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I do not need the debris of your mind to furnish mine. By Jane Borodale Mine Debris Mind Furnish

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor. By Douglas Wilson Design Fearless Colors Bold Decor

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk ... By Geoffrey Chaucer Cat Nourish Meat Make Silk

Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables ... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent. By Terry Pratchett Citadel Furnishing Priority Shelves Stools

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered, By Zac Posen Corrected Seam Lace Painstakingly Love

The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and its fruit. Stacks of thick books on art and design and a collection of glass paperweights filled the coffee table. It was enormously beautiful, a sensibility I'd never encountered anywhere, a relaxed luxury. I could feel my mother's contemptuous gaze falling on the cluttered surfaces, but I was tired of three white flowers in a glass vase. There was more to life than that. By Janet Fitch Decor Bowled Glass Looked Botanical

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now. By Elton John Yeah David Furnish Years

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. By Ettore Sottsass Decoration Mind Perception Whisper State

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented By Frank Lloyd Wright True Externals Ornament Matter Prettifying

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books. By Aerin Lauder Room Books Love Decorate Furniture

We decorate our rooms with our dreams for the future, By Jeffrey Reddick Future Decorate Rooms Dreams

These homes of love we build, house many rooms, sanded and painted in the shades and colours of our life, furnished with those moments that, however inconsequential they may seem to others, have in fact, defined us. By Annie Proulx Build House Rooms Sanded Life

The room was rather anonymous, with fashionable upholstered Sheraton chairs in a salmon-colored stripe and studded wood, salmon-colored swags on the windows, and cream silk on the walls. Nothing personal marred the room, as though the house's inhabitants had ordered the furnishing to be as elegant yet innocuous as possible. By Ashley Gardner Salmoncolored Sheraton Room Anonymous Wood

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me. By Gloria Vanderbilt Redecorate Love Decorate Design Called

No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort. By Sarah Ban Breathnach Style Realized Comfort Matter Decorating

Painted mafritty fritters frittering fitty fitty scented candelabra abra cadaver. Candle blah blah. By Fiddles Mcmonkeypants Painted Cadaver Fitty Mafritty Fritters

I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg. By H.l. Mencken Baltimore Years Lived House Fortyfive

We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life. By Alain De Botton Made Commitments Objects Morocco Remind

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love. By William Maxwell Satin Violets Lace Brown Velvet

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection. By Jack Gardner Perfection Utility Ends Decoration Begins

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it By Ralph Waldo Emerson Ornaments Homes Friends Visit

No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. In their eyes the merit of an object which is in any degree either useful or beautiful is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it, a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves.Book I, Chapter 11 - Rent of Land, part II By Adam Smith Gilding Paint Dye Give Splendid

Decorate yourself with the beauty of love. By Debasish Mridha Decorate Love Beauty

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status. By Deborah Tall Property Dwelling Create Status Extent

The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior. By Van Day Truex Unified Modern Scene Decoration Controlled

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit. By Kelly Wearstler Inexpensive Spirit Acquiring Furniture Eras

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. By Alexander Pope Oft Furbelow Dreams Invention Bestow

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. By Pablo Picasso Painting Decoration Interior Enemy Instrument

The polished oak floors reflected the light of the overhead crystal chandelier and gleaned under the plush deep red Persian rug. By Robin R. Murphy Persian Rug Polished Oak Floors

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated ... , and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character, Selina said. By Edna Ferber Furniture Mistreated Piece Care Beautiful

When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task. By Frederick Lenz Perfect Place Completely Task Home

Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live. By Nicholas Haslam Decorator Taste Lack Leads Hire

To beautify life is to give it an object. By Jose Marti Object Beautify Life Give

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice? By George Eliot Face Furniture Give Finish Room

With destruction comes renovation. By Wally Lamb Renovation Destruction

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed. By Natalie Morales Furniture Enjoyed Meant

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world. By Marc Jacobs World Things Love Everyday Comforting

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. By Edward Hopper Libert France Varnish Retouching Made

London was so rich, and also so green, and somehow so detailed: full of stuff that had been made, and bought, and placed, and groomed, and shaped, and washed clean, and put on display as if the whole city was for sale. By John Lanchester London Rich Green Detailed Full

The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings! By Dr. Seuss Ribbons Wrappings Tags Tinsel Trimmings

After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style. By Hamish Bowles Piratestyle Hermes Taste Apartment Head

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings. By Louis L'amour Mind Home Owner Furnished Life

the bed, narrow apple-green draperies at By Mary Higgins Clark Bed Narrow Applegreen Draperies

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. By Mimi Sheraton Swirls Glass Blazes Brass Forests

Based on the overwhelming array of luxury products manufacturers have recently introduced, homeowners want anything that makes their lives more comfortable at home. Whether it involves heating/warming accessories or spa-like home environments, it's part of the 'cocooning' phenomena that has resurfaced. People are spending more time at home and they want to be comfortable. They want to use their home to its full potential, not just as a place to eat and sleep between workdays. By Stephanie Miller Home Based Introduced Homeowners Overwhelming

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest and natural. By Alexandra Stoddard Authentic Honest Earthy Houses Natural

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets. By Andre Leon Talley Simple Sheets Beautiful Luxurious Item

I got a fur shawl once. I was so disgusted! And I couldn't re-gift it. I don't know anyone who'd want fur. By Jennie Garth Shawl Fur Disgusted Regift

What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste? By John Milton Attic Light Choice Taste Neat

To a Japanese, accustomed to simplicity of ornamentation and frequent change of decorative method, a Western interior permanently filled with a vast array of pictures, statuary, and bric-a-brac gives the impression of mere vulgar display of riches. It calls for a mighty wealth of appreciation to enjoy the constant sight of even a masterpiece, and limitless indeed must be the capacity for artistic feeling in those who can exist day after day in the midst of such confusion of color and form as is to be often seen in the homes of Europe and America. By Okakura Kakuzo Japanese Western Statuary Accustomed Method

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating. By Albert Hadley Make Living Home Comfortable Attractive

Real luxury is customization. By Lapo Elkann Real Customization Luxury

Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends. By Lauren Santo Domingo Fashion Friends Decor Amuse

Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship. By Vincent Van Gogh Occasionally Worry Stylish Workmanship Rough

By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of. By Karlie Kloss Fashion Week Shoes End Apartment

...Violet followed her friend into the massive kitchen with its Restoration Hardware fixture and faux-weathered, farmhouse-style cabinets. Its perplexed Violet, the way people tried to make the insides of new homes look old. By Susan Gloss Restoration Hardware Violet Fauxweathered Farmhousestyle

well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen, By Susan Kandel Victorian Wellworn Sateen Settee Covered

In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colors. In France, meliora probant, deteriora sequuntur the people are too much a race of gadabouts to maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a delicate appreciation, or at least the elements of a proper sense. The Chinese and most of the Eastern races have a warm but inappropriate fancy. The Scotch are poor decorists. The Dutch have, perhaps, an indeterminate idea that a curtain is not a cabbage. In Spain, they are all curtains a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in their way. The Yankees alone are preposterous. By Edgar Allan Poe English Decoration Residences Supreme Internal

So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary. By Albert Hadley Wheel Dubious Young Decorators Reinvent

Living room by a curtain of colored beads. The room's furnishings consisted of a table, an image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, By Paulo Coelho Living Beads Room Curtain Colored

...Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt. By Margaret Erhart Quilt Elegant Tapestry Serviceable

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives. By Albert Hadley Lives Deeply Beautiful Decor Beneficial

Oriental vases and French tapestries and paintings filled their huge mansion, as did the magnificent carpets for which their compound was famous. A vast feast of minted chicken, lamb kabobs, and sweet saffron rice that is served at weddings had been laid out on cloths on the floor of the dining room... By Sattareh Farman Farmaian French Oriental Mansion Famous Vases

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. By Margot Asquith Rich Beautiful Rarely Comfortable Original

I'm so fond of luxury By Louisa May Alcott Luxury Fond

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful." By Hermann Broch Good Beautiful Kitsch Categories Essence

A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you. By James M. Cain Museum Furnished Home Picasso Sheraton

Music is interior decoration. By Wayne Shorter Music Decoration Interior

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self. By John Banville Layer Strip Grime Toffeecolored Varnish

If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things. By William Morris Houses Clothes Art Makeshifts Worse

create interiors for modern living that are informed by a classic perspective with timeless appeal. In order to design spaces that work for who By Sarah Richardson Create Appeal Interiors Modern Living

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own. By Gene Weingarten Homely Things Reasons World Achieve

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress, By Madeleine Vionnet Dress Decoration Plays Architecture

Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of tulle and swansdown, flowery silk, night-black velvet with glittering spangles everywhere like small, many-coloured blinker beacons. By Tove Jansson Robes Dresses Frocks Rows Hundreds

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings? By William Morris Simplicity Life Barest Misery Refinement

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet? By Edward J. Fraughton Meet Important Question Decoration Utility

Living in Manhattan opened me to whole new sets of things to envy, study, gather and imagine stealing. A full-size 1809 German harp, beautifully painted with three goddesses, covered in a pea-green coat of great silvery refinement: mine for $180. Though all its strings were broken, its beauty let it claim a quarter of my one - bedroom. By Allan Gurganus Study Manhattan Living Envy Gather

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. By Iggy Azalea Luxury Details Lives Finer Table

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. By R. Buckminster Fuller Rich Knees Home Ease Architects

Now,' [her father] barked.She stiffly followed, still fully dressed in the elaborate navy-and-white gown she had worn all evening. It was hard not to feel as if the bare walls and surfaces she passed had been bled, leeched, into the cloth encasing her. Stripped paint and sacrificed heirlooms clinging to her, demanding she make everything right once more. By Anne Mallory Father Barkedshe Elaborate Gown Evening

I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And decor is not a purpose. Home is New York apartment with a table, a bed and sofas. That's it. Everything else is gone. By Linda Evangelista Purpose Hoarder Rid Home York

Crossed the room to where a selection of implements was arranged on a table top. These could have been mistaken for the trade tools of a cook, physician, or torturer, save for the fact that the surface on which they rested was a slab of polished pink marble, topping a white and gilt dressing table-cum-sculpture, done up in the new, hyper-Baroque style named Rococo. It was adorned, for example, with several cherubs, bows drawn, eyes asquint, as they drew beads on unseen targets, butt cheeks polished to a luster with jeweler's rouge. It had, in other words, all the earmarks of a gift that had been sent to the princess by someone with a lot of money who did not know her very well. By Neal Stephenson Crossed Top Room Selection Implements

Every inch of the house is covered in flowers and lace and screams tacky. It's like Martha Stewart vomitted, and this is the crap that came out. By Victoria Scott Tacky Inch House Covered Flowers

All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer. By William Morris Incomer Rooms Lived Friendly Ready

She'd had it painted, and planted, and primped, and festooned, and draped to within an inch of its very long life. But it was asking too much of the poor thing. The result was something akin to dressing a bulldog up like an opera dancer. Underneath the tulle, it was still a bowlegged bulldog. By Gail Carriger Painted Planted Primped Festooned Life

Paint the essential character of things. By Camille Pissarro Paint Things Essential Character

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar. By George Mason Utility Ornament Exuberance Vulgar Principles

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done. By Albert Hadley Schemes Good Decorator Plans Job

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art. By Paul Di Filippo Soils Tattoos Art Magnificent Visual

If there's one thing you can say about my apartment it's that it's constantly evolving, constantly changing. I think that is the mark of a good apartment; you can never really be done - It's like a proper wardrobe. By Lauren Santo Domingo Constantly Evolving Changing Apartment Thing

Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials. By J.g. Ballard Manufacturers Advertisers Motifs Techniques Home

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. By Bryan Batt Labels Impress Inspire Uniqueness Risk

There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch. By Dwight Macdonald Kitsch Vulgar Sophisticated

Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same. By Ryan Lilly Beautiful Material Mosaics Made Broken

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without. By Oscar Wilde God Bless Luxury Necessities

The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys. By Murasaki Shikibu Woodcarver Fashion Toys Moment Change

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house. By Nate Berkus House Love Linen Soothing Colors

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation By Frank Lloyd Wright Nature Ornamentation Inspiration

Fashion makes the fur fly. By Margaret Fishback Fashion Fly Makes Fur

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. By Francis Quarles Luxury Pleasure Mirth Mouth Gall