Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Do you remember reading my post about wall-to-wall carpeting a few months back? About how it's making a comeback?
Well if you didn't, now you won't have to! The AP interviewed me last week for a story about it, and it hit the papers - and the web-waves - yesterday. Newsday and The Washington Post lead the list....
Dear Gentle Readers,
I apologize. I didn't intend to get out of the posting groove, but as you can see, it happened anyway. Rather than continuing to disappoint you every time you rush to your computer in excited anticipation of bossy color blog's next installment (I hope the gentle sarcasm is coming through), I am going to declare, officially, that bossy color blog is on hiatus this summer...
I want to tell you about a new project. I'm really excited about it!
Color Outlook is a quarterly series of 1-hour podcasts about color trends. Six color experts talk about which colors we're working with right now and which we believe will gain in popularity in the months to come. It's color forecasting on an immediate scale, unlike annual color pronouncements from on high....
Bossy color is in today's Washington Post, in the District Local Living section! The fabulous Terri Sapienza has written an article called "10 first pieces that will last." It's about the best investment furniture for recent graduates.
If you're hell-bent on avoiding the Ikea abyss, on what piece of furniture should you splurge?
I recommend a bachelor's chest....
Boy, did I need that. Three days out of town, with our little nuclear family and dear friends, doing pretty much nothing. It was perfect.
Even more perfect was this: the tremendous calm I felt upon walking into a house that had been repainted, modestly renovated, and stripped of extraneous art and tchochkes.
It felt peaceful....
We all know that when you're decorating a room from scratch, my advice is to start with the rug.
One of my most loyal, blog-reading, bossy-bossing clients is moving into a darling bungalow, and she took this advice to heart. (Advice, gentle suggestion, command...tomato, tomahto, tomuto.)
Remember how I said recently that blue dining rooms are all the rage? In part because they pull the blues from Oriental rugs so beautifully - blues MATCH well? That was the case here. This client's bungalow dining room was a "before" in the blue dining room post....
Gentle Readers, I am alive. When your parents inquire after your health because, well, "it's been quite a while since you've posted," you know you've pushed the boundaries of politeness. I apologize....
...EVERYONE seems to be looking for the perfect side table these days. (Well, at least three of my clients. That's everyone to me.) So my eyes are magnetically drawn to interesting ones...