Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Dear Gentle Readers,
I apologize. I didn't intend to get out of the posting groove, but as you can see, it happened anyway. Rather than continuing to disappoint you every time you rush to your computer in excited anticipation of bossy color blog's next installment (I hope the gentle sarcasm is coming through), I am going to declare, officially, that bossy color blog is on hiatus this summer...
I recently posted about a bedroom in progress that presented a trim challenge. In response, a Gentle Reader left this comment:
I have started to hate thinking about trim colour...Basically I just don’t understand the rules for trim....
Ok, my friends. Let's see if we can nail down some rules. It would be so delightful and easy if every single room in our home could have the same trim color. Alas, this is never the case....
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....
It's Thomas Jefferson's fault.
And Mrs. Blandings'. She is the brilliant blogger who today celebrates that super duper New Orleans designer, Melissa Rufty. You know, the inspiration for bossy color's living room.
"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....
Just when you’ve cracked the code, they change the code. That was our conclusion when our twin daughters were babies. The moment you think you’ve nailed down a sleep schedule, food preferences, and personalities, they change. Willfully. Bossy color has news for you, Gentle Readers. The code-changing continues! We really did crack the code on …