Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

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

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

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

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

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.

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.

I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!

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

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau.

I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that. I might, at some point, take two years off to study interior decoration.

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.

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 you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

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

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

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

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.

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