Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
If you’re just joining our Art In Unexpected Places miniseries, please take a minute to read Part 1 and Part 2! The third unexpected place I found excellent art for sale was Oxford Vintage & Trade! This was the most delightful surprise, Gentle Readers!!! The shop is next to a marina in Oxford, Maryland, and …
If you’re just joining this series, please take a minute to read Part 1 from yesterday. The second unexpected place I found art for sale was the gym! St. Michaels, Maryland, has the nicest YMCA EVER. It’s so fancy. There’s a huge indoor pool and a massive weight room…best of all, it is a true …
I just finished listening to a New Yorker article about the legendary art dealer Larry Gagosian, and my head is spinning. The NUMBERS, Gentle Readers. The NUMBERS. We already knew that some art is stratospherically expensive — costing tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars — but hearing the amounts one after the other, …
This project happened long ago, Gentle Readers, but I came across the pictures recently and was reminded how few new things we added to transform this room. These amazing clients (seriously: so fun to work with) had bought the gigantic house across the road. The decorating was dated, but the furniture was super pretty, of …
Gentle Readers! I apologize for falling off the blog track for a few weeks. Life overtook me ;) Thank you for your patience! First things first: we are accepting new projects for the fall! Please head over to this page if you’re rarin’ to redecorate. I’d love to work with you! For inspiration, I thought …
(I first wrote “the best bottom-only window treatments,” but it sounded kind of gross.) You may have found yourselves in this very situation, Gentle Readers: you want to cover only the bottom half of a window, but you’re not quite sure how. You need some privacy (or you want to obscure something unsightly, such as …
Update 6.12.23: Here is the NBC4 segment, Gentle Readers! I hope you enjoy it! Hello, Gentle Readers! If you lose steam at work this Friday afternoon, NBC4 will be airing an interview with me “during the 4:00 hour.” (This usually means around 4:45!) The subject? My book! My Neighbor Saw Me Naked, and Other Reasons …
