Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
I was sitting here watching American Idol and toying w/ my floor plan for the Design House, and there was a particularly action-packed ad for an upcoming movie called Push. Something about this actor getting hurled into a red and green wall reminded me… I forgot to post about Miss Yip Chinese Cafe in Miami …
I was walking down Pine Street in Philadelphia yesterday, and this building caught my eye. It’s on the south side of Pine between 10th and 11th. I’d never noticed it before.Has anyone ever seen brickwork like this? Can you tell me anything about it? It’s crazy!
Hooray! I’m all about the silver lining right now. If you can believe it, we (the royal “we”) did not secure cabinetry appropriate for a cutting-edge Design House kitchen. Room drawings are due in 2 weeks, and so we (an actual “we:” the Design Center’s marketing department and I) gave ourselves yesterday as the deadline …
You can’t teach taste. Yes, you can teach basic design principles, and color theory, and how to light a room…but really, when it comes to taste, you either have it or you don’t. My friend does. That and an excellent sense of how to put things together. This is her apartment, with its fantastic wall …
I hope some of you are finding these posts at least mildly interesting, because frankly, they’re beginning to bum me out. I’ll feel more upbeat when I have better news to report. Here’s the cabinetry update. Yesterday – before the wintry weather hit – I got out my compass and ventured across the river into …
It might be a little off topic but do you have any ideas for providing guests a reasonable nights sleep and also having a good seating area for the other 99% of the time. I’ve had those awful 1 ton sofas and lumpy, uncomfortable futons. I want to encourage guests to visit but we also …
The first thing a kitchen designer on a tight timeframe should do is nail down the cabinetry. I mean, some fancy-pants unused kitchens out there may get away with a chopping block and a $7,000 fridge, but no kitchen I design – even a faux one – is going to be so obviously useless. Well-meaning …