Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Gentle Readers: The Washington Post was kind enough to mention this entry in its July 3 Home section; The Seattle Times carried it on July 5. Ah, summer. Hot, hot, summer. The luckiest among us live in places that cool down pleasantly at night, so an open window and maybe a fan are all we …
Q: Love your blog!! My house is a split foyer so my husband and I are constantly up and down our wood stairs from the moment we get home. We don’t have kids yet, but the young son of some of our friends recently took a header off one flight after he slipped. No major …
That’s the name of the Michael Miller fabric a client recently selected for her daughter’s room. How fabulous is that? The small bedroom had been perfectly cute, actually, with different pastels on the walls and stuffed animals, books, and hair accoutrements on every horizontal surface. But the REAL client – the one in elementary school …
No one does kitsch better than Baltimore. That’s my opinion, anyway, and I give it with humility, respect, and a little bit of awe. Welcome to Papermoon Diner, where the fries are curly and the brownie sundaes are warm. There are THINGS glued to every surface. Action figures, toys, cars – what isn’t glued down …
Q: Hi! I came across your blog on line and liked your attitude! Can you help me pick an exterior scheme for my house? I live on the west coast – Victoria – where pretty much anything goes. I tend to favour greens and am also contemplating a pink house…but I am nervous about getting …
I almost licked a table on Thursday. I pulled back at the last minute, but it was a close call. It all began with a simple quest for ice cream. Ridiculous, since I don’t even like ice cream very much, but it was a gorgeous evening, and dinner at the dive-y Great Wall – Szechuan …
Eco-poleum? Green-o-floleum? Fabulous-colorful-versatile-and-environmentally-sensitive-a-joleum? I have long been a fan of Marmoleum as a flooring material. The colors – holy cow, the colors…so rich, so vibrant. And the neutrals are nuanced and lovely. All of the colors are slightly mottled, so you can find grey veins in the yellows, blues in the reds, that kind of …