Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
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...
Hello, Gentle Readers! I do love updates.
When we last spoke, I was debating whether the trim in this bedroom -- needed to be painted a deeper cream to match the ceiling (on which we used OC-9 Ballet White). That was the conundrum that led to 7 sanity-restoring rules about trim color. You remember....
Here's the result!
I have these awesome clients. (I know I say that a lot, but I LOVE my clients. If I didn't, I wouldn't work with them.)
So I have these awesome clients. We're embarking on a major project: we're moving them from their gorgeous Victorian red brick house into a gorgeous 1920s house, to which we are doing MAJOR work.
The new house requires a new kitchen....
There's a reason Candice Olson is famous.
I mean, thanks to reality tv, a lot of people are famous these days, even if they're less than brilliant or less than talented. But - traditionalists take heart - some people still earn fame by knowing what the heck they're talking about. (Oh, all right: maybe also because they're really really pretty.)
Ms. Olson is one of those....