Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
No surprise that a well-renowned architect would do such a beautiful job on his own home. Today’s Washington Post article about Todd DeGarmo’s renovation of a Capitol Hill house – a former parsonage – was fantastic. I always thought it was bad Feng Shui to be able to see the back garden from the front …
Gentle readers, in these trying economic times, I feel duty-bound to tell you about any opportunity for free decorating. Like this contest. Nay, a sweepstakes. The Traditional Home Bedroom Sweepstakes, to be exact, for a $20,000 bedroom makeover. It’s underway now and ends on June 21, with the winner being announced around July 2. If …
Well allllll right. My mother-in-law has decided that it's finally time to upgrade the kitchen at the family house in St. Michaels, Maryland.
She and I love fantasizing about all the things we could do to the the house if we win the lottery. (My D.C. abode is first in line, though...for one thing, it's almost time to paint the living room again.) But we're justifying this more immediate investment in the kitchen by telling ourselves...
You know that bossy color doesn’t often post about the latest and greatest HOME products, let alone developments in the fashion world. There are a zillion blogs that do that very well. However. Under the heading, “A designer is a designer is a designer…” I finally saw a picture of the much-buzzed about Vivienne Tam-designed …
I’ve now recommended this faucet to four clients and bought one for myself. It’s high time to spread the word. You can’t go wrong with the sleek but unfortunately named de’ Lux pullout kitchen faucet from Rohl. (Sometimes the number is R3830.) It’s simple. It’s not too big or overly stylized. It works with traditional …
A very nice woman called me up recently. “I’m stuck,” she said. In the 4 years she and her family had lived in their house, they had never really used the living room. She didn’t like the master bedroom. She was thinking of enclosing a porch but wasn’t sure it was a good idea… This …
Wallpaper is back. More specifically, my clients are gravitating towards Farrow & Ball’s papers. Maybe they figure that wallpaper itself is risky enough; going with a traditional English company is reassuring, somehow… Two clients just chose Farrow & Ball’s Rosslyn Papers BP 1925. The colors are exquisite, and the gold is metallic. It’s gorgeous.