Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul. — Albert Hadley
Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful. — Albert Hadley
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. — Candace Bushnell
I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing. — Deborah Buck
Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. — Anna Quindlen
An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view. — Albert Hadley
Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof. — Nate Berkus
Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing. — Albert Hadley
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass
It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical. — Kerry Joyce
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. — Antonin Scalia
Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them. — Terence Conran
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Short Home Decor Quotes
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in. — Francis Jourdain
To me, a house is like a piece of art that you can live in. — Tom Bilyeu
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher
Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight. — Robert Mapplethorpe
The home should be the treasure chest of living. — Le Corbusier
A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets. — Andre Leon Talley
Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor. — Simon Hoggart
Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier. — Harvey Mackay
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. — William Morris
Home Decor Image Quotes
If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.
There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe. — Dorothy Draper
Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine. — Dorothy Draper
So plant your own gardens and decorate your soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings. — Wolfgang Langewiesche
Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it. — Nancy Lancaster
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway
I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives. — Albert Hadley
If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it. — Mark Boyle
You don't have to know anything about a subject as long as you use common sense and imagination, plus enthusiasm! I use all periods of design in my work, for, after all, decorative styles are simply indications of a manner of living. — Dorothy Draper
Decoration Quotes
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — John Stott
Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage. — Peter Behrens
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help. — Jimmy Page
We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great. — Gram Parsons
Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes! — Martin Luther
Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.
The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't. — Dorothy Draper
My favorite project is always the next one. — Michael Graves
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves. — Edward Albee
Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life. — Daniel Boulud
Home Improvement Quotes
Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. — Bob Filner
In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety. — Jim Ramstad
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life. — Ellen Swallow Richards
Take care of your body, it's the only home you have.
The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved. — Masaaki Imai
If I had more time, I'd watch more woodworking or home-improvement shows, but, not enough hours in the day. — Nick Offerman
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them. — Peter MacKay
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.
We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot. — Arthur Blank
My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad. — Bob Hawke
I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others. — Debby Ryan
As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better. — Stan Wawrinka
Interior Design Quotes
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York
I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Thousands of tired, never-shaken, over civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home, that wilderness is a necessity.
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life. — Elsie De Wolfe
One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes. — Verner Panton
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. — Tadao Ando
Little by little, the bird makes its nest.
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. — Dale Chihuly
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting. — Verner Panton
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. — Marcel Wanders
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass
Cozy Home Quotes
I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home. — Zak Bagans
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right. — Maya Angelou
I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week. — Charlotte Ronson
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting. — Faith Popcorn
What is a cozy home? Where you enter and you feel the radiance of your divine self. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Whenever you remember me, now or hereafter, one word you must remember: God only lives in cozy homes. Man without a cozy home is a man without God. And coziness is the relationship between you and your purity, your piety and your principles to which you have agreed. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, learn, grow, love and then return home.
I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd. — Jason Mraz
A cozy home is not just a sixty-five thousand dollar house bought from Bank of America. A cozy home is a total consciousness of the two individuals within the framework of the home, and in relationship to the entire surrounding of this planet and beyond this planet. God lives in cozy homes. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
When I'm home, I like a cozy, comfortable, calming space. — Stacy Keibler
The greatest investment and greatest fair deal and enterprise is family, cozy homes. A cozy home is based on cozy people. Cozy people are not brought and imported, they are made from the time of birth to the time of infinity. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art. — Helena Bonham Carter
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them. — Valentino Garavani
Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating. — Albert Hadley
Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people. — George Monbiot
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time. — Nate Berkus
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same. — Rachael Ray
Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key. — Charlotte Moss
I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself. — Ursula Andress
You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well. — Nate Berkus
Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion. — Aerin Lauder
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. — Charles M. Schulz
I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home. — Karlie Kloss
No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter. — Ronald Hutton
When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.' The feelings of heartfelt gratitude for the supreme sacrifice made by so many cannot be confined to a Memorial Day, a military parade, or a decorated grave. — Thomas S. Monson
I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? — Spencer W. Kimball
I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with. — Suzy Bogguss
The places I've travelled and cultures I've experienced have been reflected in my home decor choices. — Karlie Kloss
I have every magazine known to mankind. I just love home decor and travel magazines, and I'm inspired to go visit places I've never been. That's what I really want to do - travel. — Jillian Barberie
I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things. — Paul Smith
I would want to create an amphitheater outside of California where I would play everyday, and then people would have to come to me. I would create all this crazy stage decor and film it. Or I would just stay inside my home and do films. I would be like the modern Maya Deren. — Lykke Li
I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not renovating... decorating homes. — Andrea Gabriel
I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And decor is not a purpose. Home is New York apartment with a table, a bed and sofas. That's it. Everything else is gone. — Linda Evangelista
Look at the home makeover shows. It isn't realistic to tear down a house, rebuild it, and decorate it in less then a week, but there aren't people out there criticizing those shows. — Kim Lyons
You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from. — John Mayer
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it. — Bryan Batt
nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too! — Gladys Taber
Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it. — Gabourey Sidibe
Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. — Nadia Giosia
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate. — Barbra Streisand
My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist. — Joe Bastianich
George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique. — Gary Wright
Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home. By using them, there are no dark, gloomy corners, no drab caverns for halls. There can be a feeling of freedom, light, air, space. — Dorothy Draper
I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the time, so I decided to decorate other people's homes and buildings. — Dorothy Draper
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie. — Ezra Pound
If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure. — Melissa George
Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking. — Paulo Coelho
Explore me' you said and I collected my ropes, flasks and maps, expecting to be back home soon. I dropped into the mass of you and I cannot find the way out. Sometimes I think I’m free, coughed up like Jonah from the whale, but then I turn a corner and recognise myself again. Myself in your skin, myself lodged in your bones, myself floating in the cavities that decorate every surgeon’s wall. That is how I know you. You are what I know. — Jeanette Winterson
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. — Nora Roberts
Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. — Nick Harkaway
Don’t lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone’s little home. — Jeanette Winterson
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