The interior design blog by Annie Elliott, bossy color.
Hello, Gentle Readers! It’s taken seven years, but I believe I’ve finally cracked the code on my living room.
I mean, why rush?
Laugh if you must (guffaw, even), but I maintain that it’s infinitely easier to work on other people’s houses than your own. Especially when you’re getting paid to work for others and not for yourself. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Anyway, here’s the finished (you heard right, darling husband: I actually said, “finished!”) living room…
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….
Yay, spring! Even though I barely busted out the parka this winter, I’m ready for a change. 78-degree days in February are spooky. But in March, they’re fabulous. And they smell better.
Could it have been a yearning for spring that led me to green for my powder room? My Irish heritage?…
The other day I was sitting in a furniture showroom, waiting for the rep. to get me some pricing. I started thumbing idly through the big fat furniture catalog that was sitting on her desk.
As I flipped to the back, I saw the heading, “Accessories.” Hm, I thought. This is a furniture company. I wonder what kind of accessories they have….
We returned from Miami to freezing temps and aspirational snow on the ground. Sad any way you look at it.
As I Tweeted, the hotel itself, the Royal Palm, was lovely. A page out of old Miami: a tidy and tasteful room (I’m not a believer in big bedrooms, let alone big hotel rooms) and a sweeping view.
For this color-obsessed design maven, the white walls, drapes and bedding – and I mean WHITE, not ivory, cream, light taupe, or gray – made a big impression….
I’m THRILLED that so many of you approve of the bird-a-palooza that’s taken place in my foyer. Thanks so much for all the words of support.
Some of you asked a very good question: “So where does the wallpaper end?”
It’s a great question. The answer wasn’t obvious….
Fred and Carrie were right! Everything IS better when you put a bird on it!
My fancy schmancy Nina Campbell wallpaper went up yesterday.
What can I say: it might have been the happiest day of my life….
NYT, thanks so much for including me in Steven Kurutz’s article today, “Relax. There’s Plenty of Room.”
It’s about oversized furniture and the ridiculousness thereof. I’m pretty sure this blog post – and this one – posts helped me land the gig….
What did YOU do over the holidays?
Really? Fun!
Me? Oh, the usual…ate too much…drove too much…got a little jiggy with metallic paint…
Let me back up. I haven’t yet confessed to you that I went on a bit of a decorating bender at the end of 2011….
Kristie at The Decorologist broke the news to me first. Pantone’s color of the year for 2012 is a dark reddish orange called Tangerine Tango.
Sigh. Was it too much to hope for a nice, grassy green?
Leatrice Eisman describes Tangerine Tango thus…
