Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
It’s over. The Design House, which many of you visited (thank you!) and even more of you read about (thank you again!), has closed. Officially, we have one week to clear everything out. If we want to go on vacation, though, we have about 48 hours. My husband and I went down today to get …
Hi Annie,I’ll be a medical student next year and have finally rented a place where the landlord will let me paint the walls and decorate as I wish….I have no idea where to start! I was trying to think of what would go well with [the black kitchen counters and my tan couch, similar to …
Remember when I mentioned Farrow & Ball’s Rosslyn papers as an exquisite example of wallpaper’s return? Today I saw its installation in a powder room. Please excuse the “in progress” shot, but I just couldn’t wait to show you. The metallic gold pattern will add sparkle to this small space; like many powder rooms, it …
Seems as though yesterday’s post about a small kitchen really set off a firestorm. Not because the kitchen was small, but because it was untidy. Well. We all know that cluttered counters are an indication of depravity. I saw a bossy basic client not too long ago, and while the focus of my visit was …
Quick: you have a cute house with a less than cute kitchen. What do you do? If you’re a Santa Fe artist and member of Tete de Veau Design Collective, you rip off the cabinet doors and paint the insides green. Everything else fades away: the focus is on the green. The ordinary stuff on …
So what exactly was I DOING in Santa Fe last week, you ask? Helping a friend, is the short answer. My dear friend Laura is the director of SITE Santa Fe, a thoroughly edgy contemporary art space. (I’ve mentioned her before.) Every other year, they hold a two-night art auction to raise operating funds. It’s …
Thanks, Washington Post, for including a bossy color nugget in today’s article about decorating first apartments (or houses). Can you guess which advice is bossy color’s? Oh, all right. I’ll just tell you. After thinking way back to when I first graduated and was renting a beautiful (and back then, affordable) place in the Kennedy-Warren, …