Annie Elliott Design
Greater Washington DC
This project happened long ago, Gentle Readers, but I came across the pictures recently and was reminded how few new things we added to transform this room. These amazing clients (seriously: so fun to work with) had bought the gigantic house across the road. The decorating was dated, but the furniture was super pretty, of …
Gentle Readers! I apologize for falling off the blog track for a few weeks. Life overtook me ;) Thank you for your patience! First things first: we are accepting new projects for the fall! Please head over to this page if you’re rarin’ to redecorate. I’d love to work with you! For inspiration, I thought …
My dining room was just fine, Gentle Readers. It really was. But I was sick of our table. That’s how it started. We bought our dining table 19 years ago, when we moved into this house. It wasn’t expensive. It was newly made from reclaimed walnut, and the legs were painted in a blue/black milk …
Our wonderful Schumacher rep Kate came to visit us the other day, Gentle Readers, and something became extremely clear. Large-scale patterns — on fabric, on wallpaper — are IN! And they are glorious! I felt a bit validated, to tell you the truth. I’ve been looking for large-scale stuff recently, mostly because I’ve had big …
Who says a family room has to be in a basement, Gentle Readers? Not us! The third floor of a fantastic, longtime client’s house was underused. It had become the repository for toys and books the kids had outgrown and furniture that had been replaced. We decided to transform the room into a jaw-droppingly gorgeous, …
From time to time, Gentle Readers, a TikTok follower will send a question that really gets me thinking. The gist of a recent question was: What if you do something to your house and you HATE IT?! That was all the information I was given. Intriguing, right? No matter what the (perceived) design disaster is, …
I have been so surprised and delighted by the wonderful response to my little “Design Dilemmas” on Instagram reels and Tiktok, Gentle Readers. Thank you! Several of them have been about pattern mixing, so I thought I would try and capture the takeaways for those of you who prefer to read rather than watch. 1. …
