Candice Olson Quotes

You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

My house in my real life is a no-purple zone.

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'm all about my rugs. I don't like a lot of color. The apartment isn't exactly monotone, but it's full of very soft shades. So, really, the fun is with the carpets.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!

For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

Color is a very personal thing. You need to make sure to choose a color that makes you happy. But I don't recommend accent walls - choose a color you can live with on all four walls.

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

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

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

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.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.

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

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

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

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.

Adding throws or blankets that have great texture over the back of a sofa adds some interesting personality really quickly and will visually change the room.

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 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.

Futon World - a wonderful place that becomes slowly less comfortable over time.

With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.