Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Annie – I have been reading your blog over the past month and have learned a great deal. Love your writing and your sense of style. This is my dining room. The rest of my home is in lovely warm colors, yellow, golds, orange coral and red. I have this rug and look what I …
Thanks so much, iDesign! I really enjoyed our interview! It’s on their blog today. iDesign is a great resource: it encourages networking within the D.C. design community. It fills an important niche – and the people behind it are wicked cool. And I love their birdhouse logo. Can’t you just see the mama Robin looking …
I was going through the “best of bossy’s colors” list recently (I’m trying something new with the bossy basic service; I can fill you in on that later). You remember these, don’t you? Wedgewood Gray, Shaker Beige, Ivory Tusk, Edgecomb Gray, Whispering Spring, Windham Cream… all by Benjamin Moore, as it happens. I think you’re …
Dear Annie, Long time reader, first time writer, big big fan. We’re in a condo on a hill in San Francisco with bay windows facing east from our living room. We’ve lived with bare windows for three and a half years, too afraid of doing anything to obscure the light and the wonderful views. It’s …
When I ask clients about their budget for a kitchen renovation, or a living room re-do, or anything, 99% of the time they respond, “Well, I don’t know what my budget is, because I don’t know what things cost.” That may be true. But you still need to know how much you will be comfortable …
I needed to buy outdoor seat cushions for some chairs the other day. I was pressed for time and didn’t really know where to go, but I seemed to recall seeing pillows in the window of World Market, and I knew there was parking nearby. So off I went. I don’t recall ever having set …
Okay, so the article was two weeks ago, but I was so focused on the Home Front online chat that I missed it! My publicist is falling down on the job. (That would be me.) It’s a fun article by Beth Luberecki about collections and displaying them…my own dirty little collecting secret is revealed at …