Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
As I was writing the previous post, I tried to think of the least expensive window treatments I recommend on a regular basis. The winner by a mile is roller shades. I’m not talking about your grandmother’s roller shades: opaque, plastic, grungy white shades with a tired looking crocheted pull hanging dejectedly from the bottom …
This was a fun challenge: freshening up a bathroom while keeping the existing wall tile. The tile is charming…it would be more charming if it hadn’t been repaired over the years with similar-but-not-exactly-the-same-tile, but nonetheless… The worst thing you can do is paint the walls white if the tile was white once upon a time. …
I can’t tell you how happy I am that wallpaper is coming back. Check out this Neisha Crosland wallpaper (Caravan in Chocolate) that a client used in her dining room. We could have gone with dark brown on the wainscoting, but the room would have turned into a cave. Not necessarily a bad look, but …
This is the bar of a Philadelphia restaurant called Marathon on the Square (it was Diner on the Square a million years ago…gravy cheese fries then, preferably at 2:30 a.m.; basil & pesto sandwiches now, preferably at brunch if you can get a table). I love the way the concrete countertop is pretty raw: you …
I’m not usually a fan of the “accent wall” – a distasteful, ’80s term to begin with. I think that people who fear color sometimes think an accent wall is a good alternative to painting an entire room. It usually isn’t. Done thoughtfully and with restraint, however, articulating a single wall with a different color …
I absolutely love rugman.com, and if you’re a client of mine, you can skip this entry because you’ve undoubtedly heard this all before. It’s a leap of faith to buy a rug online, to be sure, but Rugman’s prices make it worth the risk. And naturally, the more you do it, the more skilled you …
Black and white rooms go in and out of fashion, and they’re coming back in now (thank you, Kelly Wearstler). But they’re hard to pull off in real life – in rooms you actually want to spend time in – because the effect can be so sterile.Pair black with rich creams and taupes and a …