Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
The Financial Times had an interesting article in its House and Home section today about “design-aware interiors” (love that phrase) in movies. The big news, to me, isn’t that there are designer products in feature films, it’s that most manufacturers are not aggressively pursuing movie producers to get their products placed there. The impetus for …
Bossy blog loves you Pacific Northwesterners! Thanks so much for the mention in The Seattle Times today – that post about upholstering seems to have struck a nerve. Thank you for reading.
It’s sad, but it’s true. Not all old things are worth keeping. I’m generally in favor of salvaging architectural or decorative elements. If it’s in good shape, if it works with the current owners’ style, and, most important, if it’s original to the house, why not try to work with it? My contractors will tell …
Q: I have two chairs, one from each grandmother…Their small scale will fit my small living room perfectly, and they are both quite comfortable for a 5’3″ gal. My dilemma is how to pick fabric for them since they are clearly two very different looking chairs and will be set on the same wall separated …
Art. (You knew that was coming, didn’t you?) I touched on this subject in an earlier post about enlivening dreary hallways. In that case, though, there was wainscoting to deal with and very little light…in other words, we had bigger fish to fry before we could think about art. But speaking of big fish, that …
I have a fantasy, and I’m going to share it with you. Ready? My fantasy is that rug manufacturers start offering 10′ x 10′ as a standard size. Is that so much to ask? It seems as though every time I measure for a custom-cut rug, 10′ x 10′ is the optimal size. But when …
I know, I know. There are modernists among us who feel about DWR the way some feel about Pottery Barn. Something about, “one-stop shopping makes it too easy for those with no real design sense to appear as though they have some, blah blah blah…” What a nation of whiners. ;) I understand why DWR …