Kyan Douglas Quotes

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

Sometimes you can just not spend that much money or do a minor change with color on a certain room, and it just can open up and brings people a lot of joy. They can go from hating a room or hating a house to loving it.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

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

There are simple, small things you can do that really will impact the space. Things like changing out your curtain panels to something that adds a fresh new feel. Or maybe a smart pattern. Also swapping out an area rug, throws and pillows can be done in no time, and really have a dramatic effect.

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.

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

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

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 leave me in a room long enough, I'll redecorate the room.

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.

You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

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.

My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in my house. Every African vase I have is painted gold on the bottom. It's so fun and easy, and it instantly livens up a piece. You feel like you've really accomplished something.