Genevieve Gorder Quotes

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

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

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

My love for interior designing has always been there.

I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects.

I have been constantly working on the interiors of my homes in Delhi, Goa, Dubai, Mumbai, and the Red Chillies Building. I had been designing homes, too. Having a background in art, graphic design, and charcoal helped me in my work immensely.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

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

I'm an interior designer from the soul. It's not about just putting things in a room. It's much deeper and broader. It's about self-discovery.

I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.

I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

Interior design wasn't something I rushed into.

Architecture only does part of the work. How you fill the space matters just as much, sometimes more. I designed a beach house with a continuous living/dining area, but it had to have a table in the middle to give it a visual rhythm. Every room has a foreground and a background. But you also need a middle ground - like that table - to go between.

After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

I went to Parsons. American sportswear was my education, and that is what is important to me.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'

I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.