Candice Olson Quotes

I've always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.

Gauri Khan Designs has bespoke furniture for your living room - and the outdoors, too!

I think that's the great thing about interiors is that they can be treated like a great wardrobe. Choose a sofa and chairs that are staples in clean shapes that will keep for the next couple of years or decade. Then an easy way to bump up your entire room or your interiors is accessories.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

I wonder what chairs think about all day: "Oh, here comes another asshole."

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

You don't need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and painting - things you can do yourself - that alone can transform the space.

I'm obsessed with my couch. I have the greenest couch on the planet.

A lot of people will center their living room around a TV. I personally think that's the wrong decision. I mean, have it there, absolutely. But to walk in and clearly see that the sole focus of any time you have in your house is that TV?

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

A great interior designer is able to capture who someone is and adapt to who they are.

I do know that I would never - though you should never say never - work with a decorator, because I don't want to see the touch of someone else in my own space.

I actually did an upholstery course a little while ago and have a brand-new sewing machine with my name on it, ready to start tearing apart the soft furnishings in my house.

One of the best things to do with tablescapes in my experience, is really curating them with things that you've collected.

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

I have a lot of Missoni tablecloths, but for breakfast, we use placemats - we call them 'American-style.' I have some in crazy patterns from the Swedish brand Svenskt Tenn. And I like plates from Grottaglie in Puglia, stained in wild colors.

My love for interior designing has always been there.