Peter De Vries Quotes

People think that I live in a space pod, but it's pretty mid-century modern.

I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

I love a house project.

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it.

Even though beauty is very much my heritage, my real passion is accessories and home.

I grew up in Northern California on the peninsula. It was a beautiful house, but it was very traditional. It wasn't midcentury modern. I'm talking 1970s, early '80s - design didn't even go 'Wall Street' until, like, 1986.

The sofa is a really important investment for anybody, and I don't mean financially. You need to find a really great sofa that can transition with you, and you can build from there.

Manufacturing is finite, but human intellect is infinite. Textile is all about manufacturing, and industries like pharmaceuticals are all about human intellect.