Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
I was sitting on our back porch this eerily warm weekend when my teenage daughter Ruthie came out. Ruthie: Whatcha doing? Me: Writing about Pantone’s Colors Of the Year for 2021. Without much success, I’m afraid. R: Oh! What’s the color? Me: No, what are they. They did two colors this year. R: Can they …
“Read This Before You Pick a Paint Color,” reads the title of Kathryn O’Shea Evans’ excellent article in the September/October issue of This Old House Magazine. Putting aside the fact that I participated, (thank you, Kathryn and This Old House!), the article is chock full of helpful tips. As you know, Gentle Readers, painting a …
I hope you saw us in The Wall Street Journal on Saturday! Thank you, WSJ Off Duty and Kathryn O’Shea Evans, for featuring one of our recent projects in the House Tours column. The article, “How Color Made a Routine Condo Special,” went online last week, but it wasn’t until I saw the article in …
Well! Washington Post readers had a lot to say about our House Calls makeover published last Thursday! Thank you for all of your comments: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Since there were so many, I thought it might be helpful to let you in on our thought process — and to give you …
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably given a thought or two to paint sometime in your life. So you won’t want to miss Steven Kurutz‘s excellent article in The New York Times today about two companies (founded by millennials, natch) that are disrupting the paint industry by selling paint by mail. Thanks so much for …
I have to tell you, I have never wanted to dye my hair black more than I did at High Point this year. I’d say 80% of the people there were blonde. Crazy! There’s a sociology thesis in there somewhere… When I wasn’t seeing myself coming or going, my fellow Bossettes and I noted three …
The ever-adorable Nate Berkus was the cover story in Sunday's Parade Magazine.
I'm loathe to disagree with Nate about anything. I mean, have you seen him? (Of course you have. You don't live under a rock.) He's a doll....
