Quotes About Decor

He has. A fucking. Rothko. Over the fireplace

I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?

As long as you work in a color palette and you style what you already have within that color palette, it's going to look good together.

I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I'm drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums.

Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.

I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

gym in the basement yet. She wanted to do curtains and furniture

furniture, but all the lights

You may hang your walls with tapestry instead of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful

The flat was large and airy, sparsely furnished with sleek, modern pieces; no walls separated living spaces, except the bedroom. Vintage posters advertising the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Grand Prix de Monaco decorated the walls. There was a picture of Steve McQueen, leaning against his famous Ford Mustang, and another of Carroll Shelby, the legendary American automaker going face-to-face with Enzo Ferrari, his even more legendary Italian counterpart.

Christmas dresser feeling pleasure

Cushions and rugs, goblets and trays and half-full decanters cover every surface- all of them in a riot of colours: vermillion and umber, peacock blue and bottle green, gold and damson plum.

The walls shimmer with mica, and the ceiling is all branches and green vines. In the antechamber, the shell of an enormous snail glows, a lamp the size of a small table.

Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.

She said, 'Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' That was the beginning of my passion for design, textiles and William Morris, though I didn't know then that she was quoting him. She went to

You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.

I hate getting flowers. I can't stand when I get a bouquet of flowers, because I have to stop what I do, cut the flowers, put them in a vase - if you're going to bring flowers, bring them in a vase already!

The fact that the yellow chintz armchair in the living room clashed with the blue-and-maroon Turkish carpet no longer bothered her.