Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
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...
I know Honeysuckle Pink is the color of the year, but I seem to be recommending BLUE for a lot of dining rooms these days.
Why is that, I wonder? I've never thought of blue as a particularly appetizing color, but it seems as though blue is just the ticket for several projects right now....
Oh my goodness, Gentle Readers. Do you even remember that we were renovating the kitchen in St. Michaels? I dragged you through the initial excitement, the planning, cabinetry selection, and then -
A gag order. I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say that I wasn't allowed to post pictures of the finished project until now.
To refresh your memory, here is the kitchen before...
Or did it never really leave?
I was surprised to read a short article in praise of the table skirt in today's Wall Street Journal. Former Domino dynamo Sara Ruffin Costello confesses that she has dragged one from apartment to apartment, changing covers as she goes...
Hello, Gentle Readers. I miss you. I apologize for the sporadic posts of late...have you wondered why that's been? It's for a good cause - an exciting cause - but an exhausting and time-consuming one.
I am co-authoring a designer's guide to the drawing program Google SketchUp, and it will be published by Pearson.
SketchUp is is downloadable FOR FREE via this link...