Jennifer Weiner Quotes

Life is all about seating and lighting.

When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

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

I do still collect chairs.

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.

I've got one of those over-stuffed leather chairs from the Pottery Barn. It faces north. I live in San Francisco, so there's the Golden Gate Bridge off to the left, and there's Alcatraz off to the right, and I've got a pile of pulp fiction next to me, and there's usually a decent bottle of red wine next to the fireplace.

My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.

When me and Sheila got married, all we had was an oval table, four chairs, a bed, and a painting by Matthew Smith.

A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.