Quotes About Decor

I'm really all about lighting, so basically every room in my house has a chandelier, at least all the main ones.

red marble drawing-room, where an

Cinnamon-colored walls, rain on the windowpanes, vast quiet and a sense of depth and distance, like the varnish over the background of a nineteenth-century paintings. Rugs worn to threads, painted Japanese fans and antique valentines flickering in candlelight, Pierrots and doves and flowergarlanded hearts.

She loved her room. She had window seats and shutters, flowered wallpaper, and a bed with too many pillows. Her mother called the decor "romance and drama," and said the room looked like it belonged to a fairy princess.

Barb hung a wreath on the door and locked it.

Had you 'artists' had a part in the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, it would have ended up looking like a particularly vulgar train terminal," Ignatius snorted.

plantings. These are great for decks or entranceways. Miniatures can grow in pots as small as

She tried to persuade them to confine their tributes to flowers and sweets, which had at least the merit of mortality; but she was never successful, and the house was gradually filled with a collection of foot-warmers, cushions, clocks, screens, barometers and vases, a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

The furniture was average, nondescript—somewhere between high-end and yard-sale

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Prepare your food attractively and serve it nicely.

The haute décor of the San Diego Homicide Division offices could have been lifted straight out of any insurance ajusters' pied-a-terre in Omaha.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.

If a living place can be likened to a city, the art on the wall, or the lack of art, is the first sign

It had a woman's feel for colour and space. Men tended to put things in the first place available and just leave them there. Women thought a room out, knew how a room would look at its best. Women, Kate had observed, took time with details. Small details that could make a room like this.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

She wants to paint the living room yellow. I have not the words.

It was furnished neither in good taste nor in bad taste, but simply with no attempt at taste at all...

missed that place. Lavish, finely decorated

I put the kitch into kitchen.

Around the windows and above the doors were a multitude of small pictures, which you grow accustomed to regard as spots on the wall, and which you never look at.