Anthea Turner Quotes

I like to entertain at home, to live beautifully but comfortably.

I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

I think to make your home as comfortable as possible is so important. There’s something really interesting about that as a trend, that whole idea of lifestyle and being happy in your surroundings.

My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

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

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker.

I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.

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

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

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

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

Being home is like a vacation to me, so I'm trying to get my home together.

I'm working on my house and playing with my fire pit and kind of just hanging around and making my home feel homey.

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.

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

Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

I want my home to look good, feel good, and smell good. I want it to be inclusive, to reflect the people who live there.

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.