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Home office with green shade and black dog

Trading spaces: Let’s re-think our rooms in the new year

Annie Elliott | January 20, 2025

Hello, Gentle Readers! I hope your new year is off to a great start. Thank you for your patience as I took an unannounced holiday break :) As we took down the Christmas tree and put the furniture back in place, I thought about how many iterations our living room has had…and how other rooms …

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» Before and after
Light blue kitchen cabinets

How to avoid a kitchen renovation: paint your cabinets

Annie Elliott | December 3, 2023

Ah, Gentle Readers. Another year is drawing to a close. How was 2023 for you? I hope you not only survived but thrived. If you undertook a renovation, chances are you’re content with survival. Renovations are hard to live through, aren’t they? On the off-chance that you’ve been pondering a kitchen renovation but just can’t …

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» Kitchen + bath
Outdated coral orange dining room with valences and drapes

Dining room makeover: a simple coat of paint changes everything

Annie Elliott | July 30, 2023

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 …

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» Before and after, Dining room

Who doesn’t love a makeover? Befores and afters

Annie Elliott | July 15, 2023

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 …

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» Before and after, Color + paint color, Wallpaper
Striped sofa in a bay window

Light and bright — and green! — in a top-floor family room

Annie Elliott | June 12, 2022

Who says a family room has to be in a basement, Gentle Readers? Not us! The third floor of a fantastic, longtime client’s house was underused. It had become the repository for toys and books the kids had outgrown and furniture that had been replaced. We decided to transform the room into a jaw-droppingly gorgeous, …

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» Living Room + Family Room
Green wallpaper behind an antique secretary

Introducing my new, gorgeous foyer wallpaper: “Narina!”

Annie Elliott | August 22, 2021

(Not “Narnia” as I first thought!) Gentle Readers, I have not been holding out on you. With our bathroom renovation taking place on the 3rd floor, I thought it wise to wait until all the bumping and thumping up and down the stairs subsided before papering the foyer walls. I was away for several weeks …

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» Wallpaper
Annie Elliott Design's room in the ASPIRE show house

Show House Part 5: Annnnnd we’re back!

Annie Elliott | July 5, 2020

Hello, Gentle Readers! When we last left our heroine… Preparations for the ASPIRE House are in full swing (again!)! I encourage you to go back and read my last blog post about the show house, just to get your head back in it. *I* had to. I couldn’t remember where I’d left off because I …

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» Bedroom
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