fireplace

You asked…about updating your fireplace

Annie Elliott | November 6, 2008

Q: Annie, I have been reading your blog for a few months now and really enjoy it. I was hoping that you could help me pick a new look for my fireplace in Silver Spring [MD]. My family lives in a 1940s colonial. I like midcentury modern furnishings, a clean, neutral look, and silvertone or …

» Living Room + Family Room, Renovation

Mirror over the fireplace: yay or nay?

Annie Elliott | November 2, 2007

I used to be emphatically nay. Who wants to look at himself in someone else’s living room? And when you sit down, who wants to look at the ceiling? But Billy Baldwin made the good argument that if you have a beautiful fireplace and a beautiful piece of art, you create visual competition by placing …

» Art + accessories, Living Room + Family Room