Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
In my last post, I alluded to the gray area at the left side of Aidan Design‘s floor plan for our kitchen renovation. The gray part would be the addition to the kitchen. The place where we’ll be able to sit down and eat. You know, the main reason for wanting to do this renovation in …
After our first meeting with Aidan Design‘s Nadia Subaran and her trusty team, John and I accepted the fact that if we wanted a place to eat, we would have to expand the kitchen. We were thinking along these lines anyway: a million years ago (in 2012), we were ready to go with a kitchen renovation that included an addition. …
Putting aside the question of to expand or not to expand, I knew what I needed to do to get the ball rolling on our kitchen renovation. I needed to call the brilliant Nadia Subaran of Aidan Design. Now, you might be saying to yourself, “But you’re an interior designer! Why can’t you handle this?” Because, Gentle Readers, I …
Once upon a time, there was a sad, sad kitchen, likely designed around 1980. Tragically, it was MY kitchen. It had sticky oak cabinets, salmon colored Formica countertops, and a trashed wood floor. The wall cabinets were short. The under-cabinet lighting gave up long ago. To add insult to injury, there was only 13″ between the countertops …
Maybe it all started at the Thomas Everard house at Colonial Williamsburg. I couldn’t get that shiny green mantel out of my head for days. Or maybe it was the green dining room at the George Wythe House at Williamsburg. Or maybe it was George Washington’s “Little Dining Room” at Mount Vernon that planted the seed. …
Happy 2016! With the winter holidays barely over, the last thing you (and your credit cards) may be thinking about is spending more money. And yet… Online bargains are unbelievable right now. So if you can stomach it, consider digging deep for one of these items. (They’re on sale as of the publishing of this post, …
Holy cow: what is UP with stools right now?! From practical to useless to cute to downright kooky…there are a lot of stools out there. Choose wisely. (Brief public service announcement: You know about the 3 heights of stools and chairs, right? “Table height,” “counter height,” and “bar height.” So if you’re buying a stool for …
