Home Aesthetics Quotes

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

The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.

In front of the coffee tablethere is a neon-pink stump stool, which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that every house has to have a 'wart,' or one really ugly piece.

What you put on your wall should be inspiration.

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.

Finding a way to really reinterpret your home as an expression of how you live, is really good design in my opinion.

Even at home, I don't have pictures on the wall of jobs I've done.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

The spaces we live in should tell our story.

People are understanding what it means to really create a space that feels like a direct reflection of you and I think with brands like Living Spaces, you can really start to take those chances for the first time.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

Let your personality and passions shine through in the objects you choose to display in your home.

A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.

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.

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.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

Modern minimalism has become less strict over time with a wider range of textures and materials, with other cozier layers.