Virginia Postrel Quotes

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

A man's house is his castle.

I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.

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.

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again.

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.

I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.

It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.

Los Angeles is my home - I have my wife and two daughters growing up there.

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

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.

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

Well, one of the things I did was recreate her home in my home.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.

Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.