Quotes About Interior

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express

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

I really believe that a good decorator is a good listener. So the inspiration always is the people that are living in that home.

There is a world inside the world.

Silence. In the gardens and homes designed by me, I have always endeavored to allow for the interior placid murmur of silence, and in my fountains, silence sings.

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don't usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I'm saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

Stop a minute. I may as well say here that this book is written in confidence. It is personal. It deals with the interior history of a very respectable church and some most respectable families. It contains a great deal that is not proper to be communicated to the public. The reader will please bear this in mind. Whatever I say, particularly what I am going to say now, is confidential. Don't mention it.

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

Mira, el monstruo que algunos llevan por dentro, tú lo llevas por fuera.

You see, that which is exposed to the exterior is...smooth and dry clean. That which is not... underneath, is slimy and filled with fungus and crawling with worms. It is another life that is parallel to the one we manifest. It's there. The way worms are underneath the stone. If you don't recognize it...it eats you.-That is my opinion.-Well, who is ready for lunch?

You see, that which is exposed to the exterior... is smooth and dry and clean. That which is not... underneath, is slimy and filled with fungus and crawling with worms. It is another life that is parallel to the one we manifest. It's there. The way worms are underneath the stone. If you don't recognize it... (whispering) it eats you.-That is my opinion.-Well, who is ready for lunch?

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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His head reminded one of an ancient castle keep, with its unmanned battlements still preserved but its interior transformed into a library.

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

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

I stepped inside the front hall and kicked off my snow boots. I slammed the door behind me, making the dark ruby and emerald glass shake in the small leaded panes. I slid purposely on the hall rug, causing it to bunch and crinkle on the slippery polished oak of the floor.

But our little stories were glimpses into the interior; colorful postcards from the lands of Martin and Cornelia.

My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

I had a stab wound so large you could see the metal of my interior structure, but Senior Indah was too polite to mention it. The medical bot extended a delicate sensor limb toward me. On the feed I told it anything that touched me would get torn off and thrown across the room. It pulled the limb back and used it to check Hostile Two instead.

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.