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I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.
Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.
God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
Crafting, as the title suggests,
Luxury is experiencing reality
Music is interior decoration.
Cheap, sentimental things
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
The woman led us into a living room. A decent-sized space. Expensive furniture and rugs. A big TV. No stereo, no books. It all looked a bit halfhearted. Like somebody had spent twenty minutes with a catalog and ten thousand dollars.
A lot of people worry about
the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
I feel it's more a matter
of people treating the things that surround them
with respect.
provide for you.
For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.
One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.
This was the dream: to have a house of your own, to fill it with furniture and paint the shutters whatever color you chose. But a fine-looking house could conceal so many horrors. It seemed they spent half their lives just trying to hold it together.
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin..
The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.
When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.
Unlocking the treasuries of real home love and mutual helpfulness, which the poorest may possess, and the richest cannot buy.
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.
Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist - there's a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it's all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy.
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow ...
This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, with it, status - the concrete display of earned cash.
A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
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.
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.
A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
garish displays of wealth,
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told.
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.
Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.
Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.
The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.
To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients ... to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.
...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.
It's a cute little studio apartment that has just what I need: a bed, a couch, a table, a chair, and a coffee-maker.
There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.
Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
Our creature comforts
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.
A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
I'm so fond of luxury
Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.
The worst thing any decorator can do is give a client the feeling that he's walking around somebody else's house; the rooms must belong to the owner, not to the decorator; and no rooms can have atmosphere unless they are used and lived in.
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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.
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
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.
invested with the dignity of possession.
Where there is knowledge, the rooms are
furnished with valuable, beautiful things.(GNB)
...the philosopher's professional addiction to furniture...
What had once been grand houses were divided meanly into many small apartments, let at prices out of all proportion to what wages it was possible to earn. Rooms were sub-let, and sub-let again, so that what constituted a family had long been forgotten.
Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully
A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function
A gift freely given,
I did not ask to be in this state: living.
Canvas tarpaulin, and a piece of old carpet. I'm not sure that they didn't lay an old wardrobe on top of that, just to
Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends
villeins; and we have labour paid in kind, and leaseholders,
the room looks like it was bought through some Decorate Your Home app where you plug in your budget and your favorite colors and the whole thing arrives in a van the next day. In
No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.
When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
I'm living in a very modest place. I have a room over-looking beautiful Claridge's Hotel. I thought it was better than paying Claridge's prices and overlooking the dump I'm living in.
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
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.
No matter what our decorating style - realized or aspired to the essential spiritual grace our home should possess is the solace of comfort.
Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.
Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
It quite often makes me feel sad that painting's like a bad mistress one might have, who's always spending, spending and it's never enough.. [Letter 630, Arles, 23 June 1888]
Eleanor fixated on all the small luxuries strewn and tucked around the house. Packs of cigarettes, newspapers, magazines ... Brand-name cereal and quilted toilet paper. His refrigerator was full of things you tossed into the cart without thinking about it just because they sounded good.
Dowry - a dowry that was quickly spent on gambling, women and ale.
Pale-gray rug. Several pieces of chrome-and-black-leather
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
pedimented doors to right and left, an oil painting of the
Since sane people rarely surround themselves with furnishings which they personally find repellent, it is logical to assume that it will generate a bit of goodwill to enthuse about those they have ...
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and our predecessors too, do not have embedded in their walls, one with the dust and cobwebs, one with the overlay of fresh wallpaper and paint, the imprint of what-has-been, the suffering, the joy?
I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.
Design is coming to grips with one's real lifestyle, one's real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one's wellbeing.
My mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne,
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.
Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.
The home is a woman's natural background ... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it was possible in the commercial world, those standards of comfort and grace which are apparent in a lovely home.
By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.