Leandra Medine Quotes

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

Cute accessories always help bring out your outfit and pull it all together.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

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.

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

But if fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great?

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

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.

I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.

I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.

From the time I start prep to serving the food at the table, I like for the whole thing to be beautiful.

A great interior designer is able to capture who someone is and adapt to who they are.

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

I think a perfect-color scarf really brings out your whole skin tone, lip color, and everything else.

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.

What you put on your wall should be inspiration.

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try. It often comes from an old hotel or an old restaurant, and I will adapt it to be residential.

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.

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.