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Yellow wallpapered room with corner fireplace

How to arrange furniture around a corner fireplace

Annie Elliott | October 2, 2022

I’ve tackled this subject before, Gentle Readers — In 2010, to be exact! Corner fireplaces — and angled ones — are just incredibly difficult to work with. As I type, I’m sitting in the left chair in the picture below. We’re at my MIL’s weekend house, and we’ve never really cracked the code on what …

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» Living Room + Family Room
Pantone Color of the Year 2019 Living Coral

Pantone’s Color of the Year 2019: Living Coral

Annie Elliott | December 6, 2018

THANK YOU, Pantone! If ever we needed a lift, it’s now. Kudos to you for selecting an optimistic, playful, happy — almost giddy! — color for 2019: Living Coral. What a relief. I’m serious: I lose sleep over this stuff. As much as I’d like to deny it, Pantone’s Color of the Year seeps into …

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» Color + paint color

Start with the rug…or not!

Annie Elliott | November 6, 2017

Gentle Readers, if you have been reading bossy color blog faithfully since 2009 (!!!), you know that a tenet I hold near and dear is this: START WITH THE RUG. If you’re hating a room but you just can’t figure out what to do about it, start with the rug. Except when you don’t. We just …

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» Rugs

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