Quotes About Decor

Books do furnish a room.

I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

Reupholstered furniture can look fabulous.

I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don't want my space to look like a showroom.

I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around - the banister, you know, there's someone looking at you.

Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.

I just love candles... the colour, the glow, the light.

Lighting is a good way to change the look of a place without spending much.

Decor sets the stage for any party, and it also gives a great indication to your guests as to how much effort you've put into hosting them within your home.

I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.

I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.

I've always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home.

That diamond encrusted goat's skull is the height of good taste!

tiles in the hearth at number 6, real pot tiles

curtains of Serena's apartment—often

An enormous gleaming grand piano stood in the center, its legs decently masked.

The room was one of her favorites, decorated entirely in dark green and white, with white doors and window embrasures, directing one's eye toward the light. The furniture was warm, dark rosewood, upholstered in cream brocade, and there was a bowl of white chrysanthemums on the table.

The hall they entered had arched ceilings over twenty feet high that were painted in tromp l'oeil, basically a bunch of butt-naked baby angels pointing at each other.' (Carlos)

From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior aspects of life took an almost excessive place.

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.

He was about the color, shape, and size of an ostrich-feather duster and suited Garrett much better than either of them suited the décor of her townhouse.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.