Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
Before you say it, Gentle Readers, let me beat you to the punch. If you have a vintage bathroom that requires a bathrobe sleeve to wipe the steam from your mirror post-shower, then yes, you should avoid hanging your Picasso in there. (Works on paper especially will die a slow death, but we’re talking years, …
I went to the Transformer Gallery‘s annual auction and party last night (bossy color helped sponsor the event), and it was SO MUCH fun! Today my feet hurt (4″ heels will do that) and I’m a little hoarse from yelling over the music, but my soul is full. You know why? Because the whole night …
I hope that by now, I’ve convinced all of you to have wallpaper SOMEWHERE in your lovely homes. Maybe you’re still getting comfortable with wallpaper — using it as an accent wall in a bedroom or trying it out in your powder room — or maybe you’ve gone whole hog and are hanging it faster than the factories can print it. Either way, here …
Happy New Year, Gentle Readers! I hope you had a wonderful, healthy holiday season. We’ve been thinking about our 2014 goals here in bossyland. It may not be world peace, but we have our own modest aspirations. In 2014, bossy color will leave no pillow untrimmed. Trimming a pillow makes such a difference! A flange, …
Yes, Gentle Readers, the rumors are true. Emerald, aka 17-5641, is Pantone’s color of the year for 2013. Hooray! I’m going to be honest. Emerald green as “emerald green”, emerald as I think of it, a true jewel tone, green with a little blue in it, really saturated, really deep… It’s not my fave. Greens of …
If you went out to lunch with a friend and you had spinach stuck in your teeth, you'd want him or her to tell you, right?...
I'm more than your go-to design chick. I'm your friend. And as your friend, it is my duty to tell you: you must have some wallpaper in your home.
Wallpaper is now more than a trend. It's de rigueur. People are embracing it now. They're recognizing its potential. They're unleashing the power of patterned walls....
Where were we? Ah yes: changing the powder room strategy from blue to green. This is the living room I'd just completed for a client.
I fell in love with that wallpaper. I mean, LOVE. All those months of focusing on yellow and blue and pink (oops - spoiler alert: pictures of my living room coming soon!)...I was feeling the need for some green. This wallpaper just needed to be in my house - somewhere.
Thus we began the powder room adventure....
