Best 23 quotes in «decorating quotes» category

Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

I hear that among the younger generation couples sometimes maintain one large bedroom for husband and wife. I suppose that this is the hallmark of an intelligent use of space, and after all, the species must be propagated. Still, I prefer the older people's way of doing things: two well-appointed bedrooms, one each for husband and wife, an arrangement that prevents the revelation of so many irksome facts.... -Van Kamp's Guide To Housekeeping For Ladies Of High Society, 1899 Edition

Someday she planned to paint he ceiling: Blue, with gold stars on it, whole constellations, and a section of the Milky Way.

The house decorating with the things and yourself with the dress is nothing as long as you do not furnish your language, talk and your character with the role modesty, decency, morals, sincerity, and love of humans.

...while Norah described to me her plans for carpets and curtains, or showed me the sample of bedspread material she had hung over a chair to see if she could live with it. When I began to know her, I wondered if their courtship had been, for her, something of the same -- my brother draped over a chair for the statutory length of time, to see if she could live with him. In that case she might have noticed that he did not really go with the surroundings; perhaps she did see this, but knew that he would fade to a better match.

Your like Martha Stewart on crack,” my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

Annabelle smiled, standing on her toes to tie a little cloth doll on the highest branch she could reach. Dressed in winter white, with her honey-colored hair drawn up in curls and her cheeks pink from exertion, she looked like a Christmas angel.

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

Other people's houses always intrigued her by the contrast they offered to Greystones; she would see suddenly -- with detached interest and quite without envy or criticism -- the extent to which other people's preoccupations differed from her own.

The truth is, new furniture or a better house will never really satisfy - they will just set new, higher standards for what is acceptable to us for our comfort and contentment. When you take care of what you have and find joy right where you are, you set the right tone and expectations for contentment in all circumstances moving forward. Whether things get better or worse, our standard will be to love what we have and be grateful for it (even when we might not like it).

Decorating has always been my hobby.

Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

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

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

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

I also love real estate and decorating.

She wanted out of the decorating scheme.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating.