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Great place, i love your wall color choices.

Is your little friend an Iggy or a whippet?

Alex, you give granny chic a good name! From the first photo, the colors, the objects are of a piece, Louis being, of course, the best acoutrement of all.

How much do dog walkers get paid in DC?! Are you hiring?

I'm so tired today and that bed looks really cozy...as does the entire place. I'll definitely be using some of your ideas. Thanks for sharing.

Please come to Boston and finish decorating my place. Better yet: Ship it all to me. Wonderful!

You call that red room "granny chic"? I guess your granny was Diana Vreeland. Awesome.

Must know the name and brand of that deep blue-green paint color, now! It's lovely.

Never mind, you gave the names of the paint colors. Thanks!

Very nice artwork and art pieces. Isn't it all in the details? Thank you for inspiring me!

i really like that green room! I have been trying to pick a color for my dining room forever and i want to swatch the Caroline Pines color that's listed as the paint. But Dutch Boy doesn't seem to make any color with that name that i can find.

This really is one of my favorite house tours. Cute pup, too.

Utter perfection.

What is the name of the color in the living room? LOVE IT!

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Love your dog.

I'm in love with your duvet cover, where did you find it?

The bedroom makes me want to curl up and take a nap. Great solution using desks as night stands.

this is to die for. alex, if i still lived in dc, i'd for sure hire you to walk my great dane--and decorate my apartment.

Great space Alex - I love it!

I have the exact same white ceramic artichoke lamp base - actually a pair. Can I suggest swapping out that ivory shade for a slightly smaller black drum shade lined w/ gold foil, and adding a brass finial? It will make your lamp look like a million bucks!

Fab!! You've got great style, a good eye, & a super cute dog.

Impressive. This looks like the home of someone who has collected these special items over a very long period of time. It's not contrived or over designed at all. It is warm and welcoming and very chic. Great job!

Love this. AND you have the same colors in your bedroom and living room that I used :)

Very nice!

Fantastic! And special thank you for saving the red room for last in the filmstrip. I was clicking along and thought the tour was over when we got outside. Then "oooooooooh!!!"

It really shows how much attention you paid to the mood of every room-they all match their function so well. I love this place!

Caroline Pines is a dreamy color. Lovely place!

It is lovely. It has the feel of 'home'.

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Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!

FANTASTIC! I love all your artwork, and the way you've used so made so many patterns work together fluidly. Thanks for opening your home to us!

Wow! My granny was never this chic! Very nice!

Nice home, very inviting, cozy, nice natural light and colors.
I don't know why because I do like the living room very much but I really love the bathroom.

I'm so proud that there has been another great DC house tour, and glad to see another "neighbor" featured as well. Your apartment is amazing. I was going to offer my apt up for house tour, but now I see I have to up my game!

alex is a friend of mine, and i must confess that his place is so cozy. my doggie also loves staying over when we go out of town. and his home always smells warm and amazing to match the feel...i don't know how he does it. love ya al!

Your red room is thisclose to restoring my faith in red walls. The only problem? It's so hard to do right. Bravo.


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I love dog people.

And your home is nice too.

If anyone wants his sofa he features in the red room, he's giving it away.

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See AT this is why I should do the scavenger finds.

Love love love it. Granny chicat its finest! You should be very proud, Alex! All your pieces are perfect and lovely.

stunning! you must be proud.

This is the kind of place that i read apartment therapy for. Not trendy at all. The kind of place where someone with balls went out and bought what they wanted and made it work. Thanks for posting this apartment. I loved it.

I love all the artwork of people - especially when I saw that they were all vintage finds. It feels like you have a bunch of "old friends" hanging out on your walls. Beautiful place.

Fantastic space!!! I love the colors and the use of space is outstanding. (And the dog is cute, too!)

I love it!!

Stylish and understated, my two favourite words for interiors, exteriors, fashion and art.

fabulous. what a terrific eye you have.

You call that red room "granny chic"? I guess your granny was Diana Vreeland.

Ha! Nice once, Lisa.

I didn't pay more than $300 for anything here.

That distant shouty sound you hear is me flying into a jealous rage.

Amazing! Finally a post that I love in AT DC. Gives me hope, it just might be possible to have an beautifullt decorated rental in DC after all!
Oh, and I love the vintage suitcases

Love it, love it, love it. Your place is full of personal stuff (unlike some of the colder spaces we see here from time to time) but it doesn't look cluttered. LOVE the use of color!

this is one of my favorites i've seen on this site. you have a style ALL your own. very original and unique. keep it awesome.

I'm totally bookmarking this. Your place is original without being contrived, full of interest but not cluttered, and I feel like I get a sense of who you are (rather than just where you like to shop) from the decor. My grandma had rooms devoted to particular colors, too; even though I suspect you were getting at something else by calling your style granny chic, you struck a chord with me on that one. Lovely job.

Fabulous...you should be proud!

Absolutely gorgeous. Congratulations, Alex

i love your dog. i love your home. i want to meet your granny.

Great house! I, too, love the real-ness of it. It doesn't look like a cookie-clutter place from a magazine at all. Love the colors, the paintings, the odds and ends. And I LOVE the bargain pricing -- really important to show that you can create a beautiful space without spending a fortune.

Stunning. I now need captain's chairs. Thank you.

Inspiring. Trash picking with style.

Love you lucite boxes with the chandelier just sitting on them.

I've got a broken chandelier just sitting in the closet right now. What a fool I've been.

I love to see the darker spaces that are popping up in the design world...much more fun than the bright, airy spaces!

Let me add to the accolades--your place is really great! You should seriously consider adding designer to your career because you have the eye for it.

Lovely and inspirational. This was so much better than some of the contrived rooms in this month's House Beautiful... kudos. And I'm so impressed that you managed to do all of this without spending lots of money on pieces. Wow.

This is beautiful! I especially love the crewel sofa and the zig-zaggy rug and the barrel (captain?) chairs and the floral chair in the redroom... it's all incredible. At risk of sounding silly, I think the interactions between the different pieces are great. Each room is a cohesive vignette, something that's easy to do when all your furniture comes from the same place at the same time but I think harder when you put together lots of pieces from different places at different times in your life.
Of course Louis is the perfect accessory. You both look very happy there.

Love, love, love, love this house tour!! I've always wanted to do an homage to Diana Vreeland in my place, but I'm stuck with rental white walls. I'm drooling over your lr.

Must. Pet. Cute. Dog.

Seriously, very nice eclectic mix of furnishings. It looks warm and inviting. Great job.

Lovely! Just awesomely lovely!

this has to be one of my favorite house tours and i love that you did it on such a budget and it looks better than a million dollars.

stunning. Loved all of it.. character, charm, a fab mixture of styles, a classic example of "if you love it all it will work". Kudos.

I don't know how much dog walkers make, but your place looks like a million bucks!

I love your home! It's totally insiring me to keep trucking on mine, especially that delicious bedroom of yours.

Quick Question: are those IKEA filing cabinets in the bedroom? If so, how do you like them?

Also, I love the photos of you and your darling puppy, you both are so cute!

Thanks for sharing!

Your place is a perfect balance of chic, classic, fun, and comfortable. And you make it look effortless. You should really consider becoming a decorator, you are SO talented and have such a strong eye! More than you even know.

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a great tour!....loved the write up especially the way each roo and its contents are described. Shws all the love it went into putting things together...loved those ar chairs...envying you rite now...for the chair in particular!

I just fell in love...twice...with the Dog and with the house.

I would like to be your Granny and come visit. First though I would get you another lamp shade for the white lamp in the bedroom, it is just too big. I could spend all day looking at all your beautiful things that you have about. Your dog is a special treat. Good job

tres bien!!! just wonderful!!! i too have been "furniture collecting" over the years and the look is now just coming together. my "most costly" piece is $300 as well!!! thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!

serious props for pulling off a red room.

I Love Louie - or does he prefer the formal, Louis? Either way, he's a great pooch!
Love your pad, too.

that red room makes me die.
love it.

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Such a fun place, obvious great use of color, but still really refined. And I really think an Italian Greyhound is such a great accessory too..ha

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Love the way you've combined so many different styles. And really love your bold color choices. All that bright "airy" stuff is over rated--give me the bruised hallway and black bathroom walls any day... Great job!

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Love this place! If only all grannies were so chic! This is the kind of look I like best, one that says you have creativity and know how to thrift. It looks amazing and doesn't cost a fortune. I'm way more impressed when someone can pull this off, it's easy (well, if you've got the money) to just go out and buy stuff and arrange it.

The gray living room looks straight out of the "Mad Men" tv set. So cool!

I can't get over the awesomeness and oddness of the chandelier on the lucite boxes. Does the chandelier work? If so, how does that look? I think it would make some crazy shadows and stuff with the lucite boxes and all.

I love your home. I love your home. I love your home.
That is all.

Alex, head over to your fellow DCer's apartments... they need help.