Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Part deux in a trois-part series. Part un was “What to Hang.”
Now that you’ve ransacked your closets, shopped online, and sneaked things out of your grandmother’s house, you have to frame the goods.
We know that having some unifying element on an art wall is a good idea....
As we approach the holiday season, I'm sure that at some point I'll write a post about house-related gift ideas. (And you will see it for what it is: my own thinly disguised shopping list.)
But here's another gift idea: the book, "Can I Just Say Something?" by Sheila Hagar....
"Art walls" have been on my mind for weeks.
Sort of a clunky term, but it's descriptive. "Salon grouping" is more elegant, and I seem to remember the phrases, "masterpiece hanging" and "gallery hanging" from graduate school...but I could be making those up....
During a recent bossy basic, my lovely client showed me her dining room table and chairs. One of the reasons she had called me, in fact was to get suggestions on replacing her dining room table.
The table was fine, she said, but the chairs? A little...strange....
Hi, Annie. I'm sure you have suggestions for amazing things that can be done in an urban rental apartment without a ginormous budget. Right?
I moved in almost a year ago, and while I like to think that I have good taste, I haven't really been able to put together a cohesive design/feeling for the place.
In some ways I'm not sure where to start...
On Halloween, another conversation took place, as we watched the replay of Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity on Comedy Central.
Annie: John, you will pick every last one of those Nerds out of that sofa. Do you hear me?
John: (Digging.) Hmph....
Gentle Readers, a while back, when I confessed that I was considering painting my living room yet again, a lovely note and sketch appeared in my in-box.
The author is Bart Swindall, aka Magnaverde, Chicago historian, Apartment Therapy contributor, tiny vintage apartment inhabitor and rapier wit possessor...