Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
I called a client on my way to her house to hang some art. As we were getting off the phone, she said, "And please ignore the tacky midwestern Christmas decorations!"
Oh, my friend. Have no fear. I will never, EVER judge you for your tacky Christmas decorations. (Which weren't, in fact, very tacky at all. Disappointing.)...
You say, "hallway," I say, "library."
This area a master suite was woefully underused. It's too wide to be considered a true hallway, but it's too narrow to be treated like a room.
Since this client is a GENIUS with photographs and has roughly a gazillion, we thought it might be handy to have some shelves where she could store completed albums as well as unframed pictures in boxes. Open shelves and closed storage, in other words....
Gentle Readers, a fellow blogger and I need your help. Yesterday, Nichole of 40 days of... asked for recommendations for design books. I have the same question!
Can you help?
I've already raved about Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan's book...
Yesterday a friend asked me about another friend's rental apartment. It's a little sterile. She just moved in, doesn't know how long she'll be there.
"Is she allowed to paint?" I asked innocently. Because, well, duh.
"No."
"No?"
"No...."
Not so long ago, I spoke with you about "art walls." We started with WHAT to Hang, then moved on to how to FRAME it, and then how to HANG it.
Seems I got one of my clients all riled up.
There's a gigantic blank wall in her cheerful gray dining room....
Woo-hoo! Let's hear it for pink! Honeysuckle: that kind of orange-ish, kind of reddish, bright, happy, optimistic PINK!
Today Pantone announces that Honeysuckle, aka 18-2120 TCX, is its color of the year for 2011. They proclaim:
While the 2010 color of the year, PANTONE 15-5519 Turquoise, served as an escape for many, Honeysuckle emboldens us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor....
It's COLD here. I don't know exactly when it happened, but fall seems like a distant memory now.
It's the perfect time to tell you about a recent fireplace makeover.
Before my clients moved into this house, the family room fireplace wall looked like this...