More gray in action: Henlopen City Oyster House

August 23, 2012 3 Comments

You know how, when you learn a new vocabulary word, suddenly you start hearing it everywhere?

Well, that’s what’s happening to me with the color gray.

Gray’s been “in” for, what, a good 9 months now? And I’ve been recommending certain favorite grays, such as Benjamin Moore’s HC-172 Revere Pewter and HC-173 Edgecomb Gray, for years. But gray really has been on my mind since Elizabeth Mayhew’s recent article, 7 Shades of Gray, in The Washington Post.

Henlopen City Oyster House, Rehoboth Beach, DE

So imagine my delight when my husband and I stumbled into Henlopen City Oyster House in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, earlier this week. Let me set the scene. After a cloudy (gray) day at the beach and a few hours of migraine-inducing frivolity at a throwback carnival-like place called — what else? — “Funland,” my parents surprised us by offering to take our daughters up to Philadelphia for their final days of summer vacation.

“Honey, I didn’t realize the girls don’t have camp this week. Would you like us to – ”

“Yes.”

“- to take them up to -”

“Yes.”

” – up to Philadelphia for a few -”

“Yes. Yes! YES!”

I felt like Molly Bloom. Anyway, once we packed the children into my parents’ station wagon and finished jumping up and down with glee, we realized that we were hungry. And that we also possibly needed a drink.

This is where gray comes in. We’d walked past Henlopen City Oyster House just moments earlier, where, at 2:59 in the afternoon, there was a crowd of people waiting for it to open at 3. A good sign. So in we went and were greeted with the most soothing, natural palette of cream, beige, and, yes, Gentle Readers, gray.

Shades of gray at an oyster bar

Neutral shades of gray at an oyster bar

Warm gray on the walls, lighter warm beigey-gray on the concrete countertops,

Light gray/beige concrete countertop

gray paint unevenly applied to rough wooden planks on the bar fronts,

Gray-painted wood with natural wood showing through

and super warm honey colored wood floors. Just lovely.

Gray walls with natural wood floor at an oyster restaurant

All in all, a color palette like the oysters themselves, wouldn’t you say?

Oyster on the half shell

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She has been quoted in publications from The Washington Post to The New York Times to Real Simple and is considered an expert on color, residential space planning, and telling people what to do in the nicest way possible.

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Thanks, Family Circle! Color palettes for three decorating styles

August 19, 2012 3 Comments

You don’t think of decorating tips when you think of Family Circle magazine, do you?

Family Circle Magazine cover September 2012

Well, Terry Trucco is doing her best to change that. Bossy color is featured in September’s issue of Family Circle, in an article proposing color palettes for three different decorating styles. It’s called, “Fresh Coat.”

Family Circle Fresh Coat article by Terry Trucco

Bossy color’s style selection was, “Traditional with a Twist” (I may have proposed the term, “bossy traditional,” but I grudgingly admit that their choice may have broader appeal). Naturally I suggested that an egg-yolk yellow living room can be just as traditional as beige.

Can’t imagine where that idea came from.

Thomas Jefferson's yellow dining room at Monticello

Thomas Jefferson’s dining room at Monticello, with table setting by Charlotte Moss

Benjamin Moore's 343 Sunrays egg yolk yellow living room

My living room, painted in Benjamin Moore’s 343 Sunrays

The other two styles are “Eclectic Mix” and “Clean and Contemporary.”

The article is only in Family Circle’s print edition, so run, don’t walk, to your nearest grocery store.

It’s on page 44  ;)

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She has been quoted in publications from The New York Times to Real Simple and is considered an expert on color, residential space planning, and telling people what to do in the nicest way possible.

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It’s gray’s day! Thanks, Washington Post!

August 12, 2012 5 Comments

Anyone tired of the 50 Shades of Gray references? I’m not! The witty and eloquent Elizabeth Mayhew debuted a column in The Washington Post on Thursday, and her first one was called, 7 Shades of Gray.

Bedroom with upholstered floral headboard and Benjamin Moore's Gray Owl paint

Benjamin Moore’s 2137-60 Gray Owl on the walls of Elizabeth Mayhew’s bedroom (photo by Annie Schlechter)

I was delighted to provide some thoughts for the article’s sidebar. You know I think gray can be tricky…and we’ve talked before about two of my favorite light grays, Benjamin Moore’s HC-172 Revere Pewter and HC-173 Edgecomb Gray. My dining room is currently a medium gray, AC-31 Hot Spring Stones (also by Benjamin Moore).

But this time, we’re going deep. We’re going dark. Sherwin Williams’ Iron Ore has captured my fancy of late: it’s a beautiful grayish black with a hint of brown in it – just a touch of warmth. I’ve been thinking about it for my new kitchen cabinets, as a matter of fact.

Black dark gray dining room with chandelier

Dining room painted in Sherwin Williams’ SW7069 Iron Ore, in the blog Ruth Burts Interiors

For those of us who haven’t quite had the courage to paint a room black, as Candice Olsen has been begging us to do for years, maybe dark gray would be a little less scary.

Tell you what: I’ll try it if you will, ok? We’ll just hold hands and jump.

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She has been quoted in publications from The New York Times to Real Simple and is considered an expert on color, residential space planning, and telling people what to do in the nicest way possible.

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Bossy color’s high/low living room – finished!

April 21, 2012 34 Comments

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:

Yellow living room

I was feeling good about everything, but as the day of the photo shoot grew near, I felt something was missing. Can you guess what the “finishing element” was? The very last thing I did to the room (except the flowers)?

The green Crate & Barrel pillows on the sofa.

Isn’t that crazy? But everything was matching a little too well….it was, Yellow! Pink! Blue! And again! Yellow! Pink! Blue!  Which I  love, but I needed that kind of unmatched color. I needed some green.

Sound familiar? This is kind of what happened with the powder room. Maybe it was a vitamin deficiency.

And the green does match, of course: it pulls out greens from the artwork. But it doesn’t match any of the furniture.

Here’s where everything is from:

**Paint color** (added 4/25): Benjamin Moore, 343 Sunrays

Rug: Safavieh Soho collection, from some horrible online source

Drapes: custom, yellow faux silk from Stroheim & Roman, blue silk stripe from a discount shop in VA. Drapery hardware is Robert Allen

Sofa: Craig’s list, reupholstered in Robert Allen velvet

Small sofa: Mitchell Gold’s Mona Sofette, reupholstered in Schumacher fabric (Tiraz Ikat, I think?)

Pink Ikat sofa

Pink chairs: the chairs themselves were to the trade, upholstered in a fabric from an outlet in North Carolina (but I think I tracked down the manufacturer at some point…Brunschwig? Can’t remember)

Round table in corner: Family piece, English

Horse sculpture: it’s leather! Junk shop – sorry, “antique shop” - in Royal Oak, MD

White lamp: thrift shop, St. Michaels, MD (12! The shade was $60, of course)

Sideboard: Family piece, English

Small chair: Family piece – my grandmother did the needlepoint on the back, which you can’t see, and the front is in a python pleather from Kravet

Blue lamp: Home Goods!

Nina Campbell wallpaper from yellow living room

Art wall: various artists, but the oil paintings are by Elizabeth Brown via her shop on Etsy (it’s called, “Dragon’s Appetite”), and the two silver-framed etchings/engravings/drypoints (how do I have a master’s degree in art history? I never mastered the difference) are by Christina Dixcy, who now concentrates on large-scale photography. She’s my husband’s cousin, and we have several of her pieces…these were gifts when our twins were born

Room & Board Portica coffee table

Coffee table: Room & Board (the Ikea one we spray-painted was ok, but we needed some white, and the glass was bugging me)

Pillows: green from C&B, as I mentioned, zebra from Mi Casa Bella on Etsy, and the blue and yellow ones I had made with fabric I found somewhere. Gee, that’s not very helpful, is it?

What makes the room look the best, of course, is professional photography. All of these pictures were taken by bossy color’s favorite photographer, Michael K. Wilkinson. Frankly, he’s a genius.

So there you have it, Gentle Readers! Bossy color’s living room, finished. For now.

Yellow living room with blue velvet sofa

Quoted in publications from The New York Times to The Washington Post to Real Simple magazine, Annie Elliott is considered an expert in color, residential space planning, and telling people what to do in the nicest way possible.

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Pantone’s color of the year 2012: 17-1463 Tangerine Tango

December 13, 2011 14 Comments

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.

Pantone's color of the year 2012

Sigh. Was it too much to hope for a nice, grassy green?

Leatrice Eisman describes Tangerine Tango thus:

Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue  that emanates heat and energy.

Now THERE’s a concise little description. Sheesh.

Why am I so cranky about this? You know I’m a fan of bold colors. And there’s nothing WRONG with Tangerine Tango per se. I like red, I like depth…everything Ms. Eisman says about the color is true.

But here’s the thing: I’m still recovering from orange.

Wasn’t it just yesterday that orange was EVERYWHERE?

Orange room with fireplace and round table

Jeffrey Bilhuber in Habitually Chic

Especially with olive and kiwi greens?

Olive green room with orange chairs and Albers painting

Elaine Griffin in Elle Decor

Orange chairs, white table, green shelves

From kitchendesignimages.blogspot.com

Granted, it was a much lighter orange – tangerine without the tango, if you will – but I feel as though stores from West Elm to CB2 were just reveling in it, especially for accessories.

Habitually Chic has a wonderful post about the positives of orange. But here’s the thing: it was written 11 months ago. See what I mean?

To be honest, I’m still grooving on Pantone’s color of the year for 2011: Honeysuckle pink.

Pantone's color of the year 2011: Honeysuckle Pink

In fact, I’d finally traded out those goofy half-orange chairs (and they ARE close to Tangerine Tango)…

Chairs upholstered in orange herringbone and Schumacher Pearl River chairs

…for new pink chairs, and I’d just reupholstered my little Mitchell Gold Mona sofette in a pretty pink and cream Ikat from Schumacher.

Pink and cream Ikat fabric

Schumacher's Tiraz Ikat

Is that it? Am I feeling left behind? (I still have those darn two-tone chairs, but you couldn’t pay me enough to put them back in the living room.)

Or maybe I’m angry with Pantone for creating these awesome Christmas tree ornaments but not selling them in the U.S. this year.

Colorful Pantone Christmas tree ornaments

Look. I’m sure I’ll get with the program eventually. But for now, Tangerine Tango doesn’t feel fresh as much as recycled. In a lame way, not a cool eco way. A strong, grassy or blue-green would have been much fresher.

As for Benjamin Moore’s color of the year for 2012, HC-143 Wythe Blue…that’s a subject for another time. (One word, though: tired.)

Benjamin Moore's HC-143 Wythe Blue

From Tobi Fairley's blog

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She has been quoted by The Washington Post, the Associated Press, and most recently, she had a full-page interview in USA Today’s glossy magazine, American Life Home. Look for it. And when you find it, please send it to her, because she only has it on a PDF.

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Imaginary friends: Foolproof paint colors for a bachelor pad

December 6, 2011 17 Comments

I mean, why not? I can’t work with every single person who contacts bossy color, tragically. But if I had some imaginary friends with fairly universal paint color challenges and I helped them…

(You know there’s a big caveat here, right? I can spare you the blah blah blah  of “there’s really no such thing as a foolproof  color palette when you don’t know what the space looks like, how much light it gets and from what direction, what the client’s tastes are…?” You’ll grant me a little leeway here, right? Thanks, man.) So…

THE IMAGINARY FRIEND: a youngish bachelor.

THE IMAGINARY HOME: a one-bedroom apartment in the city.

Living room (because there’s no foyer): Benjamin Moore’s HC-172 Revere Pewter. Grays are still huge – finally gaining traction in all parts of the country, as we know from the last Color Outlook podcast :) .

Bossy color’s imaginary bachelor is so cutting-edge.

Revere Pewter in Hallway

HC-172 Revere Pewter in the blog AM Dolce Vita

Revere Pewter wall with photographs

Benjamin Moore's HC-172 Revere Pewter, in DecorPad via Hirschfeld's Color Club

Light warm gray, Revere Pewter

Benjamin Moore's HC-172 Revere Pewter. Isn't it crazy how tan it looks on your screen? It isn't in real life.

Kitchen walls: Ellen Kennon’s Silk Road Plum. That’s right, Gentle Readers. PLUM. I don’t know whether our guy is gay or straight (he’s private that way), but he’s going to get all kinds of points for this one.

First, because he knows about full-spectrum paint, and second, because he isn’t afraid to use it. In purple. In his kitchen. Even if there’s only one wall, painting it a warm, rich aubergine is a bold move. And deep purple isn’t limiting, color-wise; it’s liberating. Pair it with gray, orange, red, green…

Lovely picture in a random blog. The purple is similar to Ellen Kennon's Silk Road Plum

Then paint those sticky oak cabinets from the 80s Benjamin Moore’s  HC-173 Edgecomb Gray or a glossy black.

Purple foyer with black built-in shelving

This isn't Ellen Kennon's purple, but how fantastic does it look with black? Designed by David Kaihoi in House Beautiful

Holy cow: this is the only picture I could find of Ellen Kennon's Silk Road Plum! It's fourth from left. This group of colors is her "Designer Color Palette"

Silk Road Plum, third from left

Bedroom: Benjamin Moore’s HC-67 Clinton Brown. You thought I was going to suggest a green, didn’t you? But no! Our bachelor is more sophisticated than that. He’s going for the drama. (You CAN use a crisp white trim color with Clinton Brown, but I prefer something creamier. For what it’s worth.)

Kiwi green headboard in dry dark brown bedroom

Benjamin Moore's HC-67 Clinton Brown, in the seemingly defunct blog windula - now 4 men, 1 lady? - via decorpad

Brown, white and red living room

Benjamin Moore's HC-67 Clinton Brown, design by Cristina Azario, Elle Decor

Deep dry brown

Benjamin Moore's HC-67 Clinton Brown

Bathroom: If our bachelor were lucky enough to have decent white ceramic tile in his bathroom, then Benjamin Moore’s HC-6 Windham Cream would have been a nice surprise. But, alas, his apartment came with natural stone – very masculine, if somewhat uninspired. In this context, a deep blue-gray, such as Benjamin Moore’s HC-146 Wedgewood Gray, TRULY is foolproof. Heck, I even have it in my own bathroom.

Light blue-gray foyer with photographs

Benjamin Moore's HC-146 Wedgewood Gray, via the blog The Lettered Cottage

Benjamin Moore's HC-146 Wedgewood Gray

Benjamin Moore's HC-146 Wedgewood Gray

There you go, imaginary friend! The best part about being imaginary, of course, is that painting your apartment is going to be SUPER easy.

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She’s considered an expert on color, residential space planning, and telling people what to do in the nicest way possible. She’s also a proud member of the Color Outlook team:  6 experts from across the country who podcast quarterly about color trends and forecasts.

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Blue dining rooms. So here! So now!

May 1, 2011 15 Comments

I know Honeysuckle Pink is the color of the year, but I seem to be recommending blue for dining rooms these days.

Why is that, I wonder? I’ve never thought of blue as a particularly appetizing color, but it seems as though blue has been just the ticket for several dining rooms I’ve been working on.

For the client below, we (I) just couldn’t bring ourselves (myself) to paint the walls goldy beige, which was the original plan.

Oops.

But don’t the blue walls look great with the paisley drapes and Jaipur rug? The client is so pleased. And we all know that a happy client = happy bossy.

Blue and brown dining room Benjamin Moore Buxton Blue

Benjamin Moore's HC-149 Buxton Blue

Benjamin Moore Another client is moving into an adorable bungalow, and the winning color for that DR is Benjamin Moore’s 2062-50 Blue Jean. Not that ANY color wouldn’t have been a vast improvement over the Merry Marigold that’s in there now. (That name’s a guess.)

 

Dining room with Oriental rug

I think one of the reasons blue keeps presenting itself as The Dining Room Solution is that it pulls out the blues in Oriental rugs so nicely. This is a dining room I did for some super duper clients several years ago. The rug was a given, but we didn’t want neutral walls. We used Benjamin Moore’s HC-150 Yarmouth Blue, if memory serves…

 

Blue dining room Benjamin Moore Yarmouth Blue

I don’t go in for blues that are too periwinkle, as in this dining room:

Blue dining room

Jamie Creel and Marco Scarani in Elle Decor

It’s my own bias, but periwinkle will forever remind me of Laura Ashley bedrooms. (It sure looks fab w/ those red/orange light fixtures, though, doesn’t it?)

Warmer blues are safer for a dining room.

Blue dining room green chairs

Tony Fornabaio in Elle Decor

No, you have to be careful that a blue dining room isn’t too cold. My mother told me that her English mother-in-law had an ICE BLUE dining room, and the effect was, well, chilly. (Mind you, I bet Grannie looked fabulous in that room, which may not have been unintentional.) I can see how an icy blue dining room might be a 40s holdover, can’t you?

Blue dining room Steven Gambrel

Steven Gambrel in Elle Decor

A client and I are planning to do a navy blue dining room this fall. (We’re renovating, or we’d be doing it tomorrow, we’re so excited about it.) In LACQUER, no less. Yum.

Navy blue breakfast room

T. Keller Donovan in Elle Decor

First dinner guest caught licking the walls should win some sort of prize. Suggestions?

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She’s also the creator of the “bossy basic,” a one-time service to jump-start the interior design process in your home.

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You asked…about a blue-gray living room

February 16, 2011 5 Comments

Dear Annie,

We moved from our first house in Nashville after it flooded in May into an amazing 100-year old bungalow in a historic neighborhood.

The last thing on my immediate design list is paint color for the living room.  I am leaning toward a grayish blue to pick up on the blues in the LR rug and the gray in the throw pillows.

Pinkish oriental rug

Crewel work pillow

The color swatches on the wall are from Sherwin Williams.  The darkest one (on the right in the pic with the factory cart) is SW 6227 and it is the one I am leaning toward.  I just came back from Benjamin Moore and it is closest to Nantucket Fog (AC-22) but slightly toward James River Gray (AC-23).

Living room with reclaimed wood

My husband is concerned that any of the blues that I sampled will make the room look cold and dark but the room does get a lot of natural sunlight on most days…the day I took the pics happened to be rainy…

Thanks! – Adina, Nashville

Chair next to fireplace

Hello, Adina! Crewel work pillow

First of all, I LOVE the rug and pillow combo. Brilliant. And I can’t believe you made the pillows; I pay someone a fortune to do it for me b/c I can’t seem to sew in a straight line. They look gorgeous.

While you know I’m a fan of bold colors, I share your husband’s concern a bit that going too deep on the blue-gray might shut down the room too much.

I also worry that once it’s everywhere, it will be so contrasty with all of your white trim and blinds that it’s going to look “blue and white;” you’ll be distracted from the subtle gorgeousness of the rug, pillows, and furniture, which all work really well together.

So here’s what I suggest. Why don’t you lighten up the wall color by one notch, to Benjamin Moore’s, HC-146 Wedgewood Gray – I have it in our master bath -

Benjamin Moore's HC-146 Wedgewood Gray

or HC-150 Yarmouth Blue, which I used in a dining room not long ago.

Blue dining room

Both are a bit warmer than your Sherwin Williams blues, and they’ll set off those bricky pinks beautifully. But they’re still not “light blue” – no fear of a baby blue LR.

Cream paint swatchAND THEN I suggest painting your woodwork (I – ADORE the reclaimed wood doors on the bookshelves) a much creamier white – almost a tan. In Benjamin Moore, look at OC-14 Natural Cream and OC-5 Maritime White.

Any plans for drapes (even side panels) over the blinds? I bet you could make them, Madam seamstress…that would be the icing on the cake.

I hope this is helpful, Adina! Keep us posted!

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She’s also the creator of the “bossy basic,” a one-time service to jump-start the interior design process in your home.

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Benjamin Moore, the new Pottery Barn catalog, and me

February 10, 2011 19 Comments

With all the Restoration Hardware bashing I’ve been doing recently, I’m feeling the need to be a bit, how shall I say?, nice.

So I opened my new Pottery Barn catalog determined to find something nice to say.

And guess what? It wasn’t that hard! In addition to a few items that weren’t bad, such as:

block-print napkins-these block-print linens at right,

-the “Daily System” wall-mounted bulletin boards, letter bins, etc. (which I have in my office AND which happen to be on sale right now), and

- the Alhambra Dhurrie rug,

blue and white dhurrie rug

one thing really stood out. The room shots that identify the Benjamin Moore paint colors used on the walls.

Pottery Barn Benjamin Moore fan deckThey may have been doing this for years, for all I know; I’ve been so disappointed in Pottery Barn that I haven’t done more than breeze through it of late.

But I’ve always thought the Benjamin Moore / Pottery Barn fan deck was an excellent idea. We all should have one. Can you imagine? Instead of Googling someone before a first date, you’d just try to get your hands on his/her fan deck. Learn a lot.

Knowing the exact paint color in a picture is super duper helpful. We all know how hard it is to guess how a paint color is going to look on THIS wall in THIS room with THIS exposure with THESE lights with THIS rug…etc. But having a photograph of the color in situ – even if the “situ” is an impossibly beautiful catalog set – is a good thing.

The walls of this “bedroom,” for example, are painted Benjamin Moore’s 302 You Are My Sunshine. See the little paint dab in the lower right corner?

Pottery Barn bedding

The walls of this dining room are painted Benjamin Moore’s HC-26 Monroe Bisque:

Pottery Barn dining room

And this breakfast room is painted Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White, which is an INT RM color. (Interior ready mixed*, get it?)

sunny dining room

Thank you, Pottery Barn. Thanks, Benjamin Moore. It feels good to love again.

*Note added 2/11: It took Gentle Reader ErinEvelyn to enlighten me that the RM does not, in fact, stand for room. Duh. My painters know what it means.

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is an interior decorator and design blogger in Washington, D.C. She’s also the creator of the “bossy basic,” a one-time service to jump-start the interior design process in your home. Think of it as CPR for your living room.

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Color or design question? Ask a Benjamin Moore Expert. (That would be me!)

February 2, 2011 20 Comments

What ho, Gentle Readers?! Holy cow – is it February already? Since when did January/February become crazy decorating season? It’s wonderful, of course, but I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you!

A piece of exciting news: I’ve just been named an Expert on the Benjamin Moore Experts Exchange.

Benjamin Moore Experts Exchange

And what exactly does that mean?

Well, for YOU, Gentle Readers, it means another way for you to send your color, design, and decorating questions my way. (Or Jamie Drake‘s way. Or Celerie Kemble‘s. Or Darryl Carter‘s. I can’t guarantee that they’ll be answering your questions personally, mind you, but I sure will!)

Give it a try, would you? What question’s been nagging at you for weeks or (gasp) months? Put an end to your suffering and ask for help today!

Annie Elliott – aka bossy color – is a D.C.-based interior decorator, design blogger, and of late, humongous fan of Jeeves & Wooster. She’s also the creator of the “bossy basic,” a one-time service that jump-starts the interior design process in your home.

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