Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
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, …
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...