Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
I am so excited! My friend L (I’m not being coy; her name is Laura, but she goes by L), a real-life farmer in the Berkshires – on Farm Girl Farm– bought a tiny house! Second time’s a charm; first one fell through. I’m such a fatalist about these things. I really think that where …
In case you missed it – this being a travel-filled holiday week and all – The Washington Post had a fantastic article in Thursday’s Home section about an 11-foot-wide house in Georgetown. (Mysteriously, the online version omits the photographs, so I’ve included them here. Photo credit for all is Kevin Allen.) The owner of the …
It’s sad, but it’s true. Not all old things are worth keeping. I’m generally in favor of salvaging architectural or decorative elements. If it’s in good shape, if it works with the current owners’ style, and, most important, if it’s original to the house, why not try to work with it? My contractors will tell …
I know, I know. There are modernists among us who feel about DWR the way some feel about Pottery Barn. Something about, “one-stop shopping makes it too easy for those with no real design sense to appear as though they have some, blah blah blah…” What a nation of whiners. ;) I understand why DWR …
And for the final installment in the 2008 “Blogger at Large” series: minimalism is yet another viable tactic for coping with Pueblo Revival architecture. Everything belonging to the owner of this condominium – an absolutely delightful scientist at Los Alamos – is functional and attractive. (You’ll recognize DWR’s Cubitec shelving, of course, and the dining …
These clients had a perfectly fine master bath, but it looked pretty shabby after a dramatic renovation to the attached bedroom. The new bedroom has miles of mahogany built-ins, so we started with a custom-built mahogany vanity base in the same style. Then we had to choose the rest of the materials. The husband wanted …
That’s the name of the Michael Miller fabric a client recently selected for her daughter’s room. How fabulous is that? The small bedroom had been perfectly cute, actually, with different pastels on the walls and stuffed animals, books, and hair accoutrements on every horizontal surface. But the REAL client – the one in elementary school …