Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Wall vents are the bane of my existence. I’m being a little dramatic, but not much. They can be SO HARD to work with! You have a gorgeous, unbroken wall, just waiting for the right paint, or wallcovering, or piece of art, and then…THE VENT rears its ugly head. One of my favorite ways of …
The ever-adorable Nate Berkus was the cover story in Sunday's Parade Magazine.
I'm loathe to disagree with Nate about anything. I mean, have you seen him? (Of course you have. You don't live under a rock.) He's a doll....
The other day I was talking to the wonderful Sheila Hagar of the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, and she casually asked, "So how's your living room looking these days?"
Egad! I thought. (Or something close to it.) Things have changed! Not too much, but still, enough for an update....
Not so long ago, I spoke with you about "art walls." We started with WHAT to Hang, then moved on to how to FRAME it, and then how to HANG it.
Seems I got one of my clients all riled up.
There's a gigantic blank wall in her cheerful gray dining room....
This is the final installment in the "How to create the perfect art wall" series.
I believe my living room art wall will be my last obsessive personal project in 2010. Even though (spoiler alert) it might not even be finished.
But to review. Recently, we talked about what to hang on an art wall. Framing. And different ways to hang the art - in a grid, randomly, etc.
Even armed with all of that information, though, there's that je ne sais quoi that tells you whether an art wall is successful or not....
So you're surrounded by old favorite and newly-acquired pictures, all resting comfortably in their shiny new frames.
Now what?
There are about a zillion "right ways" to create an art grouping. But my saying, "Just fiddle around with the layout until it looks right " is supremely unhelpful....
Part deux in a trois-part series. Part un was “What to Hang.”
Now that you’ve ransacked your closets, shopped online, and sneaked things out of your grandmother’s house, you have to frame the goods.
We know that having some unifying element on an art wall is a good idea....
