Good Quotes: Dave Barry On DIY
"The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished and put inside boxes." ~Dave Barry Many of u...
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Good Quote: J.H. Van den Berg on Color
"Together, the garden, the woods, the meadow and the distant land form a harmony of colors and shapes. There is always harmony in every season, at every hour of the day. The evening colors harmonize...
Good Quotes: Josef Albers
"It should be clear by now that our way of studying color does not start with the past - neither with works of the past nor with its theories. As we begin principally with the material, color itself,...
Good Quotes: Joan Rivers on Housekeeping
With the start of The Fall Cure today, this felt like an appropriate quote to share. So dust off those work gloves, it's time to get to work......
Good Quotes: Ann Landers
Ann Landers, American advice columnist has been quoted as saying many fantastic things over the years. We find this one extremely appropriate as it hits home more than it should. Click through for ...
Good Quotes: Bruce Springsteen
While unpacking boxes that had been in storage for a couple of years, we found a book and have no idea where it came from. Not only did we find a collection of college love notes inside from Nora to J...
Good Quotes: Words From Jonathan Adler
With The Fall Colors Contest right around the corner, remembering that seemingly bold colors won't take over a room if used frequently enough, or sparingly enough. Make sure to choose colors that t...
Good Quotes: Craig Ellwood
"If order and logic are in the Architecture, then Architecture will inevitably compliment nature." - 1950, Craig Ellwood, architect To All Good Quotes...
Good Quotes: From The Mouth of Charles Eames...
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. -Charles Eames Sometimes it can feel as though we are facing an uphill battle in the design of our own home...
Good Quotes: Arne Jacobsen
"That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect t...
Good Quote: Ansel Adams
The illustration above is from artist Antony Hare. His work is at the meeting point between portraiture and caricature and we just love it. Click through the jump for more on this great artist and ...
Good Quotes: The Wise Woodrow Wilson Once Said...
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world. -Woodrow Wilson Click through for more thoughts on how this idea can influence not only our everyday lives, but also our li...
Good Quotes: Strunk and White
"Choose a suitable design and stick to it." William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White Strunk and White were referring to the elementary principles of composition when they wrote this, but we think it applies...
Good Quote: Joyce Maynard
"A good home must be made, not bought." -Joyce Maynard Joyce Maynard has been a reporter for the New York Times, a magazine journalist, radio commentator, and syndicated columnist, as well as the...
Good Quote:Jean Dubuffet
"There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing ...
Good Quote: Aldo Leopold
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." - Aldo Leopold, ecologist and environmentalist. ...
Good Quote: Picasso
"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint."...
Good Quotes: Bruce Mau
"Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities,...
Discovering Design
We recently discovered the book Discovering Design, edited by Richard Buchanan and Victor Margolin, and found it to be quite an interesting read. The book is a collection of essays written by schola...
Good Quotes: Jane Jacobs
"... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to build, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the s...
Good Quotes: Philippe Starck
“We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.” - Philippe Starck...
Good Quotes: Louis Sullivan and the Polemics of Modern Architecture
"All practical demands of utility should be paramount as basis of planning and design; ...no architectural dictum, or tradition, or superstition, or habit should stand in the way." - Louis Sullivan...
Good Quotes: Mark Wigley on Design and Theory
From architect, author, and professor Mark Wigley's 1998 Harvard lecture on Total Design: “Design is always a matter of theory. Design is not a thing in the world. It’s a theoretical reading of ...
Good Quotes: Lin Yutang
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." - Lin Yutang (As I write this in advance, I wonder what it will be like to be with...
Good Quotes: Andree Putman on Authentic Style
Interior designer Andree Putman had these wise words to share regarding style: "Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, y...
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