Quotes from Jeremiah Brent

Never underestimate the power of a fresh coat of white paint.

Bookshelves are the most natural places for displaying your personal photos and picture frames. I always print our photos in black and white to keep a classic and cohesive look.

Your home should be an extension of you and who you are as a person. If you can come home, and actually feel at home... that's fantastic design.

I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

People want to connect with what they're purchasing.

Your space, when done correctly, is the purest extension of yourself!

When Nate and I got married, instead of flowers we had these quartz and rock crystals everywhere.

People want to create a space that feels like them - one that's deeply rooted in their personality. That's important. Your space is an opportunity to tell your story and showcase your experiences. That's why I think every material - down to your faucet - needs to serve a function and feel personal.

I started out taking any project that I could because you want the work. You want the opportunity to create, and I'm glad I did because it forces you to really get an understanding of your vision and your voice as a designer when you have to be scrappy like that.

Good closets make for a good marriage.

Adding throws or blankets that have great texture over the back of a sofa adds some interesting personality really quickly and will visually change the room.

I recognized that the passion I have and feel for interior and design and furniture was not organically there for styling. The fuel that drives you when doing something you truly love... wasn't there.

Rachel Zoe is all about timeless.

Your home is a kind of a reflection of your family, your life, where you're at, where you want to be, so I love to entertain people in it.

When I look back, there was obviously the arch of my creativity and when I was young, I used to go to open homes with my mother and I used to imagine how I could make the space better and how people would live in it.

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

As a kid I used to love going to open houses and doing DIY projects with my parents and sister around our home.

Joel Chen is a friend and I'm a huge fan of JF Chen.

I think of myself as California modern, and I'm hugely inspired by nature.

Incorporating travel, elements from different cultures and locales, is a great way to establish the overall tone and theme for a soiree.

Don't take anything too literally. When throwing a coastal theme dinner, don't just put seashells on the table. Instead, think about the colors and tones of seashells, what they remind you of and go from there.

I've always loved design. I loved imagining the way people could live in a space, that's what I connected to.

Finding a way to really reinterpret your home as an expression of how you live, is really good design in my opinion.

Fundamentally, I am all about finding interesting and authentic ways to incorporate nature into most of my designs.