Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Happy Holidays, Gentle Readers! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope that you’re excited (and rested up) for whatever December holiday/s you celebrate. Our Thanksgiving tradition is to visit my parents near Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. That’s my adopted hometown: in addition to going to college in Philadelphia, I lived at …
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 …
You know how, when you learn a new vocabulary word, suddenly you start hearing it everywhere?
Well, that's what's happening to me with the color gray.
Gray's been "in" for, what, a good 9 months now? And I've been recommending certain favorite grays, such as Benjamin Moore's HC-172 Revere Pewter and HC-173 Edgecomb Gray, for years....
