Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
u Update 2.2.23: You may want to check out my interview in The Washington Post, in which I visit this very store! Hello, Gentle Readers! The “Shop With Me” series on my TikTok has proven to be surprisingly popular, so I thought I would do a little version of it here. This will be the …
You may have noticed, Gentle Readers, that this blog post directs you to a website called, “Annie Elliott Design.” Rest assured: you are in the right place. To communicate more clearly that we are a full-service design firm, I felt a name change was necessary. (I’ve known this for years, actually, thanks to many qualified …
Sometimes, you just need a refresh. If you have excellent quality furniture and you still love it, there’s no reason not to incorporate it into a new design. That’s what we did in this master bedroom. We rearranged the bed, bedside tables, and three dressers, and we changed everything else: the carpeting, window treatments, bedding, …
Bossy color never designs a room with trends in mind – and neither should you, Gentle Readers. However, we do perk up when a classic idea becomes a trend, then suddenly people embrace it, and then the manufacturers come up with great interpretations. Which is exactly what’s happened with the accent lamp. You may mistake it for …
Designing light fixtures can’t be easy. If it were, wouldn’t everyone be doing it? Scale alone is a tricky thing. Then you have to consider where it might go, create the design, choose finishes…then — goodness! — there’s wattage to think about, and probably something involving wiring… It seems complicated. Which is why we all should appreciate truly …
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...
