Quotes About Decor

I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation.

I'm an art collector, have been for years, and I paint. Needless to say, the artwork in my houses, apartment is extensive.

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

The only thing about rock n' roll in my house is a couple of paintings of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan - and they were expensive, too.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

People say the space you live in is a reflection of your inner self.

I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall.

I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors.

I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.

I would like to be good at macrame. I look at them in awe.

Dane followed the man inside and noted the opulently decorated foyer. Somebody had lots of money with zero decorating skills.

Let your personality and passions shine through in the objects you choose to display in your home.

White makes your house more peaceful and elegant.

There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

Everything I've designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.

Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

Flower-shopping is a ladylike occupation that does not involve getting your hands dirty; it is about supplying the house with beauty, not scrubbing it clean.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

It's so important for people to have a space that they love, and that you wake up happy every morning in your house. A big part of that is what you have for your furniture, your art, your decor.

A lot of bakeries, especially cupcake stores, look like you just walked into a Katy Perry video.

If you walked into my house, there wouldn't be one thing to do with football in there.

I have a few pieces that I got for my birthdays or that I bought for myself: I acquire things that speak to me and put them on my wall. When I see things I like, I just know.

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.