“Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks – practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.”
Alexis Hampton
“Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes, and nothing is off-key.”
Charlotte Moss

“A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy.”
Juan Mantoya

“Always scale up and not down. Everyone is so terrified of making things too big – if in doubt, make it bigger, not smaller.”
Robert Banks-Pye

“I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.”
Dorothy Draper

“I don’t believe in doing any one style or period. Decorating is like a jigsaw puzzle.” -
Martyn Lawrence-Bullard

“Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris