Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Wall vents are the bane of my existence. I’m being a little dramatic, but not much. They can be SO HARD to work with! You have a gorgeous, unbroken wall, just waiting for the right paint, or wallcovering, or piece of art, and then…THE VENT rears its ugly head. One of my favorite ways of …
Love them or hate them, there’s something commanding about a canopy bed. I wrote about them not too long ago; designers such as Alessandra Branca and Thom Filicia are putting a fresh spin on canopy beds, and some of them are just lovely. Some use gobs of fabric, and some merely hint at a canopy-like structure. A …
I think hanging a big old painting on the front of a bookcase is one of the most elegant looks around. [photo deleted] There’s more than one way to hang art on bookcases, of course. (Notice that I didn’t say, “right or wrong way,” which shows amazing restraint.) My favorite style is layered and casual — almost …
@AskVirginia just resurrected L.G. Tumbletown’s absolutely hilarious article about Anthropologie furniture and its maddening tendency toward absurdity. Even though Anthro no longer makes many of those particular pieces, you can’t argue with the concept. Unlike my attitude toward Restoration Hardware, however (remember when I wrote them a letter with some constructive criticism?), I view Anthropologie with a mixture of …
It’s embarrassing but true. As a red-blooded, card-carrying citizen of these United States of America, I had never been to Colonial Williamsburg before this summer. But let me tell you: it was worth the wait. I loved everything about it. I loved how accurate it was. (When my husband visited as a kid in 1976, the thinking was that …
You know how, when you’re on vacation in a charming small town, you drift in and out of ye olde gifte shoppes fairly mindlessly, your eyes casting over the goods that seem to be in every store: cocktail napkins with crabs on them; cursive wooden signs that command you to DREAM, or EAT; and “sea-inspired jewelry?” …
You know that I haven’t always been Restoration Hardware‘s biggest fan. In fact, some of its designs in years past have left me, well, baffled. Remember the Aviator Wing Desk? And how I even offered some friendly constructive criticism? Well, that was three years ago. And I am nothing if not fair. So I was …
