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My love/hate relationship with purple

Annie Elliott | October 20, 2013

I’ve always hated purple. It didn’t matter what shade it was. Lilac, lavender, aubergine, eggplant, plum, grape…I just didn’t like it. If you said, “purple living room,” this is what I pictured:   With images like that in my head, I don’t even know that my aversion was to purple itself. It may have been what I associated …

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» Color + paint color

Small space in House Beautiful (I’m talking really, really small)

Annie Elliott | July 22, 2010

Ok, Newell Turner. I think you and I are going to get along just fine.I was still reeling from the news that my imaginary work paramour Stephen Drucker had left House Beautiful for Town & Country, a magazine about which I care not one iota. Perhaps Stephen will change that. Regardless of what happens with that publication, …

Read more »Small space in House Beautiful (I’m talking really, really small)
» Color + paint color, Living Room + Family Room

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