Quotes About Decor

crèche was displayed on the mantel. Beneath it hung four

The candelabras.

Favorite pots showed their dark bottoms from hooks and gaily colored flowers from the pasture leaned out of thin glassware.

If there was a Toon Town ranch, it would be decorated in Monterey.

Each room had been painted a different color—the kitchen a sunny yellow, the living room a deep cantaloupe, the bedrooms a warm peach—and the overall effect was of stepping into a box of sunlight, even on a cloudy day.

glorified graffiti. But there were no murals. Each room had been painted a different color—the kitchen a sunny yellow, the living room a deep cantaloupe, the bedrooms a warm peach—and the overall effect was of stepping into a box of sunlight, even on a cloudy day.

I keep my end tables full of needlework and quilting so I don't have to dust them.

When our bed is made it's covered in forty pillows like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.

Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.

What's the deal with putting animal feet on tubs? It's like insisting that all pianos should have tails, or dinner tables should have scrotal sacs. One of the things we like about tubs is their immobility, their general disinclination to bolt out of the room, scramble down the stairs, and make for the woods in a blind feral panic.

I mobili erano spagnoli, del genere bellini a vedersi e scomodi a sedersi.

I put flower buds in a lot of little bottles around the house so I can see the blossoms open everywhere.

life-size plaster mermaids

pale-gray rug. Several pieces of chrome-and-black-leather

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.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall.

celadon vase

Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts.

I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.

When I was 12 I was obsessed with green and had my mom get me a bunch of green bedding for my room.

I have always had an obsession with candles.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.