Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
If ever there were a case to be made for putting giant swatches of actual paint on the walls before making a color decision, this is it.
With many, MANY thanks to all of the Gentle Readers who gave me their thoughts and suggestions, we're working with these finalists for my dining room....
Now that I have a living room I LOVE - or almost love: Mitchell Gold's Mona Sofette is on its way, and someday I'll eradicate the orange on those darn chairs -
I have to repaint the dining room.
I know, I know. WHERE DOES IT ALL END?? Well, I've assured my long-suffering husband that it ends after the DR is painted. But I might have been lying.
Anyway, you can see the problem, looking from one room into the other....
During a recent bossy basic, my lovely client showed me her dining room table and chairs. One of the reasons she had called me, in fact was to get suggestions on replacing her dining room table.
The table was fine, she said, but the chairs? A little...strange....
"Cheerful" and "gray" don't sound like they belong in the same sentence, do they? But look:
Thanks to painted wainscoting that covers a third of the walls, a dramatic curved window, and a coral rug, gray is anything but dreary in this D.C. dining room....
Gentle Readers, have I thanked you recently for sticking with me through the trials and tribulations of my living room? Thank you. The room isn’t finished yet (shocker), but I thought you deserved a little success story. Remember that big huge wall over the sofa? The blank one? When we first moved in, we were …