Exterior

Should you paint your beautiful brick house?

Annie Elliott | July 25, 2021

The short and unsatisfying answer, Gentle Readers, is maybe. It’s entirely up to you (and your trusty designer). In sorting through my thoughts about this subject, I couldn’t come up with a hard and fast set of rules — much to my chagrin. Sometimes, a red brick house is drop-dead gorgeous. Sometimes, a brick house …

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Exterior before ‘n after: context, baby, context

Annie Elliott | July 9, 2008

I’ve long maintained that anything can look good in the right context. Naturally, there are exceptions…it’s tough to argue for decoupage under any circumstances. Unless it’s a vase your kid made. But even then. This charming DC row house had an identity crisis. It thought it was in Key West, the poor thing. After a …

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