Quotes About Decor

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

I collect a lot of beautiful tins from around the world, and I'll put things in them and give them as presents.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

I am very good at decoration. I am maybe extremely good at decoration.

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

A tea set is good for a newborn girl. It is a gift that instantly makes the room a girl's room.

There were vases of silk roses carefully centered on crocheted doilies, figurines of puppies carrying roses in their mouths on lace doilies, and delicate rose-covered tea sets placed on paper doilies. And that was just the start of it. It all had a really old feel to it as well, like I'd been transported back to the 1890s. Adrian stood behind us, just outside the door, and I was pretty sure I heard him mutter, "Needs more rabbits.

The problem of what to wear while lolling about the house on a Sunday afternoon is becoming more and more acute as the fashions in lolling garments change. The American home is in danger of taking on the appearance of an Oriental bordello.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

overstuffed, out-of-period wingbacks and a matching couch sat before a walk-in fireplace;

And you know one can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill — several thrills? I'm going to decorate my room with them.

embroidered Louis XV chair, legs crossed at the

In the Sitting Room, the walls were given over to framed Ape and Spy caricatures from the old Vanity Fair

As a matter of habit, I stop and pick up seashells that interest me, and I always put the ones I really like in a lovely Baccarat bowl in my living room. It's my way of remembering that I once was young and carefree.

Oil-lamps of filigree and gold illuminated the great room while the profusion of precious objects far exceeded what he had encountered in the hallway. It was an ostentatious display of wealth that bordered on the obscene.

One area which shows how unknowingly predictable we are, is the way we decorate our houses. We all feel we make unique and distinct choices, yet we all conform to a cultural standard.

For home had a way of shifting, of changing shape and temperature. Home was homeless. It could exist anywhere, because its only substance was familiarity. If it was broken by long journeys or tornadoes it emerged again, reinvented itself with new decor, new idiosyncrasies of morning, noon and dusk, and old routines.

I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, "Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.

They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank—to distract themselves from the abyss.