I’m ready for a change. 78-degree days in February are spooky. But in March, they’re fabulous. And they smell better.
Could it have been a yearning for spring that led me to green for my powder room? My Irish heritage?
We’ve been doing a lot of work on our house recently, all of it expensive; most of it behind the scenes; none of it fun. How absurd is it for an interior designer to choke on construction dust for 6 months but not supply a single paint color?
I mean, you can rebuild the back porch all you want, but you can’t WALLPAPER it.
A powder room renovation became my consolation prize.
We live in a house in which the powder room is located, revoltingly, off the dining room. (Even more revoltingly, it’s actually a full bath.)
I didn’t do much to improve it when we moved in. Yeesh.
I didn’t mind the little sink, but I do heed the advice I give my clients: if you replace one fixture in a bathroom, your whites will clash unless you replace all of them. Sad but true. So out it went.
I fell in love with this wallpaper from Farrow & Ball:
That gray color is silver, Gentle Readers. Metallic. It freaking rocks.
I picked up the silver by choosing a light fixture by Alexa Hampton with flat shiny surfaces…
A faucet with flat shiny surfaces…
And a towel bar and paper holder with flat shiny surfaces.
But then, I wallpapered a client’s living room in THIS:
Green. It made no sense on our first floor, but I had to have it. Mmmmmm….greeeeeennnnn…
To be continued.
Quoted in publications from The New York Times to The Washington Post to Real Simple magazine, Annie Elliott is considered an expert in color, residential space planning, and telling people what to do in the nicest way possible.